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Post by sbcalimom on Jan 31, 2014 1:44:13 GMT -5
There are so many I'm not sure I could list them all if I tried. However, one of my favorites was actually DH's with DD1. The first time I left him alone with her for an extended period of time. I had to go to SF for work and I was gone for maybe 10 hours. The sitter watched her in the morning while he had class and then he took over while she was taking her mid-day nap. I got home late and she was really, really fussy. He said she'd been fussing for hours and he just couldn't figure out why. So I run down the list, is she wet, is she tired, is she hungry? Before I can finish hungry, he immediately pales and looks horrified. He forgot to feed her for like 6 hours . Now granted, this was before she could talk and he usually didn't watch her on his own for more than 2-3 hours up until that point, but you'd think food would be on the list if you're dealing with a fussy baby. He has never lived that one down.
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Post by Formerly SK on Jan 31, 2014 9:32:03 GMT -5
I have a ton of injury stories, but for reason what happened a couple days ago seems far worse. DD (7.5yo) and I were at a dr's office and the dr gave DD a large metal washer and a bunch of bottles of nail polish and told her she could paint/decorate the washer while the adults talked. DD neatly set up all the bottles of nail polish in a row and placed the washer on the paper towel to prep it for painting and then turned to the dr to ask where the brushes were. DD DID NOT KNOW NAIL POLISH BOTTLES HAD BRUSHES ATTACHED TO THE LIDS. I about fainted. How does a girl live for 7.5 years and not ever see a nail polish bottle in action? Obviously her mother is a complete nerd (and not in the cool/trendy sense of the word).
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Post by NoNamePerson on Jan 31, 2014 9:35:23 GMT -5
She will be on here one day asking if she should get a manicure or do her nails herself.
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Post by thyme4change on Jan 31, 2014 9:37:23 GMT -5
My husband hit our then infant-daughter's head on a concrete table in a coffee shop.
Now that my kids are older, I don't have to take responsibility for all their cuts and bruises - but I did a total parenting fail this year. I have my flu shot - but haven't taken my kids. If they want a flu shot so bad - they should ask. Maybe they could pay for it from their allowance or something.
Two lawyers in town died from the flu already this year - so I probably should do something to protect those kids.
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Post by Wisconsin Beth on Jan 31, 2014 9:51:02 GMT -5
When dd#2 was about 15 months old, I had her in a camping trailer. The door was open and the screen was closed. I knew she was toddling around, and I knew she had walked towards the screen door. I started walking toward her, so I saw the whole thing: she pressed her little face up against the screen, trying to see the people outside. The screen door opened, and she tumbled down the steps to the blacktop below, landing on her forehead. We were at a national BMX race, and there are always paramedics on site. I had her checked, and they thought it was just a bruise and not a concussion. You triggered a memory. We have 1.6 acres of land up North. No buildings, no power and a chemical toilet. We're there with my MIL and FIL too, sharing a camper. DD was a bit over 2 and DS was about 9 months. I put DD in camper for nap. She doesn't nap. But she's quiet and I'm nursing the baby and DH is with his parents at the river or something. I stay out of the camper. After I give up on naptime for DD, we open the door to the camper and discover she'd tried to eat the avocado left on the counter area by the door. There's teethmarks in the skin of it. She actually DID manage to bite though that touch skin but then gave up on it. I never did find all the skin so I think she did swallow some of the avocado skin.
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Post by alabamagal on Jan 31, 2014 9:51:46 GMT -5
Since I have 3 kids, there are so many......
Worst, my 2 year old ran down the street chasing me after i left for work, because "Mom forget to say Goodbye!" Dad was home supposed to be watching him but he snuck out. Neighbor returned him home (thankfully the police were not involved)
When DD was 3, I let her out of the bathtub to go to her room and put her PJs on while I finished up with her littlle brother. A few minutes later I caught her standing in her widowsill with her arms up leaning against the window totally NAKED. Our house is at the end of a street, so all the cars that were at the stop sign were looking straight at her in the window!
DD got a LiteBrite peg stuck up her nose. We were able to remove it with needlenose pliers!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 31, 2014 9:53:56 GMT -5
When DD was less than a year old she crawled into my parent's kitchen and we found her chewing on someone's flip flop. She ended up getting some nasty mouth disease and had to go through 2 courses of antibiotics to get rid of it.
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Post by sheilaincali on Jan 31, 2014 9:56:43 GMT -5
DS has fallen down the stairs on DH's watch. Ran full speed into the corner of a wall chasing after me when I went to leave the room. And probably a dozen other things in the past 15 3/4 years. So far he's turned out fine.
