Parenting lows?

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I think I've reached mine tonight.

Ds2 is three. Still in a pull up at night.

He pooed. In his pull up. This never happens. He came downstairs crying and wanted me to change him in my bedroom. He then had a major shitfit (pun intended) because I'd taken the poo away and he wanted to see his messy bum.

I'm tired. It's been a long week and a busy weekend so far. He was at fever pitch regarding the whole 'messy bum' thing.

So. I'm so sorry. But I wiped poo from the wet wipes back onto his bum. He did a brief squat and turn to the mirror, pronounced it a success, let me wipe his bum and re dress him and had gone back to bed.

HOW DID MY LIFE BECOME THIS?

Please tell me you have sunk lower than this? Please?

My own parenting low was when I picked DD1 (then 7) up from after school club with DD2 in tow (then 4). It was autumn and going a bit dark around 4.30pm. DD2 was messing about on the path outside the classroom (she normally looked for nice leaves when we did pick up) and I told her to come back. "I am playing in the sand" she said. As I was thinking 'what sand?' DD1 came out and shouted "STOPPPPPPP!!!!!!"
Turns out it was sand put over somebody's sick. OMG I must have used a packet of baby wipes on her when we got to the car and straight in the bath when we got home.

You see, I would consider the inventive way you stopped the tantrum is a parenting high .

My parenting low was screaming at my beautiful DD when she was 3 'Do you want to go and live with another mummy? Because I don't want you anymore!'. Five years later, the thought of saying that to her still makes me cry.

Low point .. Me hanging on to the toilet for dear life being violently sick while ds5 is shooting me up the arse with a nerf type gun.

spending most of the day cleaning and disinfecting the whole house just to turn around and watch recently crawling child licking the pram wheels.

We've all done similar for an easy life!! Don't feel bad and ignore first comment x

to nerf gun motherofmonster

I'm in hysterics reading some of these!! Love it!

Laughed out loud at the nerf gun while being sick

I've never done that and probably wouldn't as I wouldn't want to let him win. You probably handled it better than I would have.

Because I find this disgusting doesn't make me the perfect parent. Far from it believe me. No one is the perfect parent. I just wouldn't do what the OP did. But low and behold anyone that disagrees on here eh!!

Correct me if I'm wrong but this was posted in AIBU? Therefore I would assume the OP expects different opinions.

Doesn't make you a bad mum OP, not at all. I just wouldn't do what u did that's all.

It's a novel way of halting a tantrum, I must say.

My middle child was a devil for freaking out at having to poo in the potty or toilet. She always wanted a nappy put on for it, but I took that as an indication that she definitely recognised when she needed to go and was ready. I refused to provide a nappy on demand for poo. It would have perpetuated the problem. So I just weathered the storm of her tantrums and went cold turkey.

It worked. It was hard though. Noisy too. She has always been one for pushing all the buttons.

Mine had a massive tantrum in the car on the way home because I threw away a bag of wee from his pottete. I sang manically all the way home while he yelled 'I WANT MY BAG OF WEE BACK NOW MUMMY! TURN THE CAR AROUND! It's a special time in any parent's life...

Motherofmonster - you win! That's ace :)

Missdee, I think it was posted to prompt a lighthearted conversation. Not for serious opinions. A way of making light of something. You have to laugh or you would go crazy/cry sort of thing.

Makes no difference that it is in AIBU. We can have humour here too.

high fives DoJo

Me lying on hot bath extremely pregnant and in agony with some weird shoulder muscle problem. I was unable to move, dh downstairs cooking dinner. Ds(3) came in, highly amused at role reversal of me inside the bath and him outside. Decided to clean me with the cloth I used to clean the toilet which was tucked discreetly behind a pipe. Despite my protestations and yelling for dh he carried on like some sort of sinister nurse, gently wiping me with the cloth and talking to me in soothing tones...

indefinitestruggle Definitely a vom face and not one of envy!

I do sympathise though - I took my son to the loo at a toddler group we go to and he managed to grab the already damp rim of the loo with both hands before I could stop him. Thinking I would just give his hands a good wash when we had finished, I was holding him on the loo when he suddenly grabbed my face with his manky, germ-laden little hands and declared that he loved it when we went for wees together while I tried to appear as thrilled as he was without throwing up into his lap. It was the sweetest, grossest thing ever and I still sometimes remember it and have to give my face a quick wash just to purge the memory!

DoJo that is sweet and yet so, so gross

My parenting low was my 1st baths after we'd had a new bathroom fitted. The old bath was smaller than a regular one and also a watersaver type (ie no bloody room to bathe), the new one is HUGE. I told dd she was to stay in bed as it was mummy's special time. She was in and out constantly leaving the door open to full -freezing drafts and fully on view-- effect. She got the telling off of a life time and it took a week for me to pluck up courage to attempt the bath again (I showered in between - honest!). Just as I laid down, dd came into the bathroom - massive 'mummy-doing-stern-voice' session from me. As she sat on the toilet this little voice said 'But Mummy, I don't feel very well' and with that projectile vomited all over the floor.........

I could absolutely see that scenario happening in this house, I'd have done the same In fact only today I ended up unwrapping the baby's shitty nappy because the three year old was distraught that he'd missed seeing all the shit.

Just thought back to one afternoon of absolutely horror that I had blocked from memory years ago.

My eldest was a toddler. We were in Tesco, and she was sitting in the trolley seat. I was browsing the fresh fruit and vegetables section while she whinged a s she sometimes did about not being allowed to run around.

Suddenly she projectile vomited and most of it ended up in the rack of loose potatoes!! I had to inform staff, and it was my quickest ever visit to Tesco.

These things are sent to try us!!!!!

DCs are 4 and 2 and poos are a BIG deal in this house. Each poo must be closely inspected, remarked upon and bade farewell before being flushed (trained 4 YO) or bagged and binned (untrained 2 YO). Woe betide me if a poo should be disposed off without a proper send-off!

My parenting low would be allowing my own poo to be commented on before being flushed. Whatever gets us through the day, hey?

msvestibule totally agree this is a parenting high

I would be whooping and high fiving myself as I do when I win over a tantrum.

OP I thought you were going to say you smeared it over his face. Now that's a parenting low.

My sister once woke my mum up by putting poo in her mouth. She said despite never having eaten poo before, she knew instantly what it was = parenting low.