like farts, you dont mind your own, its other peoples you cant stand....

[Donbean]

Other peoples kids that is...

I try and try but i am not good at it.

Are you?

How do you achieve the art of enjoying thier company or alternatively covering up your lack of tolerance towards them?

Is this just me bieng a miserable old bag?

I look at it this way.
Everyone parents differently therefore the children will be different.
I enjoy things in other children that my dd doesn't do or like IYKWIM.

Btw, bad day?

just hope it passes quickly..

i know how you feel donbean! thinking of one particular little girl now that makes me fume! well... her mother does really!

I dont like anyone elses children either. I pretend quite well though for the sake of my ds.

Lol!

My dd is also 2.

I had to chuckle to myself the other day. I had gone shopping and I'd gone in to Crabtree and Evelyn. There were 2 youngish girls that worked there standing about.
Outside there were a couple with a toddler who was screaming (you know that cry when they are overly tired) the little thing just did not want to get in his pushchair and sleep.
The 2 assistants both said "Oh god just shut your kid up, I hate that noise"

Now I remember quite well, saying the same thing myself a few years ago BC, when I worked in a shop.

I thought to myself, just you wait till you have your own.

I'll be the first to admit I hate that whiney "i want, I want, me me me me" thing that toddlers seem to do so well but I think I've resigned myself to the fact that it's going to happen

We're already getting the screams when we swiftly walk past the sweet aisles, lol! Not good.

Normally, i have full sympathy with a child crying/tantruming because its in the short term. Its when you are with some one for a longer period of time that its wearing i think.

At aged 2 he is probably at the most difficult stage for me to personaly deal with in terms of tolerance and keeping cool. He is the most trying and challenging of my parenting abilities and every single day i am wracked with guilt at saying "shut up" which i try and try not to say but some times i think that my head will explode with the whining and demanding and destructive streak he has. Why oh why does he have to try to break every thing that he gets hold of, or dismantle things.
Is your 2 year old like this? Do you struggle in this way too or are you serene and laid back?

nah can't stick em as a rule. luckily most people i know - know this and dont subject me to their snotty little brats for any period of time.

their are the exceptions but they are few

It is a very rare and precious object - a child who is not your own but who you would happily make your own. I was a teacher before I was a parent and I met the occasional child I thought was perfect, but not many...

Glad I am not alone in not finding other people's children as adorable as my own (and they are not that adorable!)

I guess all kids are annoying, whining and snotty. But we can't help but love our own! I dislike most people's kids, and I bet they feel the same about mine. Even though mine are better behaved, prettier, cleverer...

LOL custy, that was exsactly how i was pre ds, im like that about animals now!

Ser what? Oh serene!

I am laid back with alot of things but like you said sometimes if you don't say shut up your brain will splatter everywhere.

DD's thing atm is to open the tv unit, take out all the dvd's, spread them across the floor and put them in the dvd player one at a time.
We've already had Toy Story snapped in to a thousand pieces.
She does it so quickly, it's untrue and no matter how many times you tell her she still does it. It's constant pushing, all the time.
It's like they have a switch, if they're told no, they do it more, it's a challenge.

The other thing is going in the cupboards in search of things to eat and grabbing your hand and pulling you or some other unfortunate soul who dares to visit us, to the cupboards for naughty treats.

DD is 2.5 and I would happily take someone elses child home rather than her on many occasions (am I not meant to admit this??)

Its that, the destruction and breaking things, damaging furniture and pushing the buttons that exsasperate me. There is just no need.

We had 3 days of rows over DH's screwdrivers the other day, he wanted them well actually "needed" them apparently. I moved them out of sight SO, he went and got the naughty step, stood on it and cocking his head to one side looking all cute said to me " can you do me a favour..can you pass me daddies scredriders please"

I was litterally ready to throw hm out of the window if we had one more row about those bloody fu**g screwdrivers but unexpectedly laughed out loud at the little monster.
My house is a shadow of its former self pre ds

I hate that head tilting business. How do they know to do that?

Ask me after half term. I expect the answer will be the same, though. Have enough trials and tribulations with my own, thanks, without having to worry about someone else's.

we have a computer in teh lobby. my son 12 is invariable on the machine and i have to walk past him.

he leans back sticks his arms up and says ( mr T stylee and he doesn't know who mr T is!!) " giz a luv you big ol' love machine"

this same phrase is repeated to me every day - every day i wet myself.

your own kids can be very excellent sometimes