Things you hate doing with your kids?

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Aibu to think some things we have to do as parents is torture?
For me it's playing with toys. Games yes. Toys no. The words 'will you play with me' haunt me

Glitter is evil

Going to the toy shop.

When I'm alone in enter said shop, seek out the toy I want to buy, pay and benefits on my way in a few minutes.

DS has to touch, compare, upset the display, question the assistant, have a try (the Entertainer is the worst for allowing this ) and generally waste time.

Board games. Always wriggle out of it or deliberately lose 2 minutes into the game, am perfectly happy for the kids, their friends, parents, teachers etc. to believe that I am shit at board games. Ditto card games.

Art and crafty homework. I make up terrible excuses almost every time...the teachers must think we have the largest families in the universe as we are always going away to weddings and therefore unable to construct Viking ships and fancy dress costumes at the weekends. Doesn't really help that I work at the school our children attend.

Two words to strike fear into the heart of any right-thinking parent:

Soft play

Love swimming, hated swimming with DC, until they could swim.

Playgrounds are v v bad for me (have anxiety and find it extremely hard not to helicopter).

Role playing - dull dull dull.

Reading bad childrens books - good ones are fine!

Anyone giving gifts of moonsand, doh vinci, cheap and always shoddy craft sets or suchlike is a total twat IMO!

Another one who hates swimming. If I have to get wet I want to exercise not stand around getting cold whilst small children swims around me!

Any thing that involves talking to other parents while also being in charge of my children. Guaranteed migraine.

Doh vinci is awful!!!

Board games
Grocery shopping
Swimming

Craft stuff. The mess, the mounds of paper you get left with all with a very precious painting on, the craft kits that never work.

I take them to an arts and crafts session once a week so they can get it all out their system.

Lol writer that's something I would do too and feel no guilt!

Swimming unless there's slides and stuff, otherwise I just get cold & bored.

I hate pushing swings.

Swimming, because you can't actually swim when they are little so you just stand there getting cold.

Swimming and any pretend play.
I could do board games or puzzles all day

I agree with swimming with kids. Standing shivering in water, faking a cheerful voice "kick darling, kick"
I'm my head I'm screaming "for the love of god just fucking swim"

Parents evenings....ive always hated them and now im divorced i con my ex husband into doing them....pure torture.

All of these. Especially bastard crafts.

Have just started swimming lessons with ds3. Fml. You have all the disadvantages of swimming. Wearing a costume. Shaving your legs. Chlorine. Public pool. But non of the advantages. Ie actually swimming.

Plus ds doesn't actually do anything he is supposed to. He is brave though so spends most of the 30 minutes falling off the noodle and being fished off the bottom. I can see another 18 months of this before he can go in alone.

Also Sunday night has become Downton Abbey night for me and dd (12). DP and Ds go to bed. We watch back to back episodes of Downton as we somehow missed it the first time.

Dd spends 2 hours either gasping in shock/horror/anguish or munching her way through the treat cupboard. 37 M and Ms in a little glass ramekin thing the other night. You would be surprised at the noise. Also she is partial to an ice lolly and has been banned from sitting next to me for that bit.

Going to the park. Some parents I knew seemed to take their dcs to the park after school most days. Not for me.

Does anyone remember the French & Saunders sketch, where F&S were mothers of young kids, doing messy play.

In the end the kids amused themselves in the other room, whilst F&S did all the 'making' to their own high standard.

worth looking for on YouTube.

tickle fights which involve role play!! Torture and he wants them daily , he's 8 and this shows no sign of stopping...

Mine is only a baby, but I hate swimming (he loves it, I find it so stressful!)

soft play

otherwise known as the gates to hell

Play doh. DS just blends it all into one brownish sludge. Dry play doh in all the little moulds. Moist playdoh all over the floor/table. I even tried it on an oilcloth and still it was in fingernails, hair, pockets. It's all in the loft now. I loved it as a child, though!

walkie fecking talkies. Beep beep rustle rustle beep I can't hear you!! Beep beep I can't hear you over!!
Press.The.Fecking.Button.

Picnics. I love them and put a lot of effort into the food. The minute the picnic blanket is spread out and food put on it, DSs 1, 2, 3 and 4 disappear in all 4 compass-point directions. I've had to give up on them. Maybe I'll have less hyperactive DGCs...

Baking with kids. You think its going to be lovely but my two immediately start to bicker over who gets to measure/stir/crack eggs. They proceed to make a total fecking mess and then lose interest when its time to tidy up, miraculously reappearing when the stuff comes out of the oven. Despite repeatedly being told to let stuff cool someone will always stick their finger in it and then howl because its hot. They will then fight over who gets the biggest one of the batch. I'll be hoovering up stray sprinkles for days afterwards whilst muttering "never again" under my breath.