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

I don't think I could have known about the little changes you go through when you go from expecting a baby to having that baby in your arms, and sometimes I catch myself doing stuff that, before having children, I never thought I would do.

For example, I have licked my thumb and wiped my children's faces when they were dirty (we were out, and I was getting them out of the car and noticed how grubby they were!)

And the other night, Sebastian took hold of this book we've been reading every night for the past week, so you know he really likes it, and tore a big tear in about 5 of the pages, and I said, "Sebastian!! Whatever would possess you to do such a thing?!!" Because, obviously, we live in Victorian England and usually speak like that :lol: plus he's 2.5 years old and can totally understand. He did get the point that I was upset, though.

Generally, I figure I'm fairly "me" when it comes to being around my children, but sometimes I just feel like I must be channelling some weird parent spirit -- anyone else ever get that feeling?!

PMSL, that's very funny!
There're loads of things I do that I told myself I wouldn't :rolleyes: The most recent one was me telling Natty "not today, darling". I still remember getting sooooo cross when my mum said that to me when I asked for something. Well if not today, when? But I know I must have said it a fair bit because Natty has started repeating it. *Sigh* Fail. LOL!

with the step-munchkins the words "you'll understand when you're older" - WTF and where does that come from

Oh my favourite cop out

'wait until your Daddy gets home'.

DS neither understands it or cares and moreso just gets excited about when Daddy will be home.

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LOL punks, I say to Nina all the time 'when you're a big girl you can do that'. Since turning 3 though she thinks she's a big girl, so every time I say it, she replies 'but I'm a big girl now'. Oh, and she thinks she's big enough to drive the car also :rolleyes:

Oh man, I find myslef sounding more like my mother every day. It scares me!

The latest one which made me shudder was last Friday when I said "If your friends jumped off a bridge would you jump too?" :rolleyes: I have also been known to say 'when you pay the bills you can do whatever you want!' WHY do these things come out of my mouth before i can think of it?

Great thread, was thinking about starting something like this some time ago. There are sooooo many things that I do that make me cringe & think of my Mum LOL. Then there are those things as a person without children I would never have pictured myself doing........like running around on the back lawn like an aeroplane singing without a care what neighbour is watching LOL!

When we pull up at the post office now DS always pipes up "mummy with be 2 seconds"!!! he,he.

But really never pictured myself,

Worried about when my child had last done a poo!
Dancing around the kitchen to the wiggles everyday!
Knowing all the words to things such as the Thomas theme song & that James is no5 & Percy no6!

Oooooh sooo many more but I'm about to be late for playgroup.

P.s I am famous for the "go ask your father"!!!!!!!!! I remember that was very much from my childhood.

Ohhh LOVE this thread!

"Because I said so" is something I've found myself saying lately... Oh, and I once told DD the swings were broken for every park we drove past because I just wanted to get home :redface: I'll come back with more if I think of them ;)

Pretty much everything!! All the things you've mentioned - "because I said so" etc and worse still "but you're the oldest so you should know better" :redface:

Not to mention breastfeeding beyond 12 months, bfing on the floor of a shop, having a baby in bed with me :o using cloth nappies and giving up so many things to put my kids first. Who'd have thought!!

I've done the lick the thumb and clean the face thing. I've said "do you want a smack?"
I'm sure there will be a million more things I do or say as DD gets older

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

"you've got until I count to 3 young lady!!!"

"eat all your dinner! There are starving children who would kill for a meal like yours"

"Get in your bed and stay there!"

yeh all the above and many many more

Sometimes I say something that my mum used to say to me.. and I remembered how much I hated it

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

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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! :lol:

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.

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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.

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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! :lol:

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.

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! :rofl:

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?

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" :o

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.

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

Ive done that *hangs head in shame*
When DS was first born and had a terrible cold we didnt have a Fess nose sucker thing so XP took him for a shower and sucked the boogie out of his nose so he could breathe. Ewwww.

:doh: I've just done another one....I said 'in a minute' about 10 minutes ago and DD has just asked how long a minute is :lol:

I have also been known to pick my babies noses. They tend to pick their own noses these days though lol

I say quite regularly - "i'll give you what for!!". I wouldn't even know how to give 'what for'. !! lol.

I also have to admit to being a bubba nose picker. I would say to dd3 'i'll get it' and then she started copying while picking her nose ' i git it".

:) MG growing up for me it was "it's not fair" then Dad would reply "neither is a black man's bottom" - not terribly PC but annoyed us the second time he came out with it. And all the times after that too.

I only pick DS's nose with a tissue over my fingers - and only so he can breathe when he has a cold. But I have done that once or twice.

MG growing up for me it was "it's not fair" then Dad would reply "neither is a black man's bottom" - not terribly PC but annoyed us the second time he came out with it. And all the times after that too.

My Dad used to say that too ,and i have to admit that everytime one of the kids say it, it's the first thing that enters my mind (but of course i never say it)

As a child I used to dordle when getting ready and my Dad used to yell out "It's not a fashion parade you know"....DD1 is off with the fairies most days and she takes forever getting ready...and yes I have made this comment to her on a number of occassions!!! Like she knows what a fashion parade is anyway!!

I just thought of another one...When I want the girls to stop doing some thing I start counting 1,2,3...In response both my girls start to count with me..

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!!!! :clap: darn i forgot he is learing to count & add. :rofl:
needless to say i now tell him "you can have one only".

Rennkobi :loveshower:

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

Hehe some of these are really funny. I'm glad I'm not alone in this department.

I have asked DD "do you want a smack" and she has answered "Yes?" : not quite knowing what it is but anything sounds better than cranky Mum! :rofl:

I'm also guilty of "in a minute" even though she is under two and has no concept of time.

I'm sure there are heaps more I do but I've conveniently forgotten for now :)

Jodi ... ha ha my 3year old DD, same here :D 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 :dance:

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!

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i'll give you what for!!". I wouldn't even know how to give 'what for'. !! lol.

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Similar, dd will be screaming the place down for absolutely no reason and a couple of times i've said 'if you don't stop that i'll give you somethign to cry about' and then i think to myself errrr no you won't and you know it. hahah stupid things we say.

Heather- Totally get you about the In the Night Garden. Dd' watches the same bloody dvd of dora like 6 times a day some days.. you know why? Cause she literally stands in front of the tv and doesn't move till it's finished (and it's a burnt dvd with like maybe 4 episodes on it) she is obsessed Dora, and will stand there and dance and sing and I can do my housework!

Heather ... yeh i hear you, my 3year old DD has been allowed to replay the ITNG for the same reason ... i feel better at the time in doing so BUT so guilty after JUST cause i promised i wouldn't DO such a thing ... Could beat myself up but then i think there could be worse things parents are doing and then i feel better again in a strange way !! ... By the way Heather your DD sounds just adorable (i miss that toddler chatter) :D

I find myself saying "Do you want to go to your bedroom? Because I'll put you there if you keep being naughty!" and DS simply says ok and off he goes. I mean, why wouldn't he want to go there - it's like a toy shop :rolleyes:.
I also say "Are you a baby or a big boy?" when trying to convince him to do something suitably 'big boy'. He originally fell for it and would do whatever big boys do, like eat his carrots etc. Now he just chops and changes between big boy and baby to get out of doing whatever he is meant to be doing..

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

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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

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