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[quote=Anonymous]Once when my son was about a year I was shopping in my small local corner grocery.  Got a bag of grapes, and son started eating a few.  I was exhausted, he had been cranky all day, and I let him.  One of the owners of the shop saw us, and just stared at me in shock.  "Come and weigh them first, and then he can eat as much as he likes" she said.  I sort of snapped back to myself - I had been totally absorbed in feeling sorry for myself and my bad day, and also feeling like DC was just so darn cute eating those grapes and humming that it must be okay.

That was the moment I realized I had fallen into one of those mommy behaviors everyone seems to revile - the stroller taking up the sidewalk, the kid allowed to kick the seat, the mom who thinks her kid is more precious than any other.

I still blush when I think of it, I was so shamed.  I considered never going back to the store because I was embarrassed, but I forced myself because they are a small local shop and need the business.  And they seem to have forgotten or forgiven![/quote]

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