things I didn't know I found annoying until I had children.

Mmuuuuuummmmmyyy, (sister's name) did..........
And "I'm not your best friend!" Response to anything she doesn't want to hear.
Also everyone, DH included, talking at once and expecting full attention and direct answer

Oh yes, the 'I'm telling' no, I'm telling first... MUUUUUUUUM!!

The constant negotiations about every.fucking. thing.

Mealtimes, bedtimes and leaving the house.

and being sat on, not with, on, just.... Why!!?

But the random.... I love you more than chocolate, and you're the best mum in the whole wild world, mean I'll keep them :)

Love this thread. Thought it was just me. I hate getting so wound up by these things and every evening I vow to have more patience. What I really, really want to see is one of the endless cooking shows make whichever chef it is preaching about healthy food/ the ease of cooking from scratch etc do the whole programme in a kitchen with preschoolers. One will preferably be at the stage of unloading all the saucepans so that 'I cook too, mummy' and then having a massive tantrum if said chef actually needs to use a saucepan. Another will enjoy dancing. There should probably also be some sort of craft project going on involving glue and scissors. Chef's MiL must ring with a 'quick' message (preferably involving one or more health complaints no one wants to hear about) Chef must wipe at least one bottom during the course of preparing the meal. He/she must also keep up constant conversation about an imaginary world or sing inane nursery rhymes. At the end of this, the food must be served up and the preschoolers offer their honest critique. For me it would be entirely worth the license fee to see if Jamie or any of the others could do this.

Taking turns

"Why?" - just started on Saturday all of a sudden. She's not even three yet. Arghhhhh

I don't allow hanging off my legs. I would go insane. Also have twins so it would be annoying^10.

Currently Ds2 (3mo) refuses to go to sleep. Just spent 1hr20 wrestling him upstairs. Have given up and he's now gurgling at me despite roaring and rubbing his eyes like a madman two minutes ago. So babies.

Ye gods, the noise! DDs' default volume setting is 11.

The flouncing! 'I'm not PLAYING then!', over some trivial 'offence'

The telling: 'I'm telling then!', over another, equally trivial one...

The tapping my breast for attention, JUST DON'T!!!

Our house is becoming more and more shouty...

Liz68Mustang

I remember my mums reaction to this when I was little. Now I understand!

I definitely agree with all of these!

"Mummy, mummy, MUMMY!" "What?" "Can you help me put track together?"

5 minutes later...
"Mummy, mummy!" "Hmm?" "Can you put track together?"

Trying to keep my eyes open after being tired all day, as I got hit over the head at 6am because "It's morning time, mummy! Time to get up!", whilst having a conversation about how the cars start at the top of the garage then they go "round and round and round and round, then whoosh at the bottom"

Serving dinner, then DS saying he doesn't want that but the dinner that is sitting in the saucepan instead which is EXACTLY the same!

And... touching! When it's me, DP and DS in the bed together, I'm usually the one that is twitching from anyone touching me, then gradually shimmying across until my head hits the bedside table! Ugh, especially when there are COLD hands and feet!!

My son is 3, so I don't mind it so much right now. What I'm dreading is the cringy conversations when he gets to the age of about... 7 or 8? "What's more important, mummy? The world or super powers?"

Yes to the touching! I'm 7 months pregnant with DC2 and DD (2) is constantly climbing on me, insisting toys be miraculously balanced on me, with lots of wriggling and elbowing me in the bump and nipples. Ow!

Mind numbing repetition. Books. Games - pretend shops where she 'buys' the same book ten zillion times.

Outrage at simple daily things. Tooth brushing. Hair brushing. Bedtime. Trying to feed and nourish her.

All I can say ladies is its great having all this happen again when you are a grannie, you enjoy it much more cos you can give them back when you have had enough....... Please don't kill me

Being handed stuff!

'Here's your phone, mummy'. Oh thanks, you picked it up from where I just put it because I need my hands to do whatever it is you've just demanded I do.

Here's your iPad mummy. Yep, that was with my phone.

Here's your tea cup mummy. Yep, my cold sad undrunk tea.

No, please don't put my cold tea near my phone/iPad.

