Anonymous
Post 04/08/2019 13:17     Subject: What's the most pathetic thing parenting has done to you
Anonymous wrote:I get up at 5:45 on Thursdays so that I can sneak downstairs and eat breakfast alone while I watch the previous night's episode of "The Real Housewives of New York." I usually hear the pitter-patter of little feet around 6:15, and I will hastily shove bagel in my face, hit pause, and act happy to see my 3yo!


I get up earlier than usual to do this on Thursday mornings, too! I don't think of it as pathetic, though. I think of it as a genius way to get in my one guilty pleasure left.
Anonymous
Post 04/08/2019 13:10     Subject: What's the most pathetic thing parenting has done to you
Anonymous wrote:Having a kid sit on my lap while I poop


That's disgusting.
Anonymous
Post 04/08/2019 13:06     Subject: What's the most pathetic thing parenting has done to you
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."?



My mom used to hide soda from the kids because we would drink them too quickly. The soda would magically appear on the night we ordered or made pizza.
Anonymous
Post 04/08/2019 13:04     Subject: What's the most pathetic thing parenting has done to you
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Having a kid sit on my lap while I poop


+1. And the kid was nursing. Multi tasking at its most inglorious


Oh yeah; pretty sure I did that too . . .but my brain has blocked the details



Popped off the grid drain cover and dropped a deuce in the shower, staight down the pipe. thought until then that peeing in the shower to save time was the final frontier.
Anonymous
Post 04/08/2019 13:02     Subject: What's the most pathetic thing parenting has done to you
I found 2 ends of a bread loaf, in a bread bag, in the top of the trash can in the kitchen. Still fresh. Guess I live with some aristocrats.

I made breakfast with them, Saturday, early.

THAT attitude is why I have a paid-off mortgage and no debt. But I, technically, ate garbage.
Anonymous
Post 04/08/2019 12:59     Subject: What's the most pathetic thing parenting has done to you
I think the baby spit up in my hair one time and I was so exhausted I forgot about it, slept on it, and went about my business. My hair is thick and soak it right up. I felt so disgusting as soon as I rememberedz

So, it’s made me choose sleep over hygiene.
Anonymous
Post 04/08/2019 12:57     Subject: What's the most pathetic thing parenting has done to you
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Having a kid sit on my lap while I poop


+1. And the kid was nursing. Multi tasking at its most inglorious


Oh yeah; pretty sure I did that too . . .but my brain has blocked the details
Anonymous
Post 04/08/2019 12:57     Subject: What's the most pathetic thing parenting has done to you
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Having a kid sit on my lap while I poop


+1. And the kid was nursing. Multi tasking at its most inglorious




Thanks for saying that! I was afraid I was the only one.
Anonymous
Post 04/08/2019 12:53     Subject: What's the most pathetic thing parenting has done to you
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
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.
Anonymous
Post 04/08/2019 12:51     Subject: Re:What's the most pathetic thing parenting has done to you
Anonymous wrote:Oh, probably eating leftover Annie's mac & cheese after the kids wouldn't eat it, out of some primal "don't waste food!" impulse.

Also giving up on the back seat of the car ever looking decent/stain-free.


.... This is the most pathetic thing you've ever done? Dream big.
Anonymous
Post 04/08/2019 12:48     Subject: Re:What's the most pathetic thing parenting has done to you
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Oh, probably eating leftover Annie's mac & cheese after the kids wouldn't eat it, out of some primal "don't waste food!" impulse.

Also giving up on the back seat of the car ever looking decent/stain-free.



Seriously considering asking DH to have my car detailed as a Mother's Day gift. He always wants to know if I want something or an outing or something ... I'm a mom. I want the damn cheerios and gum wrappers and god knows what else out of my car.



Ahh that’s actually a good idea.
Anonymous
Post 04/08/2019 12:47     Subject: What's the most pathetic thing parenting has done to you
Anonymous wrote:Having a kid sit on my lap while I poop


+1. And the kid was nursing. Multi tasking at its most inglorious
Anonymous
Post 04/08/2019 12:44     Subject: Re:What's the most pathetic thing parenting has done to you
Anonymous wrote:Oh, probably eating leftover Annie's mac & cheese after the kids wouldn't eat it, out of some primal "don't waste food!" impulse.

Also giving up on the back seat of the car ever looking decent/stain-free.



Seriously considering asking DH to have my car detailed as a Mother's Day gift. He always wants to know if I want something or an outing or something ... I'm a mom. I want the damn cheerios and gum wrappers and god knows what else out of my car.

Anonymous
Post 04/08/2019 12:42     Subject: What's the most pathetic thing parenting has done to you
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.


I once hand-expressed over a toilet for 5 minutes while I was still nursing and had an off-campus filming assignment and didn't remember to bring my pump. It didn't go well.
Anonymous
Post 04/08/2019 12:39     Subject: Re:What's the most pathetic thing parenting has done to you
Anonymous wrote:I'm fairly sure that the most pathetic thing parenting has done to me is it has gotten me to read DCUM.


Haha so true!!!