What's the most pathetic thing parenting has done to you

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Anonymous wrote:Using the bathroom while baby is in an Ergo carrier. Followed closely behind all the dozens of crazy places I've had to nurse and pump.

+1 But mine also had a 2-year-old who was alternating between trying to open the stall door and (loudly) asking why my underwear didn't have Mickey on them.

My close second is using the airplane bathroom while holding a 1.5-year-old and being 32 weeks pregnant. That was a tight fit!

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Baby peed on our bed. Multiple times. Still took us a week to change the sheets.

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Anonymous wrote:Having a kid sit on my lap while I poop

That's disgusting.

Maybe you poop the wrong way, because I thought this was funny and gotta-do-what-you-gotta-do.

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Anonymous wrote:I enjoy a certain protein bar every morning but they are expensive. My kids will waste them, want to taste them but spit them out or naw on the bar and ruin the coating but not actually eat it...total waste. So I've come to hiding in my master closet with my bar and coffee every morning for 10 min. I even look forward to it. Sometimes I realize for a second how pathetic it is but then remember how this is really the best solution! Anyone else have moments tha make you go "o wow this is a new low."?

It's pathetic bc you don't have enough authority to tell your kids that they are not allowed to eat your protein bars.

Seriously. Remind them that they waste the bars and offer them something else.

Yay you two PPs for trying to turn a light hearted post into some sanctimonious drivel. Do you feel better about yourselves now? Here’s a cookie for each of you.

I want a fancy bar...not a lame cookie.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Using the bathroom while baby is in an Ergo carrier. Followed closely behind all the dozens of crazy places I've had to nurse and pump.

+1 But mine also had a 2-year-old who was alternating between trying to open the stall door and (loudly) asking why my underwear didn't have Mickey on them.

My close second is using the airplane bathroom while holding a 1.5-year-old and being 32 weeks pregnant. That was a tight fit!

My son asked why I didn't have a penis in a public restroom once. It was real quiet when he said it really loudly...sigh.

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I eat my kids leftovers.

I hate wasting food and this began innocently enough. I’d cut up some peppers, the kids would eat two and leave the rest. Or they’d leave behind a big scoop of hummus. I got used to finishing it up. Then I found myself eating their leftover dinner. Pretty soon most of my diet consisted of kid scraps!

I’m finally on my way to stopping the insanity. Now, I serve myself a plate of lunch and dinner. It also helped train me to give my kids very small portions, and offer seconds if they want more.

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For me it is mental health. I know several families that have lost children in accidents in HS, college or in their 20s that I am forever in a state of anxiety of something bad happening to my kids. I am on medication to manage it. I feel I am very lucky to have married, had kids, have healthy kids etc, we are pretty average in every sphere of our lives but I still feel that it is too good to be true and feel anxiety.

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Anonymous wrote:Having a kid sit on my lap while I poop

While they nurse and I have a coffee.

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Anonymous wrote:Baby peed on our bed. Multiple times. Still took us a week to change the sheets.

Yep.


And when recovering from birth I vaguely remember it wasn’t just the baby. We layered a few towels.

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I started buying the chicken nuggets that I prefer and made kid adapt. Dinner is a breeze now. A fattening sodium clogged breeze.

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Anonymous wrote:Our entire house is asleep by 8PM, including me and DH. I just cannot keep my eyes open much later! Never thought I'd see the day when staying up until 8:30PM was "late".

Oh my gosh me too! The moms club "Moms night out" START at 8:30 and I'm like "WHY NOT MAKE IT MIDNIGHT!!!"

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Anonymous wrote:Using the bathroom while baby is in an Ergo carrier. Followed closely behind all the dozens of crazy places I've had to nurse and pump.

+1 But mine also had a 2-year-old who was alternating between trying to open the stall door and (loudly) asking why my underwear didn't have Mickey on them.

My close second is using the airplane bathroom while holding a 1.5-year-old and being 32 weeks pregnant. That was a tight fit!

My son asked why I didn't have a penis in a public restroom once. It was real quiet when he said it really loudly...sigh.

I wouldn't want to have embarassed you, but my 2yo is in a phase of praising me loudly when I successfully use the potty. Thanks, Kid.

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Anonymous wrote: I started buying the chicken nuggets that I prefer and made kid adapt. Dinner is a breeze now. A fattening sodium clogged breeze.

This isn't pathetic. It's genius!

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Anonymous wrote:Our entire house is asleep by 8PM, including me and DH. I just cannot keep my eyes open much later! Never thought I'd see the day when staying up until 8:30PM was "late".

Oh my gosh me too! The moms club "Moms night out" START at 8:30 and I'm like "WHY NOT MAKE IT MIDNIGHT!!!"

Ha! Not any of the moms I know. Move to Crofton, babe. We got you.

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My kid wanted me to come to the Christmas choir concert that was an assembly for the classes during school day. Most parents don’t come to this because we are going to see it in the evening but I was telecommute that day. I said yes. Then got on some conference calls and forgot. I showed up at school with 5 minutes left in the assembly. I lied and told my kid she couldn’t see me in the audience because I was standing behind the other moms crowded in the doorway.