Unexpected Problems

When you discover you're going to be a parent you worry about many things: what if the baby chokes, what if she won't eat, what if she never sleeps through the night.  


You read some books, which give you even more things to worry about: SIDS, ebola, alien abduction (I guess it depends what kinds of books you read).  


Maybe you even subscribe to a parenting magazine, which gives you a few more things to throw on the worry pile: mismatched outfits, bad haircuts, self-immolation.  


But then you have your child, and you realize that no matter what you've been worrying about and preparing for, you are still totally unprepared.  Like, for instance, when your dog begins humping your child.  Yeah, awesome.  


I mean, she doesn't seem to mind, and frankly, for the amount of grief she gives the poor animal, it's probably just fair turnabout.  But still, I feel like I need to step in, but so far my books and periodicals have been mute on the proper parenting solution to this particular conundrum.  


But then again, maybe I just missed that issue of Parenting with Pets magazine.