Parent Aside #4: Acknowledgement

True, the quotes that make it to this page seem to color the Bean as precocious toddler sophisticate. More likely, these quotes are the ones that get my attention during the day. And hopefully, they're a bit funny.

Otherwise, we might simply subject you to a daily update of the latest tantrum, like yesterday morning in the big box store's garbage can section. The kind that sounds like someone stabbing someone else with a knife. Over and over, to make sure the job is done.

See, the potty training is stressful for her, given her vaguely perfectionist temperment, and that's only just become clear. So I am glad we are taking it slow and hunkering down a bit at home so she can get the hang of it. In the meantime, we'll get the dagger glares in the store, and I'll pretend that we are in a foreign country and don't know the language, and really must be going now.