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I like to pride myself on the fact that I’ve stumbled upon every conceivable method know to man to screw my kids up.I’ve made every wrong decision.
I’ve bought every heinous piece of back to school clothing.
I’ve alienated every teacher, coach or friend’s parent in my attempts to “help” my child along the way.
I like to think it’s a talent; my children, however, declare that they are cursed.
While the two older girls are happily away at college, Golden Boy is now the one at the receiving end of my wisdom.
Here is yesterday’s Parenting Lesson number 4,503.
While arranging an “Air-Soft Battle” as the end of the summer celebration, I received a phone call from on of the mothers involved. (Unfortunately, I forgot that tween boys hear everything within a ten mile radius.)
“Golden Boy does NOT want to have the battle unless John can come. Can we perhaps find another day this three-day weekend that will work? He was devastated that John was grounded. Uh huh. Uh huh. Okay. THAT will work. Thanks! Bye.” Click.
At this point I heard what sounded like a herd of elephants charging into the room.
“OH MY GOD!!!! I CAN’T BELIEVE YOU SAID THAT!! You said I was DEVASTATED? Crap. You made it sound like I LOVE him or something! MAN! I am not GAY you know. Good job, Mom. You’ve done it again.”
“I did NOT! I was just talking. I never…”
“Geez mom! Okay. From now on just let ME do the talking.”
Was I sad the girls were gone at college? It appears I still have some major damage I can do right here at home.
Let the fun begin.
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When my son was really little, the Easter bunny brought my son some M-n-Ms with nuts! My son said "I don't like nuts." I think the Easter bunny was thinking of what mommy liked instead of her baby! :-)
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ReplyDeleteWhen feeling upset, I have called my kids by every name other than their own name,(I mean actual names, not bad things)I have called my son, by my bothers name, my daughter by her brothers name or even the dogs name. Its just when you get mad, your mind moves faster than your mouth.
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The Tooth Fairy keeps forgetting to visit our house. Repeatedly. For each occurrence.
ReplyDeleteWe took my daughter to two birthday parties and didn't have her eat lunch between them. She puked the entire way home in the car. From now on, always have lunch.
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my two girls, two years apart in age, look very similar from the back, or even from a distance. I would say "Sally" take out the trash, well since it wasnt "Sally" it was "Jane" the kid would ignore me, or get mad at me for calling the wrong name. I finally just said HEY YOU, take out the trash. They were not amused, but I was.
ReplyDeleteMy oldest son is twenty six now but he likes to remind me about the time he caught the Easter Bunny.
ReplyDeleteOne year the Easter Bunny was extremely tired. After staying up very late to make sure my three children had very nice baskets, Bunny hopped off to bed.
The next morning when the Andy, my oldest woke up to search for his basket, he saw that the Easter Bunny must have taken a short cut because bagged Easter grass was on the dining room table. Uh oh. He put two and two together mighty fast.
Before his younger brother and sister could see he put it in a closet. This kid was always smart.
I didn't win Mother of the Year and Andy stopped believing in all the fun stuff that year.
See? I can screw kids up just as good as the next mom.
When my now adult sons were little and would fall, I'd tell them they were fine and to get up before they even had a chance to cry. They tease me about it to this day!
ReplyDeleteOne day I went to pick up my daughter from school it wasn't untill most of the children had left the school did I realize she didn't go to that school anymore.
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When my youngest daughter was in HS, and wasn't at her friend's house as she SAID she was... I called ALL of her friends (she had a list on her bulletin board in her room) looking for her....
ReplyDeleteNeedless to say, she wasn't happy.... but neither was I!!
