Parenting pet peeves?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Parents that let their kids watch tablets or a show on their phone in the shopping cart at the grocery store. Also, parents who let their elementary-school-aged child ride in the cart at the grocery store. Both are so infantilizing.

I’ve let my elem kid ride in the Costco cart lol. Not the grocery store though. Actually makes Costco more enjoyable for me and she liked feeling like a little kid for 20 mins. No harm done.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My pet peeve is all these horrible boy-moms in this area.

My pet peeve is all these horrible shallow girl-mms in this area.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Obsessing about food

+1 if your child has intolerances to multiple things, just know that no one wants to invite them to socialize ever

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Obsessing about food

Yes, this! My SIL is an educated woman who forces her kids to finish their plates and threatens no dessert if they do not finish. (I have to leave the room when she starts spoon feeding her not-hungry 5 year old.) Except when they don’t finish they get dessert anyway. So eating with them becomes this pointless never ending battle over food.

And to stay on the food theme, I am anti-snack. So many people ply their kids with empty calorie crap throughout the day, and the kids expect a constant stream of food and don’t understand true hunger signals, and of course the kids don’t want to eat real food at dinner.

Don’t even get me started on “snack sign up” sheets. I was thrilled when they went away with covid, but they’re back now. I am a curmudgeon who judges people who initiate community snacks.

you sound a little obsessive yourself, though?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is a really mean spirited thread.

+1 my pet peeve is how mean this site has gotten.

Add me to that +1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Obsessing about food

+1 if your child has intolerances to multiple things, just know that no one wants to invite them to socialize ever

So you are excluding my child because they have nut allergies?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Obsessing about food

+1 if your child has intolerances to multiple things, just know that no one wants to invite them to socialize ever

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I'm ok with avoiding nuts or some specific fruit but when it starts stacking up and is too general, find someone else to host your kid. I hate to hear all the dietary requests and being vague is even worse than a straight no gluten. You're not being helpful by saying "oh just generally healthy foods or else they'll get sick but they won't eat xyz and not too much carbs or salt" I'm not a dietician, I'm not serving a meal and changing my shopping habits so they won't be tempted by something in my pantry because that is exactly the only kid who will raid my food for the things they're denied at home

[Anonymous]

I don't like or ever entertained one-on-one playdates, where other kids were not allowed to join because Larlo was having a "play date". What the hell is this? Are the kids a couple? Why can't other kids join? I found it very mean and weird.

Drop-off playdates at home when I do not know the family well. Hell, NO! I do not want the responsibility of disciplining other people's children. Mom's were always present and socializing with me in another room and the kids played with each other.

Opening birthday gifts in front of everyone. It is the most uncouth behavior IMO. A waste of playtime and a display of greed and bad manners.

Lack of reciprocity by other parents. Unwillingness to share snacks etc. You need to have the manners to offer food and drinks to others too. No one want your juice box, but you need to offer at least.

For kids in diapers - please change the diaper as soon as your infant/toddler shits in it. They are stinky and it is completely gross that you continue to let them be dirty in company. Also, please bring a dirty diaper bag to take the soiled diapers back.

Don't socialize when your kid is contagious or sick.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The unbelievably spoiling girl moms.

...examples?

[Anonymous]

Other folks who are judgy - they are the worst!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Obsessing about food

+1 if your child has intolerances to multiple things, just know that no one wants to invite them to socialize ever

So you are excluding my child because they have nut allergies?

I said multiple allergies and yes, if I have to choose between the mom with the kid who cheerfully eats strawberries and Gogurts and ice cream versus the kid whose mom hovers over ingredient lists, guess who wins

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Obsessing about food

+1 if your child has intolerances to multiple things, just know that no one wants to invite them to socialize ever

So you are excluding my child because they have nut allergies?

I said multiple allergies and yes, if I have to choose between the mom with the kid who cheerfully eats strawberries and Gogurts and ice cream versus the kid whose mom hovers over ingredient lists, guess who wins

I will happily cater to food allergies, but I won’t make arrangements for picky eaters. Your kid won’t eat pizza or mac ‘n cheese or a sandwich or an apple? I can’t.