What is your parenting pet peeve?

[Anonymous]

Mine is when people other than my children call me "Mom." I AM NOT YOUR MOM! My own kids don't even call me that.

Yes, I know they're too lazy to remember my name among all the other names they have to know, but I hate it. What's your pet peeve?

[Anonymous]

Why are all these other kids calling you mom? I've never had that happen.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why are all these other kids calling you mom? I've never had that happen.

Adults. They think they're being cute.

[Anonymous]

I used to manage a department of about 8 people. They all called me "mom", even though I was a single 30-something without kids, and some of them were older than me. I loved when we were traveling, and a 50 year old guy yelled "mom!" across the parking lot, and I answered .

[Anonymous]

People who think they know it all about parenting. We're all trying to do the best we can with the kids we were given.

Oh, and I agree on the Mom thing, too!

[Anonymous]

????
What do your kids call you? "Sir"?
I love when kids other than my own call me Mom. I take it as a compliment.
My pet peeve is my ex-husband's new wife - who feels the need to constantly dialogue with me about my strengths and weaknesses as a parent. My kids are teens. She does not have any of her own. She sees mine for a grand total of 4 days a month. But damn does she know everything. God i hate her.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I used to manage a department of about 8 people. They all called me "mom", even though I was a single 30-something without kids, and some of them were older than me. I loved when we were traveling, and a 50 year old guy yelled "mom!" across the parking lot, and I answered .

That's weird.

I don't expect my kid's doctor, etc., to learn my name, but if I consistently worked with the same group of 8 people, I would expect them to use my name, not a title that doesn't even apply.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why are all these other kids calling you mom? I've never had that happen.

Adults. They think they're being cute.

They don't think they're being cute; they think they can't possibly remember everyone's name, especially since child's last name may not be adult's last name.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why are all these other kids calling you mom? I've never had that happen.

Adults. They think they're being cute.

It's not a pet peeve of mine but I do find it strange. It's happened to me at least twice at my daughter's daycare. I've had a little boy say to me that he wished I was his mom which I found so sad.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why are all these other kids calling you mom? I've never had that happen.

Adults. They think they're being cute.

They don't think they're being cute; they think they can't possibly remember everyone's name, especially since child's last name may not be adult's last name.

+1
When they can't remember you're name they call you "mom".

[Anonymous]

Parents who think that every "good" thing their kid does is because THEY did the right thing. News flash: some kids are good eaters, some are good sleepers, some listen well.

Not all of these things are related to your natural childbirth, crying/not crying it out, sleep training/not sleep training.

Sometimes you just get lucky, and if you get too cocky and think your prenatal yoga ensured a good-natured baby, I'm going to laugh all day long when #2 is a high needs basket case.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Parents who think that every "good" thing their kid does is because THEY did the right thing. News flash: some kids are good eaters, some are good sleepers, some listen well.

Not all of these things are related to your natural childbirth, crying/not crying it out, sleep training/not sleep training.

Sometimes you just get lucky, and if you get too cocky and think your prenatal yoga ensured a good-natured baby, I'm going to laugh all day long when #2 is a high needs basket case.

I agree with this to a point. I do think my kids are good sleepers partially by nature and partially because we were, and continue to be, devoted to them sleeping. My almost 4.5 year old still naps and goes to bed for 12 hours at 7:30. 22 month old does the same schedule and we have a two blissful hours of a quiet house every day. People have rolled their eyes about our devotion to naptime - grandparents were annoyed when we wouldn't "just stay another hour!" etc, but we both have time to work out, have sex, on and on. Yes, we lucked out to a degree, but we pushed it consciously.

That said, I do agree that the parents with the naturally easy, well behaved kid who take full credit and blame others with more complicated kids for their "crappy parenting" are a joke. And mine are pretty easy.

[Anonymous]

People who talk, talk, talk to their infants in the produce section. "Look, it's an apple. Apples are red." Shut up already.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Parents who think that every "good" thing their kid does is because THEY did the right thing. News flash: some kids are good eaters, some are good sleepers, some listen well.

Not all of these things are related to your natural childbirth, crying/not crying it out, sleep training/not sleep training.

Sometimes you just get lucky, and if you get too cocky and think your prenatal yoga ensured a good-natured baby, I'm going to laugh all day long when #2 is a high needs basket case.

I agree with this to a point. I do think my kids are good sleepers partially by nature and partially because we were, and continue to be, devoted to them sleeping. My almost 4.5 year old still naps and goes to bed for 12 hours at 7:30. 22 month old does the same schedule and we have a two blissful hours of a quiet house every day. People have rolled their eyes about our devotion to naptime - grandparents were annoyed when we wouldn't "just stay another hour!" etc, but we both have time to work out, have sex, on and on. Yes, we lucked out to a degree, but we pushed it consciously.

That said, I do agree that the parents with the naturally easy, well behaved kid who take full credit and blame others with more complicated kids for their "crappy parenting" are a joke. And mine are pretty easy.

That's great but if you didn't have nappers, there would be no nap to be devoted to. You are lucky. Enjoy!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:People who talk, talk, talk to their infants in the produce section. "Look, it's an apple. Apples are red." Shut up already.

OMG yes. they think it's so cute to talk to their kids loudly, everywhere. YOU CANT HAVE A SIP OF MOMMYS COFFEE, TEEHEE!!!!