Your Questions About The Perfect Parents
Lisa asks…
Perfect parents, have you ever?
– made a frozen pizza for dinner?
– cleared a path from the door to the bed in your child’s room becasue you were too lazy to clean up the toys?
– re-used a bath towel for an entire week before washing?
I have. Last night I did all three. It seems like there are so many perfect parents on this site. How can I ever measure up? I was actually thinking, as I was kicking the toys aside, “I bet none of the moms on Y!A would do this.”
I could hear the answers in my head, “Absolutely not. I would make my child clean his own mess. Those toys would be picked up and put away before bedtime.”
Even in my “off” time the perfect parents haunt me.
Ha ha! That’s why I pushed the toys aside to clear a path . So the firefighter could get to their beds without breaking his neck.
Just wondered why some moms are so adamant about having a new towel for every bath. I mean, it is clean water, and it dries when you hang the towel. Do you also use soap to wash the measuring cup that you only used to measure water, or do you just put it back in the cupboard?
admin answers:
We have frozen pizza often, it’s quick & easy, good & WAY cheaper than ordering out pizza. I like DiGornio the best.
Yes I use a towel for a week before washing it. You are drying off clean skin, so why would the towel be dirty after one use?
And yes sometimes I am just too tired to pick up the blocks or cars so I scoot them out of the way with my feet.
I think there are many perfect parents out there. We may not do everything perfectly but we love our children, do all that we can for them, protect them and so much more, which makes us perfect parents to them 
John asks…
If there are so many perfect parents, then why is the world such a mess?
Way too many Parents on Y!Answers tell others how to raise their kids. They tell them to take parenting classes or not to curse. They tell them what to allow on their tv sets and how many hrs to allow it.
If there really are that many wonderful perfect parents, shouldnt everything just be wonderful and hunky fu*ken dorey in this world?
The only problem i have when it comes to parents and their Buddies is when it spills out into the stores and public. That sh!t, i dont want to see. (the coddling, the buddy-ism, the tartism, the spoiling) In Public!
I get that some want opinions and thats fine, but that BS about not piercing your kids ears, not circumsizing, not whooping as*, not using daycare, etc etc….
you and your kids are FAR from perfect. Really!
Smile~~ Lol. Thats Not Tartism. I hate when my little girl gets hurt. And i know right… When is it gonna be in spell check damn it?
I pierced MY daughter’s ears! I circumsized all my sons! I let my kids watch Curb your Enthusiasm and they love it! If you dont want to pierce your daughters ears, i dont care. Same thing with allowing your son to take ballet, i dont care. Same with tv and circumsizing and vaccines. Dont care.
But DONT bring your BS Tartism Promoting nonsense into PUBLIC please. Comprendo now??
Heather~~ exactly! Not saying 1 way is the best. (only when it comes to tartism as you know). Just saying that As*hole perfect parents should not tell me or you what to do. If they were so perfect, as Ty and Ris mom said, they would have no time to be on Y!Answers anyway.
And Holli~~ your right. I hate Tartism and the Buddies that are the outcome. Oh Well!!
admin answers:
A true perfect parent would never be caught dead sitting in front of the computer.
They would be cleaning, or playing with their child/ren, making breakfast/lunch/dinner/snacks, be at PTA meetings & sport games…they’re WAY to busy to sit on here with losers like us!
Paul asks…
No offense to anyone but why do some parents think they are perfect and rub it in other parents faces?
This happens to me and other parents on it a lot.I have two adopted kids and people tell me to my face and also email me to tell me I am only 18 and can not be a good parent.And say they are the perfect parent.And do you think this is true that I am only 18 so I can not be a good parent??Why or why not?This is where my question came up earlyer.I am now nervous that I may not be a good parent.Any advice?Thanks.
I also adopted my boyfriends son and our friends son.
admin answers:
No parent is perfect. And i dont believe half the CRAP some parents on here say.
Like a birthday cake for Jesus on his birthday? And that their kids are celebrating his birthday so they dont get presents…give me a break.
Arent you just the poster child for christians!
Robert asks…
Do any of you know any “perfect parents” in real life?
Funny, in real life, most of the parents I know are a lot like me. They do the very best job they can, some times they screw up, sometimes they don’t know all the answers, sometimes their kids talk back, sometimes their kids eat chicken nuggets and french fries (gasp!).
In contrast, so many of the parents on Y!A feed their kids only organically grown food, their kids are bathed and read to and in bed by 7 pm. They’re polite and well groomed and altogether perfect. So I don’t get it? By the shear number of them on Y!A, you think I’d have met at least one of them in real life. Where are they in the “real world”?
admin answers:
I have often wondered the same thing. Although i have had a few friends throughout my life that were so close to being truly perfect that when they did make a mistake, it was actually a surprise. There is nothing wrong with your children having their baths, and a bedtime(my kids got to bed at 9). But it never fails no matter how many manners i know they were all raised with, get them out in public, and they turn into little hellions. Theyre crazy, but theyre mine : ) do you know, someone on here asked what kids had for breakfast that day and i said toaster scrambles and waffles, and i was thumbsed down. You know not all those other people really gave their kids fruit for breakfast. Oh well at least i was honest. Im not perfect. They are not perfect. But i wouldnt trade them for the world. Although i cant promise you they would say the same about me. There are plenty of days im sure they are mad enough at me that they would trade me in if they could lol.
By the way i think if you come to indiana, youwill find all the people on here. Lately it seems i cant go anywhere without being told by some know it all stranger how to raise my kdis. Some of them were well meaning im sure. But some of them….you really just have to grit your teeth and walk away sometimes.
William asks…
Resentment towards the “perfect parents”?
My parents were great, they provided us with good education, safe neighborhood, etc…yet, I have slight resentment in that I was never allowed to choose certain things like where I attended uni, when I could go out, etc…They were VERY strict!
Does this make any sense and am I just ungrateful?
admin answers:
It makes sense and I totally understand your resentment because my parents were super strict as well. That being said, I know now that it was the best thing for me. It would have been nice to choose my own school but all the rest of the stuff I’m glad for now that I’m in my mid twenties. All those things that I was so resentful about not being able to do and all those people I wasn’t allowed to hang out with when I was younger, I did and hung out with when I move twelve hours away from them. I REALLY wish I hadn’t; but, on the bright side, by the time I got around to those things I was mature enough to see things for what they were before long and not do anything too stupid because of the foundation that I already had when I got here.
It’s not about being ungrateful. I think you are well aware (as I was) that everything that did/do, is because they love you and want to protect you and you love them for that (as I did); that doesn’t negate the fact that there are many lessons in life that can’t be taugt, they can only be learned and I woefully unprepared to live in a city on my own as a result of my upbringing and I was acutely conscious of that and it was constantly pointed out to me from almost the second that I got here.
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