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Kids often see their parents as invincible. Often stubborn and strict, they’re the epitome of doing things right, or at least they seem so until some point in adolescence when we finally start developing our independent take on things we carry throughout life.
But it turns out, this couldn’t be further from the truth. Parents are no strangers to embarrassing screwups, and in fact, while raising you, have experienced a very solid share of them. “What are your parenting fails?” one dad tweeted, stirring a confessionary thread full of hilarious stories from moms and dads.
From whooping your son like ‘a fun dad’ only to realize it was not your kid to teaching your child the art of tossing a pancake that ended with him taking a hit from the pan, parents are far from perfect, but hey, who is, really?
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King Joffrey 4 years ago
Only expensive if you live in America. Otherwise you don't pay for your child being checked up.
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Kirsten Kerkhof 4 years ago
So, not even the hospital noticed that it was just discoloured skin?
Maiun 4 years ago
No, the nurses would probably laugh though. What's terrible though is the drs didn't notice and went ahead with the test etc. especially if they ended up with a huge bill
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Kanuli 4 years ago
This happened to a girl with a dildo before 😂 The doctor was all like “omg necrotic tissue” and all until they found it was just the color from that.
Stephanie IV 4 years ago
Always wash new clothes etc. at least once. The stuff they treat it with to repel moths and bugs is insanely toxic.
Mina 4 years ago
This sort of happened to me with new jeans, my hands were all blue and I freaked out a little until I noticed it was gone after I did the dishes haha
marianne eliza 4 years ago
A new pair of blue jeans were the reason my big brother stopped practicing his wrestling moves on me. After an ambush and full Nelson on a damp lawn we were watching TV. One knee ached so I rolled up a pants leg and the knee was all blue. Brother looked over, asked "Did I do that ?" Voice quivering I said yes. He never did anything like that again. I never told him it was just dye from the jeans. It's been 47 years.
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Eunice Bentley 4 years ago
I was house/dog sitting once and the homeowner said she had just put her new cotton sheets on the bed, when I woke up the first morning there I was all blue, didn't take long to get the bedding into the washer, next morning blue again, I had to wash those sheets 4 times to get the excess dye out of the bedding. My silk pillowcase is still tinted blue.
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Queen Taurus 4 years ago
It happened with me at work. The quietest kid in the room has been getting really playful with me as of late. All brand new behavior and it's cute. We think it's because he spends the most time with me and because I'm also quiet and all the other quiet ones flock towards me. Anyway we're are outside in the little play area with our fake grass and I'm bent over talking with one the kids when he comes running towards me as fast as his legs could go. He hit my butt and fell on the ground laughing like it was the funniest thing in the world.
Little king trash mouth 4 years ago
This legit just made me laugh. I keep picturing it in my head lol
Erica Cochrane 4 years ago
my mother, while carrying my sister (As a baby) up the stairs, tried to catch my brother who tripped and was falling down the stairs. as she turned to grab him, my sisters head ended up in a cactus. hours spent trying to remove cactus needles from baby hair ensued. everyone involved was completely fine!
Lexi Andrew 1 year ago
Did the same thing at the same age with my son. Luckily he was okay as well. He's 44 now.
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Hans 4 years ago
Could be worth. "Every day before breakfast dad allows me to fetch and open a beer!"
Diana Pahule 4 years ago (edited)
If I were a lover of alcohol I'd buy one of those every year. I was really impressed with most of the brews I tried, and I hate all the big name beers.
Thomas Sweda 4 years ago
An Advent beer calendar? Somehow doesn’t sound quite right. ( And I’m a beer drinker.)
Bored Panda reached out to Kimberly Koljat, a licensed marriage and family therapist who shared a couple of very important and interesting insights on what children take on from adults, and how we can never underestimate their understanding about the world.
“Children are immensely observant, and pick up on cues from caregivers and significant support individuals in their lives. Young children’s main need in life is attunement, which is why we, as adults in their lives, have a very important role of co-regulating children and being emotionally congruent models for them,” Kimberly explained.
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Jo Johannsen 4 years ago
She's going to remember that, and bring it up, Every. Single. Day. of her teen years.
Kt 3 years ago
Yeah, 13 September every year. Roald Dahl story day. Maybe just a UK thing but majority of schools where i am let kids go in dressed up as something/someone from his books.
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Blaze Fitzwater 4 years ago
Wow she wins because I would've crawled under a rock if my mom did that to me. 🤣🤣🤣
Zoe Duddle 3 years ago (edited)
I had a girl in my year 4 class turn up in the most wonderful Alice in Wonderland costume I’ve ever seen… a day early. Sadly, she didn’t dress up at all the next day.
Cydney Golden 4 years ago
My mom sent me to school dressed for Halloween as Scarlet O'Hara. No one else dressed up...AND it was school pictures day. Second grade.
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Rose Yellow Mint 4 years ago
While reading these mixed up things i see that there are lots of days to wear costumes at these schools..
