Politics

Strider's House is usually a politics-free zone. But, I read an interesting article in Parenting Magazine this morning while I was "feeding" Ace. I hope you will think hard about these important issues in the voting booth!

Campaign promises moms want to hear:

• The National Institutes of Health will give a large grant to find a cure for stretch marks by the year 2010.
• The IRS will allow you to write off up to 100 lost barrettes, socks, pacifiers, mittens, stuffed animals, and blankies per annum.
• National and local weather alerts will also be able to predict temper tantrums.
• Any parent who wants to enter her newborn in a clinical trial for colic research can simply drop off the baby every evening and return when the crying stops.
• Families will receive a free Toddler GPS system -- complete with cookie-jar alarm -- upon their child's first birthday or first steps, whichever comes first.
• Beginning with 2009 models, all family cars will have to come equipped with soundproof barriers behind the front seats.
• For every hour of baby-induced sleep deprivation you endure, the government will compensate you with a state-sponsored spa experience, including a 60 minute stone massage, aromatherpay facial, and all the things you'd dream of if you got any sleep.
• Mothers will be permitted to use passport and driver's license photos from back before their shirts were accessorized with grape jelly and their lipstick was "borrowed" by Barbie.
  

Author: Jen Singer