Guest Post: Daily Picture

I took this picture while clothing shopping for my children. Fits ages 3 to 12. And children of idiots. Thanks Gymboree for summing up what’s wrong with our country so succinctly.

Alex Iwashyna blogs at Late Enough mostly about life, parenting, marriage, zombies, culture, religion and her inability to wake up in the morning and not hate everyone. Feel free to find her on Facebook, the Twitter @L8enough, Flickr or StumbleUpon. But don’t call. She uses her phone to manage all those accounts while avoiding real human interaction.

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  • http://twitter.com/xtremeparnthood Sunday Stilwell

    Wait, you mean the kids don’t run the house?!

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  • http://www.lateenough.com Alex@LateEnough

    It’s funny because I totally didn’t think of it as a kid wearing it at home. I kept picturing a parent thinking: HECK YEAH MY KID IS ALPHA DOG and sending him to school in it.
    But the home stuff is probably a problem too ;)

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  • http://twitter.com/NickiLynnM Nicki-Lynn McIlree

    Makes me think of the scene in Snow Dogs were Ted bites Demon’s ear . . . I can see a three year old in this shirt biting someone on the ear to be the alpha dog!!!! Yeah, my brain works in weird (and wonderful?) ways . . . especially when made to get up early on a Saturday by a crazy 2 year old . . .

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Casey-Black/1590276987 Casey Black

    See, I think it depends largely on context. In MY house, this shirt on my three-year-old would mean that the dog respects her as a leader as much as she respects me (even though our dog outweighs her by a good 30 lbs.) It would NOT mean that my three-year-old outranks ME or runs the house. (Although I do have to plan every day around what she’s up for and I am constantly killing myself to meet my kids’ needs at the expense of my own. OK, so maybe they DO sort of outrank me, but I guess the difference is that *I* decide which of their “needs” are important, and must be met. Their priorities differ slightly from mine.)

    I’m sort of guessing that Gymboree didn’t really have all that in mind, though. A lot of people think that bossy children are cute. So I do agree with you there.

  • Anonymous

    Look, I just live here.

  • Anonymous

    and my 11 year old is bossy, and I’m the one who needs a timeout – pretty much all the time

  • Anonymous

    And once again, I’m happy my kids aren’t toddlers anymore. SO SO happy, and so is the dog.

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