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Behaviour/development

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Original poster

Hello bad mothers everywhere...

99 replies

phlossie · 26/02/2008 14:46

Last week I:

gauged a chunk out of ds's shoulder with my fingernail when I grabbed his hood (was stopping him from being runover, to be fair)
let a door swing shut and trap dd's leg
was told that I shouldn't have eaten peanut butter while pregnant and breastfeeding, and definitely shouldn't have been giving it to my ds since he was one...

The worst thing I have done to date was lock my children and keys in the car. It took over an hour to rescue them!

Tell me in what ways you've been a bad mother to make me feel better!

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Are your children’s vaccines up to date?

Set a reminder

squinny101 · 28/02/2008 10:20

In addition to my other post. Last night the baby fell off the sofa (7 months old). Has a perfect black eye and the imprint of the rug on her forehead.

I did the brave thing and tried to blame it on my ds (5). DP did not buy it and said I could not expect ds to look after a baby.

How else does he think I get anything done round here!

Pinchypants · 28/02/2008 13:54

I just banged DD's head (19 months) on the edge of her bedroom door as I was carrying her in for her nap. Quite hard, too. She wasn't happy and said 'Oh no!' quite a lot between the tears.

glitterfitter · 28/02/2008 14:15

I am crying with laughter at some of these! Cheered me up no end!

My poor ds has had to endure:

having his head knocked against many a door frame
falling off the bed
slipping under the water in the bath (i was tickling him. duh!)
Fingers jammed in doors
Fell down 2 steps, face first into a very muddy puddle one day when I thought I had lost my keys and had to put him down to rummage in bag
Ended up with horrid nappy rash when only 2 days old when we completely forgot to change his nappy on our first night home from the hospital
Fell backwards off arm of sofa only last night because I was too busy on mumsnet and not paying attention
lost count of the times I trapped his fingers when pushing his tripp trapp high chair closer into the table

Iklboo · 28/02/2008 14:19

I gave DS a chocolate spread on milk roll butty & some pringles last night for his supper
He then put the pringles ON the butty "this is yummy and crunchy mummy"

BAD BAD MOTHER!

Original poster

phlossie · 28/02/2008 16:21

That's BRILLIANT Iklboo - did you get that recipe from Annabel Karmel?
Today, as we were leaving a friend's house, ds starting walking down the road AWAY from the car while I was putting dd in her car seat. I did the whole 'bye-bye thing', went round to the driver's side and started the engine (usually works). But he said 'bye-bye mamma!' and merrily carried on walking to the bottom of the road. I had to reverse down the road VERY quickly before I'd even strapped dd in. Caught him just before he turned the corner to the main road. There's no way I could have run there in time.

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scotsgirl · 28/02/2008 18:03

OK, I once nearly stabbed my 9m DC through the forehead with a large and very sharp knife - he was clinging around my feet while I tried to cook, laying on his back, I dropped the knife and the handle end banged him square between the eyes and bounced off . I still feel sick when I think about it.

thefortbuilder · 28/02/2008 19:24

rubyrubyruby i have no idea why people give me dirty looks when ds is on reins - and it's not just old people / people without kids, it's mums and dads with lo's as well! you'd think it would be perfectly obvious that a large pg woman can't run after a liverwire (as the paed called him today) 19 month old, but some people.....

also a friend of mine refuses to use them on her daughter as "she doesn't like the look of them" - afraid in one of my more exasperated intolerant pg moments i came out with "the look a damn site better than x is going to look when she's been hit by a car" not one of my most tactful moments there

TheDevilWearsPrimark · 28/02/2008 19:40

Ignore the rein haters.
Reins make so much sense sometimes.

ScruffyTeddy · 28/02/2008 19:43

I dont do bad mum things because I am perfect, why else would I post on mumsnet? {preen}.

I have stabbed both kids many times with a rough fingernail and banged both of their heads on door frame when carrying lovingly to bed. (poor neglected babies emoticon).

Likeasow · 28/02/2008 19:56

cut top off DD3s finger when cutting long baby nails off when 1 day old - felt so guilty
DD1 - poked her in the eye and drew blood at Disney land - don't know who was crying more me or her.....
caught baby hands bent back by seat belt when putting in the car

But DH let them (nearly) get off a train with a massive gap between platform and train by themselves as he 'forgot about them' and got off by himself - they are 5 and 2 - the 5 year old was trying to carry the 2 year old and holding her over the gap!

GirlySquare · 28/02/2008 20:00

Can't understand rein haters, oblivious to dirty looks as I know I'm in the right as dd couldn't run into the road thank goodness...

dd was helping me with washing and I closed her fingers in the washing machine door - luckily the machine wasn't switched on so I didn't have to wait for a minute to open the door...

dp cut dd's finger with clippers and still won't clip her fingernails over a year later...

dp bumped down the stairs with dd on his tummy, dp with bad back, dd with phobia about stairs for a couple of months...

dsd twisted dd's head into right position to bottle feed not realising dd didn't have 180 degree swivel head...

dd survived

viggoswife · 28/02/2008 20:16

DS drank a small amount of contact lense solution left in the container from soaking lenses overnight - consulted a doctor and all was ok.

Snipped DS's ear when trimming his hair when he was about a year old.

