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Friday, September 24, 2010
This is a sponsored post from 8th Continent and BlogHer.
I have had MANY a parenting fail.
As in, MANY.
I like to title this one, "Why bother with the birds and the bees when you can just scare the hell out of them?"
8th Continent put out a line of videos on youtube that SLAY ME, PEOPLE. Check them out,(and follow on Twitter) they are all fabulous though my favorite is below.“Son, before we finish eating, Mom and Dad need to talk to you about the rules regarding our bedroom door. What is our rule?”
“That we have to knock when we come in.”
“Yes. YOU MUST KNOCK BEFORE COMING IN. Now, you have been having a BIG
problem keeping that rule. You almost never knock and it’s gotten to the point that we need to talk about it. For example, tonight when Mom and Dad were laying down, and you kept coming in, did you knock first? Even after we reminded you?”
“No, but I am always just tempted to open the door and come in. Knocking takes a long time.”
“Well, here is the thing, son. I need to find a way to explain this so you will understand why it’s important to knock. So, I’ll be blunt. A lot of the time that Mom and Dad are in their bedroom, they are NAKED. Not only NAKED, but Mom and Dad also like to KISS while NAKED. We like to KISS NAKED A LOT. If you are going to keep barging into our room without knocking, I need to let you know that there is a very good possibility that you are going to see a lot of NAKED KISSING. Unless you knock. Then we have time to not be NAKED and stop KISSING. So…what do you think?”(Blink. Blink. Blinkity-blink-blink.)
“I don’t think that I will ever be tempted to come into your room ever again.”
“Good plan. Finish your carrots.”
How can you watch this and not chuckle?
All of us have done something similar, you know?
I love this statement from 8th Continent, "We know it's not easy being a mom. That's why we salute motherhood for what it is: doing your best every day, and trying not to screw up too much. Of course, nobody's perfect. So we've decided to provide an outlet for your little mistakes, one that just might earn you some peace of mind and embraces the "Good try, mom" moments in all of us."
Which is awesome as WE ARE FULL OF THEM.
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At 4:24 PM ,
Jamie Lynn said...
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My kids are young, so I haven't had big things yet- just tons of little ones. but I let my daughter eat cheerios off the floor, even though it's not even remotely clean. And I secretly get annoyed with my kids for asking me to read to them all the time. Even though I know it's great for their development, I'm starting to hate their books :)
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One of my biggest fails to date would have to be when my daughter started 1st grade. She went from Half Day Kindergarten to all day school in 1st grade. I thought school started at 8:55 every day and got out at 3:55 on Monday through Thursday and 1:35 on early day (usually Friday).
Imagine my horror and the dirty nasty looks I got from the teacher waiting with my daughter and the other little boy in carpool when I arrived to the empty school parking lot at 3:50 and found out school got out at 3:35!! I thought I was going to be there 5 minutes early - um nope!! First day of a new school year and I was 15 minutes LATE to get them from school!
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Out running errands, my one yr old puked. I had no change of clothes so we stopped at a consignment shop. I took her in in just her diaper and bought her an outfit, dodging looks from clerks and shoppers. We got back on the rad and my baby kept saying, "click it click it?"
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I've done this with both my kids. We all know kids look everywhere but where they're going, and usually I watch for them. But at least once per kid, I'm distracted and my first walked face first into a light pole in a walmart parking lot, my second into a brick wall. Each time I couldn't help but laugh. I'm a terrible mom!
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I failed as a parent when my kids kept taking thier coats off in winter. I finally gave up when it was a bit chilly out in trying to keep thier coats on.
We went to Kmart and a little old lady took me to task since they didnt have jackets on. I told her that I would put jackets on them if she shopped with us and kept picking up the jackets whenever they took them off and threw them on the floor.
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At 2:41 PM ,
Pets and their people said...
When my daughter was 4 she wanted to be a california raisin for Halloween. I made the costume out of trash bags stuffed with newspaper to to give it the wrinkled look, tights and purple face paint. It was a cool night, but mu poor daughter was drenched in sweat an hour into trick or treating. The bags were too hot and she was sweating buckets. I ended up cutting trick or treating short and taking her home to dry off before she caught pneumonia from her wet hair and soaked clothing under the homemade suit. She was not happy with me to say the least and still reminds me whenever she can.
