Pop Quiz: Parenting #Fail

Weekly photo: Where is Cole?

Location: Some hotel, Beijing, China

Can you guess the number of parenting fails in this photo?  Let me get you started:

1. Despite my entirely misleading photo last week of Cole clothed, and outside, this is in fact a lie, and he has been nearly naked for almost a month now.

2.  My son is naked sitting on a hotel chair, where invariably, other people have sat.  Naked.  I try not to think about it.

3.  We are in a HOTEL.  Not an apartment, not in a flat, but in a hotel room because after approaching a month in Beijing we still haven’t figured out where to live.

4.  This is the 10th hotel we’ve been at as we’ve moved around the city.  And my child is still talking to me.  Well not talking, more like making screeching noises at me.  Hmmm.  Maybe he’s trying to tell me something.

5.  He’s watching a movie.  Puss in Boots.  Which despite all my child-free ideas about parenting, I have not actually given him a television-free childhood or succeeded in only showing him educational films, unless you consider  Antonio Banderas’ Spanish accent something of a cross-cultural immersion study (um, no? damn).

6.  Given that the words naked, hotel and puss are in this post, I’m probably going to want to stab myself in the face later when I see the search traffic landing on this page (although sometimes it works in my favor… I have a post How to Have Sex on the Road and Not Wake Your Child and it ranks well for “how to have sex without waking my parents“.  I can just imagine the horrified expressions on these teenagers’ faces as they realize that while they were trying to figure out how to get it on in the next room, so were their parents. Honestly, I consider it a public service).

And that’s just off the top of my head.