What are your Parenting Flashpoints?

[NotQuiteCockney]

What makes you furious with your kids? Do you think any of your flashpoints are ok? Are there ones you're trying to fix?

I'll go first - I have two big flashpoints. I cannot stand cruelty to animals, of any sort. I'm keeping this flashpoint. I also completely lose it when DS1 cries with frustration, but I'm trying to fix that one (see other thread).

[miao]

Mine's the drinking the bathwater thing and licking the soles of shoes. Yuk! Thankfully DD's now pretty much grown out of that but only a few months ago I used to have to put all the shoes in my room on the windowsill or on shelves. Does it mean she's lacking in something? Maybe dog poo, as we've only got cats lol!

She still drinks the bathwater, though, and sucks shampoo bottles, tubes of soap etc. And here's me worried about her eating only the best healthy, organic food. I might as well have gone straight on the additive riddled stuff for all the chemicals and pollutants she tries to ingest. Drives me mad.

[babe1]

I really can't let my boys read this thread, as I know how much drinking bathwater and licking the soles of shoes is going to appeal to them. They have some pretty gross bath habits as it is. Spitting mouthfuls of water at each other and stuffing bath sponges into their mouths far enough to close their mouths so that the sponge can't be seen. Can't be safe.

[ProfYaffle]

Tantrums I can cope with. It's the constant, low level whining that drives me nuts. Along with elbows in my delicate, pregnant boobs, but most of it it's the fecking pissing all over my lap b/c she can't be *rsed to tear herself away from Thomas that really really does it.

[sockmonkey]

Ah... the food thing. Preparing a meal, saying he has had enough after 3 bites, then asking for crisps as soon as I have scraped his meal into the bin. If you are hungry eat ALL your dinner!!! GRRRRR. He is 3
DS2 does the trouser limpit thing. Clinging on my legs so I can barely move, put can't peel him off either. Also he likes to slap my face while I BF him. If I tell him off he bites my nipple. Ouch. It's a loose loose situation.

[chippa]

My worst is high pitched screaming- especially from my 3 year old. You can talk for goodness sake! The constant shouting from the minute he gets up, Pushing his little sister over. Oh dear it's been a long day. Time for a glass of wine I think!

[NotQuiteCockney]

I found a new one today: being sticky. If I am sticky, and it is my child's fault, that's it, all my patience is gone. (I was sticky because he had some calpol, only he had to put the spoon in his mouth himself, and, unsurprisingly, got some on my leg. Ugh.)

[LoveMyGirls]

getting sticky - am working on this one
fake crying - i think they need to work on that one
dd2 turning off the pc (when im in the middle of posting) - i have taped a box over the button
not doing as their told - working on this, joint effort

erm im sure there are loads of others.