What "parent" thing do you that you never thought you would?

[danniellabella]

I thought of another - calling them by the wrong name!

I have done that, only I only have one child. Sometimes she'll get called "Buddy" (who is our cat) or our cat will get called by DD's name. Yesterday I was telling DH off and called him DD's name!

My Nanna had 8 kids - 4 boys and 4 girls. I'm told that when she was mad she'd go through all the names of the same gender at least once before going through them again until getting to the right name...but when she was REALLY mad, she'd go through all the kids names, boys and girls.

[Melly01]

My Nanna had 8 kids - 4 boys and 4 girls. I'm told that when she was mad she'd go through all the names of the same gender at least once before going through them again until getting to the right name...but when she was REALLY mad, she'd go through all the kids names, boys and girls.

Mum used to do that with us. I'm the youngest of 5, everyone in our family had a name starting with M, including the 2 dogs, so she'd sometimes have to go through all the names until she got the right one. And didn't want us butting trying to tell her which name to say!

When I was pregnant I vowed that I would not: give DS a dummy, let him sleep in my bed, breastfeed past 6 months, let DS have a bottle past the age of 2, say "Because I said so" or "Stay where I can see you" (how do they know where I can see them? haha). And yet, I do, or I have done all of those things.
Although I do try to say, "Stay where you can see me, if you can't see me, you need to come back here", but sometimes in my rush and haziness I say the other one.

I must say though, some of them turned out to be good, like the BF for longer than I'd imagined, and letting him co sleep. But it's strange how many ideas that I had about raising children changed once I had DS.

[Mother Goose]

OMG! I always swore I'd never make my children sing whilst i was in the loo so i'd know they were there! I used to think it gross when I was growing up... but at the show on the weekend, there wasn't enough room for DD in the cubicle with me so I made her sing so I knew she was still there!

[Ca Plane Pour Moi]

The only hated one I do is "I want never gets".

I do not say "Because, that's why" - I always give DS a full answer. Not age-appropriate, maybe, but a full answer. I do a countdown with DS and he has learnt to come to me when I start with "5...4..." and if he doesn't only a minor tantrum when I pick him up and take him away.

I don't smack DS but have asked him if he wants a smack before now... don't know where that came from! When he's beating me up I do tap his hand and when he howls about it I explain that no-one likes to be hit... but he's drawing blood on me and hurting and isn't stopping when I ask, so I reckon that's fair play from me. I don't hurt him - in fact you can barely feel the tap. I've done it to DH and he wonders what the fuss is about.

Or I'll tell DS "after lunch" so he immediatly sits in his seat and tells me "lunch NOW. I want lunch now. Please lunch. Lunch then park. Lunch time." It's 8.30 and we're waiting for the gas man this morning.

"I can't hear you unless you say please." I hate that! I would hate to hear it. I hate to hear me saying it. Yet it is still said. Why?

[Mother Goose]

Oh! LZ you just reminded me of one! DD has started to say "It's not fair" (over weird things) and I sometimes find myself saying "Life's not meant to be fair"

[Erin_25]

Oh I often find myself saying to DS "NO, see you said no to me now I say it to you, that's how it works"!!! WTF!!!
My mum laughs everytime I say to DS "do you want a smack"....she always comes out with "oh yes please"he,he.

[Amaunet]

I didn't know If I could add to this thread - but I can now - I just PICKED DS's NOSE!!! ewwww

[rennkobi]

my mum always used to say to us "you can have one & one only" sounded fair to me. So i started using that with my 4 yr old DS, it used to work, now he says "so i can have two?" my reply is "no you can have one & one only" "but mum one & one is two!!!! darn i forgot he is learing to count & add.
needless to say i now tell him "you can have one only".

Rennkobi

[sasha]

Oh, you're all fantastic. Thanks for the great laughs!

[smiles4u]

Jodi ... ha ha my 3year old DD, same here I started to say to her when she started Kinder " Oh, your a big kinder girl now " ... so, when i say " You can do or have that WHEN your a big girl " she looks at my confused & grumpy and answers " But Mummy i'm a BIG girl NOW ", LOL

Tink ... me too i get scared the more i hear ' more ' things come out of my mouth sounding like my own Mum !!

I find i say to DD ' Maybe if your a good girl you can have or do that ' ... But when i think back as a child & teen when my Mum said " No " it meant No ... BUT when she said " Maybe " i knew it was a sure sign of YES

[Doing my best]

I always said I would not use the tv just to keep DD amused. I was so sick with a cold/flu thing last week when DH went back to work, I resorted to letting her watch 'In the Night Garden' numerous times just so I could veg on the couch.. Now I get handed the remotes with an almost 2yo saying 'Nee Nok' Ooops.

She was quite sick last night from the dust storm so it is keeping her quite today until I know she is back to her normal self!

[Vixstar]

The only hated one I do is "I want never gets".

That is my famous line! I have even said it to my selfish, self thinking BIL...just so my kids saw that adults need to use manners and ask nicely too!

I did once say to DS#1 one night when he would not stay in bed that he could go sleep in the dogs bed and Diesel (aka the dog) could sleep in his nice comfy bed.....he was READY to swap in a millisecond. Woops! lol

xxxx