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The first rule of good parenting 'never take yourself too seriously'!

I can't take myself seriously with some of the things I've said to them!

Not only did I talk, I sang too.
Yes, I was THAT mother

oh me too Katie only because my dc was a howler, at everything, the second you put her down - i was a nervous wreck! if i wasn't singing at her i was throwing constant snacks at her! just so she wouldn't erupt

was a nightmare

yes that's right, 'hi, my name's drmummmsy, and i sang 'the wheels on the bus' whilst on the sodding bus '

plus i was about 20 and very insecure in my new role

singing not a problem,jiggling,regular rapport not a problem
we've all been there the jiggled who needed a song...or else
the performance parent would have song periodic table,loudly with accompanying explanation of noble gases to glassy eyed baby and onlookers

pizza hut, yum
to hell with maths, yay pizza hut ESP the dips and jalapeños

are you getting wrong end stick?what's humphyface for
I would rather eat pizza, peruse dips than do maths
the yum was a clue that I like pizza

nothing wrong with singing the periodic table if you do it like this

indeed pop a stuffed crust in his yap if he interrupts the pizza

actually, dh and I probably look like pps a lot. we sing religious and classical music to dd all the time.

mainly because we spend all our frigging lives performing the stuff for real and it's ingrained onto our poor brains.

I fear twas me go wrong end stick, I was clearly perturbed as thought you preferred maths to pizza

I was an over-talkative parent for about 48 hours. I even gave newborn --DD a guided tour of our house as soon as I brought her home <cringe> XH thought I was mad and DD couldn't have given a shit, obviously.

But she did what babies do, cried, fed, got colic and she'd beaten it out of me by the end of the week, and is punishing me further by being twelve and un-shutupable.

I made up my own songs. "Seeee the peeeeeezzza, count the olives! One, two threeeee......."
Sad Sad Sad

Now I'm worried I don't talk to my kid enough. I never do any of that singing. I felt a prize prat when I went through some of the moves at baby group singing yesterday. I pull faces and kiss her but don't yak away about stuff in public, only at home and that's mostly to myself anyway.