we had LOUD Parenting, now welcome "teaching parenting"

[FluffyMummy123]

you know the type, where EVERY LIVING MOMENT is a chance to instruct, inform and assess.
where they kid cant say "i like blue" without giving a reasoned assessment of the pros and cons of red and pink.
Where everyone hears the kid being taught ( viz loud parenting)

WHere kids sigh as the parent instructs and gives kids benefit of life skills.

SUre - talk to your kid, teach em stuff, but let them CHILL and just be sometimes.

( adds in usual caveats about all other things being equal)

A million years ago before I had DC's DH and I were at Tintagel in Cornwall, amazing and beautiful place, the tranquility was ruined by a very loud american woman exhorting her children to read one of the signs and point out to her exactly where there was a grammatical mistake. I have tried to remember her as an anti role model throughout my parenting years.

lol

she brilliant eg of cross over of two genres of parenting

Yy, "ooh look, you have peas today, peas like photosynthesis,it helps them grow, can you spell photosynthesis?"

Guarantee child eating peas will be about 3. And will be giving mum a look that says fuck off woman, I just want to eat in peace.

dd babysat for someone like this the other day

kids weren't allowed ot watch tv ,wii had to help dd cook dinner and read

dd let them play on wii ,told them not to tell

lol
vg egs

you bothe get gold stars

I have a great one - in a park one an American man was holding his son (4ish) as he went along the monkey bars saying,'Gravity is your friend.' dh and I sniggered childishly. I still don't know what he meant. Surely gravity is your enemy on the monkey bars

its almost like "Focus hugo"

gravity is your firend sound liek the Flanders kids on simpsons

yes he looked a bit like Ned

A mum at the lpcal 'bounce' session, the only parent actually on the inflatables, crawling around on all fours waving her arm around 'look muummy's an elephant, what noise do elephants make?' Son looks at her like is mad and carries on jumping with the rest of the kids, completely ignoring her

at a miffy exhibition, parents point to banner and exclaim 'what does that say Nathanial?' nathianial was about 3, 'happy birthday miffy' he lisps, cue smirking parents and me studiously ignoring htem

Overheard my friend's dh trying to tell 3 Yo dd that it was time to go home 'We have to go now because it's nearly night time, that means the sun disappears to the other side of the world & it gets dark'

Me: DD1, coat on, we're going home.

There was a very loud one in the local toyshop yesterday, teaching 'Gideon' all about geography.
Gideon was about three and wanted to play with the racing cars.
I wanted the bookshelf to fall on the father and squash him.

"What's this white stuff Mummy?"
"Rice darling. It's a carbohydrate."

The child was about two.

Working in an Infants' school I always feel sorry for the children who, by the sound of it, have had a great day out at the weekend but have been forced to "write it up" with accompanying pictures, photos, etc and bring it in for show and tell. They must dread doing anything exciting!

vg all

Arf at humphrey

Arf at humphrey

isn't it the same thing ?

if a parent is loud they're inevitably showing off their parenting / education skills

=I spend my life hissing menacingly in public

DD1 (4) tells a story breathlessly and in huge detail. Mil says: 'Oh, that's lovely sequencing, Dd1'.

Every time she comes over from England, the girls are submitted to quickfire SATS tests masquerading as play.

The last time she was here, dd1 had made a detailed weather chart before 8:30am.

Chill. The. Beans.

Old's friend's dd1 (2 yo) could pronounce long complicated name of her dad's business and job.

She could also poo herself at will.

I suspect the two are related.

The latter being an expression of her ire at being made to trot out dad's boring job's bolleaux name like a performing farking monkey.

Good girl.

Ds's granny's like this. Everything is a 'learning opportunity' She asked ds what he wanted for Christmas, he asked if she could adopt a penguin for him. Brilliant I thought. Did she? No. A bloomin weather station. All the presents he's ever receives from her are educational; weather station, star chart, encyclopedia (he was 4), Lego Technic (he can't use it as he needs other sets which we don't have), weather station, lemon clock, microscope (he was 5).
I wanted to take him to gullivers kingdom for his 6th birthday, she asked if she could come along. We ended up in a mining museum and then walking around a disused mill!

Teaching Parenting IS Loud Parenting - there's no point in LP if they aren't TP!

I like to think of it as 'Permission Parenting' myself.

Permission to batter them with anything to hand!! Poor kids.

I think the genuinely inadequate & socially inept amongst us feel the need to do it - so I guess we should really feel sorry for them

Oh, I forgot to add her loudness, I was too busy being annoyed with the weather station:

'Look ds, it's a magpie. Do you know what the latin name is?' Ds was 5 and just wanted to run around.

'Look ds, it's a fossil. Do you know what fossils are?' Ds was 4