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" Some days I think I&amp;#039;m doing okay with this whole &amp;quot;being a mom&amp;quot; thing. And other days I worry that the Department of Family Services might intervene. Below, the latest examples of questionable parenting. I pimp out my dog to keep the baby entertained. Pre-baby, our dog rarely got people food. When he did, it was a special treat, scraped into his bowl after the humans were done eating. These days, I dump a few hundred puffs on Emmett&amp;#039;s high chair tray and encourage him to hand them to the dog\u2014one by one\u2014while I make dinner.  I&amp;#039;m totally okay with the fact that my baby&amp;#039;s a daddy&amp;#039;s boy. I love the time I spend with Emmett, really I do. But I also love, by the time the clock strikes 8, Rory is home to take over, and Emmett is soooo excited to see him. I know there are moms who get wistful when the baby is 100 percent engaged with dad, but I&amp;#039;m not one of them. I&amp;#039;m psyched I can write a few e-mails or fold some laundry without begging Emmett to play with daddy, &amp;quot;Just for five more minutes!&amp;quot; My favorite way to soothe my baby to sleep involves high-stakes bribes.  When Emmett is still wide awake after I click on the Sleep Sheep and sing an off-key lullaby\u2014more often than not\u2014I&amp;#039;ve been known to offer him large sums of money and super-expensive toys in an effort to get him to nap. (I mean, really, we don&amp;#039;t even have room in our apartment for an electric ride-on baby Hummer.) Just this morning, I promised P. Diddy would perform at his sweet sixteen if he would just close his sleepy, sleepy eyes. No luck. Alas.  Anyone else experimenting with, um, nontraditional parenting methods lately? "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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