Marvin HoG 4 years ago
Yeah I just created a special calendar my husband and I can consult to see what spirit day/dress up day it is this week. Getting a bit ridiculous, in my day we were happy with that day
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Thorfin Wolfsbane 4 years ago
did you hear about the new pirate movie? it's rated 'Rrrrrrrrrrrr'! Haha, I'll show myself out now...
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Roxy Eastland 4 years ago
That would have been even more excruciating if it had been the UK meaning of the word 'pants' . . .
Lynn Morello 4 years ago
I can appreciate how you felt, I too am losing weight, Too slow for my liking., I have to keep hitching my pants up, together with my trousers so that they all don't fall down.,
For example, according to the licensed family therapist, children often know when their parents are divorcing long before parents believe them to know. And it’s “not because they 'overheard' them talking about it, but because of emotional cues leading up to the event of separation.”
Kimberly also said that one of the biggest skill sets we can offer children in their development is helping them expand their emotional literacy. “As adults, we assume that means we teach them words to express how they feel, but that is only one way of knowing. Children are communicating and learning through their other ways of knowing—verbally, kinesthetically, visually.”
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Happi doggi (ve/ver/vis) 4 years ago
My friend’s mom did this and then we all thought it was no pants day, the horror on the teacher’s faces was hilarious.
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Liv 4 years ago (edited)
I'm not from either country but for me it means the cloth that covers legs. Under it, humans usually wear underwear or underpants.
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GaeFrog 4 years ago
She was probably so used to her daughter wearing just underwear she forgot its not appropriate in public haha
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Flisey 4 years ago
My Mum left my sister outside a shop in the snow, jumped on a bus, and went home. Her Aunt asked where the baby was and then drove her back into town.
NsG 4 years ago
My mum left me in a pram outside a shop with the dog tied to the handle. Walked home. Then realised she'd forgotten the *dog*...
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Bobert Robertson 4 years ago
My parents left me in another city. We went somewhere in two cars, and both thought the other took me home. It's ok, I'm still alive.
Fluffy Griffin 4 years ago
My mom has 4 kids. She left TWO of them (12 and 4yo) at a restaurant and NOBODY NOTICED. They walked home (maybe 4-5 miles) and when they got in the door mom said." oh you are back from your walk? " to be fair there had been about 30ish aunts uncles and cousins there too and we all hopped in random cars. The left behind ones had told my brother that they were using the restroom and he forgot to tell anyone. It's been about 30 years now and my mom still gets grief about it. (My dad was there too but still the mom gets blamed...? )
Neal Patrick 4 years ago (edited)
Once on a “National Lampoon Family Vacation” type road trip, when I was about 8 years old, my parents drove off and left me at a gas station….my brother deliberately didn’t mention this….being the days before cell phones, I just sat at the gas station until they eventually noticed I wasn’t in the car and my brother shared where I might be….(it was a long while and several miles before they noticed )
Mari 4 years ago
The same with my grandparents, they forgot my aunt (10years) at a gas station in the year 1957. They tought she felt asleep back in the car. They drove about an hour before they even noticed their daughter wasn't asleep in the car. My aunt waited patiently more than 2hours.
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Lenka K 4 years ago
I thought it was Boris Johnson who couldn't keep count of his children?
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It’s crucial to help them understand more complex emotions and the important skill of empathy, like “the four basic feelings of mad, sad, glad, and afraid” that “are just the start.” Kimberly explained: “Brene Brown has a wonderful animated video on YouTube on empathy that can help adults and children alike understand how to practice this skill that fosters understanding, equality, and kindness. Modeling for children and youth the importance of empathy, understanding difference doesn’t mean 'wrong,' and learning to tolerate what may be experienced as frustration can be important skill sets to build with the children in their lives.”
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Charl Marx 4 years ago
During the endless sleepless nights of having a newborn, I remember my daughter screaming for a night feed and my husband getting up to make a bottle. 5 minutes later he dozily returned into the bedroom and attempted to shove the bottle right in my face. I swore, he apologised, the baby screamed some more then we had a 3am cup of tea to de-stress 🤣 It was funny the next day.
Salty Wild Hair 4 years ago
haha well if that did not get you a present of a week's worth of child care while you rest, then I dont know what will.
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Kirsty 4 years ago
When I was around 6 or 7 I got grabbed from pick up outside school and bundled into a car by a complete stranger, she started driving and I burst into tears. She said 'its ok I'm taking you to your mummy' and I would not calm down. She tried to drip me at a stranger's house and I just kept crying and so she knocked on the door to get my mum. The woman wasn't my mum and that's how she realised she'd just grabbed the wrong kid 😐. She was collected her friends ginger daughter, I was the only other ginger kid in the school.'
SoozeeQ 4 years ago
That'd be hard to explain to the cops. "Officer, I swear it was a case of mistaken identity and not a kidnapping".
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Lauren Moore 4 years ago
My dad was getting my sister out of the bathtub when she was 4yo. He wrapped her in a snuggly towel, and a second later he turned to het the hairbrush, accidently bumped her, she fell, couldn't block her fall with her arms in the towel, and she split her chin open. Apparently at preschool she told everyone "my daddy wrapped me in a towel and pushed me over" to everyone who asked how she ended up with stitches in her chin. My mom got a call from a very worried school director.
