The Parenting Wall of Shame...

[aussienic]

hehe got to use the smell a lie thing sooner then I thought and it worked

This thread has great chuckle value..

[morgan78]

We've been giving DD teething relief before bed the last week or so and the other night DS wanted "medicine" too and when we said no he chucked a massive tanty so DP went out to the kitchen and put in a medicine cup a couple of drops of cordial in water & DS bought it.

Definately a Wall of Shame though is when DP was a kid his Dad would tell him that if he didn't toughen up he'd have to have spoonfuls of cement for breakfast

[Neenee Jellybeanie]

My DD is a bit young but I heard a hillarious one the other day; I was out for a walk and I saw this woman pushing a pram and her older toddler was putting her fingers in the prongs of the wheel, so the mum goes "Don't put your fingers in there, they'll get caught and snap off!" I didn't know how to react at the time but looking back, it was rather hillarious!

[Mother Goose]

DD was having a tanty at a resturant the other night and a security guard just happened to be walking past. So I made the most of it and told DD that if she didn't behave the security man would have to take her away. She stopped long enough to look at him and he told her that he would leave her alone today and so she kept on with her tanty!!! Then we saw him pick up a little girl (who was lost and her poor mother was frantic in another room) so I siezed THAT moment and told DD it was because the little girl had been naughty. She behaved then

[KimB]

My mum and dad got my brother and I a good one when we were young. We were fighting in the back of the car and wouldn't stop no matter how much she yelled at us, so she pulled over and told us to get out and then took off. She only went around the corner but it frightened the life out of us. For a long time we were very well behaved in the car lol.

[Ozstar]

DD went through a stage of being scared of ghosts in her room at night.
She woke up early one morning, 2 am or something because there were "ghosts" in her room.
I'm half a sleep and a bit grumpy at that time of the morning had to think of something fast.
So I said "Look, ghosts don't like the smell of farts, if you fart then they won't come in the house, they will go next door"
SO DD rips out a huge one, where she pulled that from I don't know, and went straight back to sleep.
I went back into bed giggling, DH and I had a good chuckle.
Now if she remembers about ghosts which is rarely she will ask DH to come in and fart in her room because his are better and smellier, keeps the ghosts away all night.

DH and I absolutely cracked up at this.

This thread is hilarious. I will be saving up some of these tricks for when my ds is old enough.

[Smoke Jaguar]

On a train recently, DS picked up a mostly drunk bottle of Coke and wanted to drink it. I was not getting anywhere saying 'yuck, it's rubbish' cos he was just mimicking my words...until I had a flash of genius and told him it was 'dirty water, just look at it'...no more asking to drink it, just happy to roll it on the floor of the carriage the rest of the way home! Probably not that shameful, as I wouldn't mind if he considered it dirty water for the rest of his life...

[paradise lost]

On the way to the swimming pool in the freezingness of the suddenly-autumn city i told DD that "they only let you in if you've worn your hat there, if you take it off we won't be allowed to swim" - i sympathise, i HATE headwear too, but seriously, it was FREEZING! Lol.

Bx

[Nadine216]

DD has just discoverd TV and we have a small collection of Disney movies (YES I'll admit .. it was bought for ME, not dd )
So everytime she wants to watch something .. and I don't think it's a good time, or the weather outside is better or something like that .. I tell her "No, hunny, can't watch Simba .. he is sleeping" "No, Ariel is sleeping"
Poor Disney characters in my house is almost permenatnly sleeping ...

I wonder for how long I would be able to keep this up, until she can operate the DVD-player herself