Poor Parenting

[Juniper]

And then you have the "good cop, bad cop" style of parenting. We were treated to this kind of family at a party this weekend. Dad would be playing with the kids, laughing, everybody having fun, then here comes mom to unleash a constant stream of "Hey! What are you doing? Are you crazy? He could get hurt! He could put an eye out! Watch out around that water!" It went back and forth like this just constantly and I wanted to put a muzzle on that mother.

Of course, that's not just a parenting issue, she's probably one of those women who think men need babysitters too. Hers seemed reasonably competent to me. Except he didn't have the balls to tell her to shut the heck up.

Our friends asked us to day if we were interested in renting a vacation cabin with them next summer. With that couple. Ugh.

[skysidhe]

of course, a totally different situation