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things I didn't know I found annoying until I had children.

318 replies

BusyCee · 09/11/2015 07:55

repetition
loud noises
things being spilled on the floor
being touched

To be fair all the above happened far less frequently before I had children. Repetition is a particular annoyance - not just me saying the same thing over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again, but chanting, singing the same line of a song repeatedly, taunting etc.

Love them, but dear God for just 24hrs of peace....

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Qwertybynature · 09/11/2015 18:15

Can I add shopping now that all of the Christmas toy displays are everywhere. Had a very surreal conversation with my 2yr old about father Christmas, including a lovely one around 2am trying to explain why we couldn't visit 'christmas house' through lots of near-hysterical tears.

JustDanceAddict · 09/11/2015 18:25

Mine are teen/tween but it just morphs into different types of annoying, while retaining some of the toddler aspects. Namely..
Turn taking. Yes, still at 11 & 13. We were in a hotel recently and they had to take turns in using the key card!
Fairness - having same amount of ice/cream etc. Funnily, this doesn't apply to broccoli, or it does conversely!!
Looking at dinner like I've served up a dead rat - then eating it all and still being hungry.
Appetite of a 13 year old girl - insatiable!
dried in skidded in 'their' loo. I have to brace myself when I open the lid.
Homework nightmares.
Being treated like a taxi/bank. Them assuming I'm going to pick them up from the arse end of nowhere at their whim!
Still get the 'muuuuuuum!' Thing.
DD having better and more make up than me (and then I borrow it).

redexpat · 09/11/2015 18:30

DH.

dodobookends · 09/11/2015 18:45

Socks.

Glitter.

The fact that you can buy a pack of 48 felt-tip pens, and there will be umpteen shades of green, blue, red, brown etc but ONLY ONE YELLOW.

Having to sit for two hours on an uncomfortable chair while other people's children grapple with musical instruments. All because your dc is in the school choir. And they're on last.

Being asked: "So...... what have you been doing all day?"

mrsc118 · 09/11/2015 18:47

reading/watching the same thing drives me crackers

Tatiana11235 · 09/11/2015 18:56

Slow walking
Squealing
PLAYING DOLLIES
Having a discussion about everything. Just bloody do as you're told!

On the other hand side, I dread the time when she will no longer want to hold my hand or kiss me all over my face. When having her arms around my neck will no longer be an everyday thing. When she doesn't tell me that she loves me on a daily basis. I don't know what I am going to do with myself when she doesn't need me anymore

3point14159265359 · 09/11/2015 19:01

Being handed stuff!

'Here's your phone, mummy'. Oh thanks, you picked it up from where I just put it because I need my hands to do whatever it is you've just demanded I do.

Here's your iPad mummy. Yep, that was with my phone.

Here's your tea cup mummy. Yep, my cold sad undrunk tea.

No, please don't put my cold tea near my phone/iPad.

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BusyCee · 09/11/2015 19:09

And DH coming from home and raising the 'you're quite shouty' eyebrow at me. Yes. Yes, I fucking am.

This.

Bless you all for this. Am now bf-ing DC3 and reading, having spent another day of touching/blocking/inane questions/repetition and sodding glitter (how did I forget glitter in OP?) and wrestled the tykes to bed...

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Liz68mustang · 09/11/2015 19:24

All I can say ladies is its great having all this happen again when you are a grannie, you enjoy it much more cos you can give them back when you have had enough....... Please don't kill me

Rollermum · 09/11/2015 19:36

Yes to the touching! I'm 7 months pregnant with DC2 and DD (2) is constantly climbing on me, insisting toys be miraculously balanced on me, with lots of wriggling and elbowing me in the bump and nipples. Ow!

Mind numbing repetition. Books. Games - pretend shops where she 'buys' the same book ten zillion times.

Outrage at simple daily things. Tooth brushing. Hair brushing. Bedtime. Trying to feed and nourish her.

OhMakeMeOver · 09/11/2015 19:37

I definitely agree with all of these! Grin

"Mummy, mummy, MUMMY!" "What?" "Can you help me put track together?"

5 minutes later...
"Mummy, mummy!" "Hmm?" "Can you put track together?"

Trying to keep my eyes open after being tired all day, as I got hit over the head at 6am because "It's morning time, mummy! Time to get up!", whilst having a conversation about how the cars start at the top of the garage then they go "round and round and round and round, then whoosh at the bottom"

Serving dinner, then DS saying he doesn't want that but the dinner that is sitting in the saucepan instead which is EXACTLY the same!

And... touching! When it's me, DP and DS in the bed together, I'm usually the one that is twitching from anyone touching me, then gradually shimmying across until my head hits the bedside table! Ugh, especially when there are COLD hands and feet!!

My son is 3, so I don't mind it so much right now. What I'm dreading is the cringy conversations when he gets to the age of about... 7 or 8? "What's more important, mummy? The world or super powers?" Confused

Kidsrulethishouse · 09/11/2015 19:39

I remember my mums reaction to this when I was little. Now I understand!

Qwertybynature · 09/11/2015 19:49

Liz68Mustang Grin

skorpion · 09/11/2015 20:10

Ye gods, the noise! DDs' default volume setting is 11.

The flouncing! 'I'm not PLAYING then!', over some trivial 'offence'

The telling: 'I'm telling then!', over another, equally trivial one...

