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

I love it all!
Except swimming it's just pure torture and please don't ever mention soft-play ever again

Another saying swimming.
I counted down the days until my youngest was 8 and I never had to do it ever again.

I hate role playing, the park and soft play. I didn't mind soft play until the last time we went and I finally met the little shits that I had read about so often. Put me right off.

I don't mind some crafts but I have to be in the mood. Will only bake rarely and only 1 DC at a time due to the arguing. I like reading to them, board games, scalextric, lego. We also play hairdressers which involves me sitting on the sofa and DD putting all her hairclips in my hair, quite happy for that to happen. A couple of times I've also let them give me a make over. The results were interesting. We all had fun though.

I hate petting farms. There toilets are always freezing lean-tos. You have the wash your hands in freezing troughs if you touch anything.

*their not there

Messy play - bleugh

Yes and role play.

It's just all so irritating!

I don't mind the local park but Kate our local 'theme park' type place. Lots of my friends have season tickets so my kids always want UK go. It's so busy I really hate it

Oh my and swimming.

Same as @Ditsy1980 said.

Going to the park!!! My daughter makes me pretend we are in a cafe and she serves me drinks. I want her to just run around and use the equipment but oh no...she decides otherwise.

Imagination play is my absolute nightmare. "You're the witch, and you say..."

2 seconds later..."Actually, pretend you're a dragon..."

Just NO.

I detest having to take DD to all of the bloody birthday parties she now must attend since starting school.

Also hate having to help with homework.

I love crafty shit and lego though.

Anything that is over and over and over again.
My DD 16 months is suddenly really into books and will constantly bring me books and climb onto my lap so I can read them to her. All very cute but I've read the Gruffalo at least 30 times today. I've hidden it now but feel like a cow. I just couldn't take it any more, it's still buzzing round in my brain.

Living with them. And having them breathe alongside me. Can you tell it's a tough time in the Moomin house?!

Noncom that is so funny! I totally hear you there!

Swimming. Hate sitting at the side in swimming lessons and hate taking them to the leisure pool too.
Playing with toddler type toys/ role play/ pretending etc. Aaarggh!
Don't mind the jigsaws or baking. Happy to read to them, but please don't make me play games.
Older kids and proper board games I can cope with. But if I have to play the Teletubbies Memory Game again I think I may have a nervous breakdown.

School!

I'm a blooming teacher so no, DD, I don't want to spend the first days of the half term when I should be attempting to do all the put off jobs that I don't get round to in termtime taking the flipping register of your teddies and making up sums!

I did though, to keep her happy.

I feel awful saying this but at the moment it's hearing my 4yo read. He's only in reception and when he first started actually reading I was really enchanted!

Fast forward a couple of months and waiting ten seconds between words to hear what arse boring activity Biff and Chip have done this week is actual torture, compounded by the fact that his 13 month old sister will take advantage of me sitting down to wreck the house and/or seriously harm herself!!

Swimming: "let go mummy I can swim, I can swim" I release/he wrenches his had free"blub,bulb,bulb,bulb" as his head goes straight under water and he thrashes around enthusiastically. I fish him out "NO MUMMY I was swimming let gooooo" repeat times a hundred. (He wears arm bands but still manages to get his head under water and he will NOT hold onto a pool noodle/float because he's convinced he can swim without them) soooo stressful.

Dd1 'mummy, will you play with me?'

Me 'no, that's why you have sister'

Hearing dd2 read is painful.

Pretend games. Dd loves them and when she asks if I want to play school/ hospital / anything involving play acting I shrivel up inside. Give me a board game any day

Or when my teenager tells me story's about school. She tells them me at 100 miles an hour. And says "then thingy" every other word. And says " then she said this and then she said with specifying who "She" is. She doesn't even pause for breath. I never have any idea what she's going on about. Then she gets cross if I don't remember what she's told me.
As soon as she says "can i tell you what happened in school today"? In an exited high pitched voice. I just always think In my head oh ffs. I don't really care who snapped chatted who, or who's dating who and who's been kicked out of a group chat. I don't even know these people! There not her friends just random people.

Christmas yes!! It would be so so much nicer without the presents!

Imaginative play. I don't mind craft or playing an actual game, but imaginative play bores me rigid. DD starts every sentence with 'Pretend that.....' and gives me convoluted instructions, usually involving invisible hyenas. I am also expected to crawl around on the floor - I am old and very fat; if I get down on the floor it takes three days to get back up again.

She always seems to want to tell me too when I'm extremely busy or watching TV.