Page 10 | Stupid shit people forgot to mention about parenting

GreyGoose1980 · 04/08/2022 06:50

Japanesejazz · 03/08/2022 22:52

Being mobile you thought was when they started to crawl/walk
Oh no, it’s when they have passed their driving test and bugger off alone in your car

😂😂

De88 · 04/08/2022 06:53

That you can and you should teach kids to be as self sufficient as possible starting with the smallest of tasks, it's not negligent, that they'll be happy to and want to, and as they get older it makes things a hell of a lot easier for all of you. Don't fall into the trap of always doing for and then resenting it!
eg. most 3 year olds can pair socks. Most 6 year olds can fetch their own drinks and put cutlery on a table. 8 year olds perfectly capable of emptying a dishwasher. Older kids can read to younger kids at bedtime. Parenting is relentless, but actually not all that bad!

Sittingallthetime · 04/08/2022 06:53

@Foronenightonly01 mine are long past teenage - they're both married now! Evidently the "looking" thing has stayed with me way longer than it should!

Mummyoflittledragon · 04/08/2022 07:00

MooseBeTimeForSnow · 04/08/2022 06:43

THIS. It’s a standing joke in our house that DS can hear a packet of crisps being opened through three walls in a thunderstorm.

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I used to get away with a can of Coke in a mug as ‘coffee’. I’d disappear in the utility room when dd was absorbed in something. I think that stopped when she was about 10!

BeingATwatItsABingThing · 04/08/2022 07:04

That you can have an entire thread of funny, lighthearted comments from parents about how strange and wonderful babies/toddlers/children/teens can be and there will always be a few who pop along to put a dampener on it! 🙄🙄

SecretShitter · 04/08/2022 07:07

That it is possible for your baby to walk at 8 months. Fucking horrific and I wasn't prepared, she was tiny and got where she shouldn't have been at lightning speed. Sister's DD just sat nicely in a puddingy baby way til she was about 14 months while I was tearing my hair out trying to contain this THING!

That you would willingly give your 3/4 year old away to any random stranger that wanted them if it meant you got some peace from "Mum mum mum mum mum mum mum mum mum mum" and on and on.

That nothing in life, NOTHING, in the years preceding the age of 12 (or whenever teenagerhood hits) can prepare you for the mind shattering and traumatising experience of parenting a teenage girl. That you will be driven to the brink of a breakdown and they won't care. Older DD nearly 21 and we get on well now and she acknowledges how much of a pain she was. Younger DD has got actual anorexia 😭 and not even into teen years yet, so I can imagine it's going to be a tough time again.

BeingATwatItsABingThing · 04/08/2022 07:08

FloodTheBathroom · 03/08/2022 23:26

Never play vets with their soft toys and stick actual plasters on the fur. Because it's really not fun at 4.30am when they wake screeching that they want the plaster off, right now, and that fucker is stuck fast.

And having two kids with very different personalities and feeling I'm always letting the "easy" one down. ☹️

My DH was the ‘easy one’ because he was the most reasonable and just agreed to keep the peace. He’s still doing that now and he’s 30 but he massively resents one of his siblings for it. I really like my PIL but I feel angry on his behalf that they didn’t prioritise him sometimes during their childhood.

FlibbertyGibbitt · 04/08/2022 07:11

Oh and combing hair for nits is very satisfying

thisbathiscoldnow · 04/08/2022 07:12

CrapBag39 · 03/08/2022 22:12

the incessant ‘can I have, can I do, can you do, can we go, I want this, that, everything, now, not now, but you said I could, mummy, mummy, mummy, he said, she did, that’s my one, I don’t want it, it’s mine. On and on and on and on and on forever and ever and ever infinity. 😑

This is my life 🫠

MinnieMountain · 04/08/2022 07:14

The amount of talking AT you. “Mummy, I would invent a…”. 10 minutes later said thing is still being invented.

Timeturnerplease · 04/08/2022 07:15

That going out in the evening is often no longer desirable not because you have to get a babysitter or because you’re so tired, but because those hours between 7 and 10pm are precious and you just want to sit in silence with no one talking to you.

N0tfinished · 04/08/2022 07:33

AnnotherReader · 03/08/2022 22:30

That nothing is ever enough for them. I spend loads of money taking them out for lunch and to an activity they have wanted to do for ages and instead of saying 'thanks we had a great day' they say 'can we get a milkshake on the way home' and then are in a bad mood because I said no.

THIS!!! So much. Wheedle and pester for something and when you make it happen - often at some inconvenience & expense they don't seem to be even a tiny bit gratified. They just ask for the next thing. Worst is when they ask for something, you give it, and then they ask for something else WITH ITEM ONE STILL IN THEIR HAND UNCONSUMED

Pinkandgreentrousers · 04/08/2022 07:34

Definitely!

Ilikepinacoladass · 04/08/2022 07:38

That most naps / sleep will be on you, and not in that lovely Moses basket you envisioned them in

ivykaty44 · 04/08/2022 07:40

Mine at the moment is just how many times you can be expected to watch the same fucking movie over and over and over and over.

you'll be hankering after these moments when they reach 14/15

Ilikepinacoladass · 04/08/2022 07:41

Timeturnerplease · 04/08/2022 07:15

That going out in the evening is often no longer desirable not because you have to get a babysitter or because you’re so tired, but because those hours between 7 and 10pm are precious and you just want to sit in silence with no one talking to you.

@Timeturnerplease
🤣 So true

Cliff1975 · 04/08/2022 07:45

The costs increase as they get older especially when you hit the university years and a few toys and child prices that you enjoyed when they were little seem a wonderful memory. Why oh why do you have to start paying adult prices when they have no income?

itsgettingweird · 04/08/2022 07:45

Penguinfeather781 · 03/08/2022 22:16

Crumbs. Everywhere. All the time. Kids can’t even drink a glass of water without generating crumbs.

So true 🤣🤣🤣🤣

N0tfinished · 04/08/2022 07:50

@SpidersAreShitheads - Same!! Although I don't have to be involved. We had a period where he clucked at us like we were horses which was charming, and then the very special Chewbacca summer. I'm not being sarcastic, I really did think it was funny and cute.

imnotthatkindofmum · 04/08/2022 07:52

2 of mine are teens. Both girls. Noone told me how expensive their shoes would be!!! Or that they need so many (and I genuinely never expected to buy my teenager a pair of crocs 🤣)

Also no one tells you how quickly you forget how annoying children are so you have another one. And then you remember how irritating and loud they are 🤦🏽‍♀️

And 8 year old girls......most irritating creatures on the planet!! I thought getting out the door with a toddler was hard, at least they didn't need 3 types of lip balm and 4 changes of clip on earrings (of course there's always one missing either before you leave or before you want to come home)

Redburnett · 04/08/2022 07:57

That if you have a compost bin for veg peelings etc your crawling toddler will eat something from it (after fussily refusing your specially prepared delicious toddler food).

Huntswomanonthemove · 04/08/2022 07:59

It never ends, even when they are supposed to be grown ups.

AudTheDeepMinded · 04/08/2022 07:59

No meal will ever be complete again unless somebody knocks over an entire glass of liquid into their meal and across the table. Usually, just as you have finished serving everyone and your arse hits the sit to eat your own eat.

SisyphusDad · 04/08/2022 08:02

My two DSs (15 and 18) recently had an extended argument about who had put the air fryer away in the cupboard more elegantly.

ThatshallotBaby · 04/08/2022 08:05

2 years between ds1 and 2. In the car once, ds2 started getting upset/angry because ds1 had more blood than him.
I googled when we got home and then I was the baddie as I had the most blood.