The Bad Mummies Thread

Mrs_Weasley

Ooooh just remembered .... i am a bad mum because


i thought it would be fun to put RED food colouring in their mash potatoes unfortunately i put too much in (i wanted it really red) and they were up all night being sick and had to have a day off school because they were still being sick:eek: Luckily school saw the funny side!!!

caroline78

I don't have kids yet but my niece quite often stays with me. She is now 11, but when she was 2 me and her went to London for the weekend. We had Mcdonalds meals for breakfast, lunch and dinner..She Loved It..lol

Have to admit, even now when she stays with me I can quite easily forget to feed her. I don't eat regular meals so she needs to remind me that she's hunger.

However, she did write in her school report a few years ago that I was the best Aunty ever, so I must do something right..lol


On a different topic, leaving kids outside. Mu Mum used to do this with my brother. He would cry all day until he got outside, so Mum used to put him in his big Silvercross pram with a net over the hood and put the pram in the coal shed....a concrete building just big enough for the pram to fit in...she did leave the door open, but boy do you wind her up about it now.

Another good one, was when we were little Mum used to fill up empty washing liquid bottles with water and let us have water fights with each other. Well my Dad came in one day from work whilst we were having one of these, lifted the bottle and squirted me in the face with it....It was normal washing liquid and my eyes were so sore, I remember having to have them washed open in the morning as they were so sticky.

We also got smacked when we misbehaving, got chocolate for supper and even an occasional day off school even when we weren't sick....and we grew up okay..

caroline78

My niece and I also love Calpol....and sometimes pretend to be sick just to take it...

My Mum also sent me to school with Chicken Pox, she said the spots were out so no one else could catch it..

Bitsy_Beans

I thought I'd pop in and join you all.
I am Bitsy and I am a bad mummy to DS who's 4 and DD who's 19 months.

I am a bad mummy because:

I had no intention of BF, never even tried and nor did I want to.
I made the above choice after being fully informed of the pro's and con's and I still decided to FF
Both my children were in their own room from birth.
I use wipes and disposable nappies (although I do use the more eco ones with DD )
My daughter has weak squash and not natural fruit juice.
My son hardly eats any fruit, can't get him interested in it.
I frequently dress my kids in half light only to discover what I've put on them isn't exactly clean.
I come on MSE sometimes instead of playing with them all the time.

Considering their ages I think I've got plenty of time to increase this list

maureenjscott

This is awesome! I feel normal now!

I have a DS almost 9 and DD 4yo, baby on the way in just under 8 weeks.
I do plan to BF and did so with the others, however, all 3 will have been in disposable nappies. I have a dozen packets of baby wipes and 300+ nappies ready for the new baby too.
Dummies - sterilised for about a month - then sucked clean and handed back to them!
Calpol - love it, if there's none, then a paracetamol crushed into a small drink!
DS - just up'd his bathing from once to twice a week (managed to get him in a shower now, only takes 6mins) - then he plays his PS2 in the bedroom before bed.
DD - I dont brush her hair.... she wont let me. She has gone 8days without having it washed or brushed. She also only gets bathed every 5/6days or so!
I frequently forget to cut their nails, toe nails like claws on both kids, ds bites his finger nails (this must be my fault for not cutting them often enough), DD enjoys nail polish when her nails are too long!!
Some one mentioned having 2 school jumpers - my DS has only 1 which gets washed at the weekend, and yes, the baby wipes come in very handy to remove marks at 8.30am as he's running out the door!
DD spent all day today going around the shops with a ketchup stain on her forehead (??) presumably from last nite's dinner... except we had casserole and no tomato sauce!
They were supposed to have left over casserole for dinner tonight but demanded chips and nuggets from the freezer... so that's what they got!
Really looking forward to Hipp jars again! lol

so many other ways i'm awful im sure they'll come to me!
baby will be in my bedroom in a cot, but i have no issues with it being in bed with me ovenight, also, DD slept so much better on her front! lol

i'd better go to bed now, otherwise will have grumpy hat on in the morning...adding to my awful mother status!

mox

angelicmary85

Evening terrible mothers!!

