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 do actually like some of the pretend play, crafting, playing at the playground stuff but I think this is just because I am quite childish. Also - and I feel really guilty because it was enchanting at first and I know I will miss it when the phase is over, but my 3 year old demanding "stories from your head mummy". It's very flattering that he wants made up stories but he just wants more and more and more. One day on a car journey I kept count and got to 15 stories and he's still saying "another story mummy, tell me another story from your heeeead". Im not a machine aaargh.

Crafts. Just anything that involves small shiny stars, bits of feather the dog kept nicking and glue.
And fucking, bastarding, shitting glitter!!

Cake baking with my son who is 5 (never listens to instructions, and wants to do his own thing. Supermarket shopping, Park (especially when it's cold), jigsaws, Lego.

DD2 has also just decided that she has an invisible sister called Judith. 'pretend Judith did this' or 'pretend Judith says that'. I fucking hate Judith, imaginary adopted sister to my child or not, Judith can fuck off.

'Make up a story mummy?' FUCK NO.

Most things crafty. I don't mind play doh - I'll happily sit and make plaits or biscuits or snails or cubes or whatever for hours but I hate painting and making models.

I like playing with Lego until they start nicking my bricks so I can't finish my house (I can only build houses) and then it does my head in.

I don't like going for muddy walks - all that mud that I then have to clean up when we get home. I don't like being cold, soggy and uncomfortable. We get a certain distance along the walk and the dc start complaint that they're tired or cold and want to go home. It does my head in. I don't mind warmer walks though (so long as it's not too hot).

I don't mind reading books over and over, but I'm a nursery practitioner, so it kind of goes with the territory. I must have read some of them several hundred times, if not more.

For me it's role play. I hate it. My two are four and nearly three, I have to endure Paw Patrol role play for hours on end. I usually get relegated to the role of the bloody chicken.

I also hate playing cars. My boys love it, but it's so boring for me! "Mummy, drive this one, no don't drive it there, mummy drive here, no, not that way" etc etc etc. It's funny, it was my favourite game as a child!

bloody role play - shops and cafes - hate it. Give me a board game or a bit of art and craft any day

Shoe shopping,food shopping,any kind of shopping is pure Torture with our 5DC!

That and cooking,I do it and grin all the way through it but bloody hell I think I'd rather rub onions in my eyes and I love cooking!
For me I think it's because it's not something my Mother ever did with me,I learned to cook at school and then carried on and taught myself the rest.

Thank god. I thought i was an utterly mean cold shitty mum because i agree with every sodding post

Board games, or should I say bored games.

I hate them. DC become over-competitive and start fighting. It never ends well.

I used to dislike swimming with DC when they were toddlers, but both are good swimmers, so it is much more pleasurable now.

Whilst I love cooking with DC, I hate baking with them - I don't particularly care for baking at the best of time, but seeing them lick their fingers and dip them into mix is enough to make me (not a jealous emoticon).

Not necessarily a 'doing with' but more a 'doing to' - I absolutely despise having to do 'nit nurse' duties. DD and I both have long, thick hair that is bloody torture to delouse.

Thank God soft play didn't exist when mine were young - it sounds dire!
not even sure what it is and can't be arsed googling

I hate bath time. I don't ever remember enjoying it when I only had 1 child and I certainly don't with 3. They take forever to get in, fight about who is going first or decide they all want to get in together and complain that so-and-so is taking up all the room. Or splash each other. Then they take ages to get out and get indignant when we get fed up of asking and haul them out.

I'm sorry to say but it's reading stories. When they were babies I liked it but now, they always want the stories I hate. It bores me silly.I hate the sound of my own voice...I try to get interested and do voices etc which they love but it's so draining!

I also don't do board games. CANNOT BEAR THEM.

Certain board games - Battleships and Monopoly seem to take ages - I always persuade DS to get Kerplunk or buckaroo out instead.

Science museums - yes they are educational and I can see why they are a great place to bring kids, but I always hate it when we get there

Also bringing them to activities where you have to make small talk with other parents - I realise this sounds awful though

DS does the same 4 activities as another child, and her mum is lovely and friendly, but all I really want to do is spend those 4 hours a week on my Kindle or on Mumsnet instead of chatting.

Baking but thankfully whenever we go to Grandmas my daughter does loads. It's lovely watching them but I hate cooking so she never gets the chance with me !

Role play. I never do it right apparently!

For me it was swimming when they were little.

When they got older and I didn't have to go on with them it got a lot better!

ohtheholidays you have traumatised me now reminding me of -shoe shopping- I can barely type it let alone explain how hideous it is with my two, so I am going to quietly slip off now and find a dark corner to sit and rock myself.

Anything that involves Other Children. She always wants to play with them and they're usually with siblings/friends or are too little to want to play or they're mean little fuckers like the boy down the street who mocked and spat at her and she doesn't understand and the hurt on her face hurts me. I can do the park all day if it's empty.

Reading biff and chip books. Thankfully he's got through them fast so might lose them soon.

Everything

Hate playing, hate the park, hate crafts, hate board games.

To my eternal despair DC1, who is nearly 6, won't play on her own. With ANYTHING. So she never occupies herself at home and when she begs me to play with her I just want to throw myself out of a window

Oh, and Play Doh. Which I don't mind in principle, I find it quite therapeutic, but within the first two minutes the floor is fucking covered in Play Doh crumbs and why can't you keep it with you on the table, why does it have to go everywhere, why whhhhhhhy

"They only have pools on holiday"
"Its not hot enough here for pools to go swimming"

Cant wait for school fates though! love a bit of wack the rat and looking at all the toot people have donated