Persephone 4 years ago (edited)
'Tis the life of a mom!!! I fell down 3 loose steps at a historic house carrying my 4 year old, and rather than fall on her, I chucked her clear of me into mulch.. In front of EMT's carting an elderly lady off for the same thing nonetheless. They tried to take me too for a broken wrist. She has never stopped saying "mommy, you threw me!!!" She's 10 now.
Kimberly also said it is true adults often underestimate children’s capability of understanding the world around them. It turns out, “it can even have a negative impact on children and their sense of self.”
“In some cases this may reinforce the belief that their thoughts or beliefs are not to be trusted or invalid, which later creates difficulty in setting boundaries, making decisions, or maintaining a positive sense of self,” the family therapist concluded.
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Karen Lyon 4 years ago
Yeah, no. I have CP, I don't see how that would get that kid through tough times.That would be like my parents calling me "Twinkle Toes" (My form of CP means I have a tendency to walk on tiptoe.) I hope that parent rethought that one.
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Speaking of unfortunate nicknames, when I was hospitalized for pneumonia, I was given one of those respiratory exercisers where you practice inhaling as much as possible. I dubbed it "Mr. Sucky".
Jo Choto 4 years ago
Do I even want to know how a child would be given that nickname in the first place?
Adira Bennett 4 years ago
I'm guessing this was a way for this boy and his family to lightheartedly acknowledge his cerebral palsy. CP is a neurological condition characterized by uncontrollable muscle rigidity, spasms, etc. Parts of their trunk, limbs, face, etc may feel and appear "stiff," because a person with CP can't just voluntarily relax and control all their affected muscles the way someone without CP could. As long as the boy got a kick out of it and didn't feel bullied or labeled -- he may have come up with the nickname himself; goodness knows I poke fun at my own disabilities -- then it isn't really an issue, but bystanders probably thought it was either his own parent ridiculing his own disability, or his parent being horribly inappropriate.
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Gretchen Alt-Cooper 4 years ago
Oh - I do hope you are not Australian?? that name would have VERY different connotations here...
DC 4 years ago
Well, in Growing Pains, Mike's friend is called "Boner". When we were, like, 13, we called one of our friends "Latte", for him having had an erection on a bus ride, and I like the idea that boner got his name in a similar fashion. Also, what can Ron Wood do about him having this name? When he gets up, he literally IS morning Wood.
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Mary Hilton 4 years ago
I was always exercising, so I'd bring a jug of water to rehydrate everywhere in the car with me. When asked to describe mommy for mother's day, my son age 5 said "My mom likes to drink and drive"..
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Discordant Bluecheese 4 years ago
My Mom scares very, very, VERY easily. Back in the day when i lived with my parents, one day i walked towards the kitchen, my mom just coming from there, not really paying attention to whats in front of her. So i held my arms up high and happily yelled "Mamaaa" for her not to bump into me. Her reaction was to give a short scream and then box me into the solar plexus with all her force. I almost passed out right there, but then we both heartily laughed. I love to bring it up every chance i get :D
Hans 4 years ago
What the heck is a pajamas day? I googled it but still did not get it. People simply where sleeping apparel all day?
Robert T 4 years ago
Well, yes, what else did you think it was going to be? We never had those. The only time I had to wear pyjamas for school was to do life-saving during swimming lessons.
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LH25 4 years ago
And somewhere there was a frantic parent looking for the kid they went to pick up.
Marco Conti 4 years ago
So, let me see: child endangerment, kidnapping of a minor, human trafficking. That's quite the trifecta. I wonder how the parents of the other kid took it. "The bad news is that our child is gone, the good news is that Timmy has a new brother and he is potty trained".
SoozeeQ 4 years ago
Many years ago, Mum and I were out shopping with my 3-year-old niece. I wandered off, thinking Mum had her. Mum thought I had her. (You can see where this is going). By the time we realised she wasn't with us, we freaked out, and turned to look back at the store where we'd been. There she was, face turned into the rack of men's shirts at the front of the store, crying because she'd "been abandoned". Mum yelled her name across the mall and we raced back there. I picked her up, but she still cried, so I bribed her with an ice-cream if she stopped crying and "don't tell Mummy!" Years later, I eventually confessed to my sister that we'd temporarily lost her child. Fortunately, it had only been for about a minute, but still.
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Lovin' Life 4 years ago
I did that once inside and my son's head stopped the ceiling fan. Thankfully it was on low speed and he was okay.
Allan Breum 4 years ago
Welp, if your son got low grades in school, you know who to blame... :P
Load More Replies... Marco Conti 4 years ago
I did that to my daughter and slammed her against the ceiling. She hit butt first, so she was OK and fortunately I have good reflexes. My wife looked at me as if I were a serial killer.
Ellie Rosser 4 years ago
Yeah, I rammed a small child’s head into a porch railing doing that—in front of about 20 guests at a party. I must have looked stricken ‘cause her Dad comforted her while her Mum comforted me!