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I have locked my 15 yr old out of her facebook and posted that she was grounded as her status. i have also commented under pictures of her on her friend's pages that i want removed (maybe too much cleavage or less than ideal pose) and signed as her mom. she has been totally mortified but then again, so have i so right back at ya kid ;)
ReplyDeleteOh where to begin! My girls are 24, 19, 14. The older 2 have made me pay for my raising AND their father's. 24 girl wasn't happy until I pulled her out of a parked car with a boyfriend when she was 16. I was wearing my bathrobe, slippers, and a sexy hair-do (HA) my neighbors still laugh at that one. 19 girl wasn't happy until she broke her hand punching a boy in the head. At first glance, I told her she'd be fine. she still likes to bring that one up about my parenting. I always tell her I'm a teacher not a nurse!
ReplyDeleteI used to have to fold clothes in my son's bedroom on his bed because he room was closest to the laundry room. One day he had a friend over and suddenly my son comes out of his room with one of my bras dangling on the end of a stick. He thrust the bra in my face and told me to keep my stuff out of his room! After I stopped laughing I told him I'd be more careful.
ReplyDeleteFor the next couple of weeks I'd find myself giggling about what the scene in my son's bedroom was that day. Hee hee!
That is hilarious! I don't have kids yet, but I have definitely tried to pass off swear words as not swear words when nannying. Fudge? Shoot? Darn? Who was I kidding! I follow on twitter @desmoinesdealin scg00387 at yahoo dot com
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ReplyDeleteI told my 8 year old daughters the truth about the tooth fairy. They were hinting that they knew who was really leaving them the money.....so I thought they were ready. Well they weren't ready yet! They started bawling and I had to backtrack my way out of it saying that I was just teasing them. It was not my shining moment as a mom!
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This happened a few years ago, but it's still funny to me. After fixing my son's and my husband's lunches, the lunch bags got swapped. My son came home from school declaring that from now on he wanted pastrami on rye every day for lunch because it was a "big boy sammitch" and my husband came home from work embarrassed as heck after opening his lunch bag and pulling out a dinosaur-shaped peanut butter and jelly sandwich and a smiley face cookie in front of all his colleagues. :)
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ReplyDeleteCame home early from work one day to discover 17 y.o. son and his 17 y.o. girlfriend at my house. Big NO-NO. Hubby called girlfriend's father. They both got in trouble.
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During a drive to the airport to take my grandaughters for their flight home. The youngest started crying that the gold coin ($1 coins are what the Tooth Fairy gives at our house)that The Tooth Fairy brought her was lost. I had one in my purse so I pretended to 'find' it and gave it to her making a big deal about how she should keep ahold of it because they were special and only the Tooth Fairy could get them. When we got out of the truck at the airport and she pulled her backpack out from behind the seat there was the 'special coin'. Talk about back tracking really fast, I had to explain to her why I had a special Tooth Fairy coin if only the Tooth Fairy could get them. Not quite sure she believed me!
ReplyDeleteWhen my son was in 1st grade I drove him to school in his pajamas. He would not get off the car. I had to take him home to change clothes.
ReplyDeleteI remember telling my daughter that (during Christmas) the wrapped presents were actually empty until Santa put presents in them and she proceeded to interrogate me on how he was going to take the paper off and put it back on and remember whose present was which, I still don't know how I got out of that one
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This is about my mother's parenting blunder. When I was a teenager little mini-scooters were the rage.
ReplyDeleteI pleaded to get one, but, my mother refused saying they were dangerous.
So, in a perfect case of irony, while on a off-boat excursion from a cruise she took up an offer for a mini-scooter. As her luck would have it, she fell on her bottom. Mostly her pride was hurt.
A good example of do what I say, don't do what I do.
We had a good laugh, but, I never got the mini-scooter.
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i tossed an open bag of marshmallows in my 2yr olds room when she woke up at 630am on a sat. shut the door and went back to sleep. bad, bad mommy.
