Whatt have you done since becoming a parent that you swore blind you would never do?

[CranberryMartini]

1. Given ds a toy in the supermarket to keep him quiet (and put back on shelf before check-out!).

1. Stopped tantrums with promises of 'bisbies' (Organix).

1. Used disposable nappies (gave up on reusables at 6 weeks).

1. Allowed ds to become addicted to something which I know I will have problems with later (bottle).

1. Spent far too much money on toys.

1. Driven round in car just to get ds to sleep.

1. Given ds fishfingers, chips, chicken nuggets on a regular basis (but the fishfingers are M & S so hopefully that cancels out the others).

1. Picked off cradle cap with my nails.

1. Eaten regurgitated raisins.

10. Said "Oh just give him anything he wants as long as it keeps him quiet!"

Please tell me I'm not the only one!

all of the above (except perhaps the raisins)

and licked my finger/hankie and wiped DCs face.

I HATED that as a child, and now I do it too

have done all of them too also i got him to follow me round the supermarket yesterday saying i would get him a pack of mints at the checkout

also guilty of the licking of tissues and wiping the face

I swore I would never do that - I used to hate it as well

I swore no child of mine would run around with a snotty nose or dirty clothes...

I also swore there would be no TV.

Given in to the requests for Barbies/games consoles/non-educational toys

Not spent our afternoons/evenings/weekends flying kites/making go-karts/baking chocolate cakes/doing science experiments

Nagged at them for having untidy rooms and not doing enough to help round the house - "this is not a hotel, you know"

The list is endless....

The other day I said to DD, "I don't have 2 pairs of hands, you know"

OMG, I am turning into my mother

Turned into a screaming fishwife Not every day but far more often than I should and I was never ever going to be like that.

'Because I said so'

I hated it when my parents said that to me and now I find myself saying it rather too often

I haven't said it yet, but I can feel the urge begining to bubble up and shout, 'This isn't a bloody hotel you know!', at my 12 yr old dd.

Oh, and I say things like "well, lifes not fair" and "well, if you had done what I'd asked you to do none of this would have happened" at alarmingly regular intervals. I am becoming my mother.

bribery,

um buy too many biscuits.

bribery mainly

Another licking face wiper (not as bad as my step sister though who I have seen lick her child's face!!)

Screaming fishwife

Because I said so

and my personal favourite "Stop crying or I'll give you something to cry about!"

Flame,
My DH does that sometimes, the face licking. Yuk. And today I caught my DS (3yo) licking his sisters arm because she had yogurt on it.

pmsl - DD holds out her arm to DS to lick clean for her!

just gave DS2 a dummy

but he is quiet now

moved to the suburbs

Shout - regularly.
Smack - very very rarely
Allow chocolate, coke, MacDonalds, crisps, sweets etc ...the list is endless
DVDs, computer games, TV.
Let them play outside unsupervised (actually I didn't even consider doing that pre-kids)
Be inconsistent.
Do things myself I've told the DCs not to.
Let them stay up too late sometimes.

But I was intending to be Perfect-Mummy - she was a hard act to follow.

Nutella, Smarties, Chupa Chups

Phew thanks ladies. Just gave ds a chocolate pudding as he'd refused his lunch.

bribery with sweets
because i said so-but ds1 has started saying it back to me
and everything else on here

Formula-fed
Used diposable nappies
Given ds a dummy

[sigh]

Bumping for evening crowd .

Everything that OrmIrian has said

I swore my children would never:

wear 2nd-hand clothes
have a dummy
say "It'll be fine" when you are fobbing them off with something totally sub-standard ;)
getting snot out of their noses with your pinky
say in answer to "that's not fair" well "neither is my hair"

Lol at "neither is my hair" webchick