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Last year, my sons school had early dismissal and I had forgotten all about it. I had gone out and the bus driver, not seeing my car in our driveway, didn't drop my son off. Instead she called the school, who got hold of me on my cell. I was so embarrassed. I would have felt alot worse if she did drop him off and he had no way of getting in.
I felt like such a bad mother that day.
Thanks so much.
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At 4:27 PM ,
MOMFOREVERANDEVER said...
been thru it all- but the the latest my eldest son will not let me forget and its really not that bad- really..
we were shopping for work clothes- he is college btw and he said he has to go and I said do you have to go potty and a lady heard it- so what was wrong with that? He says I ask him do you have to go poopoo or potty- hey he will always be my baby -
Mine is a locked door story also. Only it's a "grandma of the year" story.
I 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.
It was very nerve racking for me, but my grandson had a blast.
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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 itfast enough! I still feel like such an idiot for that one!
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At 9:31 PM ,
Super Frugalette said...
My 4 year old was ogling those decked out shopping carts at the grocery store. I was in a hurry and didn't want to go across the store to get one. In the yogurt section I realized that my son was missing...I shouted in my loudest voice "has anyone seen a 4 year old in a brown coat?". He was near one of those shopping cars that some other kids were in! I felt both stupid and grateful at the same time and relieved that I didn't know anyone who was staring at me.
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At 10:46 PM ,
Leah @ A Butterfly In My Stomach said...
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
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I remember one day meeting my husband for lunch when my son was in the 1st grade. We were enjoying our time together when my cell phone rang. It was my neighbor asking me if I forgot that today was early dismissal. Of course I had forgotten. Thankfully my son had the good sense to go to her home. She told me to stay and enjoy my lunch and my son would be fine until I got home.
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At 7:02 AM ,
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I locked myself out of the house, but fortulately I could get in to the garage. I got the ladder and checked at all the windows to see if by chance I had left one unlocked. I found one and opened it and climbed on the ladder and crawled throug. My grandkids thought it looked like fun, so they had to climb through the window too.
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At 10:29 AM ,
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Returning from a hospital clinic appointment I got in the car before looking for the car keys: couldn't find them in my purse, pockets, glove box, under mats, up on the visors... Got out. Went back to the hospital to ask for help. Returned with a friendly hospital handyman who simply pointed to them handing in the outside lock of the car door!
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At 10:43 AM ,
snowluvnferret said...
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mine is a babysitting mishap. I was watching my niece who was 2 and she was getting on and off the couch. I kept my hand nearby in case she fell but she was fine. I went to get her a book and heard a thud. She fell off the couch and hit her head. I was so upset..she cried a little then forgot all about it. Just part of being a kid.
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At 12:49 PM ,
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Chisum's Crew said...
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At 3:30 PM ,
jemscout425 said...
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As a mother of an 11 year old, I have had time to have many parenting fails. Probably one of my worst ones in awhile was going to the doctor and she asking me if I had been giving him his medicine. I looked at her with a complete dazed look and she explained that he was Vitamin D. deficient. I had been forgetting to give him his meds.
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I 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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I gave my 5 year old a handful of cashews. He dropped one and my two year old picked it up and plopped it into his mouth. Within seconds he was spitting it out, and taking his hands and trying to wipe out his mouth. Everywhere he touched he immediately broke out in hives. Yes we found out the hard way that he is allergic to nuts.
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At 11:49 AM ,
EMAIL ewalsh40@gmail.com said...
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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. I guess she wasn't just over tired.
ajolly1456 at gmail dot com -
Early one the morning my teenage daughter informed me that she would be needing some tampons from the store.
When 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.
jweezie43[at]gmail[dot]com -
I liked your way of handling your son coming into your room unannounced. Might have to use that one!
My worst fail was having a snowball fight with my family then accidentally my wife and daughter 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.
From then on the only winter activities we participate in are sledding and snowboarding.
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At 5:47 PM ,
Rikk Connelly said...
