According to your child, why are you the worst parent ever?

[TeetotalKoala]

According to DS1 (9), I am the worst mother ever because I won't let him watch the end of his programme in my bedroom. His tablet battery died midway through the episode and DH is watching the snooker downstairs.

I no longer allow the DC to watch TV in my room because they have frequently treated the room like crap and don't respect that it's not their space, wrestling on the sofa, throwing cushions everywhere etc, and it's nice to have a space that I don't have to clear up after them.

Plus, I'm already in here and I was enjoying the peace!

For making my son empty his money box to give me the money for the cost of swimming lessons that he begged for and then when we got there he refused to come out of the changing room because he could not swim. He asked if he could get the money
back if he went next week. I said yes . Not only did he go and obviously got the money back but he became a life guard as a teenager so I consider it money well spent

I love how now as adults, me as my friends talk about how we always used to moan non stop to our parents that “Everyone Else” can stay up late, go out and too wherever they want when they want etc......looking back, none of us were allowed to what “Everybody Else” does!

Big clap for Everybody Else and their best friend Nobody Else!

I said Dinosaurs lived in forests, rivers etc but no they live in the past and only in the past this triggered a huge meltdown after nursery and a refusal to walk through the trees

My almost 2 year old thinks I am a horrible mother because after 2 massive cups of milk, I have replaced it with water. I also won’t let him get out of his cot to run around because it’s bedtime.

I have also been a horrible mother today because it was bath time, because I wouldn’t let him watch baby shark on the potty (because he didn’t actually need a wee and was just trying to get access to my phone), and because I couldn’t immediately find his hammerhead shark when it was demanded.

9 month old today (obviously just through screaming) when I took away his dirty nappy that he was trying reach to chew.

Because I won't let her get a pet sloth.

Can I just add that I have been at work all day so this has literally been in the last two hours 🙄

Well ds 15 months can't talk yet but I get the feeling I'm the worst mummy ever when I don't let him slap my face and when I won't read the same book for the 20th time in a row. I'm going to cherish these times!!

Because my 2 year old wanted to be a blue dinosaur, not a red one which is my fault apparently 🤷🏻‍♀️

I asked DS and he said: "Because you are" . Very helpful.

Changes everyday, but most recently because i asked them to come out of the pool at 7pm to have dinner. They got in the pool at 1pm

puguin86

I thought I was the only one 😢🌸

Having any limits at all on screen time. None of his friends do. (Except I know that they do.)

Because I am annoying (DD:18yr old)
Because I don’t agree with all of her opinions (DD22!!!!)

I am wondering when the hell they will grow up and stop acting like knobs!

The five year old- I suggested that maybe the friend she had over to play might like to choose a film to watch instead of fuckwittering Frozen for the fourth time. DD kept whispering to her "shall we watch frozen?" Friend refused. Thank you, friend.

The two year old- I wouldn't let him ring his friends doorbell when went on a walk. I wouldn't let him touch a thistle. I showed him which direction our house was in. Then I washed his hair in the shower when we got home.

The baby- I am unable to both feed and wind her simultaneously.

@MonaChopsis

Because I won't let her get a pet sloth.

I have to say, I agree. That is most unreasonable.

Yesterday I drove 30 minutes each way to take my DC to a different skate park so that DS1 could test out his brand-new-arrived-that-day scooter. An hour in it started raining. Which made the concrete slippery. I told him we were going and he needed to have one last go. And he slipped and banged his knee (having refused his knee pads). This was my fault apparently.

Also, the one about wearing trousers/brushing teeth. Yes yes. Also my 9 year old.

He's tricky at the moment.

DS (7) is very fond of this phrase.

I tell him his breakfast/lunch/dinner is on the table.
I tell him his bath is ready.
I remind him to brush his teeth.
I tell him it's too early to watch YouTube at 5.30am.
I suggest it would be appropriate to get dressed in time for lunch.

I think sheets should be changed far too often!

That was that we were going and he declared he needed one last go, rather than coking off as I asked. I didn't tell him to have the go.

Coming. Not coking. That's would be an entirely different situation.

For asking him to shower daily. For checking their phones weekly . For asking them not to play games on computers for too long. All the terrible parent things we do 😅

I won’t let her go for a swim in the sea on her own. I’ve been at the beach all day and she wanted to lay about in her room. Now we’re back she’s decided she ‘needs’ a swim so going on her own. She is 12 so not happening. There was a tragic accident in the sea at the end of our road this week which I hoped would be a reminder that the sea is not a playground but she thinks she’s invincible!

Who knows? Everything, anything. I’ve given up at this point.

I think my kids are 'Everyone else'
They don't have bedtimes (4,6,15)
Good at self regulating. No limits to screen time, eat whatever they can find.
My teenager is the most sensible of her group of friends, they all go to her as the mum of the group, or me if they're in trouble, as every single one of them lies to their parents about what they're doing

Ds14:
Not letting him have his phone in his room at night so he can be on house party or snap chat until 4am, because ALL his friends do.

Not buying enough 'nice' food - by nice he means crisps, chocolate biscuits etc - crap basically.

I find there's always something to be hated for at whatever age...