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When I was a first time mom, (I have 4 now, so getting better with age), I sat my newborn son, who was in his car seat, on the table. I was in a rush and I made sure lights were out, cabinets were shut, and all the house was tidy. I rushed out, started the car and drove. I looked back in the rear view mirror to not see my son anywhere!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I left him on the table in his car seat! I turned around, darted in the door like a mad woman, and he was just looking around like everything was fine. After that, I never left my son again! leahforlove(at)aol(dot)com
ReplyDeleteI missed my then 3 year old's first awards ceremony- she was in a tumbling class and they handed out plastic medals. I had to work so I sent my sister. Luckily they seem to have them all the time, so I was able to make it to another, but man did I feel like the worst mom in the world!
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I took one of my daughters out with no pants/diaper....oops. I got distracted when changing her and pulled up her pants. You guess it, in the middle of shopping we had an 'incident'!!! Ewwww.
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My then toddler daughter made the mistake of falling asleep in the car just as we were pulling into our neighborhood. She is an unmovable force when asleep, so I decided to just let her be while I pulled weeds near the car, which sat with the windows open in the driveway. As I pulled and pulled those weeds, I moved further and further from the car. Somehow I managed to wind up outside of hearing range, so I completely didn't hear her wake up. When I did find her, HOOBOY, it was ugly. :-(
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I think my worst parenting moment was when my daughter was maybe...6 months or so...we were cosleeping at the time, and I am not sure if she rolled out of bed or if I pushed her out somehow, but she fell face first onto hardwood floor.
ReplyDeleteI felt miserable, tried to move her to the crib immediately, and when that did't work I just moved my mattress to the floor.
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ReplyDeleteI was trying to "introduce" our new cocker spaniel to my son, so I was showing him how to give her kisses. I told him to give her a kiss, he just happened to be sitting on the floor near her "tail". He leaned over and kissed her right on her butt. Nice mom.
ReplyDeleteWhen my daughter was about 8, she had lost a tooth and was so excited to be getting more money from the tooth fairy. Well, the tooth fairy was tired and she fell asleep and FORGOT to pick up that tooth. My daughter was very upset the next morning when there was no money...only a tooth. I quickly ran to my computer and typed a little note and had hubby tape it to the front door. When we were heading out, my daughter saw it and was relieved...seems the tooth fairy was chased off my my daughter's cat and had to leave without the tooth. She came back the next night and left a little extra for the trouble!
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my 15 year old will tell everyone that he still believes in santa clause, cuz if he don't...santa won't come! ;)
ReplyDeleteIce cream for dinner? sure, but I limit it to only 2 or 3 nights a week! Hey, it's either that or cereal...
and last but not least, my kid is the best grocery store dancer around!! No matter what the tune, he can jive in the aisle! Sometimes, Dad joins in too! LOL
WHATS FUNNY ABOUT OUR MOMENTS AS THEY CAN NEVER BE SEEN COMIN'. I JUST DON'T KNOW WHAT MY LITTLE ONE IS THINKING AND EVERY TIME I LEAVE HIM ALONE IT'S A WHOLE NEW STORY. FOR INSTANCE, I WAS TRYING TO TEACH HIM THE CONCEPT OF SHARING BECAUSE I CAUGHT HIS POCKETS STUFFED WITH TOYS ONE DAY I BROUGHT HIM HOME FROM DAYCARE. I ASKED HIM WHY HE DONE WHAT HE DID AND HE TOLD ME I TOOK WHAT I WANTED WHEN I WANTED TO. HE WAS TALKING ABOUT GROCERY STORE SHOPPING. BUT I DO SEE HIS POINT IN A WAY LOL! kytah00@yahoo.com
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ReplyDeleteI told my four year old to keep the dog from getting outside with me when packing for a vacation. The problem was that the dog didn't want out to run frantically all over. My son kept him from going outside...only to let him poo all over the kitchen floor. Of course I got mad...then realized he was only doing what I told him to do.
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Hahah so funny! I accidentally cleaned up a colossal mess of dixie cups on the kitchen floor only to discover that it was the little one's "castle". Boy did the tears fall!
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I like the positive spin you put on this, "Can you share something that will make the rest of us feel normal?" -- I usually refer to this as, "Misery loves company."