Feline Rice 4 years ago (edited)
We had high ceilings in our old house. My uncle picked me up and threw me in the air. Unfortunately I was standing in the not so high doorway. He still apologizes everytime we meet.
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Rick 4 years ago
My mother was called into school when I was 4 because I had drawn a picture of me holding a knife with blood dripping on the floor. My drawing was supposed to be of me the previous weekend holding an ice cream and showing that some of the strawberry juice dripped onto the floor.
Whodathunkit 4 years ago
Also, after 911, my three elementary school aged children (at the time) d Would spend hours drawing pictures of planes flying into buildings, buildings on fire and little stick figures jumping out of buildings. Very somber...but I didn't discourage them. I think this was their way of processing it. I did encourage them not to draw these at school though.
Whodathunkit 4 years ago
Child #5, around 5 yrs old sitting at the kitchen table- draws a very funny and detailed picture of her brother naked..penis and all. (No, there wasn't any molestation going on...she's just really creative). It was hysterical but I had her promise that she'd never ever draw naked naked people at school.
Mari 4 years ago
My son made a drawing at school to wish everyone a happy year 2016. He had drawn the city of Brussels, and you could see a bomb-explosion. 3 months later there was the terrorist-attack in Brussels with bombs in the airport en underground.
Jennifer Germain 4 years ago
oh no, not the "is everything all right at home" question. I arrived to a parent teacher interview early, got the time wrong, overheard her say the same thing to 5 other parents before me... ya we're good thanks
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Leo Domitrix 4 years ago
My mother was a nurse. Nurses often don't notice broken bones until it's that bad. After all, if you're not screaming, unconscious, or gushing blood.... You'll be fine! ------ As a kid, I broke something, but my mom decided it wasn't broken. It never healed properly. She still apologizes, at least.
Rider 4 years ago
Yup, nurses kids learn if it's not the 3 B don't bother me, you know where the kit it. Broken, Barfing, or Bleeding profusely.
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Katchen 4 years ago
I almost died of appendicitis because my father (also a nurse) insisted my abdominal pains were from gas and didn’t take me to the hospital until night two of my having acute appendicitis.
Leo Domitrix 4 years ago
And nurses's kids are getting t-shirts to say we're alive!
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Mike Phillips 4 years ago
I'm a nurse, trained in orthopaedics, my daughter fell off a swing on holiday, fractured collar bone later. Guess who sent her to bed, without taking her to A&E? I'm yet to live it down nearly 30 years later.
The Deez 4 years ago
As a teenager, my husband broke his wrist while practicing bronc riding. Like, he heard the bones snap! He and his dad got in the car and his dad asked him if he wanted to wait and sleep it off, see how it feels in the morning. My husband looked at his arm, resting on the window sill with a distinct bend in the middle that WASN'T his elbow, and said, "No, Dad, I think we need to go to the ER!" LOL!
Julie 4 years ago
My mom was an RN, and at 14 I broke my ankle. I don't know why she didn't believe me...that is until the next day when my ankle swelled up, turned purple and even air touching it caused severe pain.
Leo Domitrix 4 years ago
My foot turned black before Mom thought maybe, she the nurse, should re-evaluate her "it's just bruised" opinion.
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Robert T 4 years ago
Best stick to phlebotamy then and leave fractures to the appropriate department ;-)
Fluffy Griffin 4 years ago
My mom always said "if you can use it, it's not broken". That's how my toe healed funny.
SoozeeQ 4 years ago
Forrest McCanless, A&E is the British version of Emergency Room. It stands for "Accident and Emergency". Years ago, it was called "Casualty".
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Jane Petersen 4 years ago
Some women would have had the cops called on them and their kids removed from their custody.
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Happi doggi (ve/ver/vis) 4 years ago
The talent to be able to get from the middle of a king sized bed to stuck between the bed and bedside table. And at just six weeks old!
Load More Replies... Whodathunkit 4 years ago
My third kid used to crawl backwards. I'd be cooking dinner in the kitchen while the three little ones played in the living room. Often, when I poked my head in to check on them, wouldn't see him. Inevitably i would find him under the couch...because he had crawled feet first into it. He never cried...never made a sound. He'd just lay there and wait for me to come and pull him out!
tuzdayschild 4 years ago
Those little critters move fast the second they know you're not looking.
Melissa Boatman Linebaugh 4 years ago
I placed my not yet rolling over baby on the floor in what I thought was a safe manner while I brushed my teeth (was visiting my dad so no crib). I came back and she was gone. I absolutely freaked out until I looked under the bed. She had learned to roll over while I was brushing my teeth. She was fine other than being covered in dust bunnies.
Monday 4 years ago
Myself and both my siblings fell off the bed as babies. Apparently it's a very common thing.
Atopher Bot 4 years ago
Been there! My son had never made it over the berm of blankets and pillows until that time. Come into the room to legs flailing and a nice indentation from the bed frame on his soft forehead! Picked him up and he was smiling...
