What is your parenting pet peeve?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have a Facebook friend who takes everything her kid does as an opportunity to lecture other parents.

Look at what Larlo ate for lunch - kids need to be exposed to all sorts of foods and given no choice but what the adults eat. #nokidsmenu #pickyeatersnotallowed

Look at Larlo's arts and crafts project. Kids should be given every opportunity to practice their vocabulary - even in art!

And on and on. Why she feels the need to lecture the rest of us I don't know.

Oh I'd have to hide this from my news feed. Yikes!

[Anonymous]

There is a direct correlation between "uniqueness" of child's name and annoying-ness of the parents.

Brayden Stone
Emmalee Grace
Reede Baxter
Jayden Alexis

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Bento box lunch photo on Facebook
Conspicuous praise of "good sharing!" on playground
"Everything he does is GIFTED and ADVANCED"
Dresses daughter in overly fou-fou clothes every. day.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There is a direct correlation between "uniqueness" of child's name and annoying-ness of the parents.

Brayden Stone
Emmalee Grace
Reede Baxter
Jayden Alexis

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Bento box lunch photo on Facebook
Conspicuous praise of "good sharing!" on playground
"Everything he does is GIFTED and ADVANCED"
Dresses daughter in overly fou-fou clothes every. day.

Im the PP who posted about how I hate when parents shout their child's unique snowflake name on the playground to showcase how clever they are. The above names are perfect examples of that. You never hear a classic name being shouted. It's always an Ainsley Rosabelle or Hayden Baxter. Ugh.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Parents who call anything before kindergarten "school."

If your child is under the age of 5, he is not going to school. He is going to preschool, or daycare or moms' day out. Stop trying to justify it by calling it school - drop him off, let him have fun and socialize and do what you've got to/want to do. It's ok. Really.

Kids think of it as school and know that word.

Get a job. You're so pathetic and transparent.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There is a direct correlation between "uniqueness" of child's name and annoying-ness of the parents.

Brayden Stone
Emmalee Grace
Reede Baxter
Jayden Alexis

=

Bento box lunch photo on Facebook
Conspicuous praise of "good sharing!" on playground
"Everything he does is GIFTED and ADVANCED"
Dresses daughter in overly fou-fou clothes every. day.

Im the PP who posted about how I hate when parents shout their child's unique snowflake name on the playground to showcase how clever they are. The above names are perfect examples of that. You never hear a classic name being shouted. It's always an Ainsley Rosabelle or Hayden Baxter. Ugh.

"Ainsley Rosabelle" is makin' me LOL!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I'm Being A Great and Conscientious Mom Voice (hoping you will overhear me and be amazed at what a good parent I am) :

"Henry! You jumped all the way across that hopscotch pad! Way to go! Awesome job, buddy. Can you count to ten now? (Loudly and slowly counts to ten) TERRIFIC! Want a snack? How about WATER AND KALE CHIPS, your favorite! You're very welcome, thank you for your using your manners SO NICELY. Oh no no we don't wipe our mouths on our shirts. What do we do? NAPKIN, YES. Very good. What should we do next? Library then practice writing letters? YOU GOT IT LIL BUDDY!"

hahaha...this cracked me up!

OMG, I'm dying seeing myself in these. I swear, I'm not doing it for other people though! I just don't know how to talk to a toddler!

Pissing my pants funny! Pitch perfect, girl. Loving this!!!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There is a direct correlation between "uniqueness" of child's name and annoying-ness of the parents.

Brayden Stone
Emmalee Grace
Reede Baxter
Jayden Alexis

=

Bento box lunch photo on Facebook
Conspicuous praise of "good sharing!" on playground
"Everything he does is GIFTED and ADVANCED"
Dresses daughter in overly fou-fou clothes every. day.

Im the PP who posted about how I hate when parents shout their child's unique snowflake name on the playground to showcase how clever they are. The above names are perfect examples of that. You never hear a classic name being shouted. It's always an Ainsley Rosabelle or Hayden Baxter. Ugh.

I actually don't mind the bento box pictures. I just like looking at pictures of food I guess and there is something so satisfying about how organized it all is

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Why do you judge me? I sing to my kids all the time, I praise good behavior in public, I demand good naps, and I introduced variety so that they eat more than just PB&J with goldfish.

I work damn hard every day I stay home to create boundaries that benefit the kids and myself. So yeah when I pat myself on the back for not being a lazy parent while you sit around and zone out I judge you too.

Pat yourself on the back, sure...but are you really so insecure/lonely/needy that you need a stranger to notice you and pat you on the back, too? It's the loud/conspicuous parenting we are judging, not the authentic parenting moments.