ReplyDeleteMy son was trying to get my attention because he had a fish hook in his heel. Because I didn't realize anything was wrong, I kept putting him off while I finished cooking bacon. After I was done cleaning the kitchen, I asked what was wrong and he just showed me his foot. He hadn't even cried. Needless to say, I felt pretty sick the whole way up to the hospital.
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This happened when my oldest son was 17. I work 2nd shift and my husband works day shift. I came home after a week of already working mandatory overtime; 12 hour shifts. I poured myself into bed and woke up around 7am to hear my 17 year old complaining to my husband that I didn't put his clothes into the dryer when I came home from work and now he had to wait for them to dry before he went to school. Apparently there was a "note" left for me assigning me to this task and in my sleep-deprived stupor, I missed it.
ReplyDeleteAs I'm laying there listening to my son complain about me, I just got angrier and angrier...first, because he woke me up and second, because he had zero sympathy for me working so much. Compound that by my husband not defending me and I...HAD..HAD..ENOUGH and committed the ultimate parenting faux-pas, Dr. Spock probably shuddered as I yelled..."Hey James....F*$& OFF!!!".
Yup...mother of the year award sailed out the window with that one.
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I closed the car door on my little one's fingers... man, did I feel terrible!
ReplyDeleteMy daughter was 4. She'd just had another MRI, something we were used to by then. The routine was she couldn't eat beforehand, and they gave her a narcotic in her IV during the test. I learned that I had to get her out of the hospital when she was done, and hopefully she wouldn't wake up till we got home.
ReplyDeleteBecause when we got home...she was a different child - a child coming down from narcotics. The trick then was to give her some food to combat it. Well, this day she woke up in the car and demanded to be taken to McDonalds. I stopped and we went in. She was walking like she was drunk and carrying on. She normally had the best, sweetest disposition - sans the drugs.
I'm sure people were staring at me, wondering why I didn't control my child. Then I set her on the counter to pay (she couldn't stand up straight). And....due to the fluids they had pumped in her at the hospital in the IV, she peed on the counter at McDonalds!
I was mortified. Now I was sure people just thought I had an out of control bratty kid....not a child with a brain tumor.
OMG!
I once packed an empty lunch box for DD to school. Boy I felt terribly guilty!
ReplyDeleteMy high school daughter informed she was scheduled to have study hall next semester I knew her dad would be mad, so I exmailed the teacher and got her class changed to a credited class Boy was she mad, she wanted study hall
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My mom was notorious for messing up in the kitchen. I bet she was so happy when my brothers and sisters were old enough to host holiday meals, so she wouldn't have to worry about ruining the turkey or forgetting to remove the giblets (again).
ReplyDeleteOne Christmas, while the kids were asleep and my husband and I were trying to sneak the gifts out of our attic & under the tree, I accidently, closed the attic door on my husband, who let out a scream & woke our oldest son....he then saw us with all the gifts & put two & two together.
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I missed my kids open houses this year
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have done the dishwasher thing, the empty lunchbox but I think the most embarrassing thing I did was go to school to help out for the day and at lunch when I took off my sweater had an extra large bandage on my back- at least thats what the kids thought- I had put my sweater on the bathroom counter and the pantiliner stuck to the sweater- yes it was clean...I wondered where it went when I was getting ready..the kids in the class thought I had a big boo boo- thankgoodness they did not know what it was but surely someone could have said something
ReplyDeleteMy daughter was home sick from school staying alone for the first time. She kept calling and calling telling me she was freezing. I told her it was just a fever. Take some Tylenol and climb under the covers. I wasn't until night time when I realized we had a setback thermostat and it was like 55 degrees in the house all day. batlorry@gmail.com
ReplyDeletewhere to start? I've done a lot of 'parent fails' in my life.
ReplyDeleteOne time, we lived in an apartment on the second floor. The balcony was old and ratty. I let the boys play out there even though I kept thinking that the rails were pretty shaky. One day, my son Aleksey walked in with two of the rails. HE pulled them off. If he had fallen through, I'm sure he would be dead. Augh!
