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Post by tloonya on Jan 31, 2014 12:23:22 GMT -5
It was sort of corrected, and was a lot funnier the original way. Thanks, I needed this today. I always deliver. Now where are my tips?
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Post by milee on Jan 31, 2014 12:25:10 GMT -5
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.
Public Service Announcement - That is a very common scenario in drownings, especially drownings at parties. Everybody thinks others are watching, so even though the kid is surrounded by dozens of people, s/he still drowns. If you're ever in a situation with many kids and adults and water please, please, please assign a specific person to be "lifeguard" and also be really specific with each parent that they have to watch their own kid because there is nobody keeping an eye out (yes, that's not totally true because you just assigned someone as "lifeguard" but there's no such thing as too many adults watching or too many reminders to keep your eyes open.)
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Post by greeniis10 on Jan 31, 2014 13:11:54 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. And I'm pretty sure they then use it to the "best" of their advantage as teenagers! As parents, our short-term-memory then kicks in and we can't seem to figure out what is "wrong" with them. Hmmm... maybe all those bumps on the head? Good thing we're all pretty much as equally guilty.
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Post by swamp on Jan 31, 2014 16:50:23 GMT -5
The family is at a resort hotel. There are "characters" roaming around like Scooby doo and rocky raccoon. DD is petrified of them.
We are waiting for the elevator. Door opens and rocky raccoon is in the elevator. DD bolts and runs away and down a hallway screaming at the top of her lungs
DH and I are laughing too hard to go after her.
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Post by zibazinski on Jan 31, 2014 20:17:18 GMT -5
Most of mine are first kid issues. I hope I wised up a bit by the time "sneaky" came along. The first one I remember was leaving him in the shopping cart after putting my groceries away in the car. I got almost to the road from the parking lot when I realized I "forgot" something! The baby!! He was still in the cart just looking at me like YOU DUMB SHIT!
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Post by Lizard Queen on Jan 31, 2014 21:40:24 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? Holy cow, that is amazing.
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Post by tloonya on Jan 31, 2014 22:17:13 GMT -5
The family is at a resort hotel. There are "characters" roaming around like Scooby doo and rocky raccoon. DD is petrified of them. We are waiting for the elevator. Door opens and rocky raccoon is in the elevator. DD bolts and runs away and down a hallway screaming at the top of her lungs DH and I are laughing too hard to go after her. How is itfunny? Beat me...I don't get it.
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Post by ՏՇԾԵԵʅՏɧ_LԹՏՏʅҼ on Jan 31, 2014 22:24:51 GMT -5
Perfect example of a Freudian slip.
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Post by Nazgul Girl on Jan 31, 2014 23:08:37 GMT -5
I don't know if this counts as a true parenting fail, but my kid talked incessantly about things from the time she was around two. Whether it was unicorns, how some kid in the seventh grade looked at her funny, the sounds the horse made at summer camp, it could be an hour-long discussion of the same subject at times.
I finally worked it out that after a certain period of time ( say 30 minutes of my listening and discussing the subject of the day ad infinitum ), I would get her to rub my back or feet and I would respond with " ummm hmmm's " and " wow's " for as long as she wanted to "discuss." I would even fall asleep for a little while during her talks. She was as happy as a lark.
It happened quite frequently, all the way through high school. Of course, I rubbed her feet and back quite a bit, too.
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Post by cronewitch on Feb 1, 2014 0:34:04 GMT -5
My SIL left the house in the middle of the night when she was a single parent. Kids were sleeping when she left and she would be right back. Some of the kids were teens but one was 5 and woke up. He called 911 and told them his mom left and didn't kiss him goodbye. The police were there when she got back.
Dad had a grand daughter in the back yard when he was digging and he found a worm, decided to show it to her. Her mom said don't do that she will eat it and he said he wouldn't let her. He held out his hand she grabbed the worm and ate it faster than he could react.
