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What's your deepest, darkest secret?

Moms confess in survey by Today.com and Parenting.com (26,000+ surveyed)

By Rebecca Dube

Sometimes the secrets are things we do:

•Nearly one in five moms admits medicating their child to get through a special event like a plane flight; one in 12 does it just to get some peace and quiet on a regular night.
•Half have knowingly sent a sick kid to daycare or school.
•85 percent use their kids to get out of social obligations.
•Nearly one in three uses work as an excuse to avoid taking care of the kids.
•44 percent of moms would rather be 15 pounds thinner than add 15 points to their child’s IQ.
•One in four fears their partner is a better parent than they are.
•One in ten wishes their child was the opposite s-e-x – and of those moms, 60 percent have boys.