parenting pet peeves...

[bubbleymummy]

I know I'm going to get flamed for this but I just don't care - I have to vent somewhere after a weekend of smiling and nodding and keeping my mouth shut!

Here is a list of 'parenting' traits that I absolutely hate!

Giving babies sugar - dessert/pudding/biscuits/cake - they do not need it - they are not missing anything and they are the reason that your child is already overweight!

Shovelling food into tiny babies, scooping it up and shoving it back in when the baby's tongue pushes it out while discussing the baby's excema, constipation, tummy upsets etc

Giving toddlers fizzy drinks such as Coke and letting them run madly around before screaming at them and complaining about how badly behaved they are.

Giving children calpol because it's been a 'long day' or because they have a slight sniffle or even a hint of a temperature or just because 'they like the taste'!.

controlled crying / cry it out - I hate this at any stage but I DESPISE it in children under 6 months. I don't care if your child has been sleeping through since 5 weeks - it is bloody cruel!

and breathe....

Ok feel free to flame me or alternatively add your own pet peeves!

Disclaimer : I by no means consider myself to be a perfect parent and I could fill several threads with my own parenting flaws.

People who think they are parenting experts when they have DC's aged 3 and 1.

I dunno bout that one LeQueen lol..went for therapy 6 months ago (18 months after dd was born) and he fobbed me off with some 'reactional disorder'.

Unless there is somerthing apple juice coloured that you'd give to a tiny baby in a bottle (maybe 2 months old) - PLEASE tell me if there is?

then giving a 2mo apple juice, as I saw yesterday

Chelle, I ahd a purple shell suit, my cousins had one each too, we used to wear them together

mine was purple/pink/green and blue!!!!!!!! beat that!!!!!!! mom and dad had matching ones too when we went down to wales.

oh yeah ..parents that think that dressing all your kids the same is amazing!

Does anyone have judgy things to put but dare not, because they would offend people, those people would read this, point out how you are wrong to judge because of a.b.c and you cannot be bothered to defend your judgyness? Thats where I am.

I don't appear to judge, but, deep down, I do. Are there really people who absolutely do not judge, at all? I bet not. Most just don't go around admitting it and pointing out what they think are other peoples flaws.

I don't understand what's so wrong with a television in a childs room?

How are they supposed to watch jeremy kyle cbeebies during their morning off school with a sore stomach every other day which coincides with my turn for a lie in?

To be fair, I find television can be a wonderful provider of free childcare source of educational material that should not be dismissed out of hand or because of some current fad or trend.

All my little ones have learnt all the WWE theme tunes and most of the finishing moves of all the wrestlers which is something they never could have done without the aid of a television set in their room as obviously there are too many freak chat shows on my widescreen to allow them to watch in the sitting room and I'm hardly in a position to do the 619 and not catch the attention of the DWP fraud squad.

I find the provision of a television in their rooms is especially helpful in the evenings when I'm trying to get my lottery results or catch up with the latest family news on Roadwars.Keeps the little ones occupied until they finally fall asleep exhausted.Thank you mr Logie Baird....Thank you....

But it does depend on the child LeQueen.. you obviously have quite exceptional kids.
And for me it's not necessarily what they're doing but what they're not.. (and I'm talking in general terms here).. social interaction, sport, running around the garden, their homework, reading, amusing themselves etc etc..
If any child can fit in several of the above PLUS lots of TV, hats off to that child and his/her parents..
BTW mine probably watch about an hour or an hour and a half a day between morning and evening, so I'm not preaching to anybody.

igglybuff not a parenting thing but as an aside a "aren't I such a domestic goddess" thing, Mums who update their facebook status about domestic s**t

"Just finished my 3rd pile of ironing!"

"so pleased with our new dishwasher, it's fab!"

"DH has just finished assembling the habitat flatpack furniture, looks gerat!"

and so on and so on.

One of my friends talks about ironing nearly every time she updates, get a life woman!

LeQueen, you're asking some interesting questions, obviously, and probably reflecting on this more than many. What I meant by exceptional was exceptional in that (for example, as you say) when the TV is on they are actually doing stuff.. Many kids just sit there goggleyed.. my own DD often being a case in point..

SPBindisguise - Very diluted apple juice is advised to parents to give to babies who suffer badly from constipation.

I do think the ear piercing thing is a bit . Last night at Parenting Circle there was a baby with hers dones and I had to keep reminding myself not to stare. I mean, why? That being said I know the mom in question a bit; she's certainly not a bad mother and I would never define her as such. But still, why?

CheerfulYank - because it looks pretty of course. That it hurts is not as important.

eggontoast - I'm judging inside

..a judgefest eh?

LeQueen Why not start up another thread on specifically this? I think it's getting lost in this... judgefest

minx and chelles these people give FB a bad name. I'm convinced some of these mums actually update FB before they eat/dress/shower in the morning.

chelles I wanted a shellsuit as a kid. Never got one... The shame!

Off I go over there so

Can I just say that the t.v. thing just got a bit 'lost'...I said t.v. in the bedroom (you know so the little mites dont wake up at 3 in the morning an switch it on and lose 2 hrs sleep, while watching some awful show like harry hills t.v burp or jonathon ross ;) )

I dont think watching tele is bad at all, my dd watches it, c beebies, the music channel - they are both on pretty much all day BUT I wouldnt allow her to have it in her room while she 'sleeping'. Aparently electrical items in the bedroom cloud the mind and can make it a stressful place.