Although we haven't outgrown it entirely.
The other day DH came it and did one of those "thank god the day if finally over" actions and thought it would be funny to kick off his boots in a dramatic fashion. Right as DS was coming around the corner. So yup DH kicks off his big work boot (steel toed) and hits the Boy right in the nuts. Kid is on the floor curled up in the fetal position and DH is laughing so hard he has tears running down his face. DS stands up and yells "hope your happy because there went your chance to ever have grandchildren!" and "PS Mom is definitely getting the good nursing home now!".
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Post by Deleted on Jan 31, 2014 9:58:13 GMT -5
OMG! LOL sheila!!
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Post by milee on Jan 31, 2014 10:00:36 GMT -5
OK, I have too many parenting fails to list... but my latest one is that I don't think this:
"After I give up on naptime for DD, we open the door to the camper and discover she'd tried to eat the avocado left on the counter area by the door. There's teethmarks in the skin of it. She actually DID manage to bite though that touch skin but then gave up on it. I never did find all the skin so I think she did swallow some of the avocado skin. "
Is any big deal. Avocados aren't poisonous and nobody got hurt, so at our house, we'd consider this an adventure in getting some additional roughage and go about our day thinking we'd done just fine because nothing bad happened. I think we're just old and have given up on just about anything other than keeping the little boogers alive until they can move out of the house.
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Post by Pants on Jan 31, 2014 10:00:40 GMT -5
When DD was about 6 weeks old, I had her next to me on the couch. I shifted, and she rolled right off the couch and landed on her face on the hardwood.
Last week she fell down all 16 of our very steep stairs and landed on her face again.
So, we have effectively ruled out the Ivy Leagues and modeling.
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Post by Wisconsin Beth on Jan 31, 2014 10:02:54 GMT -5
OK, I have too many parenting fails to list... but my latest one is that I don't think this:
"After I give up on naptime for DD, we open the door to the camper and discover she'd tried to eat the avocado left on the counter area by the door. There's teethmarks in the skin of it. She actually DID manage to bite though that touch skin but then gave up on it. I never did find all the skin so I think she did swallow some of the avocado skin. "
Is any big deal. Avocados aren't poisonous and nobody got hurt, so at our house, we'd consider this an adventure in getting some additional roughage and go about our day thinking we'd done just fine because nothing bad happened. I think we're just old and have given up on just about anything other than keeping the little boogers alive until they can move out of the house. No, it wasn't a big deal. But now it's kind of funny.
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Post by Formerly SK on Jan 31, 2014 10:09:38 GMT -5
My very first Parenting Fail (other drinking alcohol before I knew I was pregnant): the first night in the hospital after have DS, I slept with him in my bed with him crooked between me and a pillow so he was safe and snug. The next morning, his head was a triangle - it had literally shaped itself to conform to the pillow fold. I thought for sure he'd have brain damage. When my kids were toddlers, I remember talking with a roofer outside in our front yard while the kids ran naked inside (they had just been bathed). We had these full length windows in the front room and at one point I looked over to find them standing on the window sill grinding their privates into the glass. Man, kids are so much fun!
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Post by CarolinaKat on Jan 31, 2014 10:26:20 GMT -5
Oh, my GOODNESS, have I been a parenting failure! Besides cutting skin instead of fingernails multiple times and tripping and falling whilst carrying the baby, let me tell you the worst....
So there I was, at my folks' house when Older Daughter was about 4 months old. (BS was overseas at the time). Mom had gone to work, taking the car seat with her. Dad says we need to load cows. What the hell, the pasture is only a few miles away. So I hold OD in my arms as we drive over there. Of course, when we get there, I am needed to herd the cows onto the trailer. What the hell, it should only take a minute or two. So I set OD on the seat of the pickup and herd the cows onto the trailer.
When I come back to the pickup, OD is on the FLOORBOARD of the pickup, surrounded by dried cowshit, wire, and God knows what else. (It is a farm truck, after all.)
My father's parents left me in the horse barn (split level) while he went out and fed the cows on that side of the property. I was about 2 or 3 maybe. I was basically locked in and could have A) climbed into the hay loft or B) climbed over the trough and fallen 6-ish feet into the dirt. Instead I was petting the horse that had come in for dinner, and she spooked and i face-planted into the edge of her trough and split my chin wide open, and then fel into the trough. I was still there when they came back to get me. They did NOT take me to a doctor. I still have a scar, but thankfully my lower lip covers 90% of it.