My three are teens now and aren't in therapy so I guess I did ok... so far. lol
When my son was really young, he heard me say crap and repeated it constantly! It is always the words we do not want them to repeat that we cannot get them to stop saying!
ReplyDeleteMy son was in circle time when he reached up his pant leg and pulled out a sock that had static clinged to the inside of his pants.
ReplyDeleteI cut my little boy's hair for the first time and it was horrible and embarrasing
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ReplyDeleteMy faux pas was not telling my daughter what things really were. When she was about 4 she asked me what my feminine pads were. Not knowing what to say to a 4 year old, I told her they were "mommy's bandaids" About a month later we were shopping, it was the holidays and very busy in the store. She went over to the next aisle with her cousin. Next thing I know she is yelling"mommy's bandaids, mommy's bandaids" and running to me with a box of pads. I learned quick, if you tell them the truth, they forget about it and move on, if you make up cutesy explanations they don't forget and are apt to use it at the worst possible time,lol
Not a mom story but a babysitting my niece story. We were having fun playing with dinosaurs and she was worked up. She was getting on and off the couch. I watched her each time. Then I turned around to get a book and I heard a thud. She had fallen off the couch on to the carpet she looked shocked and a little teary so I hugged her and she was fine w/in minutes. I felt so guilty and my heart was racing. Kids will fall and you can't protect them from every little thing..still it is stressful
ReplyDeleteI have to kids. After buckling Alicia into the car I pulled out of the driveway to head to the bank. I got about 1/4 mile from my house and realized I left Alex in the driveway in his infant car set. Fortunately, he was fine and fast asleep but I felt like a jerk!
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ReplyDeletethe tooth fairy forgot to visit my son at night (overworked, underpaid).. son mentioned it the next morning.. tooth fairy visited while he was at school.. he always wondered why the tooth fairy would stop by during the day..
ReplyDeleteOne time I had to take the dogs stool sample to the vet and drop it off to be checked for any problems (Typically puppy tests) I accidently switched the paper bag with the sample, with my daughters lunch. I got to the vet and realized it, rushed to her school and quietly slipped the poo poo sample out of her backpack and her lunch in it's place. Phew close call!!
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I was moving my daughter from one exhibit to another at the zoo. Because she hopped out at each one, I didn't bother fastening the belts. We hit a bump, and she flew headfirst to the ground and wound up with a huge knot on her head.
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My daughter hurt her knee and I cleaned it out. However, a speck of dirt was still in there. She wound up in the hospital for a week and I felt like the worst mom in the Universe even though the doctors and staff assured me it wasnt my fault.
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This one is my ex's - we were in the spa (warm, not hot) with my daughter when she was about 4 months old. He was playing with her and her hat and put her hat on his head. Only problem was, he let go of her to do that and she went under! No harm, but boy did we move fast! He's never lived that one down!
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My daughter (age 4 at the time) was trying to mimic a gymnastics move she saw on tv and fell in our living room. Starts to cry. I tell her she's fine, I mean it WAS a Saturday afternoon and I didn't think an ER visit was necessary. Finally took her to the Dr on Monday--she'd broken BOTH bones in her lower arm. Hey, she survived to become an RN today! Now she can diagnose herself.
ReplyDeleteI remember the day my mom took us girls to feed the horses. My sister screamed bloody murder because of the slobber. Mom thought the horse had bit her and she scared the horse which then did bite my sister. I am queenesperfect at yahoo.com
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ReplyDeleteI was taking my son to ball practice and loaded the trunk with folding chairs, etc. I placed his glove on the top of the car, got distracted and drove off. We got to practice sans glove. The coach was not amused.
ReplyDeleteOh, which one do I choose.
