What did you swear not to do with your own children - then you did?

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For me it was giving ds2 a dummy, was always dead against them, then ds2 had one for 4 years! Talk about eating your words!
What did you do?

rip off cutesie magazines every time we are in waitrose which never get read and have a crap free gift.......aaaargh!

hate them too Donnie

I swore not to swear in front of my DS.
But I did.
Oh sh*t.

Disney films
Pants with pictures on
Millions of toys

but I'm holding out on not walking in when Top of the Pops is on & saying "is that a boy or a girl?"

My mum used to answer difficult questions with "I'll tell you when you're older" Ahhhhhh drove me mad, but say it myself now

Barbie
MacDonalds
Sleepovers at 5
buying boxes of plastic jewellery/pink crap
Pepperami
disney princess pants
dora pyjamas
Refreshers ice lollies
Fringes
baby annabel
cheap trainers from Tesco
hold up dd2 and let her wee on the side of the road
let them run around in shops

I could go on

dummy, but only for one out of four of them, so not bad.
smacking.

My parents think I'm horrible actually, but never mind!

argue with dh in front of them

McDonald's - her eyes light up when we pass the golden arches

Dummies

Bottle feed

Spend more than £20 on a pair of shoes for her

say "shut up!" (more times than I can say)

Say "shut the f* up!" (only twice).

Say "you silly child!" (all the time)

I swore I wouldn't have the tv on all day as a background noise - I lied.

I swore I would take them to the park every day - I lied.

I swore I wouldn't let them have more than one biscuit/chocolate bar/sweets/packet of crisps a day - I lied.

I swore I would bath them each night, then storytime etc before bed - I lied (though do it most nights)

I swore I wouldn't bribe them - lmao I lied so badly with that one!!

I swore I would never do OTT things like my mum has done on occasion like cut off my hair for stealing a Cadburys Caramel! - I haven't lied yet and pray I never will.

I swore I would not get involved with the stupid family games my mum, and her mum, and her mum all play - I lied (kind of, I do try really hard with that one)

I think that's it

Oh yeah and let them wee at the side of the road, I hate it but sometimes you really have to!

I don't bath them every night either and feel really bad about it sometimes!!! Always give them a wash before bed though, grubby little monsters!!!

Bribing is my worst thing but I believe its hard to get through one day without a teeny weeny bribe!!

use puddings as a bribe

Oh yeah Puddle I know that one. Every night I say to the kids "eat all your dinner and then you can have ......." it works but you just think of the best way to get something down them!!!

" eat it up, there are children starving in the world"

i wasn't a big eater as a kid - i didnt mind what i ate as long as i didnt have a lot of it and my nan who basically brought me up in my mad mothers stead always said this to me.

and i try always to hold fast to the fact that i wont make them finish everything on their plate if they dont want to.

but sometimes if you have tried hard and cooked after work and you get groans and moans something like that just comes out of your mouth

do pink stuff
have tv on 24 hrs a day
macdonalds
sweets and crisps
Say "NO" more than 2/3 times a day
buy her something whenever i go shopping
let her sleep in our bed!

Mcdonalds ( I love donalds mummy)
Disopable nappies.
TV (ds know all the names of the all the characters on Cbeebies and Nick JNr)
Bribery
Sweets (addiction)

Still holding out on fizzy drinks though( but thinks thats his choice TBH)

let my daughter eat whilst shopping

Dummys.
Squash,(without sugar).
Sweets.
MCDonalds.
Falling asleep in front of the TV.
Saying,"eat all your dinner and you can have some(more) sweets".
Sausages.
Bread and Jam.
Swear(occasionaly although DH makes up for that and does it regularly).
Shout.

Do I make the Bad Mummy's Club yet....?

I swear too in front of them sometimes. I knew it had to stop when dd1, then only 2, dropped a toy on the floor round at my dad's and said ' oh fucky bugger' with a big grin on her face. Her grandad was mortified, not as much as I was though!!!!

nothing yet but only because I had very low standards to start with...

hello Dropinthe

spank them.