Slow walking
Squealing
PLAYING DOLLIES
Having a discussion about everything. Just bloody do as you're told!

On the other hand side, I dread the time when she will no longer want to hold my hand or kiss me all over my face. When having her arms around my neck will no longer be an everyday thing. When she doesn't tell me that she loves me on a daily basis. I don't know what I am going to do with myself when she doesn't need me anymore

reading/watching the same thing drives me crackers

Socks.

Glitter.

The fact that you can buy a pack of 48 felt-tip pens, and there will be umpteen shades of green, blue, red, brown etc but ONLY ONE YELLOW.

Having to sit for two hours on an uncomfortable chair while other people's children grapple with musical instruments. All because your dc is in the school choir. And they're on last.

Being asked: "So...... what have you been doing all day?"

DH.

Mine are teen/tween but it just morphs into different types of annoying, while retaining some of the toddler aspects. Namely..
Turn taking. Yes, still at 11 & 13. We were in a hotel recently and they had to take turns in using the key card!
Fairness - having same amount of ice/cream etc. Funnily, this doesn't apply to broccoli, or it does conversely!!
Looking at dinner like I've served up a dead rat - then eating it all and still being hungry.
Appetite of a 13 year old girl - insatiable!
dried in skidded in 'their' loo. I have to brace myself when I open the lid.
Homework nightmares.
Being treated like a taxi/bank. Them assuming I'm going to pick them up from the arse end of nowhere at their whim!
Still get the 'muuuuuuum!' Thing.
DD having better and more make up than me (and then I borrow it).

Can I add shopping now that all of the Christmas toy displays are everywhere. Had a very surreal conversation with my 2yr old about father Christmas, including a lovely one around 2am trying to explain why we couldn't visit 'christmas house' through lots of near-hysterical tears.

Shocked

Anyway, this is a lighthearted thread

SilverOldie - I'm of your generation. When I was little, there was often an extended family to help out with childcare. I had grandparents, aunts and uncles. Mum had it tough, she was a very young military wife, but I can remember being cared for by my extended family at times. Weekends spent with Grannies and Grandpas, out for the day with Aunts or Uncles.

My children had none of this, and DP worked seven days a week when they were young (and I worked as well; full-time at first, then part time). And had no-one to help out. At all. Ever.
Often, nowadays, families can live many miles apart (I live 200 miles away from my Mum and Dad, In-laws live just down the road but were never helpful. At all. Ever.

Times change, problems change

This. Always this.

Tech gives us instant stimulus without any effort. Its immediate and it gives us what we need. The downside is we expect everything to be instantaneous; Mother's attention, boredom disappearing, being unable to wait to share something and the constant need for input from other people.

How on earth does this manifest at aged 15 months?!?!? 5 years ok I sort of can see. Toddlers?!

I've read threads on here from mothers pulling their hair out because they've run out of ideas how to amuse their children 24/7 - when do the children learn to be independent and use their imagination?. Not forgetting that back then there was one tv channel on a 7 inch black and white tv, a wireless, no computers, x-boxes, dvds, mobiles, ipads etc

There's a fair bit of research out there that has suggested our modern tech has made us less patient and less able to persevere at the simplest things because everything these days is now! now! now!

Tech gives us instant stimulus without any effort. Its immediate and it gives us what we need. The downside is we expect everything to be instantaneous; Mother's attention, boredom disappearing, being unable to wait to share something and the constant need for input from other people.

For me its

banging/door slamming/heavy foot steps/stamping
whinging
being climbed all over
'but why??'
'guess what!!'
'Muuummmm!'
being told about every bodily function.
mess. Constant mess.
My stuff being touched.
me being touched.
crumbs every-fecking-where
Stuff getting stuck to the bottom of my feet. I used to have clean house with lovely spotless carpets and it was luxury to walk about barefoot. Now I have washable everything and jam between the toes is as bad as standing on a slug. GAH!
yelling when I am stood right next to them
STILL walking in on me when I am trying to use the loo
Waffling on about the same thing they have waffled about for the last 5 bloody days.
Telling me what so and so's mum lets them do.

DC is aged 8.