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Post by NoNamePerson on Feb 1, 2014 8:43:58 GMT -5
When son was around 4 he had called Mom about what seemed like a 1,000 times one day. I looked at him and told him I had changed my name and it wasn't Mom anymore. About that time neighborhood kiddo came over to see if he could come out and play. I said Thank you Lord and out the door they went. Couple hours later neighbor kiddo came to let me know she was going home and son was in sandbox. She looked at me and said "D said you had changed your name and he couldn't call you Mom anymore and he asked me what he should call you. Geeze, just writing this makes me want to call son and tell him I am sorry. Nah, ain't gonna happend
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Post by Knee Deep in Water Chloe on Feb 1, 2014 10:30:26 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 Oh, I forgot about that one! DD#2 was about five months old. I had braces ( wear your retainer the first time, people!). She head butted me right in the mouth. She had imprints of braces on her forehead for at least a week.
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Post by sunshinegal1981 on Feb 1, 2014 13:02:55 GMT -5
This thread needs to never end.
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Post by steff on Feb 1, 2014 13:51:55 GMT -5
When kiddo was about 3, the whole family went to get our pics done at Wal-Mart. Kiddo LOVED to play hide & seek at that age. One of my brothers was in charge of watching him while mom & I talked with the photographer lady. My brother comes running up to me because he "lost" kiddo. After about 5 minutes, we found kiddo hiding in a clothes rack. His reaction was "You hide now!"
around the same age, we lived in a townhouse that had a patio w/ bars & a locked gate. The townhouses were also on a lake (eeeek). I often opened the front door & let him play on the patio because he was "contained" & couldn't get out, so I could get stuff done while he played. He's out playing on the patio one day & I go to the bathroom. When I come out, he's gone. Like GONE. The gate is still locked, his toys are there, I was gone for only a couple of minutes. I start calling his name, looking up & down the rows of townhouses. After 5 minutes, I have to wake up hubby & tell him I lost kiddo. Hubby heads to the lake & I'm still going up and down rows of the townhouses hollering for him. After 10 minutes, we're starting to talk about calling the police when the neighbor 2 doors down comes out & says "are you looking for him? he came over to play with our dog". He had slid thru the bars on the gate in our place & slid thru the bars on their gate, knocked on their door & asked to play with the dog. They saw our door wide open & assumed I knew he was there because he always played with their dog. We put chicken wire on our gate after that so he couldn't squeeze thru anymore.
While not a "fail", it's still something that cracks up my whole family:
We had a huge garden on an empty lot next to a duplex we lived in. I was out working in the garden waiting for kiddo to get home from school. I had on a green tshirt & apparently blended in really well. I saw kiddo get off the bus, I waved & hollered for him to put his stuff away & come out to pick beans (he loved helping at that age). He never saw me. He went into the house, searched for me, out in the back yard searching. Knocked on a neighbors door looking for me. They weren't home, so he came back inside & called my mom. Who called my brother who lived on the same street. I looked up from gardening to see (literally) my mom and both of my brothers pulling into my driveway like bats outta hell & running into my house. I'm like WTF? I go inside to find my kiddo hysterical, my mom in a panic, one brother searching my house & one brother working his way thru the woods in my backyard searching. I'm like What's up? I didn't lose my kid, but he had lost me & I was just outside the basement door. LOL
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Post by CarolinaKat on Feb 4, 2014 12:17:34 GMT -5
When son was around 4 he had called Mom about what seemed like a 1,000 times one day. I looked at him and told him I had changed my name and it wasn't Mom anymore. About that time neighborhood kiddo came over to see if he could come out and play. I said Thank you Lord and out the door they went. Couple hours later neighbor kiddo came to let me know she was going home and son was in sandbox. She looked at me and said "D said you had changed your name and he couldn't call you Mom anymore and he asked me what he should call you. Geeze, just writing this makes me want to call son and tell him I am sorry. Nah, ain't gonna happend Mom paid me a quarter to call her 'Fred' for a day...
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Post by milee on Feb 4, 2014 12:31:22 GMT -5
When my kids were at the Montessori school, the parent group was mostly young earth mother types. One day, my oldest son came home and explained that DH and I were the oldest parents of anybody he knew.
