What were the things you said you'd never allow your dc to do?

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Pre ds, one of my pet hates was seeing kids in the supermarket, grazing away on something they'd fished out of the trolley. There I was on Saturday, in tesco, ds (18mnths) reached round and picked out a punnet of strawberries, took the lid off and started munching. I thought 'at least they're healthy' and left him to it.

watch telly. At all.

Ha ha [hollow laugh]

Have sweets ever ever ever
TV before they were 5
Have formula milk

Aah the blissful naivete of childlessness

Sleep in our bed.

I had grand plans of sustaining our pre children sex life but they were quickly snipped in the bud.

Everything already mentioned. Esp the TV and the trolley eating.

I used to look at my SIL's chaotic, filthy house and smugly think "I'd never let my children make that kind of mess". Hah. Joke's on me.

1.Have Barbie

2.Go to Disneyland

On her 4th Birthday she acquired several Barbies and Barbie-related stuff as b/day presents at her party (so we had to buy her various pink plastic castles, horses, carriages for Christmas/b'days after that)

Disneyland - well we've been to Disneyland Paris twice and stayed in the Pink Castle Disneyland Hotel

Go to mcdonalds before they were school age

Watch too much TV

Have a dummy (pesky in laws grr)

Wear disposable nappies

Buy them shoes that aren't Start-rite or Clarks. Bought DS(1) age 8 a pair of Sketchers trainers on saturday.

God I let my dd do that with the strawberries all the time at Tescos, we get round all smiles that way. is it really wrong? I feel like a rubbish mum now!

mummynumnum - but those smiles really mean 'If I ever had children, I'd never let them do that'

letting him go nappy free, and then he wees on the floor (obv, I don't let him wee on the floor, but it invariably happens). I just sigh and mop it up...

Thank goodness. I was very proud of my little dd munching strawberries and not sweets

So far have stuck to the no sweets guns (DS 16 months) but laugh in the face of the idea of no TV. It's the only time he stays in one place for more than 5 mins and stops trying to climb up the bookcase.

wrap me round his little fat podgy fingers

i always said no to a dummy,until ds1 was born and used my boob as a dummy regular

I vowed my children would never get away with calling each other "Stupid" and telling each other to shut up .