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Post by tloonya on Jan 31, 2014 10:42:42 GMT -5
Just make sure she isn't hiring cleaning lady when she is living in college house!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 31, 2014 10:43:48 GMT -5
Being a poor college student builds character!
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Post by Wisconsin Beth on Jan 31, 2014 10:51:53 GMT -5
Just make sure she isn't hiring cleaning lady when she is living in college house! Is your daughter doing this?
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Post by Formerly SK on Jan 31, 2014 10:59:08 GMT -5
This is my mom's parenting fail, and perfectly encapsulates her: We were living in Section 8 apartments and I was 2-3 years old. A teenager knocked on the door one day to tell my mom that I was ON THE ROOF of the apartment complex across the street. My mom had thought I was inside. Nope - I'd gone outside, crossed the street, found the maintenance ladder on the exterior of the building (they weren't barred off in those days) and climbed to the roof of the two-story complex. I was just walking about on the roof's edge, happy as a clam. My mom sent the teenager to fetch me. Yeah - she watched from the doorway. When she told me this story recently, it was to point out how adventurous and free-spirited I was. She had no concept of the larger theme of the story.
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Post by midjd on Jan 31, 2014 11:04:32 GMT -5
Another day, another blow to the head I was trying to sit down on the couch when DD reared her head back and nailed me in the chin with her forehead, hard enough to hurt my chin. Then not even two minutes later, the cat goes tearing up the back of the couch to try to get one of the clips holding the blinds up (these are his favorite toys). He knocks it off, right onto DD's head. The good news is she seems to be getting used to it, she cries less each time! LOL
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Post by Deleted on Jan 31, 2014 11:07:43 GMT -5
Just make sure she isn't hiring cleaning lady when she is living in college house! Is your daughter doing this? I'll be damned if my college aged DD gets a cleaning lady before I do!
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Post by CarolinaKat on Jan 31, 2014 11:12:31 GMT -5
Not so much a parenting fail but a sibling fail. My neighbors, when i was growing up, had a large age spread in their kids. At the time of the incident Oldest Brother was 17 and the baby was somewhere between 14 and 18 months.
I was in the front yard with almost everyone one else, Oldest brother just got the baby up from his nap and was standing on the front porch holding him. Then the baby squirmed and nailed oldest brother right in the nuts really really hard! So the older brother dropped baby down the stairs onto the walk below. None of us could get to him fast enough. The baby broke BOTH of his femurs. The poor thing was in a double cast that looked like an A-frame that seemed like forever.
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Post by Wisconsin Beth on Jan 31, 2014 11:20:14 GMT -5
Another day, another blow to the head I was trying to sit down on the couch when DD reared her head back and nailed me in the chin with her forehead, hard enough to hurt my chin. Get used to this. I get whacked in the chin alot by DS because when he's misbehaving I'll sit him down on my lap, his back on my tummy. He thrashes around and I end up getting hit, bit, hair pulled or whacked in the chin/face. He's getting better. But he won't stay in timeouts and I'm trying very hard not to spank and to reduce my yelling.
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Post by tloonya on Jan 31, 2014 11:22:13 GMT -5
Is your daughter doing this? I'll be damned if my college aged DD gets a cleaning lady before I do! I do have one so she follows momy's foodsteps!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 31, 2014 11:23:58 GMT -5
Then you are free to spend your hard-earned money however you wish!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 31, 2014 11:24:34 GMT -5
Another day, another blow to the head I was trying to sit down on the couch when DD reared her head back and nailed me in the chin with her forehead, hard enough to hurt my chin. Then not even two minutes later, the cat goes tearing up the back of the couch to try to get one of the clips holding the blinds up (these are his favorite toys). He knocks it off, right onto DD's head. The good news is she seems to be getting used to it, she cries less each time! LOL Yeah, eventually the brain damage sets in and they don't mind.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 31, 2014 11:25:30 GMT -5
I'll be damned if my college aged DD gets a cleaning lady before I do! I do have one so she follows momy's foodstamps!
