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.

so you dont have facebook then???? lol ... I may try putting my pic up on here but a bit scared some pervy daddies might take it and over it - im that hot!

Agree with widowadman about the woo (and the food fetishes)

awright enough ego stroking you munters

farking hell.

i feel left out. i used to model (life/lingerie) and be a podium dancer. but not at the same time.

so you was the model yrs ago sungirltan and the over-aged pole dancer now??? or was you the pole dancer before and 'life' model now???

he he
podium not pole - like in a big club with clothes on! i am a bit weak for pole dancing. and anyway those in profession are not allowed anymore!

life model last done in 07 - photos not people in an art class. not doing it again until the baby weight has gone!

haha, oh yeh podium my bad lol...and that over aged thing was meant to have a strike through it..dam.

I wish I could brave enough to do podium dancing lol..would love to do it! and im still young anough!

Gosh, who knew co-sleeping was so controversial?

Parents who have sufficiently low self-esteem that they need to paint fake features on top of their real features before leaving the house and pass on their issues to their DDs (I am not "too busy" not to wear make-up, I just cannot be fucked )

Lots here I agree with - I have no problems with co-sleeping or extended breastfeeding though I also have no problem with people who don't vaccinate - ime these people have put a lot of thought into their decision and have very valid reasons for their choice - in fact I will go out on a limb and say that I find parents who just willingly trot their little darling off for whatever vaccine summons comes through the door more irritating - chicken pox ffs!! Children do get sick you know!

People who hit their kids and then say

"Never dd me any harm"

Er, it did - you're an adult who thinks it's OK to hit people smaller than you as a way of imposing your will on them - while hiding in your cowardice behind the fact that children are the only people (apart from boxers) who can legally be hit in our society.

Bullying, basically. I dislike bullying.

! wearing make up = tantamount to child abuse

Dont think anyone has a problem with co-sleeping. More the concept of renaming perfectly normal, everyday activities to make them sound special.

Tis very confusing.

I am so hypocritical! I wear make up and have pierced ears since the age of 1yrs and I will NOT let dd wear make up -ever - shes too beautiful to ruin her pretty lil face with that stuff..and she aint getting her ears pierced until shes 16! at least!

I am wrong arent I???? please tell me I am, so that I dont feel so bad that my own mother abused me when I was a child ;)

I think kids should get as much sugary stuff as they like theyre only kids fgs they'll burn it off no bother while they wrestle with the playstation controller or run round the shops. It's fat parents we ought to worry about, teaching their children that its ok to be blubbery.

Helping babies get the food they need isnt wrong just because they push it out with their tongue doesnt necessarily mean they dont want it they're often just trying unsuccessfully to roll the food round their mouths and get the full pleasure of eating.

Denying children the pleasure of ice cold coke is just plain wrong its not actually that bad for you its just the teeth that suffer encourage brushing at least in the morning and you'll be fine..toothpaste if possible ....or cereal....cornflakes can be good to scrape that layer of gunge of the teeth

Calpol is absolutely a must after a long day snacking and running around hyper on coke a nice spoonful of paracetomol calms the little ones down ready for a long evening falling asleep in front of the tv and keeps em quiet so parents can get their pizza without any bothersome background noise

crying can be problematic if the baby is stopping you hearing the news or results of the DNA test on Jeremy Kyle but it can also be a learning tool. how are you supposed to know if you've smacked a child hard enough if they don't cry?

common sense people........ common sense

LOL

LOL your funny! ;)

That was the best thing I have read all day.

There are pet hates, which are things other parents I do which I don't particularly agree with but they don't really affect others,and there is just irresponsibility. I am referring to not vaccinating!!
My mother nearly died from measles and was left almost blind- this is what we face again if we choose not to vaccinate against it- it affects all of us.

onebadbay - indeed -isn't sometyhing like if the vaccination rates fall below 50% (actually it might be 80) then the whole execise is a waste of time. to the best of my knowledge vaccinations are pretty much the only thing on this thread that are not, in fact just a perosnal preference