Remember tut-tutting over parents when you were childless ...'Look at them -when I have children I will NEVER......'

[RiaParkinson]

.....and yet you DO !!!!!!

let them leave the house with huge fuzzing bedhead three days in a row!

(guess what my two year old has today)

Take child to aga showroom in slippers...

That bedhead thing still really shocks me! Sorry, Ria, I'm sure I do lots of things that would horrify you ...

Allow child to open and close all aga doors ...repeatedly....whilst trying to hold conversation with owner...

allow child to dismantle stove handle.....

Open packets of food in the supermarket before I've paid for them.

I remember being a bit sneery about parents who dressed their daughters in lots of pink.

I have also occasionally admitted defeat when it comes to snot-wiping.

I hated seeing small children eat. Used to horrify me that 2yr olds couldn't use a knife and fork properly or sit still. And used to get mightily p*d off if children came downstairs after they'd be put to bed. Ha ha ha

bluestocking would you never allow bedhead beyond the foour walls?

Smell their nappy in public to see if theyve done a poo - and I do!

Wear clothes that don't match that they clearly picked themselves.

Giving them a dummy.

ByTheSea, ds3 oftengoes out in his wellies because I have lost the will to argue. In the Summer.

Madam Ant

the snot can go un wiped after the zillionth wipe!

Ride in a pram after 10 moths old - they would be jogging everywhere joyously by a year!

Sitting down in a cafe for a whole meal

Keep saying "Good boy, good boy!" when the child was most certainly not being good. I had failed to realise it was a plea rather than a statement!

oh and giving them food to keep them quiet.

bribery.

putting on the telly in order 0to have a phone conversation.

chipmonkey - that is so true or perhaps it's sympathetic magic, like sprinkling water to make it rain.

Buying a Barney video
Buying horrible plastic toys instead of nice wooden ones.

Same here with the dummy situation - I lasted 2 weeks - DS had colic, it was a life saver!

I am pleased to say that I managed to take it off him a couple of months back though when he was only 4 months, I still hate dummies now, especially huge ones on beautiful newborn babies.

Ria, my DS has that sort of thick straight hair that doesn't really tangle (and I keep it quite short) so I've never had to deal with bedhead. But I do let him pick his own outfits (with predictably hilarious consequences) and I often hear myself saying, in anxious middle-class tones, things like "I don't think that's a terribly good idea, darling" which would have made me cringe in the good old pre-child days.

lol Bluestocking the loud 'middle class' ramblings !!

.. and there's a special facial expression that goes with the loud middle-class ramblings, I can feel my face falling into it just thinking about it, it's a bit like this

i think mine has fixated on it...

maybe the wind changed whilst I was explaining to my four year old about Pomegranates!

Take them out in their jim-jams. It's amazing what a jacket and cozy toes will cover up

Ah yes, the Pomegranate Conversation. That would tend to result in a bit of a .

bed head hair

Guilty guilty

The only day it was done properly with DDs hair was when I braided it for school the day of the school photos

Never before never again (smile]