MiriPanda 4 years ago
One of the first lessons learnt: You never leave your baby on a chair/bed/table/sofa and leave the room, regardless of how big the furniture seems to be and how deep asleep baby appears to be. If you can't take them with you, give them to someone or put them into a crib or pram, just put them on the floor with carpet or blanket - no rolling off from there :-)
classbag 4 years ago
A six week old can't usually roll over yet, and a king size bed is HUGE, so it's a completely understandable mistake. Something smaller, sure, but it takes effort for a full size adult to roll off a bed that big, much less a newborn.
Load More Replies... MyOpinionHasBeenServed 4 years ago
This one's not so funny, but I was putting clothes away in a dresser next to the bed. I had my daughter sitting on the bed, thinking creating a buffer zone with the comforter would suffice as keeping her in the middle of the bed. She got really excited to come to me and lunge crawled towards me, on top of the comforter which then fell over the edge of the bed, taking her with her. It all happened so fast I could catch her time and I felt like a terrible mom.
Raven DeathShade 4 years ago
I once dropped my baby sister off the table when she was 1 or 2. Another sibling had run into me while I was playing with her. She's 6 now, and she appears to be perfectly fine. Very happy, terrible sense of humor.
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Awesome Rob 1 year ago
I left my boy next to his mom sleeping in the middle of the bed while I went to the bathroom. 1 min later I heard a thump and crying. Thought my kids back was broken. He's 13 now and just fine.
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cursed--alien 4 years ago
Idk why this got downvoted. As someone with a severe anxiety disorder, panic attacks are nothing to laugh at. They completely zap your energy for the rest of the day and you feel guilty and terrible for making a scene (my panic/anxiety attacks are Loud and I can't control them).
Load More Replies... MyOpinionHasBeenServed 4 years ago
Mine calls it snake skin lol. It gives her the eebeejeebies.
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Rose Rosee 4 years ago
This the only time the sentence "sniffing my daughters bum" is totally acceptable.
Yeah, you heard 4 years ago
Living in a cold country where literally nowhere has ceiling fans, this is easily done when on holiday.
Jane Petersen 4 years ago (edited)
I did this fan decapitation life on my youngest son twice, when he was a toddler. 😬 He is so tall now, he does it to himself.
Gretchen Esquilin 4 years ago
Always pick them up like you're doing arm curls w/ a weight bar. It helps keep them below your head (to avoid accidents like this) but allows for maximum poop sniffing. LOL
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Robert T 4 years ago (edited)
My mum did worse. She stuck a safety pin in my w i l l y whilst changing my nappy. I got my revenge by peeing up the wall. :D
SoozeeQ 4 years ago
That's why you always put your hand between the nappy and the safety pin, so if anyone is going to get stuck, it's the nappy changer and not the baby/toddler.
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Marco Conti 4 years ago
Once we had an important meeting with an investor, so we put our daughter safe in her crib and one of us went regularly to check on her. We must have gotten a bit distracted as the next time I checked, she had "painted the walls" with her poop. But that's not the funny thing. A month later, same investor, same setup, my wife goes to check on the baby, and she came back looking as if she had seen a ghost. She just said "again", so I got up and went cleaning the poo off the walls again. How did she know this guy was s**t I'll never know, but she was right. Thinking back we should have taken it as an omen. She never did before and never did it again (and since she is 32 now, it'd be pretty embarrassing).
Doris Bennett 4 years ago
My 4 babies were each raised with loose cloth diapers which never held the poop inside.... so (each) had a nasty habit, after a long nap, of smearing their fallen poop all over themselves, their cribs and the walls. Their favorite time to do this was usually during lunch or dinner.
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Allan Breum 4 years ago
Well, phones cost money to get. Babies you can make for free... The "after market" expenses on babies are quite high, though. :P
M O'Connell 4 years ago
It's all the accessories. That's how they get 'ya.
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Parmeisan 4 years ago (edited)
Whoever downvoted you didn't catch the username, I suspect :D. [Edit: SoozeeQ posted before me, but I 1) couldn't see that, and 2) managed to get a reply in, because I was looking at an older version of the page where you had only 1 downvote. Fascinating.]
Load More Replies... SoozeeQ 4 years ago
Elisabeth Clark, I think your comment was hilarious, playing on OP's twitter name. Not sure why you were downvoted, unless other readers have no sense of humour! Here's an upvote from me. (I can't reply to your comment as there are so many downvotes, so hopefully, you'll see this).
Shawn 4 years ago
i have mild-to-moderate prosopagnosia. add in new parenthood and i legit picked my 5 month old up from daycare by asking the lady at the front desk for "the tiny squirmy thing that i dropped off this morning" because i straight up did not recognize him the day before. this sadly went on for a couple months before i finally started dressing him in -strictly- novelty clothing.
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Jo Choto 4 years ago
I feel like kids old enough to go to school would also be old enough to know they are not wearing clothes.
Candia Lee 4 years ago
Not the really young ones who still need some help dressing themselves, like if you make them choose their outfit before they're ready to make good choices.
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Elin Noller 4 years ago
I don't understand? Plenty ppl wear tights only or skirt only. Whats the problem?
