When you become a new parent, you’re clueless. It’s an inevitable truth in life. I’ll never forget when we accidentally washed our new baby boy’s clothes in regular laundry detergent. Baby Calvin broke out all over, and was bawling louder than any other newborn in Seattle. I had already washed his new outfits in Dreft and his father was just trying to wash everything again to make sure it was extra clean. How was he to know, right? (It took me hours to put together the Diaper Genie for the first time. I was in tears, begging for my husband’s help. We were both about to throw the thing out the window of our one-bedroom apartment.) We were all clueless once. And maybe we still are clueless no matter what our kids’ ages? Speaking of clueless parents, this is a funny new show: Up All Night with Christina Applegate and Will Arnett. It’s a sitcom about…you guessed it, new (and clueless) parents! This show (and Modern Family and 30 Rock) are my temporary friends when the kids (and my husband) are fast asleep and I’m suffering from my O M goodness I’m-so-40-now-hormone-induced insomnia. Check it out.
You HAVE to watch this clip and tell me what you think. Please share your favorite memory of being a clueless parent!
Cluelessness
19 Wednesday Oct 2011
Posted General Mommentary, Little Links, Uncategorized
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Meirav – That is CLASSIC. A diaper change…I love it. Thanks so much for sharing. I think we come home from the hospital thinking we’re automatically going to know what to do. But we have no clue. And the beauty lies in the fact that other parents haven’t a clue either. Unfortunately, the truth emerges a little late….
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Jackie
I love that show “up all night”. So funny. One of our first nights home with our son, he cried for what seemed like 6 hours and we tried everything to pacify him to no avail. As the crying continued we got more and more frantic it was a ‘make it stop’ moment Until finally one of us realized he needed a diaper change. It was so elementary but we were so clueless. I think we may have even gone so far as to take his temperature.
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Jill – Thanks! So tell me, HOW DO YOU DO IT? You’re always so pulled together, so confident, so relaxed. But you too have two kids! And they are so good! Please tell me your car is a mess, that you bring store bought cupcakes to your son’s class or you burn dinner every now and then….
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love it! HOOKED. 🙂
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