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Terrible Parenting

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AwfulDreadfulMummy · 26/07/2011 13:38

I am a TERRIBLE parent because....

DS (almost 7 months) rolled off the futon. He can now, I assume, roll more than once in a row....he SCREAMED his head off for 5 minutes while I panicked and cried, but is absoltuely fine now. Still tempted to take him to A&E for a CT scan though...

I also feed DS mostly jars, because they're easy and he gets a MUCH greater range of tastes than I'd cook. Mostly Organix ones though...and occasional Ella's Kitchen ....

I use dummies (well, he does...obviously).

I HATED all the Mother and Baby massage / tea / signing group things so don't go anymore. He does see lots of other babies with friends though....

AIBU to ask what you do that makes you a 'terrible Mummy' to make me us all feel a bit better?

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IDrinkFromTheirSkulls · 28/07/2011 20:11

Once at a park, I put ds on the slide and let him go. He was fully mobile, walking, climbing etc but he had never been on a slide before. I didn't realise that you balance as you go down a slide and ds didn't know how. So he slumped sideways as he went down and banged his head on the side. I scooped him up quick as he screamed the place down and pretended to all the other parents judging watching me that he just didn't like the slide.

Even worse, the next week in Mothercare I put him on one of those little rides (the little cars etc that you put a pound in and they "move"). DS was taken by surprise by the sudden movement of the car and slammed face first into the steering wheel. Again, I pretended he just didn't like the ride and walked off sharpish saying "Oh dear ds was that too scary for you?"

Do I win? I was a bad mummy twice and I should have known better, especially the second time round!!!

ILoveFrogs · 28/07/2011 20:17

I once drove from my parents house to mine (10 mins) with my DS in the back of the car strapped to his car seat, only the car seat wasn't strapped onto the car. I still feel mega guilty about that, needless to say I'm extra vigilant now.

BeerTricksPotter · 28/07/2011 20:17

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GreenEyesandHam · 28/07/2011 20:21

There is a sound that even when you've never heard before, is instantly recognisable as 'baby-head-hitting-floor'

When any of my children have hurt themselves and bled, I've been known to walk swiftly away in the opposite direction. Only if there's any fucker else another responsible adult present of course

GreenEyesandHam · 28/07/2011 20:24

Chuckling at the baby slumping sideways on the slide, and the upside down 4yo in the woodchippings

I think I have issues!

lady007pink · 28/07/2011 20:33

When DD2 was 8mo, she managed to climb 2 steps of the stairs, slipped and fell onto ceramic tiles bruising her forehead. I had visitors, was making tea for them and assumed they were watching her. Mind you, she was a very fast crawler!

Anyway, she had an x-ray which showed a fractured skull and was kept overnight in hospital. She was fine, except for the ugly bruising which lasted a week.

She is now nearly 9yo and not a bother on her, but I still feel guilty about it to this day ! I've told her about it, she loves hearing all the lovely things the doctors and nurses said about her - she hasn't called me a negligent mother yet!

ajaybaines · 28/07/2011 20:42

Today I was in a rush to get to a doctor's appointment.

The Doctor's is a two minute walk from my house, if that. I was pushing DD2 in the buggy and DD1 (almost 3) was dawdling, then she asked if she could pick some flowers. I said no, she could pick some on the way back and as bloody usual she completely ignored me and went to do it anyway.

I am getting so sick of her ignoring EVERYTHING I ask her to do and was stressed about being late so I picked her up and carried her under my arm whilst pushing the buggy with the other arm.

She screamed the entire way and when we got there I said, "what? what do you want" really impatiently and she said "I want to give you a kiss Mummy"

PumpkinBones · 28/07/2011 20:44

I accidentally punched DS1 in the face when strapping him into a car seat. It was more of a biff than a right hook.
I took DS2 to casualty last boxing day because he ate a festive cranberry diffuser air freshener; I had to have a home visit from a Health Visitor to tell me how to store household products safely!
They were both weaned on Farley's rusks.
I often tell DS1 when he is mithering that if I am such a terrible mother he can go and live with someone else.
As a mother, I am probably very similar to my own mum, and so I comfort myself thinking that we get on very well!

ajaybaines · 28/07/2011 20:47

Oh shit yeah, just remembered I gave my 12 month old a black eye last month trying to move a ladder out of her way. She was going straight for it with an evil glint in her eye but instead of moving her I moved the ladder, forgetting about their weird center of gravity and the bottom swung out and gave her a shiner.

ajaybaines · 28/07/2011 20:48

Oh, yes, and this.

I had a glass of wine the other week waiting for the kids to go to bed except I put it in a mug so DD1 wouldn't know it was wine

I popped into the kitchen and came back to find the 12 month old slugging out of the mug with red wine going all over her dungarees

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AwfulDreadfulMummy · 28/07/2011 20:56

Oh my gosh
I shouldn't be laughing so hard at some of these :-)

DS is unscathed by his futon-rolling- off incident - know exactly what you mean by The Noise Of Baby Bumping ...!! Took him to the farm and first go on swings today- was ta worried he'd headdive out but nope :-) He then had a Heinz jar for lunch with a wodge of apply for his tooth. I felt no guilt whatsoever about substandard lunch lol - thank you SO much ladies for helping me find my chill out button :-)

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TattyDevine · 28/07/2011 20:56

Okay this thread was made for me today

Today I went troppo in the playroom and bagged up just about everything into rubble sacks, and stapled them up with an industrial stapler, and they are all to go to charity into the loft. They mainly consist of wee tatty shite (to coin a Scottish Mummy phrase) but also some stuff they actually like but wont put away. I let them keep some wooden stuff that I approve of. I don't care if they hate me.