Robert T 4 years ago (edited)
I'm guessing that it was a school uniform. Skirt AND tights.
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Candia Lee 4 years ago
I'm guessing by my reaction that I had dressed myself that day in first grade when I forgot my underpants, discovered when I flipped my flouncy skirt in the air before sitting. I wouldn't go back to class until my mom drove a pair over, and she didn't like to drive. But, hey, that was about the worst that ever happened ...
Michelle Ruiz 3 years ago
While on a cruise with our kids I ran, fully dressed from the lounge chair to the pool yelling my sons name and jumped into the pool to save him. Except it wasn’t him. It was some random kid playing in the middle of the pool who freaked out when I tried to rescue him. Meanwhile my son was holding on to the edge of the pool mortified and squeaked out a mommmmmm. My husband came over and asked what the hell I was doing. Rescuing, duh. One of our daughters came over with a towel to help hide my see through white linen overall situation. At least she tried. Still cringe to this day.
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MauKini 4 years ago
He could be running for office if this didnt happen... At least thats what i tell my baby dropping parents now and then.
Allan Breum 4 years ago
Well, most people running for office these days seems to have been dropped on their heads as babies... repeatedly. It may have improved his chances.
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Rage of Aquarius 4 years ago
Seriously! My brother says he "doesn't feel great" he's home from school for two days. I sprain my ankle and vomit til my eyes bleed and I'm told to "toughen up" and "stop making problems".
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BlackPearltheSeaWing/NightWing 4 years ago
This is why you should LISTEN when a kid says something! Especially if they're older and know what they're talking about!
SoozeeQ 4 years ago
And if they're BOTH sick, then it could be food poisoning or a virus or something. Either way, I'd be rethinking the camping trip.
Load More Replies... Raven DeathShade 4 years ago
Parents of children: Listen to the older one. If you think they may be seeking attention, wonder why. Generally, you overlook us. You ignore us, giving all your attention to the younger beings, expecting us to just deal with it "because we're older". We may be older, but we are still your children, and we need your love and attention just as much if not more than our younger siblings do. We are not spoiled, we are craving your attention because you give us none.
Raven DeathShade 4 years ago
(This is indeed speaking from past experience, but as of June or July of this year, I no longer feel this way. I'm 17. The feeling had lasted my whole life. Check in with your kids. Otherwise you'll cause wounds that might not heal for a very long time)
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ArmyDog07 4 years ago
Yep, if you haven't flown off of a merry-go-round, have you really lived?
Load More Replies... Bender Bending Rodríguez 4 years ago
Oh the spin thing in park. I was thinking about a traffic rotary intersection on a road. So you can imagine my awe at kids sturdiness. lol.
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Bender Bending Rodríguez 4 years ago
What about Umbridge? Do you love Umbridge?
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Hphizzle 4 years ago
The parent was upset that the after school program seemed to be trying to get the kids out of there too quickly. Turns out that the parents didn’t realize it was them who was always 30 minutes late to pick up their kids. The staff seemed in a rush because they trying to finish their jobs for the day.
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WildHoneyPie 4 years ago
Ha ha, reminds me of my husband's co-worker who wound up with an actual tub of butter instead of the leftovers he was anticipating.
Terd Fergison 4 years ago
Beans, beans the musical fruit. The more you eat, the more you toot. The more you toot, the better you feel, so have some beans with every meal!
Whodathunkit 4 years ago
Lol. Reminds me of the time our big bag of dried cat food came with a little mini can of wet cat food. My 2nd grade daughter and I chuckled and thought it was cute It! Next morning, as a joke, I placed it in her lunch bag. Around noon I get a call from her teacher. "Lily came to me because she needed help opening the can of cat food." Apparently she was really going to eat it! Horrified, I apologized to the teacher and told her not to let her eat it. Lily was very disappointed 🤪
SoozeeQ 4 years ago (edited)
Poor Lily! Hope there was other things for lunch too. ;oP
Load More Replies... M O'Connell 4 years ago
It's a lovely introduction to adulthood, when sometimes cold beans are all there is for lunch.
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Gary 4 years ago
Took my kids to a much looked forward to fancy dress party. All the parents and kids were there, but they were getting in to cars, not out of them. I had gotten the finish time mixed up as the start time. Left with disappointed kids. I don't think they remember it after all these years, but I do, and still feel sorry for their younger selves.
SoozeeQ 4 years ago
Yep. Happened to a friend of a friend. Bunch of old ladies. Two funerals at the same venue. I think she went to the right funeral, but the wrong wake afterwards. Ate same refreshments, and then looked up and saw a photo of a complete stranger and then realised she was in the wrong place. Don't know if she toughed it out or not. Fortunately, nobody asked her how she knew the "dearly departed".
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Kanuli 4 years ago
My wife was dropped into a glass table by friends of the family. She still has some scars from it.
Walking On Sunshine 4 years ago
I had a boss whose son fell into a coffee table with glass on the top and required 26 stitches. When I was pregnant my husband removed every glasstop from our house.
