It's time for a Mom Confession -- because, let's face it, we're real mothers and
sometimes it doesn't work the way the parenting books say it should.
This Week's
Confession:
If it doesn't make me laugh or cry, my kids' objets d'art have gotta go.
I'm a neat freak. Until I became a mother, or at least until the kids hit preschool, I was able to maintain a minimalist household. Now my house is gasping for air beneath an avalanche of construction paper. My kids generate a minimum of one piece of artwork a day, and that's conservative. If I never trashed any of it, I'd be overrun by nearly 10,000 pieces of paper by the time they left elementary school.
I throw the art away on the sly. I make sure it's wedged securely under several layers of potentially camouflaging detritus. Coffee grounds are good. Likewise with the recycling bin. I never toss that worksheet full of big A's and little a's near the top of the pile. Inquisitive eyes can spot one of their outcasts anywhere. I bury it beneath the Sunday paper and layer in a healthy dose of junk mail just to be safe. I've considered investing in a shredder. -- Bonnie Rochman on Babble.com
Do you save all your child's artwork? If not, do you tell them you are going to throw it away or do you do it stealthly? By doing so, are we being dishonest with our children?
We all have secrets and opinions -- so thanks to these brave moms for sharing their honest thoughts, and thank you for keeping this conversation non-judgemental!
Past Confessions:
I Paid $22 for My Son's Haircut
My Toddlers Eat Pizza for Breakfast
I
Leave My Toddler Alone in the Bath
Our Children Aren't Invited to Our Wedding
This Hot Dad Wants to Do Your Ironing
KStew Refuses to Shower
This Hot Dad Wants to Cook You Dinner
This Hot Dad Cooks AND Does the Dishes
Comments 43
i Keep the special ones... The first good circle ever, the honestly good for his age ones, and the rest are descreetly disposed of.
I put the really good ones up on the refrigerator and the rest of them I hung around his room until it started getting full, then I would put up the really cool ones or the ones that meant something and trash the rest until the next time the space filled up. He never minded when I threw the old ones away.
Every time my 4 yr old son comes home from Pre-School and he has made something whether it was for him self or for us parents I keep it and put it in a containter cause that way some day he can look back on everything he made as a kid