To ask, what's the worst parental mistake you have made in good faith?

[Havingitall]

As end of term approaches the kids and I were looking back over the highs and lows of the last school year. One incident stood out. World book day. I sent my daughter in wearing a bonnet and an empire line dress - take your pick of the Bennet sisters - but my son (14 and autistic) loves the Simpsons so with a yellow swim hat, some face paint, a shirt, jeans and a cushion, he made a fabulous Homer. That night they came home keen to talk about their day. DD quite happy, DS less so. Turned out my son's book day at school was the following week. He got off the bus that morning, well, you can imagine. Because he is the first to be picked up in the morning I hadn't noticed anything was wrong. I asked him what they said, and he replied "Mrs X said, 'Don't worry, we can wash it off"...."
By way of footnote we did turn disaster into triumph the following week when he reprised his role and came back with first prize, but both kids have spent the afternoon revisiting - I suspect this is a maternal gaffe never to be forgiven or forgotten.

2 years ago I woke up in the night to find DD1 (then 5) sobbing on the floor. I got up and tried to work out what was happening through the sobs.

I'd hit her . She'd tried to wake me by pulling my hair and I'd swatted her. I have no recollection of this but I still feel a bit guilty about it. I've explained to her how to wake people up without using pain. In fact I was woken by her last night after she'd had a nightmare. I've just asked her how she woke me and it was with a tap.

Lost a child at the zoo (for 10 minutes, she was 9 and happily playing in the playground)

Brownie pack holiday and the girls were a nightmare running around the corridors at all hours... Their final warning was to stop running back and forth to the toilets, stay in bed and stay quiet til we come and get you in the morning... Went in and one child comes up and says she's wet the bed cause she wasn't allowed out (we thought they'd have the sense to quietly sneak to the toilet rather than wet themselves!)

Bashed a friend's baby's head on a low hanging light (he's fine!)

Also bashed several Brownies on the head playing a game (they're also fine!)

Another one here who cut the skin as well as the nail while using clippers, Bibbidy, so I resorted to nibbling them off when PFB was tiny.

One mistake I made in good faith was to send DS to dress-up day wearing a home made vulture costume, complete with binbag wings, cardboard claws and mask and a feather boa neck ring. It was what he'd wanted but all his friends were in polyester princess or superhero costumes and he was laughed at all day for something I'd spent hours on. The costume was never worn again and from then on it was shop bought all the way...

Oh, and DD went to nursery in two pairs of knickers one day. As I said to the Teaching Assistant, better a pair too many than a pair too few!

I was bullied a lot at school

Ds was a quiet and shy boy and always got walked all over. So when he started school and someone hit him I said, if a bully hits you, hit them back and they won't do it again.

So when his best friend and he ran into each other, bumping heads he then smacked him around the head and said my mum told me to do that!!

Arghh

I was a member of a parenting forum years ago and a few of us decided to meet up at one of the mums houses. First time I had met any of them. We decided to play just dance on the Wii..I managed to full on punch a toddler in the head whilst doing a dance move holding the Wii remote ..not once but twice ..same child. Which just happened to be the child of the ladies house I had visited. I had travelled 2 hours to visit so had to stay and brave the awkward stares.

I have so many

At a birthdayBBQ when DD1 was a toddler and she had terrible hayfever. Gave her the wrong end of the spoon (5ml) instead of the little end with piriton. Only realised what I had done when she fell asleep face down in a plate of cake at her little table. So I drugged my child.

Spent too long doing something else and realised DD was late for afternoon nursery. Rushed out of house (was winter) to get her there. Baby lost shoes and socks along the way, got home to realise I had no key. I had to stand outside waiting for DP to drive 20 miles home from work in the middle of the day trying to keep her feet warm as was so cold out. I didn't know any of my neighbours very well, no shops nearby to go to.

It was also a bad decision to go to DD's school induction morning knowing baby DD was a bit poorly... She simultaneously filled her nappy and vomited a pint of curdled vomit smelling milk all over me, herself and DD and the floor. It was all swimming in my bra and it STANK. So bad.

Was too busy talking at a wedding to notice DD has pooed her pants. She also followed it with a wee. The second lot of pics she was wearing trainers with a bridesmaids dress on top

I've also done the nipping of fingers with the scissors with both dcs!

I had hypermesis with dc2 was changing dc1 nappy it was one of those horrendous teething nappies and I promptly threw up all over my toddler dc he bless him found it hilarious!