What is the most tedious parenting job?

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The one thing that makes me feel "oh I wish dh was here for this" is teeth cleaning. Don't know why, just find it a really tedious chore.
What about you?

Camberwellbeauty I laughed out loud at your comments about "picking up small things" because that's all I ever seem to do! My back is bloody killing me!

Feckin laundry . I spend ages sorting, washing, folding, ironing, hanging & putting away clothes only to turn around & find that the wash basket's up to the ceiling with dirty clothes again. My family live like they're on a catwalk with me as their skivvy. If I throw half their clothes away, maybe they'll wear something for more than 5 minutes before chucking it in the wash.

Dishes aren't a problem for me since I got a dishwasher. They're brilliant. Too bad they can't unload & reload themselves, but still what a great timesaver

I'm glad I read this thread. I've been constantly shouting & repeating myself lately because my kids have also got selective hearing.

oooh....where do I start....

bedtimes and teeth....so loving the hols so that bedtimes aren't so regimented.

lunchboxes.....trying to do healthy each day without being boring, and having to keep in mind their tastes.....have 5 to do at the mo, going up to 6 come october when the youngest goes fulltime! (well, obvioulsy not at the mo cos of the hols. DH hates the hols cos then I stop doing his also)

sweeping the floor after ever sodding mealtime

having to change the table cloth after every sodding mealtime

having to think of different meals, so that they get a good balence without getting bored of the same old same old.

ironing

putting the clothes away after ironing.

cleaning the toilets everying sodding day.....often every bloody time the boys go to the toilet. (I have now started making the boys clean up their own 'spills'.....now had a week of a non-dripped toilet seat and floor)

Ummmmmm.....what else....????

Oh, I know....having to double check with DH over questions from the kiddies as they have a nasty habit of asking one of us while upstairs for something the other parent has downstairs said no to (IYGWIM?)....that is a real hate!!!!

My brother has a great solution for anything small enough to fit through the hoover nozzle . His kids have learned to tidy their things away or else.

In a desire to become a chef, my 8 yo was making his own sandwiches for a while last year, but he got bored with it after a few months so we're back to making them for him again. Ho hum.

God I used to HAAATE cleaning up the highchairs and scraping up splattered breakfast, lunch and dinner. I often used to think about cutting out the middle-man and just come and dump the dinner straight on the carpet and up the wall.

Why can't you just buy big rolls of cheap paper towel type paper to tear off and put under a high chair? Those plastic mats still have to be shaken off and wiped down. Such a palavar.

My children are older now - so take heart it'll all stop eventually.

I also used to want to fire off heated letters to Britax about the straps on the car seats. Those days are over too now thankfully, but I still get the red mist when I see one.

washing and making bottles
nighttime feeds
trying to get a baby to sleep when the minute you put them down they wake back up again
putting clothes away
need i go on?

Getting DS dressed in the morning... and the "just another story mum" add infinitum. Which he was happy with only 2-3 books, the other day he wanted me to read him the bible, "just to the end of it mum, please" (then I tell him about this man and woman who lived in a park but they were thrown out because they misbehaved and were never allowed to play in that park again... and what DS said? naughty woman!!!!

are men born with the instinct of blaming always the women??? )

And wish his mum knew that wish is not the same as which

yes yes MD, putting on shoes and faffing around with effing carseats

and picking up small angular plastic peices of crap off the floor

and mopping up milk that I spill on the counter as I fill the nightime bottle, but there's no use crying over that I suppose

Chandra, I always knew the bible, even paraphrase and precis, was weighted against women

Oh the car seat!!! I hate it with a passion!

TG,go to an agricultural wholesaler andask for 'dairy roll'
Whopping big roll of heavy duty paper which isidealfor what you describe. {Supposed to be to wipe cows'teats before milking}

Costs aboutthree quid and lasts for ages.

{Can you tellmy dh works in thisfield??}

Definitely the whole bedtime routine. Can't stand it...
Also dealing with the in-laws I find tedious cos it has to be done cos their the grandparents.. grrr....

ARgh so many things ... most things after four o clock, so cleaning highchairs and floor after their meal, wiping faces and hands, getting them in the bath and ready for bed

Now my kids are older and require less hands-on supervision, I have come to dread solo visits to the park. You can't read a book as you have to be vaguely aware of what they're up to, and you just end up trailing round listlessly replying 'lovely dear'' to their cries of ''look at me, look at me''.

In addition to many of the things lsted here by other people

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My dh is disabled and can't really help much at all, and is home all day!!! Great sometimes, awful others. So I guess having to do everything listed below, whilst bouncing a 2 stone baby on my hip and at the same time be sweetness, light and the voice of understanding reason to my dh when he is depressed/angry coz of his pain (which is more often than I would like!). Sorry if that sounded a bit self-pitying, wasn't meant to, this thread is very funny, could relate to so much of it. Parenting can be so wonderfully fulfilling occasionally, and more often than not a mind numbing treadmill of tedium. When it's good it's very, very good, but when it's bad, it's horrid!!!

being woken at 6.30 every feckin morning of your life.
WHEN WILL IT END?????????????????????????????????????????????????????

playing yugioh

Being woken at 5.30am FOR AGES, WHEN WILL IT END?????

Actually, my nomination for tedious parenting jobs are:

pushing swings and anything involving a play park

changing nappies especially when you've just woken up and haven't even had a coffee to fortify you but have to confront a big pile of poo

Dealing with poo generally

God, you play yu gi oh? I won't. Am mean that way.

Standing on the edge of fields watching the distant dots that are my children playing football/cricket/riding horses. How can they tell from that distance that you're "not watching properly"?

Top Trumps.

constantly picking up small things from living room floor - raisins, bits of crust, crayons, blocks, toy cars, felt tip pen lids etc, etc, etc, etc...

trying to find one that is not the same as all of the above (I agree with all those too )
That feeling of deep ennui in the pit of your stomach whilst trying to feign interest whenever you take your child to a children's theme park.