I will never be nominated for Mother of the year Award thread

[KristyHall]

Once, when I was a child, (I had emotional issues, so I threw tantrums well into my later years, forcing my mother to get inventive) I threw a tantrum in a store, and my mother, at her wits end, got down in the floor with me, and started screaming and kicking right beside me.
It suddenly occurred to me how ridiculous I looked (not to mention how embarrassing it is to have your mother throwing a tantrum beside you) and I stopped right there.

I may have thrown one or two smaller tantrums in public after that, I don't remember, but I think that pretty much stopped my public melt downs.

 

[ThinkingChickens]

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Your mom is much braver than me. I take my son out to the car. I can't stand being embarrassed in public! Luckily my son hasn't figured that out or he would have used that tactic on me a time or two.

 

[LittleChickenLady]

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Haha! How awesome. I wish my mom had been that cool.

 

[KristyHall]

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Haha! How awesome. I wish my mom had been that cool.

well like I said I was a special needs child, with a lot of issues due to abuse (and later bullying), so the conventional methods were counter productive with me. She learned to get creative. On top of it, she has a wicked sense of humor, something I got from her. The sense of humor gets me in trouble alot and I am learning now, has gotten her in trouble a lot too.

I have decided I am going to be the sort of mother who is going to hug her teenagers in public and embarrass the stew out of them

 

[feather and mountain man]

So years ago my nephew that I raised had this peek-a-boo big bird that said of course "peek-a-boo"
when the light changed on its eyes

After a few years we were so tired of it but it was his best buddy. UHG.

The batteries had started to wear down and so it was kinda creepy sounding in a deeper voice "PPPEEEEEKKKK---AAA--BOOO"


Well I told my nephew that there was no way to change the batteries that he was just loosing his voice.

A few weeks later my nephew (still hanging on to his silent big bird) wet the bed and big bird got wet EEWWWW

So the darn thing started talking again

It was so freaky and possessed sounding

I threw it in the trash and told my nephew it fell apart in the washer and I couldn't fix it.

It sat in the trash can for three days in the can behind the house directly below my bedroom window and all night long for three night I heard the possessed thing haunting me.


PPPPPPPPEEEEEEEAAAAAAKKKKKK-----AAAAAAA-----BBBBBBBBOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!


Thats what I get for lying to a 4 yr old I guess.

 

[Heckel's Hens]

I have made a gazillion silly mistakes with my own kids, but the funniest thing I did was prior to having children. I always babysat and was a nanny throughout college. (In other words, i thought i was hot stuff wheni t came to kids. LOL) Well, I wasn't so awesome after I changed my nephew's diaper and grabbed the wrong box of wipes. I used Clorox wipes and had to wash the poor kid down! So embarrassing.

We are strict, but super-lovable, parents who discipline our kids in an old-fashioned way. Although it seems pretty common on here!

We always get compliments about their behavior and our lifestyle in general. It cracks me up, b/c we don't do anything different than our grandparent's generation did. Getting back to basics and lovin' it!

For those of you who haven't heard of it, Mothers of Preschoolers (MOPs) is a christian mother's group all over the country. I've done it for 6 years and the best thing I got out of it, was knowing that there is no such thing as the Mother of the Year Award, and the confidence to do what I see fit for my family and never look bacl.

 

[tennesseechickie]

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Haha! Love this! I also had DCS called on me one time, because my 7 year old had ring worms! Someone at the summer care program must have thought we kept a nasty house or something, Im like, Its RINGWORMS! My son was always going around scratching his behind, picking his nose, etc...whadda you expect! ANyhow, they came to the house and interviewed EACh of my kids! They left in no time when they saw that we were a normal family!

 

[cackydoodledoo]

Correct me if I am wrong but ringworms are pretty contagious! He could have easily gotten them from another kid!!! Maybe those idiots at DHS should have visited every kids home!!!!

 

[sammileah]

I have 3 wonderful boys. that blow my mind with 'boy' stuff all the time.

At this moment in time my 6 and 9 y\\os have no toys or cable tv (OMG) they couldn't clean thier room. still can't keep it clean and all they have is clothes.
my oldest son (12) found a bug in his hair (not lice or a flea) and was shocked and freaked out. really his room is its own eco system, a wild animal could live and never be seen in it. I have to make him shower and change his underies or he wouldn't. kills me

12 y/o told me i was the best mom in the world. I asked what he wanted after i stopped laughing.

glad to know i'm not the only 1.

 

[ChickenAlgebra]

I gave up with our boys.

Clean room? Har har. So long as I can see the floor and it's not a fire hazard, I do not care. The door is shut.

Plus the need to destroy things. The rule is if it SHOULD have a cord and the cord has been removed, they can take item apart. Otherwise, it must stay as it was.