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Mila Kunis is learning the hard way that one moment you can be on the top of your parenting game and the next you're as pale as a ghost, aghast at the mistake you've made.
The mother of Wyatt, who is currently expecting her second child with husband Ashton Kutcher, recently opened up about her major mishap -- and I'm sorry to say it's a moment I know all too well.
Explaining the effort it takes just to get out the door, the actress said, "You have to pack all this stuff up in anticipation of everything going horribly wrong with the first baby. And I was like, ‘I did it.’ I put her in the car. Like, I high-five myself. [As] I’m driving down the 101, I was like 'Oh my God, I’m doing really good today.'"
But just after the sense of accomplishment washed over Mila Kunis, dread followed.
Speaking of looking in the mirror at Wyatt as she drove down the highway, Mila continued: "She was being really quiet, and I was like, ‘Oh, let me look in the rearview mirror to make sure everything’s okay.' And I look, and she’s happy as can be, but just not nearly strapped in."
That's right -- this first-time-mom packed the diapers, the wipes, the changes of clothes, the rash cream and the baby food, but somehow at the very last moment forgot the buckle.
"I was like, oh, f--k me," the pregnant star recalled. "And I’m on the 101, and she’s just like blah, like fine in her car seat, nothing, no strap whatsoever. And I think I just turned white."
Yikes. My heart goes out to her! I, too, have done the exact same thing.
In my case it was putting toddler into his seat, realizing baby has spit out his binky across the car, reaching for the binky and replacing it -- and completely forgetting to go back to buckling toddler in. It's enough to make your heart flip-flop.
Along with my own confession, Mila saw firsthand she isn't the only one who has had a major parenting mistake when her husband, Ashton, later did the very same thing.
“Lo and behold,” she went on to share, “A year later, like two, three weeks ago, a month ago, I came to get Wyatt out of the backseat of the car, and my husband [had] put her in. And so, I went in to get her out … I opened the car door, and she’s not strapped in whatsoever. And I was like thank God … I wasn’t alone.”
Sweet goodness, we're all most definitely not alone!
Although my car seat mishap was the worst I can recall committing, I also know the story of the time I, as a baby, was sitting on the kitchen floor while my mom unpacked groceries. One minute we're all fine and dandy, and the next there's a frozen can of juice falling on my soft spot. If you've ever, at any point, wondered what's wrong with me, there you go -- mystery solved.
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Friends of mine admit their own heart-pounding parenting mistakes:
"I, a committed sunscreen, sunshade, protect-your-kid's-skin-at-all-cost enthusiast forgot to put sunscreen on my daughter's part line. It's a small thing, but boy does it hurt."
(Morguefile)
"I gave my firstborn a whole mashed sweet potato the first week he started solids. His diaper was orange and it exploded everywhere while we were at a friend's house. I quickly learned to introduce food slowly."
(Morguefile)
"I left my daughter sleeping in the car, forgotten, after getting groceries when she was an infant. Only for a few minutes, but it happened. So scary."
(Morguefile)
"We were in a restaurant and tiny 9-month-old was like a ticking time bomb threatening to explode the moment our food came. I gave her my keys, she threw them, I gave her a spoon, she threw that, I tried everything. No dice.
I saw and gave her a tiny, closed bottle of Tabasco sauce that was on the table next to the sugar. It was closed tight, no harm done, right? Wrong. Mom is a complete idiot. Baby's tongue was on fire. We drove home that night, our food in bags, with both mom and baby crying inconsolably."
(Morguefile)
"Um, forgotten swim diaper and poop on a dock at our lake."
(Morguefile)
"I dropped my 4 month old out of his car seat while walking through the parking lot at the mall. Plop, he slid right out and I thought I was going to pass out because I was so mortified. How did he fall? Mom forgot to buckle him in!!"
(Morguefile)
"When my son was an infant, I placed him in a bouncy seat on the kitchen table while I prepared lunch. I didn't buckle him in because I was in a rush to get something off the stove, and he was an infant! What trouble could he possibly get into? He couldn't even crawl yet.
Then he bounced himself right out of the seat and onto the floor. He wasn't injured, thank goodness, but I felt terrible. And the sound of baby hitting the floor is something I'll never forget."
(Morguefile)
"In a classic, 'I thought you had her!' moment, we lost our youngest for a few minutes when while at a seaside tourist town we turned into a chocolate shop and she kept going.
It was truly only a couple of minutes and I wasn't so much scared someone had taken her than that she herself would be scared not knowing where she was.
Fortunately a kind couple saw her alone and crying and we had taught her our home phone number - not that it helped since we weren't there but it something - and they called it. When we realized we didn't have her I dashed out of the shop and a man stopped me to ask directions and I said, 'I'm sorry, I've lost my daughter!' and he said a little girl was right up there crying saying she was lost.
The nicest people, between him and the couple that helped her! She was only a block away."
(Morguefile)
"I forgot to buckle my 4-week-old. We just drove down the street to a neighbors garage sale, but I was horrified when I discovered what I'd done. So, thankful it hadn't been a long drive."
(Morguefile)
"With my oldest, I drove her to daycare without buckling her into her carseat. This was 1997 or 1998 and she had one of those carseats with the overhead bar you pulled down in front of her and that buckled into the base of her seat.
She had climbed in herself and I just forgot to buckle her and she didn't say anything. I didn't look hard enough in the rear-view to realize I was seeing the seat arm up - because it was up when she wasn't in it so it didn't trigger. I told her to be sure and let me know if I forget again! We were practically at daycare before I realized."
(Morguefile)
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