Fathers Day seems like a good time to launch Parent Corner. I'm hoping this will catch on as an irregularly recurring series. It's inspired by the segment of the same name on The Bill Simmons Podcast.
The idea is pretty straightforward: just share a recent parenting anecdote or thought (ideally one that has happened since the previous parent corner).
What better way to describe parenting than ~mostly_harmless? As such, I'm volunteering @elvismercury's territory to house this series.
I'd love it if other stackers initiated these in the future, when they had parenting stuff to share.
My daughter (4 years old) has been making "swings" for her stuffed animals for the past couple of weeks. She's been greatly delighting in pushing them on their "swings" and, of course, making us do so too.
The thing is, these swings always end up looking like her animals have been executed by hanging. They swing from the top of our staircase down into the living room. If we didn't get everything tidied up from the day before, I wake up and go downstairs to be surprised by quite the gruesome scene.
It's such a stark example of innocence that to her it's just her stuffies enjoying a nice swing.