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Post by 973beachbum on Jan 31, 2014 11:26:16 GMT -5
I'm pretty sure I would need carpal tunnel surgery if I listed every single thing so I will just do a couple DS was a holy terror when he was young. Thruthfully he still is but at least we aren't in terror every day that he will kill himeslf just maybe annoy one of us to kill him. When he was really young, preverbal so under 2 years but more than 1, he used to like to climb on everything and he didn't want to be stopped. So he couldn't be kept in a crib because he would just climb out. We would spend our days listening for the sound of furniture being pushed across the floor so he could use it to climb on something even higher like the baby gates or get at door locks that were 6 feet up. One time he pushed a lazy boy chair up to the one in front of the basement stairs. We were running as we had heard the sound so got there as he stood up and was getting ready to climb over. Since he saw us and knew we were going to stop him he jumped before we could grab him. He cartwheeled down the entire flight of stairs onto the concrete slab floor of the basement. Ironcially we had issues getting the chair out of the way and opening the baby gate to get to him. The whole time I was thinking he was dead or paralyzed. I get to the bottom and he is sitting up crying like mad. I swear I couldn't tell if he was actually dying or nothing was wrong so like a rocket scientists I asked him if he wanted a cookie. I have no idea what I was thinking but he immediately jumped up and stopped crying and got a big smile on his face. After that we put hook and eyes on all the doors at the top so he couldn't open the doors or at least it bought us an extra 90 seconds. So one day he is in his room playing, or at least that was where I thought he was until my neighbor knocks on the door with DS next to her holding his hand. It turns out he went into the bathroom and climbed on the toilet, opened the window above the toilet, climbed out onto the dog house outside and walked around the house to the driveway to get in his cozy coupe. He proceeded to drive his cozy couple down the half a mile long driveway and then was about 8 houses down the street when she saw him. When she knocked on the door I had to unlock it with a key for the dead bolt as well as the hook and eye. I had no idea how he got out let alone past me though a door locked on the inside until I went t the bathroom later. Did I mention it was February and all he was wearing was a diaper and a shirt?
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Post by tloonya on Jan 31, 2014 11:30:42 GMT -5
I do have one so she follows momy's foodstamps! It was corrected. Footsteps!
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Post by CarolinaKat on Jan 31, 2014 11:39:50 GMT -5
I'm pretty sure I would need carpal tunnel surgery if I listed every single thing so I will just do a couple DS was a holy terror when he was young. Thruthfully he still is but at least we aren't in terror every day that he will kill himeslf just maybe annoy one of us to kill him. When he was really young, preverbal so under 2 years but more than 1, he used to like to climb on everything and he didn't want to be stopped. So he couldn't be kept in a crib because he would just climb out. We would spend our days listening for the sound of furniture being pushed across the floor so he could use it to climb on something even higher like the baby gates or get at door locks that were 6 feet up. One time he pushed a lazy boy chair up to the one in front of the basement stairs. We were running as we had heard the sound so got there as he stood up and was getting ready to climb over. Since he saw us and knew we were going to stop him he jumped before we could grab him. He cartwheeled down the entire flight of stairs onto the concrete slab floor of the basement. Ironcially we had issues getting the chair out of the way and opening the baby gate to get to him. The whole time I was thinking he was dead or paralyzed. I get to the bottom and he is sitting up crying like mad. I swear I couldn't tell if he was actually dying or nothing was wrong so like a rocket scientists I asked him if he wanted a cookie. I have no idea what I was thinking but he immediately jumped up and stopped crying and got a big smile on his face. After that we put hook and eyes on all the doors at the top so he couldn't open the doors or at least it bought us an extra 90 seconds. So one day he is in his room playing, or at least that was where I thought he was until my neighbor knocks on the door with DS next to her holding his hand. It turns out he went into the bathroom and climbed on the toilet, opened the window above the toilet, climbed out onto the dog house outside and walked around the house to the driveway to get in his cozy coupe. He proceeded to drive his cozy couple down the half a mile long driveway and then was about 8 houses down the street when she saw him. When she knocked on the door I had to unlock it with a key for the dead bolt as well as the hook and eye. I had no idea how he got out let alone past me though a door locked on the inside until I went t the bathroom later. Did I mention it was February and all he was wearing was a diaper and a shirt? The same kid who kicked his brother in the nuts did crap like this. He stole the deadbolt key from it's hiding place on top of the door frame, drug a chair over to the front door and nlocked it, then proceeded to toddle down to the pond in only his diaper. There were 5 older siblings, his parents and a grandmother in the house when he did this usually. Everyone thought someone else had him. It took like 8-10 escapes before they realized he knew where the spare key was. Luckily for him the family dog went everywhere with him and basically kept him out of the street/from drowning/whatever. One day a neightbor on the lake watched the dog steer him away from the lake before she called someone to come get him. (no the dog was not a herding dog it was a little bull-terrier mutt, so ugly it was cute)
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Post by NancysSummerSip on Jan 31, 2014 12:02:02 GMT -5
I do have one so she follows momy's foodstamps! It was sort of corrected, and was a lot funnier the original way. Thanks, I needed this today.
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