New Mom: Parenting Quiz

Rate these working parent infractions on a scale of 1 to 10:

1) Specifically for a child under 2, turning on the TV for her/him in the morning so you can catch a couple more zzzz’s

2) Same question, but this time, in order to make dinner

3) Serving hotdogs and canned fruit for several meals in a row because you haven’t had time to go grocery shopping

4) Sneaking out of work early on a quiet Friday in order to go grocery shopping

5) Putting off shampooing your child’s hair until Saturday when the babysitter can do it and endure the protests during the rinsing phase

6) Offering Fig Newtons for breakfast because, after all, they’re not a cookie, they’re a Newton

7) Using precious work hours to shop online for new shoes, Halloween costumes, holiday presents, etc.

8) Putting away the toddler’s clean laundry without really folding it, because, after all, those clothes never stay folded or organized in the drawer anyway

9) Pretending not to notice your child eating the stray cheerios and stale crackers she has unearthed from the depths of the car seat, and then never really cleaning them up afterwards either

10) Quietly envying every other working mother you know because they all seem to have it figured out just a little bit better than you.