Mandatory office hours for all pediatricians – from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Don’t we have enough to worry about when our children are sick and we are stuck at the office worrying about them? We get so stressed out over how we’re going to get our kids to the doctors that we end up speeding through traffic with a migraine and an ulcer eating away at our stomachs. By the time we get to the doctor, we’re sicker than our kids and need a doctor’s appointment ourselves. Yeah, like that will ever happen. I’ve been walking around with the same sinus infection since 2004.

Stores will sell winter clothes during the winter months and summer clothes during the summer months.
Busy moms live in the moment. We don’t want to worry about Halloween costumes in August or swimsuits in December. We can’t work that far ahead. It makes us crazy when we walk into a store in July, in search of a cute little size 6x bikini, only to be greeted with aisles and aisles of snowsuits. And of course when we are ready to buy those snowsuits, they’re long gone and our husbands want to kill us because we’ve stuck our son in an adorable pink bunny parka that his sister grew out of two years ago.

Parents will stop competing against each other to see who can throw the most extravagant children’s party.
Enough already. Is it really necessary to rent out the entire amusement park and have pony rides, a jumping castle, petting zoo, face painting, and yes, even a parade of princesses for your preschooler’s party? We know you want to one-up your neighbor who had a hoe-down complete with a kids’ rodeo in his backyard last year, but it’s time to stop the insanity. And when it comes to goody bags, please have a little restraint. Our kids have enough crap at home already, thank you. We don’t need a suitcase-sized sack filled with more crap. A simple small bag with some good old-fashioned teeth-rotting candy will be just fine.