Nobody's Perfect by Gina Ardito

Author:Gina Ardito
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: clean romance stories, sister series romance, single dad nanny romance, nanny romance kindle
Publisher: Gina Ardito
Published: 2023-11-19T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 14

The following morning, after a miserable night spent tossing and turning, Craig still stewed about his conversation with Summer.

Maddie was a brat.

Deep in his gut, Craig had always suspected he and Dad spoiled her rotten. But to have Summer come right out and say it? Ouch, that stung.

When he sat at the controls in the studio during morning drive time, he blurted out the question before thinking. “Do you think children need boundaries, Maureen?”

His sidekick, ensconced in her booth across from him, stared as if he’d lost his mind.

“Don’t give me that bug-eyed look,” he scolded with his usual Cliff Hanger sarcasm. “I’m serious. A friend and I were discussing this yesterday. Now, everyone knows I have no use for parenting advice. That’s the beauty of remaining blissfully unattached. But yesterday, I heard about a kid who throws tantrums where she screams and cries so much she practically pukes. Charming, right?”

“Cliff.” Maureen’s tone held a tentative warning, the kind she’d offer a friend who stood on the edge of a frozen lake on a warm spring day. “Are you sure you want to go there?”

“Absolutely. Call it idle curiosity. Let’s hear from some parents out there. Is this kid’s behavior normal? And how would you deal with a spoiled brat? Time out? Take something away from her? Lock her in her room until she’s thirty? Or do you just give in to make the screaming stop? What do you say, Maureen?”

“I think most child psychologists advise parents to ignore temper tantrums unless there’s a danger the kid will hurt himself. And even then, you should remove the danger but not indulge the tantrum.”

“So... what? Like if the kid’s holding a knife, you rush him and take it away? And hope he doesn’t stab you full of holes first?”

“No, stupid,” she retorted for the audience’s delight. But the grin she flashed held no malice in their usual on-air rapport. “Like...” She paused, then shook her head. “I don’t know. My son was never a tantrum thrower, thank God.”

“Wait, what are you telling us? You think your kid’s perfect? ‘Cuz lemme tell ya something, Maureen. I’ve met your son.”

“I know Blake’s no angel, Cliff. He just never resorted to tantrums to get his way. I sometimes wish he had because it probably would have been a lot safer.”

“Yeah? Why? What’d he do?”

“Blake was always a go-getter. Tell him no, he’d go get whatever he wanted himself.”

Leaning closer to the mike, he flashed a thumbs-up. “Like what? Come on, Maureen, give us details.”

She paused for a heartbeat. “Like when he first learned how to get out of his crib at night. Most kids climb over the rail to escape, but not my little Houdini. He’d take the crib apart.”

“You’re kidding.”

She laughed. “I wish. He never cried or screamed to get out. But every night, I’d put him in and a few hours later, he’d pop up next to my bed. He’d figured out how to unscrew the foot of the crib from the rail.

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