Parenting Habits Are Hard To Break
I picked up quite a few habits after I had my baby. None of them were necessarily bad, but they have really stuck with me despite the fact that my little ones don’t even qualify as babies anymore. At least the habits I can’t seem to shed are more comical than anything else, and they remind me of the days when I would constantly have a baby on my hip.
Swaying back and forth. New moms, heed my warning: Your kids will be old enough to start reading and you will still sway back and forth when you are standing in one spot. It’s even worse if you have anything in your arms that somewhat resembles the feeling of holding a baby, like a basketball or a bag of groceries. The best part is that people will never tell you that you are swaying, so you will have to realize it yourself and also wonder just how long you have been swaying while lovingly cradling the sack of potatoes.
Constant monologue. We’re told to talk to our newborns even though they can’t talk back, and for some moms (like me) that results in a constant monologue. “Mommy is going to brush her hair. Mommy’s hair is brown! Does Mommy’s baby like the brush?” You get the picture. I would like to claim that I no longer do this, but this is another habit that I haven’t been able to shed yet. The other day I was trying to find the mental health clinic at the hospital because one of the psychologists was going to review an essay I wrote for my clinical counseling class. I couldn’t find the clinic -and in my defense, it was relatively hidden- so there I was, wandering around the hospital mumbling to myself that I couldn’t find the mental health clinic. It’s no wonder people just moved out of my way instead of helping me.
Rocking shopping carts. Whenever I stop to look at something on a grocery store shelf, I tend to let at least one hand linger on the handle of the shopping cart and before I know it I’m rocking the cart back and forth. This is a habit I picked up when I would have a baby in the shopping cart, but apparently now I have moved on to trying to comfort cartons of milk.
I don’t really mind these habits of mine so much because they remind me of a time when my little ones were tiny and my whole life changed to suit their needs. Now if I can only learn to sway, rock, and mumble to myself like a lunatic out of public eye, I’ll be styling.
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Sarah says...
Hahahahaha. Great article, and so very true! Nice to know I’m not the only one rocking the onions….
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