Are you so miserable that you stalk these forum to post the same type of thing constantly. You are a jealous, miserable and unhappy person. I assume you are one of the DW that is in the sexless marriage posts where your DH won't touch you with a 6" pole...

She wishes it were a 6" pole....sadly, I'm guessing it's more like a Randy Marsh situation.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:People who comment loudly on one child's striking curly hair while ignoring the siblings with straight hair who are standing right there. Also people who do this for the blue-eyed child but ignore the brown-eyed one. It's so self-indulgent and rude.

Similarly, everyone who wants to tell me HOW MUCH my kids look like me and "well, I am sure thtere's some DH in there... Somewhere..."
Bc my kids really dont look like me at all. I gave them some generically ethnic features but if you really look at them, they look exactly like DH and FIL with an ethnic "layer" on top.
My own parents do this and it drives me up a freakin wall.

We're an interracial family and ended up with one kid who looks like my race and one that looks like DH's race. Neither kid "looks" biracial (assuming the definition of looking biracial is a mix of both races). It drives me nuts when people I only know casually comment with "Are you sure Dad was involved with this one? wink wink" or "You'd never even know Mom was involved with her creation!" Our families know better, AND both children have features from both parents, it's primarily skin color and hair texture that make them look like a particular race. Which is pretty much all people see, although they would say otherwise.

It really bothers me how people feel free to comment and speculate on the kids' physical appearances. Also, all the freaking weird things that people say about curls, or worse, how they reach out and run their hands through them and pull them. Keep your weird theories and especially your filthy hands to yourselves. I didn't realize how weird people are about curly hair until I had a kid with a head of curls.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Parents who call anything before kindergarten "school."

If your child is under the age of 5, he is not going to school. He is going to preschool, or daycare or moms' day out. Stop trying to justify it by calling it school - drop him off, let him have fun and socialize and do what you've got to/want to do. It's ok. Really.

Huh. I call it school, because my kid insists that she is "going to school." They do have PK curriculum, but that's not how I justify it to myself. It's just what we call it in our house.

[Anonymous]

I don't like it when others force their children to share a toy or whatever with my child when I'm actively trying to teach her that not everything is hers. When I'm saying, " no, that's Tristan's toy and he doesn't have to share if he doesn't want to" it would be great to not be contradicted by Tristan's well intentioned parent.

It's nice to share and everything, but it's even nicer to learn how to deal with not getting what you want all the time.

[Anonymous]

My daughter's new preschool teacher barking instructions at me during drop-off and pickup like I'm one of her 3 year olds. It's harmless and I let it slide, but her manner is not quite appropriate for adult conversation (not to mention the tuition we're paying).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Parents who call anything before kindergarten "school."

If your child is under the age of 5, he is not going to school. He is going to preschool, or daycare or moms' day out. Stop trying to justify it by calling it school - drop him off, let him have fun and socialize and do what you've got to/want to do. It's ok. Really.

I find it so bizarre that anyone cares what I call it. I'm not trying nor do I need to justify anything. For the most part, my kids love going to daycare/preschool/preK and now public school. Sometimes I'll call it "school" and sometimes "daycare," and I don't really think about it either way. I don't pine to be a SAHM and I don't judge you for being a SAHP. I really couldn't care less what you do in your family. I go to work and drop them off at daycare/school because that's what needs to be done in my family and that's what I've chosen to do. ::shrug::

Stop perpetuating the "mommy wars." It's just unnecessary and most people outside of the interwebs don't really care.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Parents who call anything before kindergarten "school."

If your child is under the age of 5, he is not going to school. He is going to preschool, or daycare or moms' day out. Stop trying to justify it by calling it school - drop him off, let him have fun and socialize and do what you've got to/want to do. It's ok. Really.

Huh. I call it school, because my kid insists that she is "going to school." They do have PK curriculum, but that's not how I justify it to myself. It's just what we call it in our house.

Oh, PP1 again, who gets up in arms at everyone not calling it "daycare." Get over it, OP. My daughter's preschool is school; it says so right in the name. It's right there after "pre-." And guess what? Her pre-primary program was ALSO school (I know! The horror!), because they had a curriculum and it was at a Montessori SCHOOL! Once again ... right there in the name. I'm not sure why you're so hot to correct everyone and call their children's early school "daycare" - you clearly seem to mean it as an insult. Which it isn't - daycare is great and a necessity for most.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Parents who call anything before kindergarten "school."

If your child is under the age of 5, he is not going to school. He is going to preschool, or daycare or moms' day out. Stop trying to justify it by calling it school - drop him off, let him have fun and socialize and do what you've got to/want to do. It's ok. Really.

Kids think of it as school and know that word.

Get a job. You're so pathetic and transparent.

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