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Paddling Panda 4 years ago
Take my upvote. Why put a 3-year old on a kitchen barstool? And if so, why leave a glass bottle in his reach? This isn't Ribena's fault; this was a parenting misjudgement. I'm glad the kid is okay.
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M Calad 4 years ago (edited)
Off 🤦♀️, I had a similar story. My parents gave my daughter as a present a book about History of Art for Children. Pretty cool. We were going through it every night and one night we reached the chapter about photography. Then there was a sub-chapter about photography as reportage, and there was a photo of the Napalm girl in Vietnam. My daughter (5-6 yo?) asked why that girl was running naked. I explained a bit as child-friendly as I could. But oh my! My daughter started crying desperately feeling terrible for those kids trapped in war, and had nightmares the whole week. That book had to be banned from home. 🤦♀️😖
M O'Connell 4 years ago
Perhaps there's an upside. The experience may have firmly cemented pacifist ideals in her head.
Load More Replies... MyOpinionHasBeenServed 4 years ago
There used to be a graphic sculpture downtown depicting an old provincial leader's execution (this was before he was renounced as a local hero later and a new, nicer statue was put up in it's place.). My mom would take me on walks in my stroller, passing by the statue. It sent me into hysterically sobbing. I still remember it.
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SoozeeQ 4 years ago
She may have saved their lives though, if they were floating too far out. And at least those kids listened to her, and didn't tell her to naff off and mind her own business.
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Mazer 4 years ago
Before closing ANY door, I yell FINGERS ON NOSES, with the dog I yell TAIL ON NOSE. Fortunately nobody has had any body part caught in a door
BlackPearltheSeaWing/NightWing 4 years ago
One time my mom slammed my fingers in her car door by accident and it CLOSED ALL THE WAY. Somehow I didn't scream, I just said "mom, my fingers." Also they miraculously didn't break even though that door was closed all the way.
Micah<3 4 years ago
I accidentally slammed my cats tail in the car door because she's a tortie and it was dark out, and I spent hours crying. I was 14 and balling like a baby for hours because I accidentally hurt my cat, and I got laughed at for it 😔
Gilmore Girls 3 years ago
Why laughed at? It's important that the cat knows it was an accident, and that you're sorry
Load More Replies... Judes 4 years ago
Could be worse...when she was a girl, my mum lost the tip of a finger when her dad shut a car door.
Annamagelic 4 years ago
My mom slammed my hand in a car door when I was young. Old 1970s era car with heavy steel doors. It was horrible, and she doesn't even remember it happening.
Laura Mende (Human) 4 years ago
Zippers, bike helmets, etc. The lists goes on and on. My mum once slammed my fingers in the fridge door. My grandpa ran my foot over with the car ... Oh, the good old days!
Ali Sherlock 4 years ago
My dad did this to my brother when he was 1yo, but it wasn't once....he kept slamming the door wondering why it wouldn't close while my brother was screaming his head off. Dad said he wanted to get the door closed before seeing to my brother
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Sleazy Weaver 4 years ago (edited)
Sorry to be a buzzkill, but don't put your kids on animals unless they're specifically there to be ridden & have a handler present. Just plonking your kid on a random animal you don't know the temperment of can stress out the animal & end in an accident that hurts the kid. Irresponsible parenting that can lead to both kid & animal suffering, especially if, worst case scenario, the injuries are severe & the animal gets put down. Not a "fun" idea at all.
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Hans 4 years ago
I would honestly not call these "parenting fails" but "parenting slips". Failing are those who beat their children, feed them just junk food, let them watch TV all day all days, or never read to them. 90% of the things described here were embarrasing mishaps that make funny memories. I think it is an important lessons as a parent not to be too strict to oneself. Most of us with children try their best every single day.
classbag 4 years ago (edited)
I agree but would take "never read to them" off the list. I know a dyslexic parent who is uncomfortable reading even children's books but does lots of other wholesome activities with their child. Children are read to in school and can go to reading programs at the library. A parent who is unable to read is not a failure as long as they make up for it in other ways.
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Carol Emory 4 years ago
Was a new mom when my son was born. He did not sleep through the night on his own until he was 5 (autism). He was about 6 months old, he woke up and I was tired. I laid him on my chest as I rocked in a recliner...we both fell asleep. I woke up to the sensation of my son rolling off my chest onto the floor. My husband and I were living at my parents house at the time. I ran into where my mother was sleeping and said "I dropped the baby!" I was panicked and she said "How far did he fall." I said "Two feet onto the carpet." My mother just looked at me. "He'll be fine. Go to bed." As I walked back to the bedroom with my son I thought "Wait...how does she know that?!?"
BlackPearltheSeaWing/NightWing 4 years ago
My dad punched me in the face once. I'm at his shoulder level, so it's actually pretty easy. He just lifted his arm up one day and turned towards me then ended up punching me. In public too. Probably didn't look very good.
Helen Jones 3 years ago
Oh you could have definitely milked that for some extra candy.
