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

Supervising swimming for them when they could/can swim but weren't/aren't old enough to be in pool alone so I have to stand waist deep in tepid pissy water getting splashed for an hour on a weekend. Leaves me grumpy and exhausted.

Board games and card games.

Standing in a freezing playground watching him run around. He doesn't actually want to go on any of the equipment. All I can do is stand and be cold. Summer can't come soon enough!

topcat I think that's the same French and Saunders sketch I mentioned on another thread, just this evening! In my memory, though, F & S were over-protective because letting DCs do it their way would have made too much mess? Off to YouTube now to have another watch!

Playing with toys/cars
Swimming
Painting

I don't mind lego or baking, parks, crafts (NO glitter), swimming abroad, reading, homework and all that jazz.

But not playing cars. I make dh do that.

I hate the train set, and swimming. Luckily DH likes both. I quite enjoy a puzzle or bit of colouring so do those with DD. I also don't mind reading her stories, she's got enough different ones there's always some variety.

HATE anything messy, so again DH is in charge of painting and the clear up at the weekend, and nursery is left to do other crafty/messy play type stuff.

Baking definitely, and lego. "make me a dinosaur..... Thaaaaaat's Not a dinosaur!!" Make your own fucking dinosaur!! Ingrate

The French and Saunders sketch mentioned is an old favourite. Just brilliant
Totally guilty of being like this with kids at times!

Going to the beach. I hate beaches and that sort of holiday anyway but obviously it's what you do with small children. I was always on pins in case they ran into the sea without me, and sand gets everywhere and I always looked a sight in my beach wear.

Also agree about card and board games - still loathe them now. I refused to learn chess at school and despite my exSIL trying to shame me and lend me books, I refused to learn in order to teach my DS. That's what school chess club and dads are for.

Baking - can I break an egg mummy

No you can't

Shame

And anything that necessitates massive tidying up afterwards

Let's not forget the perfect parents who do everything with their darlings and then post it on social media for us all to see It's all a fix for the camera it just has to be...

stop I used to help out at a club for 3-6 year olds. They were always all desperate to break the eggs when we did baking, now I know why!

I love glitter!!! And craft and cooking and all that but I really hate playing with toys. So I don't. I tell the dc I'm an adult so don't play with toys and make them play on their own or with each other. It's not so bad as we have 5 dc. I do loads of other bits with them. But would rather stick pins in my eyes then play shops again

I run a cookery club at school and love it; you definitely have to love cooking with children to do it weekly.

I fucking hate bath time with DS2 though; he has all sorts of playmobil and dinosaurs and shite in there and spends hours thrashing about. It makes me want to actually stop living just so I can avoid it.

I also hate rugby club during the winter months. I've stood outside in rain, sleet, snow, ice, every pissing weather condition and have aged 47 years in the 5 years since they started playing it.

Out of that stage now thank feck....but it used to be anything crafty and the blimmin park

Cooking for, and chatting too, and refereeing between and fake delighting in their infinitely boring, boring, boring little friends.

(And making candles with the sodding candle making kit.)

Christmas, I hate it. Getting up in the middle of the night. Front room covered in crap. Endless toys to get out of horrible plastic contraptions with knife and screwdriver! (One year we spend all of Christmas eve freeing & building toys!).
Finding the stuff broken/ unloved in a corner 2 days later- or worse, stepping on unidentifiable broken plastic bits.
AND that imaginary guy up north getting all the credit- after I spend months organizing!!!
Christmas, toys & children, worst combo ever!

Role play games - fireman/police/army/superhero etc be it playing with the figures or acting it out ourselves. It's pure torture, his dad is good at it whereas I'm so fucking bored after 30 seconds.

Going to the beach. I hate sand with a passion.

Going swimming.

Monopoly. They used to turn into evil, money grabbing capitalists and were hideous in their pursuit of wealth. The games would last hours as neither would ever concede.

Going to the school summer fete or Christmas Fayre. Thank fuck that's all over with .

Imaginative play. Games/playdoh/cooking/reading/colouring, all great. Imaginative play, is not

I don't mind baking, except that DS tends to lose interest after 5 minutes - just at that stage where you're committed - and buggers off and leaves me to it.

Hate hate hate imaginative play, esp when DS was at the stage of feeding me my lines, each prefaced by "Mummy, pretend you say (...)".

The park on cold days when I have forgotten to wear something windproof and there are too many other families there for me to feel entirely comfortable going on the equipment. Fortunately, there's an excellent ice cream parlour three mins' walk away, so I can usually lure him away with the promise of an ice cream when it all gets too much for me.