Thursday 15 November 2012

Readers Choice- Confessions of bad parenting!!

I have been parenting for 3 years and 8 months.  In that time I have had some major parenting fails.  Any of my FFS Friday posts usually include at least one!!  But I am happy to share a few more!!

I am a yeller.  Not by choice.  The kids flat out ignore me if I just speak to them.  They have the worst case of selective hearing ever.  They do not have hearing problem, they can pick out whether a bus or truck is driving past or a plane or helicopter.  If I whisper the words chocolate or ice cream they come running!!

They do crazy stuff which forces me to yell.  Some weird and crazy things you might hear yelled if you were to walk past my house include-
  • Stop riding the dog like a horse.
  • Stop riding the dog like a horse on the coffee table
  • There is plenty of room for both of you in the dogs kennel.
  • Stop headbutting your brother, table, dog, floor.
Yep its a mad house around here!!  The fact social services or the rspca have not been called yet still amazes me!!  Especially when we were living in the rental and the houses were close together!!

Another notable parenting fail around these parts is the clothing situation.  Just yesterday the baby went out in his slippers as I could not find him one matching pair of shoes.  We also own only about 4 matching pairs of socks.  I do not know where the socks go.  My last clothing shameful secret is that in the babies nearly 2 years of life he has owned maybe 5 brand new items of clothing.  He is the handmedown king!!

The original topic was have I hidden toys etc Well the answer to that is YES!!  I hide stuff all the time and if it is battery operated and happens to run out I out right lie and say it can't be fixed!!  I also hide books, there is only so many times I can read the same story over and over and over again!!

Great question Declutterbug versus Captain Stingypants.  Now over to you guys its time to fess up, give me a parenting fail of your own just so I know I am not the only one who gets it wrong some days!!

Oh and pop over to visit Musings of the Misguided who has probably by now blocked me from twitter to see her Readers Choice!!

9 comments:

  1. Oh yay! I am so glad you chose that question! :) l, I have accidentally donated toys to the op shop a few times, especially the noisy ones, and occasionally I 'run out of batteries' . And I sometimes run low on caffeine and dress the twins in each others clothes... They are boy girl twins, and they mind. They mind a LOT! :)

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    1. Ha whoops I am sure your twins would not like that at all!!

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  2. Dont ride the dog like a horse! - That made me laugh. I'm sure if we had a dog my girls would try that one. My parenting fails are too numerous too mention. I'm the opposite of a helicopter parent. I've often been busily gossiping away with other Mums at the park and turned around to find that P2 has climbed into a precarious position.

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    1. Yep I am a non helicopter parent too!! The park is chat time!!

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  3. Love it! I swear in the vicinity of my child way more than I should. For a while there one thing I seemed to yell more than I liked was 'stop licking the damn tv'.

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    1. Stop licking the tv love it!! Makes some of mine seem normal!!

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  4. I have some parenting fails I care not too mention, Ok so one is when Summer was just a newborn I forgot to belt Izzy in her seat, I felt so bad when she fell out of it, when I went around the corner, she wasn't happy either. I hide toys all the time, mainly jigsaw puzzles! I get sick of picking up the pieces. I bring them out every now and then and put them back after I've picked them up again O_o

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    1. I hate jigsaw puzzles, despite my best intentions we lose peices as soon as they are opened!! We have forgotton to buckle children in too. Nothing makes you sound like a bad parent than when your 3 year old asks you to do his seatbelt up!!

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  5. Babies should NOT require two pieces of any kind of clothing. It's a mean trick that god played on us.

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