Pulling a Britney

Usually Britney Spears is not my go to parenting role model, but I was a little desperate today.  After rushing in to pick Monkey up from school five minutes late (shopping emergency), dragging him to the car and wrestling him into the car seat I realized too late that he had no water in his sippy cup.  This probably sounds like a small problem, but M will cry the entire way home if he doesn't have his after school drink.  I weighed my options, unhook him and pray for his cooperation (yeah right), leave him buckled in the car and run back to the water fountain (too afraid of child services) or give him the only fluids I had available, my watered down diet coke.  What would Britney do?  Yes, I gave my almost two year old diet coke in a sippy cup today...  Sure, it's not Mountain Dew, but still not one of my prouder moments.