Bad Mom: 25 Random Things

1. the baby walker is my daughters best friend now she knows how to crawl, stick her in there so i can keep an eye on her
2. i often forget to give my son tea so he ends up goin to bed with toast
3. my don falls asleep to a dvd in his bedroom everynight without fail
4.i dont have playtime with them as much as i should
5.if there tea takes longer than 20 mins on a baking tray im not impressed
6. they wear the same socks day after day
7.if we dont leave the house we dont get dressed (many pj days in my house)
8. i finish work, pick the kids up and clockwatch til bedtime
9. i have to get them up at 5am so i can take them to childminder so i can go to work
10.i forget to brush there teeth
11.i skip pages when reading to them
12.i fall asleep on the settee while they are playing
13.i cant wait til they start school so i can have some me time
14.i blame them for killing my figure
15.they could hold their bottles themselves from about 4 months, either they did it or no one did lol well the pillow maybe
16.i wake them up for snuggles
17.i pretend to cry so i get kisses and cuddles
18.i bribe them with chocolate
19.i sometimes take them to childminder even if its my day off work
20.i leave them in the house while i stand outside and have a cigarette
21.i cut the feet off their sleepsuits when the got too small
22.my 2 1/2 year old loves older kids cartoons and i let him watch them, some aren't the best for kids his age
23.i sometimes forget to give them breakfast
24.i needed some money so i sold the double pram so now my son has to walk, good job i drive
25.i do the one for you and one for me thing when im giving them chocolate buttons

i'm a 24 yr old mother of a 3yr old boy. here we go =/
1. immediately scolding my son in public when he busted his lip open, i didnt want him outside in the first place but i DID comfort him once we got inside, i just should have done that first though instead of yelling. poor guy.
2. falling asleep for like an hour and a half today while he was watching tv. i felt so bad when i woke up!
3.giving him candy to avoid having to play with him
4.rolling my eyes or sighing because he wants me to go on the floor and play cars
5.not letting him go outside everyday (sometimes i close the door when i know the neighborhood kids are outside just so he doesnt know theyre there)
6.not having enough patience with him with he was a newborn and infant but i was out of mind from the time he was born up until he was around 2. lack of sleep i guess!
7.blaming everyone except myself when something went wrong, examples:forgetting the bibs, the milk not being warm enough, the milk being too warm, pretty much every time he cried i would yell at whoever was nearest and blame them. i blame lack of sleep again.
8. arguing in front of my son
9.scolding him too much
10. one time he had a fever and i thought it was an ordinary cold so i just gave him tylenol for over a week, finally took him to the doctor and apparently he had severe ear infections in both his ears that took a month to finally go away.
11.scolding him when he had ear pains that caused him to constantly scream (again i didn't know he was having ear problems he never tugged them or said "ear hurt" or anything)
12.dozing off while he watched cartoons
13.purposely teasing him so he can throw a fit. example: he loves thomas the train and he doesn't like for you to say anything bad about him so i'll purposely say "thomas is mean" and he will say "NO HE'S NOT!!" and so i'll keep saying it over and over until he's practically screaming at me. he looks so cute mad though..
14.buying myself so many clothes
15.feeling relief that he is staying with him dad for a few days
16.when i get a package in the mail and he gets excited thinking it's for him but it's really for me.
17.i feel guilty for the few times he fell off the couch or bed when he was in his "rolling" stage.
18.worrying about what to name him and what he was gonna look like and other unimportant things while i was pregnant instead of studying up and getting ready to take care of him as best i could. i think i could have been a better mother to him while he was an infant had i prepared more, but instead i was more concerned with what he was going to wear. very stupid.
19.my son was VERY underfed when he was a newborn because i thought following a schedule rather than feeding him when he cried would be more effective (thanks to the nurse who gave me the idea). it took my father who is an RN to tell me the reason why he would sleep only 15 minutes at a time and constantly cry was because he was hungry. i responded with "he's not scheduled to eat for another hour". stupid!!
20.using the computer rather than playing with him or reading to him

that's all i can think of for now i guess! i almost cried typing all this LOL

1. Leaving 4 children locked in car to return movie instead of unbuckling everyone from their 2- 5 point harnesses and bringing everyone in.
2. Counting down to bedtime/naptime
3. When in a hurry and changing my third childs diaper I don't always use wipes for number #1.
4. When was the last time I changed her diaper anyway?
5. PJ's count as clothes right?
6. Getting a half hour extra snooze time by letting kids watch cartoons in the morning.
7. Letting big sisters get baby sister up to watch cartoons in the morning.

1. I enjoy the fact that my youngest will sometimes sleep until 1p at the latest, 9a at the earliest, because I myself am not an early riser.

2. I resent my husband and oldest daughter for making me get out of bed at 6a to help get her ready and out the door for school.

3. I let my kids watch cartoons they probably shouldn't watch.

4. I have been known to let the TV be a babysitter.

5. I propped their bottles when they were babies.

6. My youngest slept in her car seat for a long time (as an infant) because she didn't have a crib and I didn't want another one in my bed.

7. My youngest got out of the house and down the street to the gas station... and the deputy was there filling up with gas.

