The dullest part of being a parent is

[robinpud]

Today mine are
packing up lunches
emptying out lunchboxes
washing water bottles
reading letters from school
pegging out washing
wet swimsuits- I pretend to wash them
reasoning with stroppy kids

Yours are...

[FuzzyFeeling]

Going to the park. Gawd how utterly boring.

And the repetition every day of cleaning and tidying up, knowing it will be trashed again anyway...

[FuzzyFeeling]

oh and snotty noses.......

[CristinaTheAstonishing]

Getting them dressed and out of the house.

[ArmadilloDaMan]

the endless repetition.
The cooking, cleaning, tidying, organising, having the same conversation endless times, listening to the same song again adn again, and watching the same DVDs over and over, reading the same books, visiting the same places.

WOuldn't swap him though

[Boogalooblue]

Listening to parents of only ones moan about what hard work it is whilst I just about manage with 4 of them .

And the monotony of it all - don't forget that one (as if I could)

[Summerfruitfullofscaryworms]

For myself it will be (and I had a really shit day

• The cleaning (and I insist of doing it a lot because otherwise I hear from DH that I clean at weekend as a way of escaping the children, poor him, he has to entertain while I'm mopping the floor, do the dishes, clean the bathroom, do the laundry...)
  
  
• Trying to make as much as I can lovely food for them just for me to hear : it's yuuuuuuuuk
  
  
• Satisfying 100 demands per day : I want a drink, I want a snack, I want to watch a dvd, I want to watch a dvd,I want...I want...
  
  I love them, it's just phase...[praying for this phase to go quickly]

[TheGoddessBlossom]

I find tea time particularly dull. Everyone's tired, they have snacked so aren't ravenous (my fault I know) they don't really want veg and healthy stuff, they take aaaaaaaaaaaages to eat it and fark about with their drinks, when all I want to do is clean it up and start bath time.

These days I just put it in front of them, potter in the kitchen for 15/20 minutes, checking on them every so often, and then clear away whatever is left and that's it, tea time done, no mucking about, or hovering over every mouthful, saying "Come on Harry, chew and swallow, 3 more please, come on, chew and swallow again, PUT THE DRINK DOWN AND EAT!!!"

and relaaaaaxxx......

[crazyjane]

birthday parties, 2 hour long ones in soft play centres..especially if there is no other parents there that you kn ow to talk to....sooo monotonous..
days out with two toddlers....why did i even bother going...should have stayed at home! there.s always one paddying or playing up

[FluffyMummy123]

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[Bluestocking]

Waiting for DS to finish his dinner - that's the bit I find most tiresome - and having to say "that's a funny joke" every time he says "Mummy, I'm only joking" which is this week's hilarious catchphrase.

[Bluestocking]

Oh, and the bit where you walk round the house after they've gone to bed putting everything back approximately where it ought to be, so they can wreak havoc again the following day.

[hana]

changing a bum x 2
brushing teeth x 2
making packed lunches x 3
and everything else on this thread

[FrannyandGreenychordCarrier]

doing up shoelaces
undoing shoelaces
doing up shoelaces
doing up shoelace that has come undone
undoing shoelace to see what the 'funny stone' that he can feel is
doing up shoelace
undoing shoelaces
hanging self with shoelaces

[Bluestocking]

Aww, Franny, don't they have velcro in Frannyland?

[FrannyandGreenychordCarrier]

his little suede boots are so damn cute

[RoyKinnear]

cooking
blardy cooking
blardy food
why cant they starve?

[notnowbernard]

Yes, the whole 'shoes and coats' thing...

Get a pair on one, turn around to put a pair on the other, put on their coat as well...

Turn around to put coat on the othr, they've taken their shoes off...

Start again... finish... someone needs the loo or does a poo... aaagh!

And singing 'Wheels on the Bus' [depressed emoticon]

[kittywitch]

brushing their teeth I bloody hate doing that

[Slubberdegullion]

ditto bernard. completely and whole heartedly with you on the 20 min saga to get blessed children appropriately dressed and shod before leaving the house.

2 coats, 4 shoes, 2 bladders. 20 mins why why why?

[Bluestocking]

I hear you, Roy. The first time my DSS came to stay for the weekend (he was 7) I rang my mum on Sunday night and said in amazed tones "all I've done all weekend is make food, put food in front of him and clear up" and she said "that is how it is with children". How right she was. At least I got some practice in before I had my own LO.

[IndulgeMePlease]

Cleaning under the flap of the PolarGear insulated food bag that I send lunches to childminder in. Everything vaguely liquidy leaks and pools under there, and crumbs get stuck in the creases...why have they put a flap in there in the first place, don't they think parenting is hard e-bloody-nuff?!?!

[ChubbyScotsBurd]

Mine's only 3 months old and I find a lot of it quite tedious. The whingeing in particular - the all-out crying makes me want to stab myself in the eye it's so hard to bear but the whingeing's a more subtle form of torture .... it can go on seemingly endlessly, he can whinge with a boob in his mouth, while being walked, bounced, swung, carried, whingey whingey whingey ... please god let him not be this whingey as a toddler.

I admit, I am most fearful for my sanity once he's older, having read this thread. Hence going back to work in a few months. My DP will be on here moaning about me swanning in from work and complaining about the state of the house, doubtless. :sigh:

[janeiteofthelivingdead]

The single most tedious job of a parent (imho) is sitting on a cold park bench whilst they play on the adventure playground. God I hate it - it's one of the few things that makes me want to turn to drink. In fact, maybe a hipflask is the way to get through the ordeal?

[boo64]

Definitely working out what to cook for dinner every night.

And discussing bins and skips constantly whenever we go out cos ds likes them so much