That was the same school where the teacher stopped me after class one day in December to ask if I'd come in and give the class a talk on Hanukkah and Jewish traditions. After a brief hesitation, I agreed but suggested that she might want to get someone who was actually Jewish to do that. She got really flustered and said that when she asked who in class celebrated Hanukkah, my son had raised his hand, so she thought we were Jewish. So I had to explain that we did celebrate Hanukkah (and a variety of other stuff) because the older son identified as being Jewish for a while - long story - but that we weren't Jewish and had to go buy a "how to Hanukkah" book for instruction.
Oh, and the story of all of us Goyim going to the Jewish Book Store to find the "how to Hanukkah" book is probably another parenting fail in and of itself... While there, of course all the nice, older Jewish people wanted to talk to our cute little boys about various Jewish traditions and both of the boys had no clue what was being discussed so just smiled and nodded. The people in the book store felt very sorry for us and our poor, dimwitted boys.
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Post by Wisconsin Beth on Feb 4, 2014 12:34:36 GMT -5
I hid from the kids last weekend. DH was laying on the couch with a blanket and I got on the other end, snuggled down with another blanket covering all but my face. Kids were playing happily on their own but came in to ask questions. I shut up, covered my face and let DH handle it. After the 3rd or 4th trip in, DH tells the kids where I am, not realizing just how buried I was. So I think they kids learned a new phrase - "Daddy ratted me out" It was funny.
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Post by Pants on Feb 4, 2014 12:42:38 GMT -5
Kid got dropped down the stairs again this week - ended up in ER with some sort of dislocation. I think we need an escalator.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 4, 2014 13:35:18 GMT -5
When my kids were at the Montessori school, the parent group was mostly young earth mother types. One day, my oldest son came home and explained that DH and I were the oldest parents of anybody he knew.
That was the same school where the teacher stopped me after class one day in December to ask if I'd come in and give the class a talk on Hanukkah and Jewish traditions. After a brief hesitation, I agreed but suggested that she might want to get someone who was actually Jewish to do that. She got really flustered and said that when she asked who in class celebrated Hanukkah, my son had raised his hand, so she thought we were Jewish. So I had to explain that we did celebrate Hanukkah (and a variety of other stuff) because the older son identified as being Jewish for a while - long story - but that we weren't Jewish and had to go buy a "how to Hanukkah" book for instruction.
Oh, and the story of all of us Goyim going to the Jewish Book Store to find the "how to Hanukkah" book is probably another parenting fail in and of itself... While there, of course all the nice, older Jewish people wanted to talk to our cute little boys about various Jewish traditions and both of the boys had no clue what was being discussed so just smiled and nodded. The people in the book store felt very sorry for us and our poor, dimwitted boys. I have no idea how to raise DD in paganism without her telling everyone. And given that back four generations have gone to Catholic school, my family would be horrified if she did not go to Catholic school. They don't care about her being Catholic, they are fine with me being a witch, but NOT GO TO CATHOLIC SCHOOL?! The world would end. I don't really want to have the drama of discussion paganism in another Catholic school (did that in both of mine) nor do I want to drama for DD, but I want her raised in Paganism. No idea what to do.
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Post by swamp on Feb 4, 2014 13:37:27 GMT -5
Meh. There are hindu, buddist, and Muslim kids at my kids Catholic school.
I'm agnostic. Makes for interesting dinner conversation.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 4, 2014 13:40:32 GMT -5
What religion we practice never comes up. Probably 1) because we don't bring it up and 2) the kids go to public school.
I can see it being a problem if the kids were going to a Catholic school. I would handle it how I handle it now: the kids know there's all different kinds of religions out there and we should learn about all of them.
ETA: I should qualify that it doesn't come up in public. My parents know I don't believe and I told MIL that if she doesn't agree with me not taking them to church then she needs to speak to her son about taking them.
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Post by milee on Feb 4, 2014 13:44:22 GMT -5
When my kids were at the Montessori school, the parent group was mostly young earth mother types. One day, my oldest son came home and explained that DH and I were the oldest parents of anybody he knew.
