I don’t think these are pet peeves. They’re things you don’t like about other peoples parenting.
I hate seeing little kids guzzling caffeinated sodas… I don’t get it. But wouldn’t call it a pet peeve.

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.

Anonymous wrote:This is a really mean spirited thread.

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

This is a really mean spirited thread.

The girl mom who's Tom-boy girl likes to play rough and tumble with the boys, but who runs out and screams at the boys because it's too rough.

The unbelievably spoiling girl moms.

There’s a mom at an activity that my kid is enrolled in who seems unable to manage her perfectly normal 4-ish year old daughter. The kid wants to play around after the activity and the mom is always chatting with other parents, and then when it’s time to go, it’s inevitably 20 minutes of “Larlaaaaaa, we need to goooo. How can we leave if you’re rolling around on the flooooooooorrrrrr. If you don’t get up and walk now you’re going to lose TV time at hooooooome.” In the worst possible whiny vocal fry imaginable. Ahhhhh!!!!!

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

I don't have a pet peeve, but what's it called when I talk to a mom and they keep an eye on the kid and then suddenly scream at the kid and run to the kid.
Scares the hell out of me even though I know it's coming. I don't even know how to continue the conversation.
They even do it at home when the kid is playing just fine and would let us talk just fine. They find so many questions to ask the kid while I'm there in the middle of our conversations. Why did I even bother to come over to spend mom time.

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.

Mine is parents who don’t supervise their kids. I was at a free event at a local craft store. They do story time and then a craft. This kid was completely out of control (throwing craft supplies, writing on the wall) and the mom was busy talking to her friend. Completely clueless. I intervened it was so ridiculous. You should know your kid. If he can’t handle a situation like that, don’t put him in it and don’t leave him unsupervised!

Anonymous wrote:My pet peeve is parents judging other parents, not realizing that different kids need different approaches.

Maybe you’re on the wrong site then 😅

Obsessing about food

My pet peeve is parents judging other parents, not realizing that different kids need different approaches.

What’s yours?

One thing that drives me nuts is when parents feel the need to get into the weeds with the kids on every minute detail of every disagreement kids are having. It all usually goes smoother without it.

The second is those parents that constantly have power struggles with their kids that get outta hand, which are often because the parent decides to set some random and unnecessary ultimatum.

The third is the parents that are endlessly threatening their kids with punishments.