We're all just trying not to raise a bunch of A**holes right?

Let's face it, there are enough a**holes in the world. And us moms, we're just trying our best to make sure we don't contribute to that ever increasing number.

We read our kids books, sing them songs, monitor their tv watching, monitor their time on the internet, spend hours (I MEAN HOURS) picking out THE BEST items for our baby registries, run out like its Black Friday to get the product another blogger SWEARS by (::cough:: Sophie the Giraffe ::cough::).... it just goes on and on and on and on.

Well all of this effort isn't for nothing. We're trying to make sure our child is a well behaved, side-parted, shirt tucked in, "please" and "thank-you" little lady or gentleman.

We know those a**hole kids. The ones at the playground with absolutely no manners. The ones who talk back to their mom. The ones who push the other kids aside so they can go down the slide first. And the insist on CLIMBING UP the slide with their stupid Buzz Lightyear light up shoes. We always go home and tell our husbands over a perfectly cooked meatloaf (yeah, I had the time to raise a gold star child AND cook an amazing dinner) that the bad kid was at the park again and we just don't understand what the parents are thinking raising him/her that way. Where are the boundaries? Did they not buy him Sophie when he was teething? Did they not read The Happiest Baby on the Block? These moms must know nothing. They must not sit on Twitter and read blogs and discuss to no end on sites like The Bump the ins and outs of parenting.

Obviously there is a clear line, and you are on one side or the other. Good mommy. Bad mommy. God forbid you are on bad mommy side because... let me tell you... it's awful. You get rejected from MeetUp.com groups, people ignore you on Twitter, and even worse, your kid will grow up to be an a**hole. And we know what happens to a**holes. Yep, you guessed it, they go on to raise more a**holes who's parents just never got it.

Okay okay okay... obviously this is all just in fun. All of our kids are bound to have a bratty moment. We're all going to stumble. We're all going to over analyze our parenting styles.

But in the end, we are all just trying not to raise an a**hole. Even if we don't rush out to buy the glow in the dark seahorse who is supposed to be the cure to sleepless nights... right? RIGHT???