Weirdest things you've seen other parents do as they bring up or care for their DC?

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Here are mine.

I was in a public toilet in the cubicle and heard a woman come in with a small boy.

They went into a cubicle together and I heard her ask him repeatedly "Do you want to dirt!?"

She meant poo!

"Do you want to dirt???

Omg.

Second is SIL. When her DS was little...around 2 or so, she'd put chips for him INTO A BOWL OF COLD WATER so they'd cool faster.

Dump the cooked chips into a bowl of water. Leave them there for a bit and then drop the soggy pile onto a plate for the poor child.

WHY? What are yours?

@liveforsummer

Where my dc were born snot sucking was standard- the paediatricians said it prevented it settling further down and causing infections. We all had ones that attached to the hoover

The what now? Hoover attachment? I’m wondering if a joke.

But we do have a snot sucker thingy. It’s gross. But helps the kids.

@CatonMat How the heck did you do that ?
Before the option to quote post I use to C&P post but I never got it to say ADVERTIZEMENT too >

@ememem84 absolutely not a joke. Paeds recommended them to everyone

@Bluskyenonstop

Few mums in my child’s school holds their Y6 kids hands when walking to school / from school. There is nothing wrong with any of those kids and it’s all on the pavement.

That’s just a sign of affection! It is really common and quite nice.

@Muttly

Big jobs for pops is an ulster/Scottish thing. My father used it all the time not envy. My MIL used to say to my kids have you done a parcel from America random

And Cumbria. It was my dad’s term for it when we were little. I squirm at the word job or jobby to this day. I really dislike the word poo as well, I’m afraid, as I consider it a childish word, although I don’t know what you would replace it with. I suppose I am not keen on any reference to this bodily function at all and as a middle aged adult with grown up children rarely have need to refer to it (except in this thread 😁).

@Bluskyenonstop

Few mums in my child’s school holds their Y6 kids hands when walking to school / from school. There is nothing wrong with any of those kids and it’s all on the pavement.

I do this. Or sometimes I'll put my arm round her shoulder. When she's a bit taller, we'll probably link arms, I used to with my mum. Nothing wrong with it, just affectionate.

I'm judgey.

In my previous life I worked as a TA.
Every single autumn a number of girls would come to school wearing Ugg boots.
And every single time we would be 'told' by the parent that their daughter was 'not allowed' to go out at playtime if it was raining as it would ruin their boots. We even had letters instructing us.
This was in an infant school.
We tried to tell parents that it wasn't a problem as their precious cherubs could wear their plimsolls instead.
Cue the complaints that their precious babes couldn't possibly wear plimsolls as their plimsolls didn't fit ( so why didn't they buy new ones , and yes PE was a laugh!) or they complained that their children would get wet feet.

Yes, I bloody judged on that issue.

[quote liveforsummer]@ememem84 absolutely not a joke. Paeds recommended them to everyone [/quote]
Woah! We have a similar thing but you put the other end in your mouth. But on a vacuum cleaner? That’s some serious suction!

William Sears, an American pediatrician and author, were paid by Proctor and Gamble to recommend later toilet training and the use of pull ups. Proctor and Gamble makes Pampers.

I have a crazed highly active DD, the type who looks like she’s been dragged through a hedge backwards within seconds of leaving the house so Helicopter parents, micro managers and germ phobes do me in.

Especially when they start projecting their fears onto my child! I have my own values, do not impose yours on me! It’s bad enough watching them condition their own child to be a nervous wreck.

My son has ASD so I've done plenty of odd things as far as others would be concerned. I've laid on an 8 year olds floor to get him to sleep, tried to reattach a breakfast bar that has snapped and even warmed up ice cream so it's not too cold. 😂

I once walked past a woman, who had a baby around 9 or 10 months old in a pushchair.
As I passed by, she said to the child, in a really angry tone "Why don't you stop waving your fucking arms around!"

Whats wrong with pasta and cheese? I dont get it? are we so posh now thats not ok kids food?

