Things that dh still doesn't get after nearly six years of parenting

[emkana]

... that our dd's always ALWAYS need a five minute warning before finishing an activity they enjoy...

today dh was fed up and wanted bath time over with quickly, so he just pulled the plug out and said "right come out now"

cue mega tears...

it was so bad (and he felt so bad when he realized his mistake of not warning them) that he actually ran them a second bath

[morningpaper]

How to adjust the car seat

How to collapse the buggy

Pink trousers and red spotty top doesn't look very good

[Skribble]

You can't say to the kids right time to go to school at 8:45 and expect them to be ready at 8:46.

They need at least 15mins to brush teeth and hair, put shoes on, get bags, get lunch money and get out the door.

[her]

that hot cross buns half an hour before dinner time are not such a good idea

[throckenholt]

the importance od a matching pair of socks .....

[throckenholt]

of not od.

[LadyOfTheFlowers]

that toddlers dont care if he is trying to listen to the news/play xbox etc.

[BandofMothers]

That he can't expect to actually WATCH something on the telly without interuptions while dd's are still up. Esp when he gets home 1 hr before bedtime and dd1,3, has been dying to see him all day.

That if we've had a fight that day and it's unresolved when we go to bed, I won't want sex. He seems genuinely unable to grasp this one!!!!!!!!!!!!

He has however seemed to realise that a 5 min warning is so much easier. And that setting the timer for her 1/2 hour on the computer means she will get off with no fuss at all.

[her]

my MIL doesn't get the five minute wanring thing either.
when she is ready to go home, she just ups and leaves, leaving dd1 in floods of tears

[Bozza]

DH cannot do a thing with DD's hair. He can't even manage to put a clip in so that it is not in her eyes.

[slowreader]

My father (after 4 children and 3 grandchildren) said to my 3 year old son, on being asked politely for a drink, 'but I don't know what you drink darling.'

AND THEN

They agreed

on

GUINNESS!

[BandofMothers]

[Flower3554]

Priceless slowreader. I've just woken Lo laughing out loud

[slowreader]

He also dealt with the problem of howling-grandaughter-in-pram ( I foolishly left him in charge for half an hour) by stuffing cotton wool in his ears.

[BibiThree]

DH still doesn't get it that:

just becuause DDs top and trousers are both pink, it doesn't mean they "go together" well

DD's hair needs more than a tentative stroking over the top with a hairbrush in the mornings

big man fingers and bobbles/bunches do not work well together and to just put a slide in

if you teach her the word boobies/goolies/bumhols, she WILL use them, probably in public

[MiaWallace]

When dressing dd, dp thinks a vest and socks is optional

[MiaWallace]

Just to clarify - The option is not what ones she should wear, but whether she needs to wear them at all.

[franke]

That the kids need breakfast in the morning...

sigh.....see you later

[bloss]

Message withdrawn

[Bozza]

My two hardly ever wear vests.

[pishwasher]

pretty much anything to do with getting DS ready is too much for my DH. Seriously. he'll get his jacket and shoes on and stand there waiting by the door while I simultaneously get my jacket and shoes on, DS's jacket and shoes on AND pack a back with nappies food drinks etc!!!!!!!!!

arrrgggggg

[pishwasher]

or he'll get himself (and sometimes me) breakfast/lunch/dinner and go sit down to eat. Ummm, honeypie? DS needs to eat too.

[MiaWallace]

Well there's me told

[ellieandhattie]

i always put vests on my 2 dd's mia

[adath]

pretty much anything to do with getting DS ready is too much for my DH. Seriously. he'll get his jacket and shoes on and stand there waiting by the door while I simultaneously get my jacket and shoes on, DS's jacket and shoes on AND pack a back with nappies food drinks etc

Oooh another one dp does, gosh this thread is making me wonder whether my dp has many brains at all actually.

[trice]

that if you give in to the begging and let impressionable 5 year old ds watch dr who just before bed then he will get screaming night terrors.