ReplyDeleteWe were babysitting my niece (6 mos old) and we were going to church…and we got everything loaded, and were backing out of the driveway when my 9 year old said “mom…where’s the baby”…..she was snoozing in her car seat…ON THE COUCH!!!!
YIKES!
In kindergarten, I went to school to bring birthday treats for my daughter's class. Another little girl came to ask my daughter to go sit with her and my daughter looked up at me. I said, go ahead, go sit with Sara. Later I found out the girl that asked was named Anna and I had somehow gotten her name confused, so they both heard me telling my daughter to sit with someone other than the one that asked, but neither had said anything. I felt really bad later...
ReplyDeleteAfter pulling out of our driveway and heading off to County Fair for dog obedience competition the kids yelled from the back seat that, although I'd loaded up the dog crate, I'd left our dog in the house back at home!!
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My daughter had a long-term boyfriend named Jack. Long after they broke up, I was still calling the new guy Jack, although usually not to his face. Not cool.
ReplyDeleteLike a thousand times before, I made sure my child was buckled up in the car. But this time, I FORGOT to buckle up. Before the car's reminder ding could even start, my kid shouted out "BUCKLE UP!"
ReplyDeleteNothing like calling Mom out on a mistake.
I breast fed my first son for only 3 months - it didn't go too well, so I started him on the bottle. He was almost 10 or 11 months old when I realized that the nipples for the bottles were sized by age....we never changed from the 3 month nipple, so the hole was really really small and the poor thing had to suck so gosh darn hard to get the milk and couldn't get it fast enough! I still feel like such an idiot for that one!
ReplyDeleteWe were seven kids, and there were many mom errors, from kids left cause they went for a potty trip. Or being handed your brothers underwear, cause she hadn't gotten the wash up, as parents things happen, you just do the best you can.
ReplyDeleteI was babysitting my 2 year old grandson and was in the laundry room when he shut the door on me and turned the door lock, which is on the outside of the door. So there I was locked in the laundry room with a toddler alone in the house. I tried to get him to turn the lock the other way, but that didn't happen. So I went through the garage and around to the patio door and of course that was locked too. All the time my grandson is grinning at me through the glass door, thinking we were playing a game. All the doors and windows were locked so I finally went back to the garage and got a screwdriver and managed to jimmy the lock open.
ReplyDeleteIt was very nerve racking for me, but my grandson had a blast.
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I was busted trying to get a tooth from under a pillow.
ReplyDeleteI constantly mix up my sons' names. When I was a kid, my mother used to mix me up with my brother, which I thought I would never in a million years do.
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My mom fuax paux is that I often times let me son eat in his car seat to save time, i will have him back a full lunch in small portions and get that out of the way while running errands. This leads to a big mess in the back seat but for me its worth it. On day I hear a gag noise and a "mama ewww" form the back before barf ensues and it turns out i left a sippy cup back there with spoiled curtles milk. I don't leave cups in the car anymore :(
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i used to mix my kids names up and since i have 4 of my own its hard not 2 i just started to get better at my kids names. whitecarrie69@yahoo.com
ReplyDeleteI washed at least three love letters my daughter has received from her boyfriend. For which I am now labeled the worst mom in the world...how about taking them out of your pocket, dear one?
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We're not supposed to eat at the table but I enjoy reading the newspaper at breakfast so now my 4 y.o. son can't eat without his favorite book and whenever I bring it up he reminds me that I read at the table too.
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Of course my mouth gets me in trouble and one day I told my daughter to go tell her dad to clean his @#$@ up. Well she did word for word. I should have gotten soap for that one.
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I would hide little love notes in their pockets and lunches. One day some friends found them first, and teased them mercilessly. I had to promise not to do it again! honeypie411 at yahoo dot com
ReplyDeleteI am following 8th Continent on twitter. I once accidently drove off from a garage sale and left one of my children behind. When I went back for him, he was standing on the sidewalk sobbing his little heart out. I still feel bad and it's been 20 years!
