Father's Day Friday: Must "Luv" cats
Soccer Dad David Gerstman is back as our Guest Dad today, with a rumination on how the picture on a box of diapers can become a central issue of family harmony.
Here's his post:
Luvs makes diapers with characters from "Blues Clues." Apparently of the animals featured on the show, most are dogs - including the title character. Unfortunately, we have the one 2-year old who insists on "cat" diapers.
A few weeks ago, it was nearly impossible to get her to agree to wear "dog" diapers. If we tried to put her into "dog" diapers she'd raise such a fuss, we were concerned that the authorities might intervene at which time we'd have to admit that we were forcing our 2-year-old to wear "dog" diapers.
My wife mentioned this problem to a friend whose son isn't so particular. So far we have traded 46 diapers for 46 "cat" diapers. Fortunately, she seems to be less averse to wearing "dog" diapers these days. Still she prefers the cat diapers. For the next few days she can pretend that there are only "cat" diapers.
Comments
This is completely ridiculous. Who's the grownup here? Who's in charge - her or you? Put up with some screaming and make her wear whatever diapers you put her in! Otherwise, what will you tell the child in 10 years when she wants a particular brand of item (shoes, clothes, etc.) and it's sold out or you can't afford it? Or she wants her 257th Barbie, but you drew the line way back at 128?
Posted by: Will | December 29, 2008 10:47 PM