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

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FortunesFave · 17/10/2021 07:18

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?

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Glassofshloer · 19/10/2021 16:03

Just to redeem myself I buy the ‘low sugar/salt’ baked beans. Although no doubt this will warrant responses of ‘You give baked beans to a toddler? Not what I would do OP, but if you want her to grow another limb and glow bright green, knock yourself out’ Grin

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Hopeisallineed · 19/10/2021 16:06

That’s very ‘judgy ’ of you to buy low salt baked beans, what about all of us that are shovelling those heavily salted BB down our toddler throats with gay abandon. Don’t make me feel inadequate. 🤣

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Clocktopus · 19/10/2021 16:08

I wish DC would eat beans. They're too orange, too saucy, and have a flavour so are considered "disgusting". He'll never know the simple pleasure of egg, chips, and beans for tea. Poor neglected little sausage (which he also won't eat).

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Glassofshloer · 19/10/2021 16:09

@Hopeisallineed

That’s very ‘judgy ’ of you to buy low salt baked beans, what about all of us that are shovelling those heavily salted BB down our toddler throats with gay abandon. Don’t make me feel inadequate. 🤣

Grin

Gay abandon! I may have to pinch that! I’ve also borrowed ‘merrily pissing’ from the potty thread 😊
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Hopeisallineed · 19/10/2021 16:19

🤣 please do.

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Goldbar · 19/10/2021 16:31

I don't give my DC low salt beans because I usually share the tin with them and I'm not eating low salt beans for anyone (not even my beloved DC) Blush.

Judge away!

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liveforsummer · 19/10/2021 17:20

@Goldbar

I don't give my DC low salt beans because I usually share the tin with them and I'm not eating low salt beans for anyone (not even my beloved DC) Blush.

Judge away!

During a covid isolation my dad picked up some shopping for me including no salt no sugar beans. I was shook - does he not know me at all after all these years?! Thankfully bean loving dd2 didn't notice the difference- beans are beans to her. I had to eat my jacket potato and cheese dry!
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Clawdy · 19/10/2021 17:21

I once was looking after my neighbour's little girl for the morning, and she went to the toilet, and came out saying "I've flushed it, because I've done dirt." So maybe quite a few mums use the term! Agree it is odd.

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SixTwirlingTutus · 20/10/2021 06:43

@Clocktopus

I wish DC would eat beans. They're too orange, too saucy, and have a flavour so are considered "disgusting". He'll never know the simple pleasure of egg, chips, and beans for tea. Poor neglected little sausage (which he also won't eat).

Grin

That made me laugh. (I have a DS like that too).
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RevolvingPivot · 20/10/2021 23:04

@kateyjane

The squash itself doesn’t bother me; it’s the amount and the age of the child.

Please don’t read if it could be triggering.

Does anyone remember an awful case of the death of a child a few years ago. It was so incredibly sad. The mother had learning difficulties and had been giving the child squash (in similar quantities to the TikTok example) A child that age literally cannot cope with huge amounts of fluids. It stripped his body of all the natural salts and caused him to have huge seizures sadly leading to his death. I know this is an extreme example, but sometimes people do need support and advice- just not from a judgemental perspective.

I've never heard of this. How much is considered too much?
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RevolvingPivot · 20/10/2021 23:14

@LabStan

I'm in hospital with DS, been in 2 weeks now. I'm amazed by the amount of DP's feeding their children....I'm talking kids 10 years old. They may be ill or injured but they can still feed themselves!

If they are ill or injured they probably can't.
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Jimmyshoes · 20/10/2021 23:32

I was sitting down in the town centre with DS a few weeks back eating ice cream on a nice warm day. I noticed a family come by and sit on the bench near us. They were all nicely dressed but it wasn't as if they were dressed for a particular occasion like a day time wedding, they just looked nicely dressed for a day out but the dad was wearing a T-shirt and chinos. Anyway, the little girl (5-6) had a lovely little frilly dress on and the parents had ice creams. They were telling the little girl that she has to wear her bib or she can't get her ice cream. The girl started throwing tantrums and refusing to wear a bib but the parents were insistent that she wore a bib to keep her dress clean.

The girl refused and parents started licking her her ice cream and started saying stuff like "if you don't wear the bib, I will eat your ice cream". The girl started crying more and more and the more she refused to wear the bib, the more the parents were licking her ice cream. They gave her the bib and again she started screaming and threw the bib on the floor and started to stomp on it which then the dad bit a massive chunk from her ice cream and made the girl cry even more.

I started to get uncomfortable and thinking are they doing the right thing or are they traumatising her but then I took a look at DS 2.5 years old, with ice cream all over his face and new top with his sticky fingers smiling and he said to me "nice ice cream, yummy ice cream happy" and then I cleaned him with baby wipes, changed his top and left.

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Waterfallgirl · 20/10/2021 23:43

@Notimeforaname

I know someone obsessed with calorie counting.

She weighs and portions out all of her children's food to the last calorie.
Everything must be homemade.

If one of them goes to the grandparents house for a sleepover there will be no pizza or snacks. Kids are sent with their portioned and weighed out quinoa/polenta/veg slop. Kids choose nothing.


Meal times are horrifically stressful in that house.

The children are now weird with food.
If we eat with them without their parents present..its like they cant understand why there isn't a fight happening and will look for one.

If I hold a punnet of strawberries or a pack of blueberries in front of them and tell them to help themselves..they first look at you like you're mad to offer and not just hand the 4 actual blueberries to them....then they will get a crazy look on their faces like they are doing somthing wrong and grab fist fills of the fruit and ram it onto their mouths whilst looking around Sad

So sad....poor kids.
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