The tapping my breast for attention, JUST DON'T!!!

Our house is becoming more and more shouty...

FreeButtonBee · 09/11/2015 20:29

Taking turns

"Why?" - just started on Saturday all of a sudden. She's not even three yet. Arghhhhh

I don't allow hanging off my legs. I would go insane. Also have twins so it would be annoying^10.

Currently Ds2 (3mo) refuses to go to sleep. Just spent 1hr20 wrestling him upstairs. Have given up and he's now gurgling at me despite roaring and rubbing his eyes like a madman two minutes ago. So babies.

Swirlingasong · 09/11/2015 20:37

Love this thread. Thought it was just me. I hate getting so wound up by these things and every evening I vow to have more patience. What I really, really want to see is one of the endless cooking shows make whichever chef it is preaching about healthy food/ the ease of cooking from scratch etc do the whole programme in a kitchen with preschoolers. One will preferably be at the stage of unloading all the saucepans so that 'I cook too, mummy' and then having a massive tantrum if said chef actually needs to use a saucepan. Another will enjoy dancing. There should probably also be some sort of craft project going on involving glue and scissors. Chef's MiL must ring with a 'quick' message (preferably involving one or more health complaints no one wants to hear about) Chef must wipe at least one bottom during the course of preparing the meal. He/she must also keep up constant conversation about an imaginary world or sing inane nursery rhymes. At the end of this, the food must be served up and the preschoolers offer their honest critique. For me it would be entirely worth the license fee to see if Jamie or any of the others could do this.

BastardGoDarkly · 09/11/2015 20:43

Oh yes, the 'I'm telling' no, I'm telling first... MUUUUUUUUM!!

The constant negotiations about every.fucking. thing.

Mealtimes, bedtimes and leaving the house.

and being sat on, not with, on, just.... Why!!?

But the random.... I love you more than chocolate, and you're the best mum in the whole wild world, mean I'll keep them :)

MadauntofA · 09/11/2015 20:43

Mmuuuuuummmmmyyy, (sister's name) did..........
And "I'm not your best friend!" Response to anything she doesn't want to hear.
Also everyone, DH included, talking at once and expecting full attention and direct answer

toomuchtooold · 09/11/2015 20:56

Point and whine. I fucking hate point and whine, you're 3 and a half, I know you can speak, I've heard you talk for 20 minutes without pausing for breath on the subject of what's going on your birthday cake.

And also, talking around the bloody houses.

  • DD1 walks in wearing interesting socks DD2: My feet are cold. Me: what? Why? It's July. It's 30 degrees. DD2 (whining): my feeet are coooold Me: do you want a pair of slippers on? DD2: NOOOOOOO
  • repeat until I cop on that DD2 wants the same socks on as DD1
Unescorted · 09/11/2015 21:06

Not understanding the difference between in and on when faced with a dishwasher.

Tapping

Dripping taps

Dried toothpaste

Sandwiches with one bite taken out of it

Octopus37 · 09/11/2015 21:53

All of the above plus:

Nothing is every enough
The sense of entitlement
The lack of sense of what is important, eg being on time
Their preference (although this can be a blessing as well) for easy/junky food, rather than healthy home cooked meals that would make me feel as if I was doing my job well.
Teenage attitude (at 8)
Lack of respect
Being followed round by my 5 year old
Always feeling second best
What the poster said about Motherhood benefitting men is so true

This thread is great, it is a real relief to know that others feel the same.

Michiem · 09/11/2015 22:25

I am loving these posts, thank you for reassuring us all that this is normal (even if it's annoying). DD wasn't obsessed with Frozen when it came out (Thank God) but seems to have discovered 'Jinx'. If I get jinxed again for breathing at the same time, blinking at the same time or seeing the same green car at the same time I'll push out of the moving car. But we are both surreal and moment she has discovered a song with the line 'It's ok to feel like a fat child in a pushchair' which she keeps singing at the top of her voice in public, no mater who is around. I know I'll miss the cuddles, the poking, refusal to hold hands because I teach 11-18 and I hear the grumbles from parents at consultation evenings.

jollyfrenchy · 09/11/2015 22:28

Sibling bickering, over everything, especially things that don't matter and whinging.
Turn-taking - we have one child seat in the front due to lack of space in the back and I am expected to know instantly which of the 3 of them was last in the front.

Not getting reply to a question like "Do you want a drink" because the people I'm talking to are unable to watch TV and do ANYTHING else. I have to stand in front of the screen to get their attention and then they still try to look round me!

On the other hand, I feel really sad about the person who hates reading stories - that's one of my favourite things about having kids.

jollyfrenchy · 09/11/2015 22:31

Oh and being handed rubbish. I am not a bin, why would I want your horrible sticky lolly wrapper?

kelper · 09/11/2015 22:49

Oh my god I love this thread!
Ds starts a conversation but forgets what he wants to say half way through so will just restart the sentence repeatedly until he remembers :-/
Ds, dh and foster son constantly follow me round our not very big kitchen, standing wherever I need to be!
Ds questioning me all the time: mummy where is that car going?
Mummy, who is that? (Random person we've said hello to on a dog walk)
Mummy where does the petrol go?
Mummy you know X at school? And then stops the conversation and wanders off!!!