8. I don't like to cook balanced meals and don't make them eat if they don't want to.

9. I don't have very much patience.

10. I like to yell.

11. I don't like to read stories.

12. I'd rather keep my daughter home from school than send her... because I'm lazy and don't want to wake up.

13. I don't pay her kindergarten tuition on time.

14. I don't like to play kid games.

15. I'm disappointed that my oldest daughter doesn't have the same fondness for reading that I do.

16. When combing their hair, I sometimes just pull through instead of being gentle.

17. I like to egg them on when they're getting attitudes... just to make them mad.

18. I love passing them off to others for short periods of time.

19. I hate buying bandaids.

20. I have laughed when they have said bad words.

21. I have told them to get away from me.

22. I only like to snuggle for two seconds, haha

23. Sometimes, I'm too lazy to get them breakfast. So they deal with yogurt.

24. I have purposely walked away from them.

25. I haven't felt bad when they cried.

This makes me feel terrible!!! Where can I say that I love them to the ends of the earth and back, 20 times over?! Where can I say that there is nothing in the world that feels better than their hugs and kisses? And that keeping my oldest home from school suits two purposes? I don't have to get out of bed, and I get to spend the day with the most awesome 5 year old ever? Where can I say that the day my daughter went to the gas station, I felt like my world was being ripped in two because I couldn't find her anywhere, and I was frantic?!

Oh, I am so loving this list! #25 sounds exactly like me! I am always hiding away with a book in the bathroom!

Caron, this column was hilarious, and the responses are great!!!!

Joanne

1. I'd rather be making a mindless list of random things than playing with my kids
2. Even though they're young, I let them watch some PG13 movies that I want to watch because I consider it a compromise.
3. When they were really young I used to use their empty bottles to measure out 4oz of tequila for my margueritas
4. Sometimes they eat pizza 3x/week
5. I lie on their reading assignments and just fill in the part that says that they read every night
6. I'd rather clean the toilets than play house
7. I start yawning every time I have to read them a book
8. I laugh at all of their jokes about burps and farts.
9. I share my own elementary school songs that I remembered about burps and farts.
10. I consider the Nintendo DS and the Wii lifesavers
11. I pack the same food for lunch every day
12. I like it when they're not feeling well because I get to sit on the couch and hug them and feel needed.
13. Sometimes I yell just to get attention
14. I don't volunteer at school
15. Every weekend I start scouting around for a sleepover (for them, although it wouldn't be out of the question for me)
16. I think we won the prize for the lowest amount of girl scout cookies sold.
17. Digging clothes out of the hamper for a re-wear is acceptable in our house.
18. I wish I had the energy to plan fun day trips on days off.
19. When my daughter told me that she wanted to be home-schooled I laughed in her face.
20. I LIKE it when the tv's on at dinner. There. I said it.
21. We haven't cleared out all of our peanut butter products from the house. It would leave me less options.
22. I'm still working on these random thoughts, even through their dinner and homework.
23. When I'm with them, i think about work; when i'm working, I think about them.
24. My son's hair is never brushed in the morning
25. When I wave goodbye to them as they board the bus in the morning, I think that I should have hugged them one more time.

1. I brush my girls’ hair every other day.
2. I wash their hair once a week.
3. I’m too cheap to bring them to a salon, so I cut their hair at Salon Mama.
4. I have no problem with them eating the cream from inside the Oreos and putting the black cookie part back in the package. I do it too.
5. They can name more plant species than states.
6. After letting them watch TV for hours while I’m engrossed in something, I get annoyed with them when they don’t want to turn it off.
7. I watch iCarly too. Spencer is so cute!
8. I insist that we each need our own jumbo-sized candy box at the movies, so if I don’t like what they picked I can still stuff my face.
9. Despite all that candy, I fall asleep at kids’ movies.
10. I miss my healthy back and am slightly resentful of all that stooping, bending, and picking up.
11. I’m compulsive about the house being picked up, and have taken apart carefully built Lego houses for the sake of a tidy play room.
12. I recycle probably 9/10 of what they bring home from school. Except the works with macaroni glued to them, those go in the trash.
13. I wish my older girl looked more like me.
14. I love that my younger girl still sucks her thumb, and I don’t want her to stop.
15. I will regret this upon the first of many visits to the orthodontist and see this cute habit in a whole different light.
16. My girls wear mostly hand-me-downs. Then again, so do I.
17. They know not to talk to me when I’m hungry. Hungry = Crabby.
18. I bribe them to give me massages. They’re quite good at it.
19. I can’t tell you how many sentences end with “…but don’t tell Daddy.”
20. I let them walk down our street alone as I followed in the car one summer day, to teach independence. A policeman thought the kids were abandoned and almost threw me in jail.
21. If there’s an option to drop off at a birthday party, off I go!
22. I was freaked out on a recent vacation when we all shared a hotel room by how much they snore.
23. Weather permitting, we walk to school in the morning because I like to.
24. If the weather doesn’t permit it, I’m crabby. Again.
25. When I get dressed up to go out, they tell me I look ‘stunning.’ I don’t say ‘thank you’ often enough.