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Celtic Pirate Queen 4 years ago
Not a "parenting fail", but more of a wife fail: At the grocery store with my husband. I was unloading the cart and asked "are you gonna give me some money" the man was not my husband, but said "I could. What are you gonna do for me?". My husband was standing behind me laughing hysterically.
Jackie Porter 4 years ago
My mum once took my sister who was about 3 years old into Woolworths in the UK (this was in the 1970's) and she was stood by the pick and mix counter (individually wrapped sweets you could pick and mix) and my sister kept trying to reach over the counter to grab sweets despite mum telling her she could have a sweet after their dinner. My sister did this 3 or 4 times until mum saw a hand reach up again so mum grabbed it and smacked it and said 'I said NO!' It was then that mum realised that the child she'd smacked on the hand was not her child but another one that had wandered up to the counter after my sister had wandered off lol
marianne eliza 4 years ago
Mid 1970's. Mom went to buy brother a Gi for his martial arts class. Asked the Asian salesman for a gook.
Jonahs Mrs 4 years ago
My amazing, wonderful, kind, sweet, intelligent but ever so slightly forgetful eldest once gave me a 3 week old letter from school just as I was leaving for my work shift which at the time ended at midnight, informing me that they were to be a reindeer in the school nativity...taking place the following day. I enter panic mode. The following morning on our way to school I run into the nearest supermarket which had children's nativity costumes on sale and grab and pay for one that to my tired, stressed and frazzled brain was obviously a reindeer costume. Crisis averted, panic levels back down to within normal mum range. Eldest goes into class with costume I go to school hall ready to watch the performance. Just before the show is about to start the class teacher finds me in the audience and very quietly and discretely asks me why I have sent my child to school with a Christmas pudding outfit??? 🤦♀️🙄😬🤣🤣🤣 x
Hans 4 years ago
I would honestly not call these "parenting fails" but "parenting slips". Failing are those who beat their children, feed them just junk food, let them watch TV all day all days, or never read to them. 90% of the things described here were embarrasing mishaps that make funny memories. I think it is an important lessons as a parent not to be too strict to oneself. Most of us with children try their best every single day.
classbag 4 years ago (edited)
I agree but would take "never read to them" off the list. I know a dyslexic parent who is uncomfortable reading even children's books but does lots of other wholesome activities with their child. Children are read to in school and can go to reading programs at the library. A parent who is unable to read is not a failure as long as they make up for it in other ways.
Load More Replies... Carol Emory 4 years ago
Was a new mom when my son was born. He did not sleep through the night on his own until he was 5 (autism). He was about 6 months old, he woke up and I was tired. I laid him on my chest as I rocked in a recliner...we both fell asleep. I woke up to the sensation of my son rolling off my chest onto the floor. My husband and I were living at my parents house at the time. I ran into where my mother was sleeping and said "I dropped the baby!" I was panicked and she said "How far did he fall." I said "Two feet onto the carpet." My mother just looked at me. "He'll be fine. Go to bed." As I walked back to the bedroom with my son I thought "Wait...how does she know that?!?"
BlackPearltheSeaWing/NightWing 4 years ago
My dad punched me in the face once. I'm at his shoulder level, so it's actually pretty easy. He just lifted his arm up one day and turned towards me then ended up punching me. In public too. Probably didn't look very good.
Helen Jones 3 years ago
Oh you could have definitely milked that for some extra candy.
Load More Replies... Celtic Pirate Queen 4 years ago
Not a "parenting fail", but more of a wife fail: At the grocery store with my husband. I was unloading the cart and asked "are you gonna give me some money" the man was not my husband, but said "I could. What are you gonna do for me?". My husband was standing behind me laughing hysterically.
Jackie Porter 4 years ago
My mum once took my sister who was about 3 years old into Woolworths in the UK (this was in the 1970's) and she was stood by the pick and mix counter (individually wrapped sweets you could pick and mix) and my sister kept trying to reach over the counter to grab sweets despite mum telling her she could have a sweet after their dinner. My sister did this 3 or 4 times until mum saw a hand reach up again so mum grabbed it and smacked it and said 'I said NO!' It was then that mum realised that the child she'd smacked on the hand was not her child but another one that had wandered up to the counter after my sister had wandered off lol
marianne eliza 4 years ago
Mid 1970's. Mom went to buy brother a Gi for his martial arts class. Asked the Asian salesman for a gook.
Jonahs Mrs 4 years ago
My amazing, wonderful, kind, sweet, intelligent but ever so slightly forgetful eldest once gave me a 3 week old letter from school just as I was leaving for my work shift which at the time ended at midnight, informing me that they were to be a reindeer in the school nativity...taking place the following day. I enter panic mode. The following morning on our way to school I run into the nearest supermarket which had children's nativity costumes on sale and grab and pay for one that to my tired, stressed and frazzled brain was obviously a reindeer costume. Crisis averted, panic levels back down to within normal mum range. Eldest goes into class with costume I go to school hall ready to watch the performance. Just before the show is about to start the class teacher finds me in the audience and very quietly and discretely asks me why I have sent my child to school with a Christmas pudding outfit??? 🤦♀️🙄😬🤣🤣🤣 x
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