That was the same school where the teacher stopped me after class one day in December to ask if I'd come in and give the class a talk on Hanukkah and Jewish traditions. After a brief hesitation, I agreed but suggested that she might want to get someone who was actually Jewish to do that. She got really flustered and said that when she asked who in class celebrated Hanukkah, my son had raised his hand, so she thought we were Jewish. So I had to explain that we did celebrate Hanukkah (and a variety of other stuff) because the older son identified as being Jewish for a while - long story - but that we weren't Jewish and had to go buy a "how to Hanukkah" book for instruction.
Oh, and the story of all of us Goyim going to the Jewish Book Store to find the "how to Hanukkah" book is probably another parenting fail in and of itself... While there, of course all the nice, older Jewish people wanted to talk to our cute little boys about various Jewish traditions and both of the boys had no clue what was being discussed so just smiled and nodded. The people in the book store felt very sorry for us and our poor, dimwitted boys. I have no idea how to raise DD in paganism without her telling everyone. And given that back four generations have gone to Catholic school, my family would be horrified if she did not go to Catholic school. They don't care about her being Catholic, they are fine with me being a witch, but NOT GO TO CATHOLIC SCHOOL?! The world would end. I don't really want to have the drama of discussion paganism in another Catholic school (did that in both of mine) nor do I want to drama for DD, but I want her raised in Paganism. No idea what to do. Do what's best for your family and don't worry about it. Seriously, you can't expect a kid not to discuss things with others and the more you try to get kids to keep a secret the more likely they are to talk about the subject. If you just do what you need to do for your family and act like that's the way it is, your DD won't think it's a big deal. Yes, she'll probably mention certain things with others, but if she's secure with those things and it's a reasonable, supportive environment, then so what?
But I also would totally and completely ignore what your family wants for DD's school and instead pick the school that best fits the needs of DD first and your nuclear family (you, DH, DD) second. If that turns out to be Catholic school, great. If not, so be it.
But full disclosure - I realize I have very different school selection criteria than most people. Good example is how many of my friends talk about a school campus - is it new, beautiful, nice, etc. - when evaluating a school. As far as I'm concerned, as long as there's basic shelter and no visible vermin, whether a school is beautiful or not doesn't even make the top 25 most important things on my list.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 4, 2014 13:48:09 GMT -5
Our Catholic school is perfectly fine with kids of any religion, so no need to hide it. You just have to be ok with them going to mass occasionally and having to take christian religion classes. At least a quarter of the high school is Japanese boarding students and they're all over the map as far as what religion they identify with.
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Post by muttleynfelix on Feb 4, 2014 14:54:30 GMT -5
I don't know if this was a parenting fail or just lazy parenting. My neighbors came over for my kids' birthday party this weekend. Their youngest daughter is a little hellion (she's 3). She tried to go out our back door it is locked in 2 locations. Her parents did stop her then, but then she did go out the front door (twice) with no coat and no shoes (it was about 20 degrees outside). She went through the closed doors to our utility room and laundry area. She went into my bedroom. I don't know what she was looking for ... maybe a quiet spot because it was crazy, but her parents just did not care. DH and I caught her and stopped her every time and her parents never saw her once and you can see everything from where they are at in our dining room. Then she climbed up on the high chair and tried to climb onto the counter to get a chip. It was really loud at the party. At one point DH comes over and tells me that DD is about to meltdown and my Grandma was too.
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Post by Waffle on Feb 4, 2014 15:55:53 GMT -5
I'm trying very hard not to lol, since I'm reading this at work. But some of these stories are hilarious!
I have no kids, so I'll share stories from a former neighbor.
Their son was about 5, somehow got away from both parents. He gets in their car, releases the brake and put it out of park (no keys - not sure what gear he actually had it in), but since the car was sitting at the end of their driveway that sloped down toward their house -yep, five year old and car go straight down the driveway and crash into the garage door!