Both DS and DD have slipped under the water in the bath. I dont think this is bad parenting. Just happens, as long as you are there, no harm done.

Locked myself out of my flat with DS lying on his play gym just before a feed when he was 5 months old, luckily not crawling. I had to call the fire brigade, who went through a luckily open window on their ladder and then carried him down to me so I could be reunited with my red faced, roaring baby. It was a True Life movie moment.

This one is not so much a bad parenting thing though it did involve my child but I was on holiday with my SIL and I found my 2 year old DS with her sunglasses case containing her £250.00 Gucci Sunglasses. He had broken one of the arms off. I put them back in the case, back in her room and pretended I knew nothing when she was gutted they were broken. She assumed she had done it when drunk. . I have confessed now. Couldnt live with the guilt.

squinny101 · 29/02/2008 15:41

This thread has cheered me up no end. I'm not the only clumsy oaf around then.

GirlySquare · 29/02/2008 15:46

Whoops, forgot about when dd couple of weeks old. Health visitor turned up, I went to the door leaving two-week old dd face down on the sofa. HV mentioned this might not be the safest place to leave dd in future when answering the door...

entropy · 29/02/2008 22:14

love this thread!

I remember playing "where's mummy?" with dd when she was about 10mo, crawling round and round my dads recliner armchair. Until on one pass I clipped the recline lever and dd who was perfectly positioned in front of the chair was scooped up and thrown about 4ft across the room as the feet bit popped up!

she was unhurt but very surprised

the really bad mummy thing was tho we had the same accident about a week later to a lesser degree (she wasn't quite central that time and didn't leave the ground) but she loved the game so much we couldn't not play!

TheAccidentalParent · 01/03/2008 19:29

OK Here goes: -

DD (now 11 month old)

Fallen off bed 3 times - last time was yesterday, still has a little bruise to cheek.

Knocked head on car door numerous times whilst being put in car.

Locked myself out of the house whilst she was in there strapped to bouncer having her nap (she was 5 months at the time). (I was putting something in the car) Had to go to a neighbour who I had never met before crying and hysterical and get him to shimmy up a drainpipe to climb in through the window.

mehdismummy · 01/03/2008 20:01

ds when four months fell off bed onto concrete floor. He escaped out of door and was plucked from near death by passer by.(still makes me sick) trapped his finger in door.

naturalblonde · 01/03/2008 20:08

Ok, dd is 18 months old, has fallen head first off sofa, fallen off bed loads of times - once with me and dp sitting either side of her.

Has drunk contact lens solution, got hold of paintbrush and painted the carpets, (don't think she ate any...!)

climbed into a laundry basket, fellout of it and chipped her front tooth,

I've banged her head on door frames and the car door countless times, the toilet seat fell on her head today, she got a black eye from running into the wooden bit on the end of my mum's sofa,

and she's managed to get a toy drum stuck on her head.

naturalblonde · 01/03/2008 20:11

And she ran back into a lift as we got out of it just as the doors were closing. Luckily my friend saw her and grabbed her cos I hadn't even noticed

My mum though,when I was about 2yo, took me to feed the ducks, unstrapped my buggy straps, turned round to get the bread, and I fell into the duck pond and nearly drowned. (this was a few years ago). Still terrified when she takes my dd to feed the ducks.

Miggsie · 01/03/2008 20:18

Normally docile DD ran away from me to see the train go across the level crossing. Ran straight across a road without looking, luckily all traffic was stationary and a man jumped out of his car and grabbed her.
I wanted to die, managed not to have hysteria. Dragged DD home in panic, thrust her at DH and went upstairs for full blown panic attack, still have nightmares about it now...reins are fantastic and I won't have a word said against them and don't abandon them to soon!!!!!

mehdismummy · 01/03/2008 22:52

its horrible isnt it miggsie. Still feel sick thinking about it

mum2sons · 01/03/2008 23:15

-ate goats cheese when pregnant
-ate peanut butter too and 2 sons live on it and have done since v little
-used TV as babysitter on regular basis (Lazytown, not the shining)
-dropped ds3 whilst BFing at 2 weeks old (fell asleep sitting up and he fell off my boob and ended up somewhere in the bed.
-got Ds1 into a 15 film at 12 years old
-not taken Ds2 to A and E when advised to by NHS direct (he had eaten a glass xmas tree light

the worst.....forgot about parents evening for DS2 at pre school.....

I am v bad mummy

smartiejake · 01/03/2008 23:19

How about a bad father?

DH left dd2 age 2 weeks in pizza hut! He got back to the car, sat down and put his seat belt on before he had a niggly feeling something was missing.

Had to push past a long line of people queuing to get back to the table where she was sleeping. Then had to push back through the same line to much sniggering carrying dd in her car seat.

Have never let him forget it!

Lizziebethus · 02/03/2008 00:35

I handed my 21m old son a pretty shell on the beach the other day and said "go and show daddy!" he got half way there and then turned around HOWLING. There was a hermit crab in it with a whopping great claw attached to his finger. Could not get the bugger off - DS screaming and me crying. It looked much worse than it was when it finally let go. Felt SO SO guilty! Also wrapped him up "sausage roll" style in a towel after bath (never letting go though)and as I went to lift him, somehow his feet slipped out from under him, he flipped over my arm and hit face on the floor. Bloody lip and bruise.

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