Having just spotted Gappy's forthcoming bad mother carnival, I felt the sudden urge to throw a post together and get a recent bad mother moment off my chest.
Not the time I sent my daughter, at the sensitive age of five, to school in her uniform to find the rest of the class dressed up in elaborate costumes for World Book Day.
Not the time (yesterday in fact) when I sent my child to school on one of the hottest days of the year wearing absolutely no sun cream and had to 'borrow' some from a responsible parent.
But the time, this very weekend, when I was so engrossed in the fabulous line-up of writing guides in Waterstones, Stratford-upon-Avon, that I had no idea where my child was or what she was going.
I'd like to say that she was doing anything other than walking around the shop with my camera taking random shots of customers trying to quietly choose a book.
I'd like to say she did not catch her mother on film, oblivious to child's behaviour, during her photography spree.
I would like to say that at the end of all this she did not produce a copy of Loose Women with a bright pink sparkly cover and tell me it looked like an exciting bedtime read.
For the record, we didn't buy it.
Also for the record, I do know where my child is at this precise moment in time.
Love this Rosie.
I'm also guilty of sending uniformed kids to school on non-uniform day. A couple of times I've sent kids off to school slightly poorly only to get the phone call within hours that they were in fact very sick.
What were you reading, it must have been good? x
Posted by: Ellen A | June 23, 2010 at 09:52 PM
I was a book about writing for children. If only there were enough hours in the day!
Posted by: Rosie Scribble | June 23, 2010 at 10:00 PM
Love the picture. Bless her.
I have far too many bad mother moments to relate, but feeding them off milk is up there - and did I live to regret that one!
Posted by: Pants With Names | June 23, 2010 at 10:18 PM
haha!! I'd have loved to have seen the pictures of the other customers too :)
Posted by: Nickie@Typecast | June 23, 2010 at 10:50 PM
I have no idea where my children are either!
And yesterday my three year old charged straight into a bit swimming pool and had to be rescued by a lifeguard....oh, and he fell into the duckpond a few months ago too.
Posted by: nappyvalleygirl | June 23, 2010 at 11:22 PM
NB I meant a BIG swimming pool (as opposed to a baby pool..)
Posted by: nappyvalleygirl | June 23, 2010 at 11:24 PM
The sun cream is a real bad mother issue for me! I never remember to send my kids to school with it on or with a bottle of it in their book bags. I just can't get in to the crazed way some parents act about their kids getting a bit of sun. And what's with all the hats?? Okay if you're on the beach that's one thing but at school? Sorry just don't get it. So I am with you all the way on that one. You bad mummy you!
Posted by: Heather Davis | June 24, 2010 at 12:04 AM
Sounds like she was just honing her paparazzi skills!
Posted by: If I Could Escape | June 24, 2010 at 12:30 AM
Lovely post!I'm sure she would never get lost because she would always find YOU!
Posted by: jfb57 | June 24, 2010 at 08:53 AM
I don't know where my child is at any moment in time, and he's five. All this checking up is highly overrated. :-) (The excuse of the lazy parent.)
Posted by: Mwa | June 24, 2010 at 09:07 AM
She takes a great photo! We're all guilty of not having our eyes on them 24-7 x
Posted by: Musings of a Mother | June 24, 2010 at 08:58 PM