You know, as parents we don’t always think things through.
Take, for example, our entry into the Parents-of-the-Year contest.
First, some context.
Lily likes to clip her buckle on her high chair when she’s not sitting in it.
Michael and I sometimes sing silly songs about whatever’s going on – replacing lyrics from a tune with our own lyrics. You know the kind – “this is the way we eat our peas” kind of thing.
We had a cute little ditty about clipping belts.
No big deal, right?
Until your child is making a reference to “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” in Costco.
Ummm…oops?
Now if you don’t know what “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” is, then you are not currently at your phone dialing child protective services.
If you do know what it is and are able to multi-task reading this and filing a report on us at the same time, just know that we would NEVER let her watch that show. Not even when she’s 40. She DID NOT WATCH the show. But, we just didn’t think things through when we modified an “It’s Always Sunny” song about playing flip-cup (a DRINKING GAME) to make a ditty about buckling safety belts.
And so, instead of “Flipadelphia,” my child chants this in the middle of Costco as I buckle her cart belt:
As soon as it came out of her mouth, the full realization that my 1 year old was referencing a HIGHLY inappropriate show finally hit me. How did we not see that this would be a bad idea? I started shushing her and frantically looking around to see if someone was coming to take my baby away because they thought I was letting her watch “It’s Always Sunny.”
Again, I say to you: oops.
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