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I wasn't paying attention one day at the clothing store and my toddler walked and hid in some racks. I was running around yelling for him and then he popped out. I thought I was going to have a heart attack
ReplyDeleteI locked my son in the car when he was about 18 months old and had no extra keys and spent 1/2 hour teaching him through the window trying to explain to him which button to push to open the door of the car, which he did finally figure out. I hugged him so hard when I opened that door and he looked at me like, "Huh? What's wrong?" He thought it was a fun game.
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Last year my son got detention because I forgot to sign his report card. Ugh.
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My son was playing soccer in the back yard with kids from the neighborhood. He comes in crying and says his leg really hurts. I tell him to lay down and take a little rest. He ends up crying himself to sleep. Wakes up an hour later and immediately starts crying. I decide to take him to the doctor at that point and his leg is broken.
ReplyDeleteI learned you never have a childs 8th Birthday party in a back yard full of crops you are growing
ReplyDeleteThere was one day when I would have sworn my son was off of school, at least until school called to find out why he wasn't there.
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When my daughter was four she went sledding with her dad one late afternoon. They ran over something in the snow and came home because she was crying. We thought she was just over tired, so we gave her some tylenol and put her to bed. When she was still crying the next morning we took her to the doctor and found out she had a broken leg.
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I cringe every time I recall my daughter rolling off the bed because I turned away for a split second
ReplyDeleteI recall being on the way to daycare and my daughter was complaining about her stomach hurting. Of course I thought she was just trying to get out of going. She puked all over the back seat!
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Early one the morning my teenage daughter informed me that she would be needing some tampons from the store.
ReplyDeleteWhen my husband came home for lunch I asked him if he would mind picking some up on his way home to save me a trip and he agreed.
Little did I know that while I was out side he knocked on her bedroom door and when she answered he asked her if what brand and type of tampon he was suppose to buy or did she use maxi pads.
Needless to say, she was mortified. And by the time I came back from the garage she was furious with me.
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My worst fail was having a snowball fight with my family when my wife and daughter accidentally slipped and fell onto the ice. My daughter was crying hysterically, my wife yelling at me for being childish and insisting on going outside in the cold to play a silly game.
ReplyDeleteFrom then on the only winter activities we participate in are sledding and snowboarding.
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Normal is what it is to you. Weither it is the same for someone else doesn't matter. What is normal is people in general like each other.
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I have the same problem as another reader--two girls who look a lot alike and even sound a lot alike. They aren't very close and are incredibly insulted if someone mistakes one for the other over the phone or calls them by the wrong name. Once they even wore name tags after we'd done that one too many times!
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I sent bologna and cheese sandwiches, juice boxes, and chips with my kids on a field trip. Little did I know, that the school wasn't taking coolers like usual. I'm not sure which made them sicker, the sandwich or the juice box but they both got major food poisoning. Even though they are teens now, they like to tease me about when I poisoned them. :)
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Though this isn't too unusual, I still feel guilty about it! Once I turned my back for a split second to pick up a ringing phone, only to see my little one taking a tumble down a few (thankfully carpeted) steps. We were both shocked in the moment, but luckily there was no harm done.
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My youngest was so excited to go on his first roller-coaster, we were at Disney's California Adventure, we waited in line for 30 minutes, finally we got in our seats and he and I were lucky enough to get the first car--everything was going great--until they put the restraining bar down over his head--he freaked out and began to scream and cry--of course we were the first car --so we had to wait for them to go down the line and put down all the bars---I was sure they were going to ask us to leave. My attempts at calming him only made him cry louder--of course he stopped the minute the ride started --and as soon as it was over --still covered in tears he insisted "I want to go again!"
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When my daughter was a teenager I was working two jobs so I wasn't home a lot. One day I came home between jobs and found a bong on my coffee table. We had already had a very loud discussion about no drugs in my house so I was sure it belonged to her boyfriend. He was outside so I went over to tell him he had to keep it out of my house. She went ballistic and came running outside to yell at me. I rarely created a scene in front of the neighbors but that day I did. I grabbed the front of her shirt and started screaming at her that if she didn't like it she could go live with her dad. Surprisingly she calmed down and didn't even have one argument with me for several months. I guess I really shocked her.