I can't think of anything odd I've seen others do, but I was the height of a nervous parent with my DD, I was just turned 20, she started having seizures at 4 days old and we spent a couple of weeks in hospital with her, after that every time she started falling to sleep or had the startle reflex or anything really it just made me a paranoid mess and I was always worried, I'm sure it looked like I had postnatal anxiety which to be honest I probably did but with reason. I just looked bonkers to others

@ohnonotyetplease

A parent I know who thinks children can and should be toilet trained from a very young age - less than 6 months....used to strap her children to the potty or toilet until they'd 'performed'. Regardless of whether that took 15 minutes or an hour, or more. An article I read recently by a urologist about this very subject said basically that it overdevelops the muscles of the bladder so they thicken and become very sensitive, ironically causing more problems than you would have had just potty training at a normal age. The stuff some parents do to get those non-existent parenting medals....

I have a distant relative who did this or similar anyway. Used to boast they 'never had a dirty nappy'. IMO that is some effed up shit.

Stath

Crispynoodle
In my house pooing was very normalised. Now my very grown up DC message each other when they've done a particularly good one especially if the paper comes back clean.....
@Crispynoodle we call those Ghost Poos.

We call the miracle poos.

@winnieanddaisy

My ex-DIL used to shout 'she needs a poo' and leg it to the toilet with her 4 month old and held them over the loo . Both DGC ended up with bowel issues and needed to see a consultant on a regular basis and had to take laxatives for years . DGD was still having 'accidents' at secondary school .

Nothing to do with anything. 4 mths is the age most babies in India and China are put over the potty / toilet too.

This thread is brilliant

@therespectablecardigan

Dd spent quite a lot of time in hospital as a toddler so I saw some really odd things there. The saddest one I saw was a boy who had leukaemia and his tonsils had to be removed as they'd become dangerously enlarged. I heard the doctors telling the mum that it was a high risk op due to potential for haemorrhage and his platelets were low. Mum then announced she was leaving as she was going to a music concert, so could they make sure to start the op before 1pm as she had to go to get her tan sprayed and start drinking with the girls before the concert. The boy was crying "don't leave me mummy" all morning, and the mum just kept saying it wasn't fair on her to miss it as she'd been looking forward to it all year. She kept badgering nurses to phone the surgeons as she "needed to leave", all the whilst the boy cried louder. Thankfully the boy was taken into theatre before 1pm so his mum was with him, but he came out on his own and didn't have anyone with him until late the next day, when the mum staggered into the ward

A weird one was a boy who had just come back from theatre and his mum was trying to force feed him a king sized Mars bar, a sausage roll and a bottle of coke as "you need a decent meal or the anaesthetic will curdle in your stomach". The poor boy kept insisting he didn't want to eat yet and the mum was getting irrate with him, saying it was really important to have a proper meal 😂

That first paragraph is unbelievable. There are no words

@Classicblunder that has made me feel sick 😂😂

@crazyguineapiglady if you have any squash in the house - look at the ingredients......

William Sears, an American pediatrician and author, were paid by Proctor and Gamble to recommend later toilet training and the use of pull ups. Proctor and Gamble makes Pampers.

Source? Because nowhere can I find proof of that.

Waiting until a child is ready to potty train is much easier so of course for some children this might mean they're older, my four DC all trained between the ages of 2 and 3 and all took around a week to be potty trained because I waited until they were ready. There's a saying that goes the sooner you start, the longer it takes and with everyone I know who started before their children was ready, they spent much more time scrubbing up pee than I did.

The funniest one I read I think was posted on here. A mum had a baby. She'd read they needed one layer more clothing than what an adult had on. She went out for a walk, realised the baby had on the same amount of layers as her, so she took off her jumper so the baby would have one more 🤣

if you have any squash in the house - look at the ingredients......

There is nothing wrong with squash. It's a drink, not meth.

[quote underneaththeash]@crazyguineapiglady if you have any squash in the house - look at the ingredients......[/quote]
Yes, then what?