Oh! I love catching up with girlfriends & having a giggle at each others "poor" parenting skills! We love our kids, our kids love us but sometimes we don't like our kids very much & that's ok - we are human. I think it's important for kids to know when they're pushing it because it teaches them that they need to respect people's feelings & to also read body language.

My favourite story that makes me laugh is the time I ran a deep bath, grabbed a book, a glass & a bottle of wine & locked myself in the bathroom. My daughter was about 7 or 8 at the time & I heard the door handle rattle then "mum? Mum?" Sigh "yes dear?" "Mum, I can't get in, I think the doors locked" "yep! (Evil grin) it is, I locked it" "but whhyyy?" "Because you're driving my up the bloody wall & I need peace & quiet so off you go, leave me alone"

I felt terribly guilty after I had had my time out but I explained to her that sometimes mums just need time to themselves.

Another ANNOYING thing she does is whenever there's a song or program on the radio that I really want to listen too you can guarantee that's when she wants to tell me something important - it takes a lot of self control to not just turn the volume up!