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If you ever get to feeling down about how you’re doing in parenting your kid (or kids) do yourself a favor and spend a moment watching Julia Louis-Dreyfus’ sitcom, The New Adventures of Old Christine for a reality check.

Take last week’s episode, “Honey I Ran Over The Kid,” Christine Campbell (Louis-Dreyfus) was in a heated debate with her ex-husband Richard over who was the safer (and saner) parent. In the video below, Christine was incensed when Richard brought Ritchie home with a minor, post-skateboarding injury after she’d secured so much safety gear onto the boy that he put Randy in the giant red snowsuit from the Christmas Story movie to shame. This scene occurred BEFORE, Christine accidentally ran her son down with her car (she was following him “for safety” when he was riding a bike to a friend’s house). This kicked off a warped competition for “worst parent” where Christine and Richard kept trying to one-up the other with sordid tales of each other’s poor parenting.

When I’m done watching this show, I always feel as though I’m not doing such a bad job after all. At least I’m not Christine Campbell.