One? One?? Pick One?
I'm not June Cleever, sorry.
My three are teens now but I can remember a million mistakes... and still counting.
My kids were taking a music class and I was late. The day I was late, my daughter had to sing and I ended up yelling at her as we walked in.
While she was standing there, she started to cry. So her first recital was crying through it becuase Mommy was mad at her.
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At 7:58 PM ,
AbstractRose said...
My "Parent Fail" moment that comes to mind is when my son was suppose to be in the Christmas music program at school where they play an instrument they were taught in school. With the holidays as busy as they are, I forgot about the program. My son was so upset and felt he let his teacher down when I let him down.
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My most recent faux-paux (?) was innocently reading my daughters Facebook Page. She had left it up on the computer and when I sat down, I looked at it. You'd have thought I searched for read her diary the way she carried on! And there was not even anything bad or interesting on the stupid Facebook Page!
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At 9:16 PM ,
paula michele said...
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. I felt so bad I cried about it. Even though they are teens now, they like to tease me about when I poisoned them. :)
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At 9:38 PM ,
guettel78 said...
I thankfully haven't had a huge fail yet, but I did have one minor shock: once I turned my back for a split second to pick up a ringing phone, only to see my little one take a tumble down a few (thankfully carpeted) stairs. We were both in shock for a few moments, but there was no harm done!
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At 11:35 PM ,
kakihara said...
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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I 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.
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At 9:35 AM ,
Charity Donovan said...
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I had 5 children very close together, all under 6 years old. When they got a little older I couldn't find any time for myself. My husband was in the military and gone for extended periods and we were far from home so no family to babysit occasionally. When it got to be too much I would go out and lock myself in the car. Now I wonder what the neighbors thought when the kids would come and knock on the car windows to get my attention.
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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!
Thanks for the giveaway!
email in blogger profile.
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At 11:39 AM ,
Barbarawr said...
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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At 12:00 PM ,
sksweeps said...
One of my mistakes was letting my ex hold my (4 mo) old daughter in the pool, without adding 'and don't let go of her' (d'uh, I didn't think I needed to say that!). He let go of her because he was playing with her hat, being silly, and under she went! Only for a second, but geez!!!
Is it any wonder she didn't want to put her head under the water for swimming lessons!?!
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At 12:04 PM ,
2kidsblogger said...
I was in a hurry and I used a mr. clean magic eraser on my son's cheek to get off some sharpie marker,... he was a little red for a few days (he didnt complain). I told my friend and she said "That's what I use to take paint off walls!??!"
oopsies!
thanks for sponsoring this.
2kidsblogger(at)gmail(dot)com -
My son is pretty young yet for any truly epic stories, but I do call him by the cat's name and vice versa. There was also the time I was convinced he had thrush, made my husband leave work early to take us to the pediatrician (I was recovering from a c-section and couldn't drive), only to find the "thrush" had mysteriously disappeared and it was actually curdled milk.
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At 4:14 PM ,
The Mother Tongue said...
One time, I was taking a nap and overslept WAY past when I was supposed to pick up my son. His kindergarten teacher finally called me 45 minutes after school was out to ask if I was coming. I hopped in the car immediately, of course, but it was a 20 minute drive.
My son wouldn't let me forget it for weeks. He'd give me a big tearful look as I dropped him off at school and say, "Mommy, are you going to remember to pick me up today?"
heatherchapman79 AT gmail DOT com -
At 4:15 PM ,
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At 4:50 PM ,
mail4rosey said...
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 a jerk. 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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At 7:41 PM ,
Just call me b said...
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When 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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At 9:59 PM ,
Janna @ Feed Your Pig said...
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While taking the trash out, I locked myself out of my house and my 2 year old son in the garage. Alone. I had no keys, no phone, and didn't know my neighbors. I finally had to go introduce myself. "Hi. We just moved in next door. Can I use your phone? My son is locked inside." Of course they were in a hurry and my husband didn't answer. After 30 mins of calling my son through the door to make sure he was okay, the neighbors came back with my husband on the phone.
My son was fine and my husband was in hysterics. Mom of the year, I know.