when children attack

I love this woman's blog - it's a regular read for me -- and yesterday she wrote about how horrified she is to find herself the mother of the kind of child who throws fits in shops, and how she's learning to accept that her kid is just not the easygoing, easy to handle kid she always figured she would have. It's very funny and very true.

I have one of these children as well - my youngest. People REALLY look at me askance when he's a pain in the ass in public. They're all thinking, "Hey, didn't you write a parenting book? So why is your son flailing around on the floor like that?"

Katie