They also once found the same kid on top of the garage roof.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 4, 2014 16:00:45 GMT -5
I have no idea how to raise DD in paganism without her telling everyone. And given that back four generations have gone to Catholic school, my family would be horrified if she did not go to Catholic school. They don't care about her being Catholic, they are fine with me being a witch, but NOT GO TO CATHOLIC SCHOOL?! The world would end. I don't really want to have the drama of discussion paganism in another Catholic school (did that in both of mine) nor do I want to drama for DD, but I want her raised in Paganism. No idea what to do. Do what's best for your family and don't worry about it. Seriously, you can't expect a kid not to discuss things with others and the more you try to get kids to keep a secret the more likely they are to talk about the subject. If you just do what you need to do for your family and act like that's the way it is, your DD won't think it's a big deal. Yes, she'll probably mention certain things with others, but if she's secure with those things and it's a reasonable, supportive environment, then so what?
But I also would totally and completely ignore what your family wants for DD's school and instead pick the school that best fits the needs of DD first and your nuclear family (you, DH, DD) second. If that turns out to be Catholic school, great. If not, so be it.
But full disclosure - I realize I have very different school selection criteria than most people. Good example is how many of my friends talk about a school campus - is it new, beautiful, nice, etc. - when evaluating a school. As far as I'm concerned, as long as there's basic shelter and no visible vermin, whether a school is beautiful or not doesn't even make the top 25 most important things on my list.
Well, Catholic schools are cheaper than other private schools and have very good college prep high schools and I did like the community so I have no objection to sending her there. I just don't want her put in a situation that is uncomfortable nor do I want to be the one teaching tolerance to a whole school. I already went through a parent thinking I would sacrifice her child to satan, I don't need that as an adult, lol.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 4, 2014 16:02:37 GMT -5
Our Catholic school is perfectly fine with kids of any religion, so no need to hide it. You just have to be ok with them going to mass occasionally and having to take christian religion classes. At least a quarter of the high school is Japanese boarding students and they're all over the map as far as what religion they identify with. I actually think it to be important that non-Christians understand Christianity because it is such an influence on our culture. I was raised in Catholic school and my husband was not, I think I got the better education but also we learned cultural influences from Europe that were important to the USA.
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Post by NoNamePerson on Feb 4, 2014 18:25:18 GMT -5
When son was around 4 he had called Mom about what seemed like a 1,000 times one day. I looked at him and told him I had changed my name and it wasn't Mom anymore. About that time neighborhood kiddo came over to see if he could come out and play. I said Thank you Lord and out the door they went. Couple hours later neighbor kiddo came to let me know she was going home and son was in sandbox. She looked at me and said "D said you had changed your name and he couldn't call you Mom anymore and he asked me what he should call you. Geeze, just writing this makes me want to call son and tell him I am sorry. Nah, ain't gonna happend Mom paid me a quarter to call her 'Fred' for a day... Thanks for posting that. It makes me feel a little better
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Post by taz157 on Feb 4, 2014 21:50:47 GMT -5
I don't know if this was a parenting fail or just lazy parenting. My neighbors came over for my kids' birthday party this weekend. Their youngest daughter is a little hellion (she's 3). She tried to go out our back door it is locked in 2 locations. Her parents did stop her then, but then she did go out the front door (twice) with no coat and no shoes (it was about 20 degrees outside). She went through the closed doors to our utility room and laundry area. She went into my bedroom. I don't know what she was looking for ... maybe a quiet spot because it was crazy, but her parents just did not care. DH and I caught her and stopped her every time and her parents never saw her once and you can see everything from where they are at in our dining room. Then she climbed up on the high chair and tried to climb onto the counter to get a chip. It was really loud at the party. At one point DH comes over and tells me that DD is about to meltdown and my Grandma was too. Is this the same Grandma that complained when you told her you were pregnant with DD? If so, then I hope she enjoyed her meltdown and you didn't let it bother you.
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Post by andi9899 on Feb 4, 2014 23:49:12 GMT -5
When my 15 yo was a baby I was laying on my back on the floor holding her in the air and twirling her around. She was laughing and life was good. I must have spun her too hard because she went spinning through the air like a propeller and was none too happy when she came to rest on the hardwood floor. Oops!
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