On that note my son accused me of loving DD more than him. I assured him that I dislike them both equally.

There is a tree outside that makes lovely berries about this time of year that has been there for the past many years and only yesterday did I discover its a Cherry Laurel and highly poisinous. It overhangs their playhouse. They like to play with the berries. Whoops.

What else. Oh there's loads. Let me think a minute

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AwfulDreadfulMummy · 28/07/2011 20:58

ROFL atntellig them you dislike them equally :-)

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TattyDevine · 28/07/2011 20:59

Oh yeah last night DS wouldn't go in the bath so I sort of carried him into the bathroom and dumped him onto the floor and told him to get undressed and as I went in the door bit bumped my arm which made me even more mad so I kicked it and it rickocheted (sp?) off something else and bounced back and jammed DS's finger

Then he kept banging on and saying "Mummy I have a hurt" and asked for a plaster and I said "no, its not bleeding" but then he asked for "Nurofen" and prounounced it so well I praised him!

So advanced

ajaybaines · 28/07/2011 20:59

Ooh, another one from today.

I left the almost three year old pushing the 12 month old in the garden swing today while I did stuff in the kitchen. I heard her screaming and ambled my way out there and she had pushed her sister so hard that the swing frame (which is basically four legs - so two 'A' frames) was leaning right back on two legs and teetering with DD2 in about to crash backwards onto the grass at any minute.

heathermumof3 · 28/07/2011 21:24

Before now I have strapped my kids in the car drove to the industrial est near mine and told them it is the naughty boys home and to get out. They was crying and promised to be good. How bad am I.
Just today my DD 18 months was lying on my lap today while I was tickerling her belly when she fell off knee and smacked her head. I should have caught her.
My oldest was complaining that his belly hurt a few weeks ago just before going to school. I then shouted at him saying stop telling lies YOU ARE GOING TO SCHOOL. About 10 mins later school rung me telling me had been sick all over the class room. How bad did I feel.

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AwfulDreadfulMummy · 28/07/2011 21:33

Heather - normal!!!

Remember my mum when we were younger washing my brother's mouth out with neat fairy liquid after he spend drive home from school saying 'arse arse arse' in a sing song voice. She felt so guilty she gave him a mars bar immediately afterward... I figured a soapy mouth was worth a whole chocolate bar but my 'fuck fuck fuck' only earned me a slap round the head ....

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heathermumof3 · 28/07/2011 21:40

May not be normal but hey I some how get through the day lol

When I was little I couldnt get my word outs properly. My dad once took me to the toilet. After I said "daddy wipe my hand, wipe my hands" but he thought I was saying wipe my arse wipe my arse. He then marched me out and smacked my bum. It was my mum who told him what I was actualy saying untill this day he feels guilty. lol

edwinbear · 28/07/2011 22:48

I have hung so much shopping on the back of the buggy it tipped over backwards leaving DS stranded like a turtle on its back whilst I was in a queue at Starbucks.

DS also fell backwards off a 4 ft high wall banging his head at London Zoo, whilst I had turned around for 2 seconds to right the buggy which had fallen over backwards again.

DS has been known to have chocolate buttons for breakfast.

youarekidding · 28/07/2011 23:11

I once drove off down the road and when looked in the rear view mirror saw 6 week old DS still on the pavement in the car seat. I'd put him there whilst I put the pram bit in the boot. It was my first time driving as I'd had an ECS so hadn't got the 'routine' of doing car journies yet. I checked I had everything twice after that.

OveranxiousUnderated · 28/07/2011 23:14

I was upstairs with my DD earlier, and DP went downstairs forgetting to shut the baby gate behind him (we never forget to shut gates we are normally very good).

I was busy tidying away clothes in DD's room when I noticed she had gone quiet for longer than 1 minute (very inquisitive 11 month old)...

I walked out of her room to find her standing inbetween the two sides of the OPEN baby gate at the top of the stairs, one arm on each side just staring at me.

I have never ran so fast in my life, I scooped her up so fast, probably almost dislocating her arm - surely better than the other consequence?!!

I still feel sick now. I could have cried.

Actually contemplating never opening a gate again, just leaving them permanently locked and hurdling over them each time!!

Trina82 · 28/07/2011 23:14

My DH folded our double buggy with 5 week prem DD still strapped in, she thought she was a blanket! That was a sleepless night!

Trina82 · 28/07/2011 23:18

he thought she was a blanket

Fairenuff · 28/07/2011 23:22

though she was a blanket!!

IHeartKingThistle · 28/07/2011 23:42

I left the boot open when leaving a multi-storey car park when DD was 6 months and in a rear-facing seat. Didn't realise until the open boot hit the ceiling of the car park when I was going down a ramp.

I can see the image of DD's confused little face looking out of the back of the car into fresh air as if it was yesterday

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