What is your parenting pet peeve?

[Anonymous]

Parents and nannies who refuse to play with their child so the child comes to me and my kid looking for attention. Drives me nuts.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Parents who allow their kids to refer to adults by their first name.

People who insist their kids call me "Miss"

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Anonymous wrote:Parents who allow their kids to refer to adults by their first name.

People who insist their kids call me "Miss"

I am one of those parents. Sorry! I just do not want my DS calling adults (like librarians, teachers, our doorman, etc) by their first names. I don't have an issue with family friends if they prefer to me called by their first names.

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Anonymous wrote:I came up with another one. The I'm Too Cool for Parenting parent. They're the ones who come up with stuff like the My Kid is Being an Asshole website, or say mean spirited shit like "I am going to kill everyone in this family if school doesn't hurry up and start." It's not that we don't all think stuff like that, but they take it to such an extreme level as if they're just soooooo cool they can't even handle how lame parenting is.

We get it, you're awesome and think you're better than those of us who don't realize what a pain in the ass kids and taking care of them is. We stand in awe of how legit you are.

Amen!

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Anonymous wrote:I came up with another one. The I'm Too Cool for Parenting parent. They're the ones who come up with stuff like the My Kid is Being an Asshole website, or say mean spirited shit like "I am going to kill everyone in this family if school doesn't hurry up and start." It's not that we don't all think stuff like that, but they take it to such an extreme level as if they're just soooooo cool they can't even handle how lame parenting is.

We get it, you're awesome and think you're better than those of us who don't realize what a pain in the ass kids and taking care of them is. We stand in awe of how legit you are.

Are you familiar with GOMI? I think you would enjoy it.

[Anonymous]

The insane competitiveness of parenting. I have a "gifted" child (hate that word) and basically it was a big secret.

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Anonymous wrote:Count downs! Drives me mad!

"Loden/Annabella/Jackson/Hannah Rose (always a pretentious name)!"

"That's ONE! Loden? Loden Nathaniel? I said, 'one' and so that means that right now, you need to put that down, ok? Loden? Loden, buddy? Loden, that's two. two. Loden, I said 'two' and you know that if Mommy counts ALL the way to FIVE that there will be a time out, right? Remember? Loden? ok? Remember how we count to five and what happens, right? OK?"

OMFG! Grab you kid and pull him away! Why is this so hard? What are you teaching your kid here? Listen to me...but take your time, I'll just plead with you and try to be super friendly and patient, you don't need to really listen the first time, not when I make it all a game!

I hate you, Loden's mom!

The constant use of the name buddy. Why does EVERY dad call their kid buddy?

[Anonymous]

Many people I love dearly do this (hi, Mom!), but it irks me greatly when adults constantly tell children to "be careful" from the sidelines and narrate any potential danger to them. If you genuinely think your child is in danger, either tell them to stop or supervise them closely. Otherwise, it's not the end of the world if they occasionally trip and fall, and when they do, it irritates me to hear, "If you hadn't been running, that wouldn't have happened," or, "Be more careful next time," or "I told you you were going to get hurt," etc. etc. etc.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Count downs! Drives me mad!

"Loden/Annabella/Jackson/Hannah Rose (always a pretentious name)!"

"That's ONE! Loden? Loden Nathaniel? I said, 'one' and so that means that right now, you need to put that down, ok? Loden? Loden, buddy? Loden, that's two. two. Loden, I said 'two' and you know that if Mommy counts ALL the way to FIVE that there will be a time out, right? Remember? Loden? ok? Remember how we count to five and what happens, right? OK?"

OMFG! Grab you kid and pull him away! Why is this so hard? What are you teaching your kid here? Listen to me...but take your time, I'll just plead with you and try to be super friendly and patient, you don't need to really listen the first time, not when I make it all a game!

I hate you, Loden's mom!

The constant use of the name buddy. Why does EVERY dad call their kid buddy?

I'm guilty of this one and I don't know where it came from. I've also started doing it to my husband and my cat as well as my son. It's compulsive.

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Anonymous wrote:Many people I love dearly do this (hi, Mom!), but it irks me greatly when adults constantly tell children to "be careful" from the sidelines and narrate any potential danger to them. If you genuinely think your child is in danger, either tell them to stop or supervise them closely. Otherwise, it's not the end of the world if they occasionally trip and fall, and when they do, it irritates me to hear, "If you hadn't been running, that wouldn't have happened," or, "Be more careful next time," or "I told you you were going to get hurt," etc. etc. etc.

+1 my husband constantly says be careful and be safe.

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Anonymous wrote:Parents and nannies who refuse to play with their child so the child comes to me and my kid looking for attention. Drives me nuts.

OMG. Kids ought to be playing with each other at the park, not grownups! Cut the cord.

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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.

Yikes, I would completely unfollow her! That's annoying.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Parents and nannies who refuse to play with their child so the child comes to me and my kid looking for attention. Drives me nuts.

OMG. Kids ought to be playing with each other at the park, not grownups! Cut the cord.

But they aren't playing with other kids they try to play with me. I am playing with my kid because I want to - that is why we go to the park. I don't care that you don't play with your kid but I know I don't want to play with your kid! Encourage your child to play with other kids and stay away from adults.

[Anonymous]

Posters who tell me to "cut the cord" because I want to play catch in the park with my kid.

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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.