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Stupid shit people forgot to mention about parenting

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BlahBl4h · 03/08/2022 22:07

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.

I want to peel my eyes off.

Anyone?

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BlahBl4h · 03/08/2022 22:39

Talking of Gran...

How you can literally do EVERYTHING for this little bloody human, your whole life revolves around them, you spend your last god damn penny on them, your sanity is in tatters from watching the same Disney film over and over, every moment of your day is spent doing things for them and.... They still like their Grandma more.

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Beachsidesunset · 03/08/2022 22:41

HunterAngel · 03/08/2022 22:16

That moment when you realise the tune you’re bopping along to in your head is actually the Fireman Sam theme tune. Or worse, Paw Patrol.

Ah woh-oh-oh!

Skinterior · 03/08/2022 22:41

That no matter how much they want something, how long they beg, even if they buy it with their own money and pick it themselves in the shop - within five minutes it will be forgotten, lost or broken.

I could remove half the contents of his bedroom and he wouldn't notice.

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BlahBl4h · 03/08/2022 22:41

Honestly I've never gotten a smile like the ones my mother gets when she enters the room. I think he loves me and then I see how he is with her and I'm jealous 😂 I carried you for 9 months you little shite.

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underneaththeash · 03/08/2022 22:41

Muminabun · 03/08/2022 22:08

DO not go on holiday with a two year old. I repeat, do not go on holiday with a two year old.

It’s fine as long as you have a kids club which accepts 2 year olds and you ignore the screaming before you drop them off!

Sittingallthetime · 03/08/2022 22:43

The sibling arguments over nothing at all. "Muuuuuum! He's looking at me! Tell him to stop!"

pitchforksandflamethrowers · 03/08/2022 22:43

You think oh a Disney film seems like a good idea - put on lion king and suddenly you have a traumatised child bawling their eyes out about simbas as dad popping his clogs😫 and wondering why you thought Disney plus would be a good idea.

Did the same with Coraline and both me and Dd slept together that night. What a creepy film. I had no idea 🙄😅

Don't get me started on bambi (which I used to watch as a kid so deemed safe in my head) I was wrong.

As a parent your so frequently wrong about mad stuff it's insane.

Chattycathydoll · 03/08/2022 22:43

Minster2012 · 03/08/2022 22:37

Ha yes, great minds 😂

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Lol! Do you also do the slightly manic teeth-gritted smile on the third ‘ye-es, darling?’ in a row?

OvertimeThinkTank · 03/08/2022 22:44

You think the sleepless nights were bad, then the toddler meltdowns but NOTHING can prepare you for the teenage years and navigating every kind of emotion often all in one hour!

Chakraleaf · 03/08/2022 22:44

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

FictionalCharacter · 03/08/2022 22:45

NrlySp · 03/08/2022 22:24

That having teenagers is so much more difficult and frightening than toddlers 😣

I don’t know whether I’m lucky or unlucky, but mine were like savage wild animals as toddlers, so bad I was desperate, but overall great as teenagers!

Chakraleaf · 03/08/2022 22:45

OvertimeThinkTank · 03/08/2022 22:44

You think the sleepless nights were bad, then the toddler meltdowns but NOTHING can prepare you for the teenage years and navigating every kind of emotion often all in one hour!

Hardest age for sure

Guineapig123 · 03/08/2022 22:45

OnlyFoolsnMothers · 03/08/2022 22:14

You have to think of 3 meals every single day for the fussiest being you could imagine

Not to mention the snacks!

Skinterior · 03/08/2022 22:45

Sexdoesmatter · 03/08/2022 22:25

Dc: shall I tell you about blah blah Minecraft
Me: no
Dc: blah blah Minecraft Minecraft blah blah blah blah blah Minecraft blah..................

Same same - but with football.

Although I have made some headway -

'Mummy, who's your favourite footballer?'

'You darling' 😉

Cantdecidewhere · 03/08/2022 22:47

GuyMontag · 03/08/2022 22:22

You will wonder, for the first time, if it's possible to die from Being Asked Questions.

Then you will wish that it was.

This!! 😂

Meredusoleil · 03/08/2022 22:48

This thread has me cracking up 🤣 I can identify with so many of the comments!

Eloradannin2nd · 03/08/2022 22:50

Kevin the teenager was factual.
A 4 year age gap is rubbish. Just as one emerges from being a stroppy teen, Bam! There goes their sibling!!
The first time you wake up to your child standing next to your bed staring at you is the scariest experience. I dare anyone not to shout!!

Ihearticecream · 03/08/2022 22:50

Skinterior · 03/08/2022 22:45

Same same - but with football.

Although I have made some headway -

'Mummy, who's your favourite footballer?'

'You darling' 😉

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Genius

JennyForeigner · 03/08/2022 22:50

BlahBl4h · 03/08/2022 22:07

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.

I want to peel my eyes off.

Anyone?

See you a movie and raise you the Blippi excavator song on repeat so endless it echoes across your brain every. sleepless. night.

knickersniff · 03/08/2022 22:51

That every lovely idea that you think will be precious they hate .. photo shoots I'd booked imagining beautiful family pics ... it's more stressful than you can imagine and don't even think of taking various outfits change for the said shoot . Just don't bother .

excelledyourself · 03/08/2022 22:51

How hard it is to let them go a little bit more and more through each of the teenage years.

Take me back to the toddler days when I knew where he was, who with, and what he was doing at all hours. Particularly at 2am on a Saturday morning.

And how much easier it was to know what was upsetting them and how to fix it.

dottypencilcase · 03/08/2022 22:51

HunterAngel · 03/08/2022 22:16

That moment when you realise the tune you’re bopping along to in your head is actually the Fireman Sam theme tune. Or worse, Paw Patrol.

Do not, for the love everything you hold sacred, play the (bastard) Gummy Bear song.

Piglet89 · 03/08/2022 22:51

Maaan Paw Patrol.

As an aside, though, I think Ryder has better leadership skills than most of the exec committees of organisations in which I’ve worked. Like, he always remembers to thank the pups for getting there so quickly when he calls them.

I also know all the pups’ names.

knickersniff · 03/08/2022 22:52

Also buying any kind of soft shoe . Don't bother they'll rip them off within seconds .

theclangersarecoming · 03/08/2022 22:52

MacKenzieMcHale · 03/08/2022 22:24

That you think it'll get easier as they get older and then they STOP GOING TO BED AT REASONABLE TIMES.

This! At least from 8pm I used to be able to sit down with a glass of wine. Now the whole evening is just the sound of feet going about upstairs, jumping, running, me shouting up GET INTO BED, more feet noises, go upstairs to discover cut up crafting paper on floor and my makeup bag emptied, shout a bit, go downstairs, just settle on sofa, sound of feet upstairs again, shout GO TO SLEEP, more feet noise, whinging about BUT I NEED THE LOO, AND MORE WATER, go upstairs with water to find my bedside drawers have been ransacked and my favourite pen and some jewellery are now under DD’s bed, shout a bit, go downstairs, rinse and repeat until after 11pm, FML 😫😫😫

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