Lighthearted- things other parents do that drive you mad.

[Mumsy46]

I have seen many things over my time that parents do that just baffle me. I’m sure things I do other people feel the same way.
let’s name a few things without any explanation or defensiveness about these things if we do them ourselves. Just state and that’s it.

for me

1. giving baby/toddlers juice from a bottle.
2. seeing very young children (say under 1) watching a tablet or phone while in their pram

Blimey, this is eye opening.

I do t think I judge parents unless they're letting their child do something truly dangerous.

Although I say that with two brightly coloured children, one of whom was a boy with long hair up until preschool, using a buggy board 😁

I’m curious to know what the poster who is outraged about buggy boards thinks of cars, given that 59% of car journeys in the UK are under 5 miles. Do they encourage laziness?

Competitive parents that say their 2.5 year old could walk 10 miles and would never have a use for a buggy board. Infact when they went on a recent trip to disneyland paris, the child actually swam there from Dover 😂

Wrapping your kids up in cotton wool like they are going to break if they play in the mud, fall over or eat McDonald's 🙄

I was a toddler in the 60s. We walked everywhere. I raised my children the same.

Never had a problem.

Parents who say horrible things to tiny children like - get here you cunt - to a 5-year-old. Always makes me want to kidnap the kids.

What’s wrong with watermelons on a clothing print?!!! Is it just watermelons, or does that extend to other fruits? Mine have a lot of fruit print clothing!

Most stuff I'm fairly relaxed about, but I definitely judge people who don't put their kids in car seats, or properly restrain them in the back. Seen so many times parents in an Uber with a kid on their lap. Get the bus, or walk, or get a black cab where you can keep them in the buggy inside. But not that.

So you never took a train, bus or went in a car? Impressive!

Did you never go on holiday? Or were they all hiking holidays starting from your front door?

I'm not usually judgy of other parents. I have a 3 and a 2 year old, you gotta do what you gotta do.
But I did overhear another mum telling her toddler off in a coffee shop the other week and she kept calling him an arsehole!! Like to his face, whilst telling him off!

🤣🤣🤣

I never understood why parents get their kids out of the car on the road side. Get them out on the pavement.

Probably a given but smacking as discipline...it's disgusting!

People with one kid who want to give me advice on how to manage two.

People with very young kids who want to tell me how to parent my primary school age kids.

Perfect parents (i.e. people with no kids) telling me how they will parent their imaginary perfect children.

Parents of children who don't have food allergies telling me how they think they achieved it - "little Charlie doesn't have allergies because we breastfed" - very good, so did I.

I've toddler twins, so one on each side.
Sometimes when I'm taking the first twin out (on the road side) I see disapproving glances.
Hopefully once they see there is a second toddler on the other side, they understand why.

There's not much I judge. We all parent differently, dummies, formula or breastfeeding, cot or cosleeping...each to their own.
But parents who use violence to teach their children not to be violent 🙄
I was at a playgroup and one mum's little boy was biting. Correcting that is essential but she nipped him so hard on his shoulder and the poor lad screamed out in agony, he wasn't even two yet.

Wow!! And these children just walked, you never drove a car, took a bus, took a train. How very impressive!

Ooh yeah this!! My dd is 11 and it still happens!!

Apparently my Pram had a little toddler seat. In the 1980s. My brother used to ride in it to the supermarket (mile or so) then walk back as it was loaded with shopping....

Buggy boards aren't a completely new idea!

Can't ask this on MN. Everyone's child on here is either SEND (but bright), bright (but super bright, too bright for state school even) or bright, but for unknown reasons doesn't demonstrate any evidence of brightness. All parenting approaches are therefore valid.

Yes like the people who want sweet displays taken away from tills because they are too weak to tell their kids "no".

I judge all the people who think they "parent". you don't parent, you are a parent. It makes a difference because "parenting" is what perfect parents think they do. Whereas the rest of us just bring out kids up as best we can and realise that they turn out well in spite of us, not because of us.

I think as a parent you sort of 'grow out' of judging other parents the longer you've been one these days I find badly behaved dogs much more annoying than kids

Agree, crazy. Most parents do not have twins!

Yes like the people who want sweet displays taken away from tills because they are too weak to tell their kids "no".

There’s laws around this now meaning sweets can’t be on tills so they don’t need to worry about that any more.

Not unusual to have two children in car seats though?