Things parents won't admit to

I have begun to realize (OK I think I realized it the day after Cole was born), but I am coming to a more realistic realization that I am not, nor will I ever be a perfect parent.  Here is the difference in my realization, I am OK with it now! 

Before kids I thought I would be the parent who knew all the answers, for goodness sake I am a teacher and I have your kids in my hands each and everyday so how hard can it be to be a parent, there is only one child in my house, I teach  at times 35 of them.    Then I had a baby and realized that I knew nothing about being a parent of a baby, but I could READ it.  How often to change them, when they can eat this and that, what to do when they won't sleep?   Then the personalities came and one word changed everything I knew, or thought I knew,  NO!   Now what the heck am I supposed to do?  I cannot read what to do now because in there are 10 000 parenting books and each tells me a DIFFERENT thing to try.   So I have wrote this to out all of us parents, all of us not-so-perfect parents.  

1)  I do not want to play with the hot wheels cars on the floor all the time, or the board games, or the crafts, or the hockey sticks.....or or or.....

2)  I have been known to say "uh huh" when I have no idea what they have said to me.  I will put a disclaimer on this one, this has gotten me into trouble. 

3)  I have lied about what time it really is just to get them to bed 30 minutes earlier so I can watch a television show (unfortunately this only works until they can tell time, then you have to get more creative)

4)  I do not, repeat do not, bath my kids every night, or second night for that matter.

5)  If I have forgot to get them to brush their teeth and I already have them tucked into bed, I don't get them up to do it.

6)  I let them watch television, at times even when it is nice outside.

7)  At times I skip words in books (sometimes pages) that I read them at bedtime. 

8)  Sometimes I forget to give them lunch on the weekend.

9)  I will occasionally let the boys sleep in bed with me because I am too tired to drag them back to bed for the 5th time that night.

10)  I have brought the boys shopping in their PJ's because the fight to get them dressed was not worth it. 

So there it is, 10 things that not all parents will admit to, but I will, because I AM NOT THE PERFECT PARENT, but I am the perfect parent for my child.