To ask for your repeated parenting fails?

[meow1989]

For the second time this week I've cut DS finger when trimminghis nails

I tried biting them, this tore the skin on his thumb, I've tried peeling them which he hates, and after recent successes with baby clippersive just heard the skin on his finger be sliced rather than his nail, it's bleeding a bit which I'm not worried about but the visual of little smears of blood on the toy He's playing with is horrible my poor little boy (he cries very briefly the started playing s I know logically he's fine and I'm not thewrse mother I the world but still).

Please tell me of circumstances on which you're repeatedly utterly incompetent as a parent to make me feel better?

The emojis aposar to be coming up as stars on my app, they're meant to be sad faces!

Trying to get 4 year old DD to go to sleep. She requires me to lie beside her until she is asleep and it is soul destroying. Every night I think tonight I will enjoy it and will not end up losing the rag...

But when she is still rolling around and whispering at 9.30 despite being beyond exhausted it is really fucking hard...

Repeatedly, across 3 children, I would pull trousers / tights / leggings off and pull them off their feet. On a similar vein I would pull tops off in the bathroom getting them ready for a bath, and the force of the top pulling off would make them headbutt the bath edge.
Done it at least twice to every child

@missycooper that sounds exhausting! So hard when they're over tired but refusing to sleep (at least it is with a 6 month old, I imagine it's worse with a 4 year lld@
Apologies for the typos in op by the way

I never ever managed to get mine to sleep through. They had lovely routines from day one: bath, feed, songs, cuddles, stories etc but they'd just boing up and down stairs and in and out of our bed all night long until they were well into junior school. I tried, threats, bribes, ignoring them, sleep training - everything short of drugging them or me. But nothing worked. Total fail.

Ds4 has had ear infection. Today seemed better but at 4 hr suddenly becomes very fussy and I panic and call gp for a late appointment as obviously antibiotics haven’t worked. Got given one for an hr later. He still keeps being very fussy but thought i’d give him some food before we go to gp. Surprise surprise he almost inhales his dinner and stops making a fuss!! 4th child and still get it completely wrong at times. Needless to say called gp to cancel app (had to make up something as couldn’t admit the truth) here is to a happy and more accurate 2019 🤪

I have pulled my DS trousers up at the back as they are falling down - I have done this twice and he has had his legs pulled out and head butted the floor :(

Once was at a birthday party and he got a nosebleed - I felt awful both times :(

And neither of mine have slept and I have no idea why or what I could do differently - I’m not having a Dc3 purely due to sleep! :)

Not repeated but I waited over 48 hours to get my child’s wrist looked at and it turned out to be broken. From speaking to other parents, this is fairly common!

Used to carry them on my hip and whack their heads into the door frame.
You would think I would have worked out how much room I needed to walk through the door.

My DS1 (15) walked a week on a broken ankle before I worried enough to take him to the minor injuries place. He's not one to make a fuss.

rickoshay I have done that so many times too. We are obviously too worried about bumping ourselves in the frame on the other hip 😂

chosenbyyou that's exactly what I've done!

The ONLY time I didn't fasten my walking- well- but- still- needs -a -pushchair toddler into his pushchair I hit a stone and he fell out.

BOTH my dc's when they were little I hit their heads on the door as I carried them through it.

They are grown up now and show few signs of my bad parenting.

Kevin’s parents from Home Alone are going to win at this thread

Ahh cross post with the head bumping thing!!!

Every day is a parenting fail for me. I'm rubbish at this.

For the Op www.baby-nails.co.uk/?gclid=Cj0KCQiAmafhBRDUARIsACOKERN1TCzy0Pah4d72y04LVgBpZZK3Upg5RizA9gEz81q2nhPkuCrzgY0aAsjnEALw_wcB

I didn't believe my son when fell and landed in his wrist. I literally took him to a&e to shut him up. Over 24hrs later discovered it was broken.

@rose does that work? I've found that filing still leaves nails long enough for him to scratch himself. Side note, I wish my nails grew as fast as him!

He's now snuggled up asleep on me so I think all is forgiven from his side. Thanks for everyone sharing, I'm both relieved and horrified at all the potential fails that await!

I love mine. Use it on the youngest ( 4 months) after a bath so they never get long and she’s not phased by it all. My oldest I always had to get my OH to trim her nails it was so nerve wracking when they were tiny.

A few nights ago I put DD down at her usual time and she just would not bloody go to sleep. We had screaming, me walking in, shushing in, calming her down, walking up swearing under my breath, a minute of quiet, more screaming... After 40 minutes or so DH and l looked at our watches and realised we’d put her down on UK time even though we’re in Holland, an hour ahead.

When she was a few days old I got equally pissed off that the £££ Sleepyhead we bought wasn’t helping her sleep. A few weeks later she (fortunately) vomited over it... I’d forgotten to remove the cardboard insert despite a bright red A5 sticker saying “Remove cardboard before use” (also still attached). I’d chucked a muslin over it and left her to it. Amazingly, her sleep improved once she wasn’t sleeping on cardboard.

Too many to mention. But a few ‘high’lights...

DD1 has swallowed a coin resulting in an A&E trip twice.
She’s also fallen in a river and faceplanted a tile floor when falling out of the highchair. Both as a result of taking my eyes off her for 2 seconds...
Ive caught DD2’s chubby little thighs in the clips to the highchair at least twice now, caught her with nail clippers when she was a few weeks old and she’s dived off our fairly high bed a couple of times too. Again, the 2 second thing.

Shit happens. It’s horrible but it doesn’t make you a shitty parent. You just try and learn, thank all things sacred and holy that they’re safe and pray that next time won’t be too bad.

Getting them to sit in their goddam seats for the entirety of a meal. They’re pretty well behaved in all other aspects of life but I just can’t seem to crack this one

13yo DS has started biting his nails in the last few months - really biting them right down so they look awful and get sore. I feel it must be a sign of anxiety/stress (he doesn't always find life easy as he has ADHD and Dyspraxia, though he's been pretty happy-go-lucky until the hormones kicked in). I feel shit and want to cry every time I see him chomping away.

But yeah, I remember cutting his finger with the clippers when he was a few week old . Felt terrible!