I too have to hang my head in shame...

I formula fed both of mine (I couldn't BF but probably wouldn't have wanted to anyway)

I've use disposable nappies
I've always used wipes
I've let the babies be in the their jammies for 2 days
I let my DD (2) eat super noodles and pork pies
I let DS (8.5months) roll about on the un-hoovered floor
I've used baby jars pretty much the whole time
I don't bath them everyday
I don't always buy shoes from Clarks
I've left my DD alone in the bath whilst I went into th bedroom to check on DS
I chucked DD out of our room at about 12weeks or so, DS got thrown in with her about the same age
I fed them both skips and choccie when they were 1st weaned (just because I love them!)
I bribe DD home from the park using sweets
I let DD help me spray the 'poison' (cleaning stuff!)
I've left DS lying in a puddle of spew because I really had to use the little girls room
I've let them watch countless hours of t.v a day
I've roped DD into helping me with the dishes
I've promised them a walk I've never taken them on
I don't read parenting books
I make DD pick up after herself...I'm not a slave!
I've let her off the reins when we've been out and about
I've once forgotten to strap her into her car seat...I noticed after about 5mins :eek:
I let them both sleep on their bellies
I put them to sleep whilst wrapped (swaddled)
I gave them both duvets under 1year old (DS has a duvet just now)
I got countless rows from MW for drinking coffee to make them hyper (when I was pregnant!)
I got countless rows from HV for having a moses basket duvet
I got shouted at for leaving the hosp less than 24hrs after they were born (I wasn't really affected by the births, it came a bit too naturally for my liking!)
I've given them tea to drink since an early age
They refuse to drink water

Oh my lord...there's sooo much more...I'm a shockingly bad mummy! :rotfl: Even after all the stuff I let them do, DD listens to every word that I say, runs to do whatever I ask/tell her to do and is a really lovely, well behaved wee toot. I love both my children and they are very well cared for so I don't give a rats a$$ what anyone thinks of my occasional laziness

jackieb

When my son was 10 days old he had to go to hospital as an outpatient to have a skintag cut off (and 1 stitch). When the nurse took him back from theatre she said not to worry if he started singing Scotland The Brave because he'd had some Drambuie! :eek: They gave it to babies to calm them down (he was only getting a local anaesthetic). They'd given him the lid and teat off a babies bottle, filled it with cottonwool so he didn't suck air through the hole in the teat, and sellotaped the cottonwool into the teat, and then dipped it into Drambuie. And yes, his breath smelt of booze!

neneromanova

Christ. Are you bad mummies still at it?

wannabe_sybil

I knew it!!! Yesterday I said what a good sleeper LB was, last night was awful!!!

And what I thought when I got up again at 4am to put his covers on again because in a colder than average February, in a house with broken central heating he had once again kicked off his covers and then was complaining he was cold definitely fits me for a Bad Mother.

And then, when I finally dragged him out of his pit (or half pit, he was still working the covers off) this morning he whined and grumbled non stop from when he woke until DH put him in the car, and as he gets breakfast at the nursery he didn't even get a snack. And I do not feel guilty. I

neneromanova

wannabe_sybil wrote: »

I knew it!!! Yesterday I said what a good sleeper LB was, last night was awful!!!

And what I thought when I got up again at 4am to put his covers on again because in a colder than average February, in a house with broken central heating he had once again kicked off his covers and then was complaining he was cold definitely fits me for a Bad Mother.

And then, when I finally dragged him out of his pit (or half pit, he was still working the covers off) this morning he whined and grumbled non stop from when he woke until DH put him in the car, and as he gets breakfast at the nursery he didn't even get a snack. And I do not feel guilty. I

You can get clips that clip onto the duvet and go under the matress so they don't kick the covers off. Or you could put him into a sleeping bag.