I’m realizing that there’s nothing worse than listening to a kid whine. Except, of course, listening to a kid FAKE CRY. I’m getting so aggravated, investigating these incidents! Here’s how it usually plays out:
Lexi: WAHHHHHHH-HAAAAAA-HAAAAA! AHHHHHHHH, WAHHHHHH!
Mommy: Lexi! What’s wrong, honey?
Lexi: Mom! I’m not crying, MY BABY IS CRYING. Can’t you hear her? WAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!
Mommy: Your baby needs to shut the fuck up before Mommy throws her out the car window. Okay, sweetie?
All right, I made up that last line. But seriously, that business gets old in a hurry. And I’m realizing that they can fake cry very realistically. I’m starting to think that probably 82% of the crying I respond to is invalid. Hmph.
Laura, also known as LaLaGirl, is the mother of a teenager and two young sets of twins. She's happily married to an enginerd named Paul, loves living in Colorado, and writes almost daily about married life, raising multiples, and parenting a child with autism. In addition to playing Barbies and pretending to eat plastic food all day, Laura spends most of her time folding clean laundry, obsessing about the amount of sugar her kids eat, and vacuuming up Polly Pocket accessories. She's obsessed with Yo Gabba Gabba, red wine, and Family Guy. She also regularly contributes to How Do You Do It? and authors the following blogs:


Pam
September 19th, 2008 at 8:19 am
My kids do the same thing. Or they play house and yell “mom!” And I come running and say what? They look at me like I’m crazy and tell me they’re just playing.
Amanda
September 19th, 2008 at 8:49 am
Genoa can fake TEARS, I think. I basically wait until I can actually SEE an injury before I respond.
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rachael
September 19th, 2008 at 10:59 am
Yea my kids do this too. And when I respond to “Mommy! Waaa!” I get in return “I wasn’t talking to you!!”
Kids.
Michele
September 19th, 2008 at 1:14 pm
You’re a riot. 82%, huh? You arrived at that figure via a complicated formula, didn’t you? It must be that engineer you’re married to, rubbing off on you.
LaLaLaura
September 19th, 2008 at 1:16 pm
Michele - Nope, it’s just a rough estimate. But the engineer rubbing off on me IS how I ended up with 2 sets of twins. HA! ::rimshot::
Anne
September 19th, 2008 at 4:49 pm
Erm, if it was a rimshot, you wouldn’t have gotten pregnant in the first place!
(Miss you chick!)
Noelle
September 20th, 2008 at 2:27 pm
lmao!!!
Sparky
September 21st, 2008 at 7:16 pm
Maybe you could get them into acting? Or doing voices on cartoons of crying babies.
Renée aka Mekhismom
September 22nd, 2008 at 10:40 am
How funny! My little one has started with the fake crying but he does it to get attention. It is actually quite funny.
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