Big and Little Pet Peeves

[SewingDiva]

d.k :

* We liue on a 1/2 mile street between two major roadways. We have our regular driveway and a gravel easement at the front yard for parking for the kids. People are always using one or the other to turn around, make cell calls in their cars, check maps, euen eat lunch in their cars!! WHAT'S UP WITH THAT??

You have nothing but my complete sympathy - we have exactly the same problem. I've even seen idiots drive onto our property when my children were in the diveway playing. And then there is the landscaping that has been run over by trucks and SUV's.

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I totally empathsize.

~Phyllis​

 

[chicken_boy_Kurt]

Rosalind, when I said yelling I meant punishment. I do agree that yelling should be a last resort (I don't know if I should be saying things like this as I am still a teen but at least I am not below 10).

 

[FlockEweFarm]

I hate how people throw around the word,"Retard" or "Retarded", like it is no big deal, but let someone drop any other kind of racial or ethnic slur and they must be banned from the planet. Hypocrisy is my major pet peeve.

 

[chikenlady]

My PP is when people throw trash out their car windows when they are driving. I just want to shake people sometimes. And yes, ciggarettes are trash! Where do people think this stuff is going? What a mess are roadways are!

 

[BuckeyeDave]

My pet peeve, if I had to pick one is politically correctness, people who say what others expect instead of what they really think.
Peace,
Dave

 

[Break an Egg]

My pet peeve is when people are in such a hurry to pass you to stop at the red light ahead.

 

[Rhett&SarahsMom]

My now 5 year old daughter has had 2. Yes, TWO tantrums in her entire life.Both when she was 3 years old. Neither were out in public. Both were dealt with me stepping over her body as she lay there on the floor screaming bloody murder.
The second time. She stopped. Got up, looked at me. Then sat on the couch as if nothing had happened.

It's simple really. Dont take your kid out when it is tired, YOU are tired, or you are unprepared for the outing.
I always made sure she was well rested, changed, clean, comfy and had snack. bottle. sippy with her. Oh and she has never been allowed to take a fave toy with her into a restaurant or store. Chances of a mommy brained me not noticing it being dropped or such WAY too high. And the search for such toy later in the day. Way too traumatic.

Honestly. If you treat the kids like you EXPECT them to behave. They amazingly live up to THAT expectation.
Either that or I have a exceptional child and am a exceptional mom and daycare provider.

 

[Rosalind]

Kurt:

I do agree that yelling should be a last resort

Naaah, if you start yelling you lose. Because then you're out of control, too, and the kid senses that you have lost control. And that is really scary, that the adult who is supposed to know what to do has lost control. How would you feel if you were in a horrible accident and the ambulance guys ran around freaking out about all the blood on the road and how mangled you looked? No, you want them to be calm and take control of the situation--not yelling, just assertive and in control. That's the kind of mind-set you have to keep, even when you are tired and frustrated and having a bad day. Parenting well is oodles of work, work and extra work.

Rhett&Sarah'sMom, my hat is off to you. I think you are an exceptional mom & daycare provider! Congrats on all the hard work.​

 

[BuckeyeDave]

A smaller pet peeve of mine are kids who are able to control their parents. We see them all of the time at stores and restaurants, at times it’s actually humorous. My kids have made comments to each other like “oooh, we’d never act like that” and my favorite one from my son “that kid is outta control!”

Rhett&SarahsMom :

Honestly. If you treat the kids like you EXPECT them to behave. They amazingly live up to THAT expectation. Either that or I have a exceptional child and am a exceptional mom and daycare provider.

A very profound and true statement, what you expect from your children you will receive. Those early years are the most important, about age 2 through 6 can affect the child for the rest of their lives. This is where the child will test the parents and try to push the boundaries, they will continually push those boundaries trying to find a breach, parents need to hold fast and stick together through it. I look at it this way, if I don’t give my kids boundaries, the school system will and if the school system doesn’t give them boundaries the local law enforcement will.
The parents have to win those battles of wills, if not the child could easily be lost.
Peace,
Dave​

 

[SpottedCrow]

My neighbour pet peeve is that they seem to think that MY driveway is fine to turn in...not just little extra room to turn in, but let's drive all the way up to Comanche so we don't have to do a real three point turn...Or they park right opposite your driveway so that you can't get out easily...