I Scuffed My Kid

Darnit! I am out of the running for ‘Mom of the Year’ again this year. My intentions were good. I had my child’s best interest in mind. But, sometimes, things go wrong.

My youngest has been learning about shadows in science. We have been having fun playing with our shadows. She especially likes, when the sun is just right, to make it look like she is taller than her dad. We have also made shadow pictures with toys and other junk on the driveway, charted the position of the sun and the length of shadows, and given our shadows names. It’s been a fun time. That’s why I decided to point out a particularly funny shadow as we were walking out of the grocery store yesterday evening.

She was walking in front of the cart and I saw the shadow.

“Look at that shadow!” I said. “It looks like the shopping cart is running over you.”

I point to the shadow and laugh. She stops in front of the cart for a closer look. I didn’t know she stopped. I stopped laughing when I heard the noise. I ended up running into her ankle with the wheel of the cart. She was not impressed. Actually, she was kinda pissed.

Luckily, I have the super supreme first aid kit in my car. It comes with a first aid guide. I turned to what I told her was the “cart scuff” section and read her the proper first aid treatment. It involved the placement of a huge Band-Aid. Everything turned out fine. Except now I’ll never get the ‘Mom of the year’ award. You just can’t go around scuffing your kid and expect to win that.

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