What exercises you most about other people's parenting? Fess up.

[zizou]

I am secretly very unreasonable about people who live in cities who do not vaccinate their children.

Young girls in heels and babies in bikinis. I'm convinced the heels will mess up thier feet for life.

People who can't be arsed to say 'no' to their children. Or even worse people who start to say no and then, when child protests/threatens to kick off/does same thing again, cave in. Saying, 'Oh, whatever.'

Agree Jacanne
My daughter loves her pink, but played football for the cubs today. She is the only girl in the group and there was only one other girl playing in the district football competition today. She has never played football before so really wasn't very good, but liking girly pink certainly hasn't stopped her joining in with all the boys.

people who don't like children and pretend they do

I hate it when some parents ALWAYS give in to their children when they nag i.e.

Child; Mum can I have a biscuit?
Mum: No, you are about to have dinner.
Child: Please
Mum: No
Child: Please
Mum: No
Child: Please mum
Mum: No
Child: But I want one
Mum: I said No!
Child: But I want one
Mum: No! I said No!
Child: Please. I really want one.
Mum: Didn't you hear me? I said NO!!
Child: But I want one!
Mum: OH ALRIGHT THEN!!

Child walks off with biscuit and smug look on face having proved yet again who rules the roost.

"I hate people who lay bottles of milk/juice in their newborn babies prams for their babies to drink unaided whilst walking down the road.

I hate people who dont use lids on thieir babies bottles and just leave them open to the elements whilse wandering down the road."

do both of these. well not when ds was in his carry cot cos then i think he would have choked but now he is in the pushchair bit i prop his bottle up with a blanket.

i have lost loads of the lids to ds bottles and i don't really want to buy anymore so more often than not - no lids.

don't really mind slogan or character tshirts to be honest.

also take ds up the escalator cos there is a lack of lifts in our shopping centre. once i forgot i hadn't strapped him in and he almost fell out... whoops. luckily i had it in rear facing so grabbed him in time.

i always wipe a runny nose but not always when they have a bit stuck in the hole iyswim.

i sometimes sit in the back wit ds, if i know he will want a bottle.

i take my ds shopping, but not clothes shopping cos its a nightmare trying to try on clothes when i do.

i dont like:

heels on 16 month olds.

calling babies sexy

people who just have pink/blue toys. what about if you have a boy and a girl, do they have 2 of everything?

loads of my friends don't like seeing bibs on babies if they aren't eating or having a bottle. i say either that or gets a soaking wet dribbled on tshirt. so he has a bib.

oh and people who have monitors when they can clearly hear a baby crying in the living room that is directly underneath the babys room. or even worse, live in a flat!

People who push babies in buggies with the sun streaming into their faces so they can't open their eyes, and don't seem to notice (or care, maybe

nappyaddict you sound like my double

I threaten to ds1 all the time, often with sticks, and tell him I'm going to pull body parts off and put them in a pie. Cue him rolling around on the floor shrieking with hysteria and saying "no you won't, you silly mummy!"

people who use those parasols on normal pushchairs when they don't do anything but block out sunlights. on proper prams i can understand cos the uv nets don't fit those and a parasol is better than nothing, but otherwise just get a uv net thing.

i meant but knock people out!

i think i sound like your mirror image twin

we even both do coach prams!!!

Says it all really doesnt it

yep!

Ditto Zizou
Also, parents who have the tv on all day
Parents who keep their toddlers up really late
Sexy clothes on little girls
Mothers who go round the shops saying things like'For fs sake Britney can't you f*g shut the f up, if you don't fg shut up I'll f*g slap you'
Really fat people sitting with their now thin but won't be in the future children all eating burgers and chips

Pram snobs.
Baby-on-board signs - (all ridiculous varieties) And what about the people with these signs that drive like total arseholes?
Mothers who just ignore crying babies. Totally ignore them... (er, do you mind if I just pick up your poor screaming baby and give it a cuddle?)
Earrings on babies. Actually, all jewellery on babies.
Smoking around kids - and babies in pubs, WTF?
People that take their nanny on holiday. Seriously.
So much more...

"I'm with zizou too re vaccinations and think it is very selfish of parents not to get their kids vaccinated when they live in highly populated areas."

That would be me then. I'm not selfish though, but have a good reason not to vaccinate - I guess you never considered that people who don't vaccinate could be anything other than selfish

I havn't vaccinated my children, I think that is a personal choice.

my mil didn't vaccinate dh because it was going to hurt him

FFS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The conversation of vaccination will turn this thread into something nasty, I'd suggest starting a new thread if you want to discuss it.

My aunt didn't have any of her children vaccinated. She believed it was against their rights. I admire her courage, as well as Hills and those of you who didn't vaccinate their children!

Here's a few other disgusting things my aunt used to do that really annoyed my mother (her sister):

She's use the same cloth to wipe their bums, their faces, and to wash the dishes.
She'd roast a chicken on Sundays, place it in the middle of the table and let all her children (she had 8 of them in 10 years!) pick at it with their fingers. Sometimes she'd take food out of the oven before it was fully cooked if they were complaining of being hungry! Not surprisingly, there was lots of tummy upsets.
She never had food in the house, just bundle the kids in the car (no car seats) and drive to the shops to buy breakfast, repeat the process for lunch and dinner.
She never folded or put away clothes, just threw them all into a walk-in wardrobe. I found it interesting to measure how much taller them me the pile of clothes became!And you couldn't "walk in"to the wardrobe!!
There were no baths, but there was a water tank outside her house where their cattle drank from and that's where the kids used to bathe.
There was always broken toys, cups and electrical items as she never disciplined them and just let them play with anything they wished.
Once, my mother lent her an expensive dress for a function my aunt was going to - next day, my mother had to rescue it from the sandpit where her kids had brought it.

What became of the kids, you may ask. Well, they're in their 20s and 30s, all live in immaculate houses, and are degree educated with good jobs. 3 of them have children, and I'm glad to say they have excellent parenting skills.
In fairness to my aunt, she did alright considering she had no support from her husband who always went to work followed by the pub never coming home till 2 in the morning. Someone asked him once which school his kids went to, and he didn't know!

Sorry it's long!!!