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What do you do when you’ve got to get things done and simply have to have the little ones in tow?

I caved.

CLUNKclunkCLUNKclunkCLUNK went our race car shopping cart through Kroger yesterday. It wasn’t worth picking a fight with my daughter about letting her ride in the race car cart while I dragged her into Kroger to get strawberries. I felt bad enough about making her grocery shop with me on a sunny day when she could have been playing outside.

Been there? What do you do when you’ve got to get things done and simply have to have the little ones in tow? We’ve got to get things done, right?

I wonder, when was it that we allowed ourselves to start feeling guilty for running errands with our kids? Where did we get the idea that every second of our child’s day had to be a learning experience, quality time, or some type of scheduled, planned, stamped and approved enrichment activity? (Come to think of it, what makes a learning experience just that?) And when did a simple trip to the bank start being incomplete without a lollipop?

Nevermind how this all came about, we as parents are playing the game now, like it or not. And my daughter is having a blast in the race car while the shopping gets done.

- Mary Cady Bolin