For a giggle.. What are YOUR parenting 'mantras' when all is TOTES shite??;)

[StoicButStressed]

My stock ones are 1 & 2, but the other two make me smile so included them too, have always been:

1. 'Absolute love, absolute boundaries' - for when DC's (ESP the teen bit) being vile, driving me nuts, making me wish never bloody had them, &/or when facing really serious vile shit 'challenging'
2. 'This too shall pass' - for when positively frickin suicidal a tad overwhelmed
3. My newest one (from MN yest ) 'Perspective is ALL'
4. The one I tried (for, ooohh, a day or so until the next VERY eewweeyy day) but learnt to ignore a looooonnnnggggg time ago - on basis of the VERY handy mantra Needs Must - but if you say it's only me I will SOOOO know you're lying... was the Sunday Times Columnist's fess-up one re craving which she was succumbing to at about 5pm as her sanity saviour (ESP when at home with L'IL DC's all day) but to which she then created mantra of "No wine before 6 o'clock mummy" to resolve...(no, me too betting she off-loaded that mantra herself within a few weeks of writing it )

Would LOVE to know yours??!!

Mine is "this too shall pass" as well!

My other newyears resolution mantra is "No Wine till Wednesday" (not working)

"this is my mother's revenge. I will have mine."

mum47 - just out of curiosity, how long DID the one last?

At Christmas mine is "peace and goodwill" - usually muttered through gritted teeth.

The rest of the year "Deep breaths"

Love the mothers revenge one!

Only xx hours til bedtime, or at least I can send them to boarding school at 7!

Mine is "Whatever works!" Yes I do bribe my children with chocaolate alot

i object to not only the TITLE of this thread but the overuse of bloody smillies

ONE step from tickers and Hun

'Objection' noted MaureenShit

Apologise sincerely if have upset your sensibilities
Hope you'll accept my gestures of apology
Hopefully you're all better now
I'd offer tickers if knew what they were (???), but in interim, can only offer apologies hon

Mine is...

It's quite funny if you think about it

I used to go lock myself in the utility room for one track very loud in my ears on the ipod and lay down on the floor, just to get them out of my head and not hearing them for 5 mns (obvs they would be left safely) just needed some other noised other than children in my head for a while, worked wonders

Mine is 'they'll leave home one day'

my child is not giving me a hard time, my child is having a hard time

.. but today I just want to bash my head against a wall

It's just a phase.

Remember, you are not managing an inconvenience. You are raising a human being.

I sometimes think the "they'll leave home one day" too Anathema ... and am then RIVEN with guilt ... LOVE grants1000 one, but my utility room has very cold floor so not sure doable without some discomfort here? And poor ducksingthedustbin - here, have this . Do love your mantra but the level of sainthood like patience tolerance needed for that one for days on end is realistically beyond me (am bad mamma!)

I don't always mean that I'm looking forward to them leaving home (just sometimes!).

It's just a way of reminding myself that whatever horrible phase is happening, it won't be forever, and they'll be grown up and independent before I know it. I'll miss the little sodsdarlings when they do go, I'm sure.

RandallPinkFloyd Thanks for the reminder...

...In turn, I'll help you out by reminding you that you surely must have a sense of humour buried in there somewhere (as appears to have gone awol)? Is a light-hearted, gallows sense of humour thread, apols if that bothers you.. and if does, why read? Do though please be fully reassured that I ('I' being the operative word, as doing it alone) am well aware I am raising 'a' (aka 3 DSs) 'human being'. Suggest look at my other posts to see all I have managed as a parent? And hoping the awol SOH returns soon, as life just too short to have it away forever sweetiepie x

I thought Randall might have been speaking tongue in cheek apols if wrong.

Okay new one for me this week, facing DD(17). (O yes! You tthink it stops being stressy when they are older, wrong!!). After particular hair raising evening, hissed,
"You wait 'til you're a mum!"

A few assumptions there but in my defence I was a bit stressed.

Is the off license still open?

Mine is 6pm They go to bed at 7/7:30 but if I'm having a hard day they have to be in their jamas and in their bedroom by 6. So on bad days I chant over and over again 6pm 6pm 6pm

Yy to "this too shall pass" (dd1 is 13 in 2 weeks!!)

If you hit anyone you lose all your gaming time!

Anything you dont eat, Dad will!!!

my friend says to me - don't moan about this phase the next one could be worse. not very reassuring

Blimey op keep your hair on.

It's a phrase I say to myself all the time, I thought that was what you were asking for

And I'm an LP too so you can stick your pa bollocks where the sun don't shine.

Mine is "Oh, fuck it!"...