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Nov, 19, 2008

Sometims Parenting Does Come With A Manual

For a few weeks now The Little Man O screams in the car. We’re talking ear-piercing, high decibal, painfully loud, “taking others down with me” screaming.

I’m sure you can imagine.

It finally hit me last night. The car seat! Oh Mah GAWD, it’s the Car Seat.

I looked back at him pulling at the straps screaming. I went through my memories of him somehow managing to squirm out of those same straps, of him standing on the seat as I drove down the highway, and of him arching his back in defiance, which I thought was purely that, definace, when I placed him in the car.

Until I remembered the manual for the seat. Maybe it was page 12 or something but it said (and I paraphrase):

Duh.

So today I pulled that little magic lever and VIOLA! Behold! The bucket seat transformed in to the properly adjusted forward facing seat it was intended to be.

And all was well.

Today’s Parenting Tip Filed Under “read the fucking manual.”
You’re welcome.

Nov, 19, 2008 Filed in: Write •Mother F.U.C.K.E.R. •Mrs. Flinger Said So • Read the Archives

Comments

Don't you hate it when that happens?
Posted by Lanna on 2008-11-24 12:52:58 Thank God the instruction was in English.
Posted by patois on 2008-11-20 21:08:24 Read the manual? There's a manual???
Posted by Susan on 2008-11-20 19:35:05 *ahem* did that today thankyouverymuch you are not alone. mwah
Posted by Rachel, A southern Fairytale on 2008-11-20 19:08:20 I would not have ever even thought to look at the manual. You are actually brilliant for still having the manual and knowing where to find it and to even go to the manual. I would have went out and bought a new carseat and cursed about the old one to everyone I knew.
Posted by Laura on 2008-11-19 20:19:28 We have RTFM moments all to frequently at our casa.
Posted by Fear & Parenting in Las Vegas on 2008-11-19 13:10:28

Fear & Parenting in Las Vegas

J11/19/2008

We have RTFM moments all to frequently at our casa.
Laura

J11/19/2008

I would not have ever even thought to look at the manual. You are actually brilliant for still having the manual and knowing where to find it and
to even go to the manual.
I would have went out and bought a new carseat and cursed about the old one to everyone I knew.
Rachel, A southern Fairytale

J11/20/2008

*ahem*

did that today thankyouverymuch

you are not alone.

mwah
Susan

J11/20/2008

Read the manual? There’s a manual???
patois

J11/20/2008

Thank God the instruction was in English.
Lanna

J11/24/2008

Don’t you hate it when that happens?