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nappyaddict · 13/04/2008 01:09

fantastic website here to give you tips

come on own up! what things do you do that make people gasp in horror? are you the sort of mum who wipes dummies and bottle tears on your tshirt and gives straight back if they get dropped? i have done it with biscuits too stuff the 3 second rule - it's 10 seconds here!! i always forget to wash my hands after nappy changes too and tbh i only use wipes and water for poohey nappies. with wet ones i just take it off and put the new one on straight away

i am often forgetting to brush ds' teeth. we never brush them at nighttime and he will sometimes go 2 days without having them brushed. must remember to step this up a bit when he gets his adult teeth.

i don't change ds' nappy as often as i should. i did have to dry ds trousers under the handdryer in the toilets though cos i had left one on too long. usually try and change him about every 4 hours but sometimes i just ... forget. he normally only has a bath and hairwash once a week but episodes like this mean he sometimes has an extra one midweek.

also once when we weren't travelling far and it was pitch black i didn't strap the car seat in properly, just put it on the back seat. we had a very awkward car seat that in 2 peoples cars does not strap in properly. i just made sure the front seat is right against it so it can't go anywhere. our car seat was one of those that lies flat when on the pushchair, so in the car is meant to be in the most upright position. at 3 months old this didn't look very comfortable but did it anyway as i couldnt get the car seat in my friends car if i didn't. cue gasps from this woman saying oooh he shouldn't be upright like that. cue her saying oh my dd got her ds one of those door bouncers - you should get him one. now to me they look dangerous!

oh and not really child related but i rarely wear a seatbelt myself. i do in other people's cars though ...

oh and weight limits and warnings on baby products. ds sat in his baby seat for months after he could sit up and was over the weight limit.

the only thing i would be anal about really is drawing on walls and ripping wallpaper which luckily ds hasn't done yet. he is allowed to play with balls in the house, and ride his trike and ride ons in the house too. i also let him push his cars along the wall. have to watch him at other people's houses cos they usually tell their kids off for that. will let him skate in the house too when he's old enough.

not at this stage yet, but my mum used to sometimes let me have the day off school just because and i will probably let ds occasionally have a day off. for me it was usually because i hadn't done some homework that was due in.

when i go out for the day and take milk i just shove it in my handbag - no chilled cool bags for ds! oh and i feed him cold milk and have fed him cold baby food before. i often don't plan meals then he is screaming for dinner so in a mad panic i will open the fridge i give him whatever is edible uncooked. yesterday he had ham, malt loaf with butter and a cherry yohghurt altogether on his highchair. he ate the yoghurt first. today he had banana, meatballs, yoghurt and chocolate brioche.

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nappyaddict · 13/04/2008 02:42

oh and slur we use reusables but they still last that long. never longer than that though usually. i think it's because ds will still have a dry nappy after say 3 hours and then within half an hour he'll do one massive wee and then it will be soaking and need changing.

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fairyfly · 13/04/2008 02:43

only read the first bit of the thread and i am weird about second hand shoes as they don't feel right, they look like they belong to someone else. someone else i dont want to be,

I imagine there is a theory about this, but nope, second hand childrens shoes, yuck

High heels yes, little boys shoes, nope

Mhamai · 13/04/2008 02:45

Bows head in shame now having read ff's posts I am a mother, not your mother, not his mother, not her mother, not a lentil weaving mother, not a fruit shoot mother, not a mooncup, boden, 4x4, hummus, 2. 4 children, mac wearing, breast, non breastfeeding, stay at home, wohm, guradian, daily mail, liberal, letf, right wing, liberal, middle claass, workin, upper, lower, upper middle lower, I'ma fuckin woman! end of, oh and I'm a mother.

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Mhamai · 13/04/2008 02:48

Fuck that nappy, I'm not going to slate you for sloppiness, I'm going to applaud you for the lenght and the strenght it must have taken to write that at this hour of the am.

UnderRated · 13/04/2008 03:07

I have a thing about second hand shoes too. No idea why.

But no shoes in the garden is fine. Pick your battles and all that.

Nappy, you know you are going to get roasted for this, don't you?

Mhamai · 13/04/2008 03:20

I grew up with a among other things compulsive addicted gambling df. He most of the time squandered every last penny he and my mother had but for some reason had a hang up about me having fitted clarkes shoes. Well until I was 6.

Anywho, I havent a clue what point I'm trying to make because it's getting late but I'm sure it was poignant and worthwhile.

Oscar Wilde is spinnig in his grave.

Oh yes, second hand shoes. Hmmmmmmmm oddly enough, I have inherited my df's obsesssion for fitted shoes and thankfully not his gambling problem.

One of the clerks in Clarks tols me once that it was quite sad that, especially younger mother's who were more inclined to be infuenced by peer pressure would gladly fork out twice the amount for ill fitting brand name sport shoes produced in Turkey or China in sweat shops.

What is first hand? What is second hand?