ReplyDeleteMy husband and I were playing airplane with my then 5 month old daughter. I was jumping around and being silly and she was giggling so hard until my elbow hit her in the top of her head. She cried for so long and has a big red mark. I felt so bad.
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ReplyDeleteI didn't take my almost 2 yr. old to the dr. after she broke her arm until the next day. My oldest daughter was caring her sister around, even though she was told not to, and dropped her. The baby cried for just a little while but seemed just fine. The next day she was trying to climb into a chair and cried when she put weight on her wrist. I take her to the dr. and sure enough, it's broke. I couldn't believe that I waited. Such a bad Mommy.
ReplyDeleteI have 3 yr old quadruplets & 2 of them are identical. I have introduced my identical boys wrong when looking at them from behind! Fabulous mommy moment! ;)
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it really is tough to censor one's words when one is with one's kids! It's amazing how much they pick up! And when they choose to say those words- they do find the most embarrassing times!! But I ususally just explain to people that it's awful the things these kids learn at school from their classmates, LOL!
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I cut my son's bangs totally off by mistake when giving him a haircut!
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Patience isn't one of my virtues, so one day, I was sitting at a light with my son in his booster seat in the back. The light turned green, I was in a hurry, but the guy ahead of me didn't move. I said, "The light is green - GO!!!!" and never gave it another thought until 2 days later when my father was driving us somewhere and we were stopped at a light. The light turned green and my son said, "Gggee Lie - GO!" In other words, "Green light - Go!" I almost died because I knew why he was saying that, but everybody else thought it was hysterical, thinking it was from the "what do you do when the light turns green" song at school.
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I was in a hurry and I used a mr. clean magic eraser on my son's cheek to get off some sharpie marker,...oops! he was a little red for a few days.
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I did lock my 9 month old baby in the car (he now has 3 kids of his own, so he survived me!) With the help of a very nice cop, we opened the car door.
ReplyDeleteso my twins were 2 years old and they were playing in their new room in a house we just bought and they were giggling so hard and my husband i and i were like, oh lets leave them alone theyre having so much fun. so we decide a bit later to see whats so funny as they are still giggling. we walk up the stairs and see.....they had painted each other and the walls with their poopie diapers. omg. they looked at me with big grins with poop all over them.
ReplyDeleteWe were expecting company and told the kids that we had to really clean up well. When they arrived the kids quickly told them that they just cleaned up the house real good because they were coming.
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My tween daughter told me I said something that I KNEW I did not say. I knew I would never say it. And she kept telling me I did, which is highly uncharacteristic of her and it rubbed me the wrong way totally, and I raised my voice at her and told her not to put words in my mouth that weren't true. Later in the day something was said or done that jarred my memory and I realized that in the middle of a million other things I was doing, I had told my daughter whatever it was she said I had said (I can't remember what it was now, but I clearly remember the incident). I felt like such an ideeeeeeeeee-iot. I apologized in dramatic fashion, but man, it smarted to know I'd raised my voice at her in the wrong.
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I have done the classic say a "naughty" word in front of my nephew and of course he latched on to it immediately!
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I once donated one of her toys to charity not thinking she would notice but she went looking for it.
ReplyDeleteI got my kids ready for school on day and we waited and waited for a bus that never came. I loaded them into the car and when we got to the school we realized it was a teachers professional day.... no school. My kids were pretty mad at me for waking them up when they could have slept in!
ReplyDeleteWhen my youngest was just about 3 months old she had awoke in the night and I was so exhausted I layed her on my chest to comfort her but then I fell asleep, while asleep I had a dream and rolled over and she fell off the bed I jumped up screaming to my husband and that woke my daughter up. Needless to say she was fine and I still feel horrible about that.
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