Another parent to make us crazy working folk look like stay-at-home moms having a corner bake sale on Saturday morning.

Admit it- you’ve said things to your kid that you’re not proud of perhaps things that haunted you for weeks. But, would you leave it on a voice mail? Come on. This divorce and its residual tremors in the public eye make a broken lamp thrown on the floor or an angry, random f*bomb dropped in traffic on the 405 look like a play date.

Once I told my child after reading several Madeleine books, that I would sell her to the gypsies in those books if she talked back to me again. Although no one was around to record my statement, she would play it back for me every time she sensed a misstep.

(clothes on floor)

Me: Claire, pick up those clothes right now or else the dog will eat your underwear again.

C: (panicked) Mom, I’ll do it right now just don’t sell my to the gypsies!

God, it took forever for me to live that one down. Imagine how long it will take for Alec. The thing is, there are always two sides to every story but it doesn’t really matter. By leaving that heart-breaking voice mail, he’s forfeited his side.

Photo Credit: Alec does his share of time for good causes and this one is cool– LivnOutLoud makes T’s with positive messages.

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