If I come back in another life I don't wqant to need shoes but that's a whole dofferent thread.

fairyfly · 13/04/2008 03:25

Mhamai you have just made me pmsl, i had clarkes shoes, v middle class

Mhamai · 13/04/2008 03:35

The more I walk (don't mention fuckin shoes!) and talk with you ff, I'm more and more feelin a sisterhood thing. Soulsister?

Fuck, that probab ly soujnds a bit twee.
In my defence I'm 40 and I'll say what the fuck I like!

fairyfly · 13/04/2008 03:39

And i am 33 and.......... fuck me, have a 9 year old and a 7 year old an still a single mum!

Yes, a sisterhood thing, coz they are the only ones that are loyal and love you, yes ? x

Sibble · 13/04/2008 03:47

ds's rarely wear shoes but when they do they are usually hand me downs from a friend, never brush their hair and some of the other things mentioned but I am anal about matching socks. Oh yes, couldn't let either out of the house with unmatching socks and pj tops and bottoms have to match too much to dh's exhasperation. I will change them at bedtime if put in un matching pj's.

UnderRated · 13/04/2008 03:51

mhamai - you made me lol

Haven;t seen you in ages. Hope you're ok. Hi FF.

Sorry for ignoring topic of thread and having private comversation.

Mhamai · 13/04/2008 03:53

I would love to sit and read drom parts of a cook, I mean book, fuck I am a bit swished now. I don't care how or when but I must meet you before I die............yes a tad dramatico but I'm an artiste ffs! [groin]

ff
I wish I could finish my degee tomorrow and get on with the job of spreading the words of a female author I have just finished reading. Us women need women. We are dying, literally dying under the fallicy and illusion of "being the perffect, mother, whore, love, fritshoot lovin, I'm not worthy, I'm better than, bullshit.

I alternate between being supremely confident to feeling like a shitfreak that just wants to hide away,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, but we every last sinle woman on MN needs to br heard, yes maybe I'm a fookin hopeless eternal optimast but............ fuck I wish you were here swiggin an talkin bolleaux with me and cheesy dancing and singing to musiccccccccccccc.

Mhamai · 13/04/2008 03:58

Hi Underrated, ah me auld flower, glad more than just a handful have aknowleged me since my return.......... jeeeeeeez I sound so feckin pretentious now!

Sibble I do the sock thing too!!!!!!!!!!!
My life is falling apart, I can hardly put one foot in front of the other sometimes but feck that the socks have to match..................will tell you this one without a fee.......... it's called trying to hold the fuck on and have some sort or assemblence of controle.......well it is for me.

fairyfly · 13/04/2008 04:03

Mhamai,if you ARE on msn, bhuna at is mine

UnderRated · 13/04/2008 04:27

I WAS wondering about you the other day then saw you on here somewhere. I meant to email. But didn't. Not sure if I have bnamechanged since we last spoke. Glad you seem to know who I am

Mhamai · 13/04/2008 04:28

Ah feck I ballsed up my Msn. I'm very untech even though
i've just completed an It degree standard module. I give you a solemn promise,I will get someone to sort out Msn for me. I will msn and mail you. In the meantime, I will dance in my living room and pretend your dancing alongside me, like you don't give a flying fook who is watching!

Ps
Sorry my net crashed! Story of my fuckin life! ff I'll mail you later today. hang in there kiddo, your far to feckin precious to be going anywhere except into your inner beauty and truth.

Fuck, but your one mighty warrior! x

fairyfly · 13/04/2008 04:30

I agree totally Mhamai, i don't know what else to say,

Mhamai · 13/04/2008 04:31

Under I'm not good with names but I'm shit hot with tones iykwim. Search me out, I'll look out for you and straggle forth in the religion of MN!

It's not a c;it
It's not a c;lt
It's not a c;ven

but hell, whatever it is, it's good. x

fairyfly · 13/04/2008 04:33

I've not been able to leave the house for a month now, in a night time way, yes, but something is going wrong in my head.....but i know it, so its all good.

I have hit a wall.

Mhamai · 13/04/2008 04:34

You don't have to ff. But as God as my fuckin witness or buddah or whofucking ever, You will dance in my living room and not give a fuck who is watching. I know it will happen some day, fuck 20 yeqars even but it will happen. Night night lovely. x

UnderRated · 13/04/2008 04:34

Even in your inebriated state you sound wise, mhamai

fairyfly · 13/04/2008 04:35

Well............. it will x

Mhamai · 13/04/2008 04:38

Ah pet, yeah thew wall. poxy feckin wall. I'll lend you my sledgehammer if you lend me yours but sometimes I declare the bloody hard earned right to stay behind the barricades before I'm strong enough to come back out into a majorily fooked up world. Whatever works baby. Fook the begrudgers. Keep the dance in your heart, don't let the light go out completely. Men come and go but you are warrior, you are woman. x

fairyfly · 13/04/2008 04:38

Dancing in someones living room with not a thought to Budha sounds fab xxxx

Mhamai · 13/04/2008 04:40

It comes with practice and cold no frills rl experience.............yay I'm starting to grow up!!!!!!!!! I still hold the right to have the heart of an eighteen yr old coupled with the wisdom of a ninety yr old coupled with the horniness of a 40 yr old. Go women!

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