Bad Parent Club

[Mrs. Charming]

Count me in, baby.

DD (haha, yes, she's 2) gets all excited when Daddy listens to heavy metal. We're going to bring her to concerts, too! MUAHAHAHAH

We don't shield her from the TV... we're de-sensitizing her early.

SHe eats sugary snacks! (oddly prefers fruit... weird kid, lol)

We don't go to church!

I have nothing against a beer or two at a birthday party. We can responsibly handle a beer like responsible adults.

DD stays up late and goes to bed with us, and wakes up at 10! MUAHAHAHAHA

 

[mjkacmom]

Yes to all questions in the original post! I also let my kids play outside without me, and have since they were 4 or so, even on the front lawn. I've let them walk alone to school. I make them put their own clothes away, even though I'm a SAHM. My boys have been going into the mens restroom since the age of 5 or 6. They sometimes go to school without brushing their teeth (and have excellent teeth). Ds11 wears shorts to school when it's 40 degrees out. They get vaccinated for EVERYTHING. They have poptarts for breakfast at least 3 times a week (when we run out of milk, which we always do, and they can't have froasted flakes). They've been showering on their own since the age of 4, and picking out their own clothes to wears since the age of 3, and yes, a lot of the time, they didn't match. They are completely overscheduled.

 

[sameyeyam]

This thread is the Mother Ship calling me home! I've done all those things and more.

Amazingly enough my daughter will be going off to college this fall. Somehow she survived and turned into a pretty good person, despite me!hehehe.

Heck, I even let her and her bff take off by themselves in WDW for hours at a time when they were 13. I tried my best to lose them, but alas they always seemed to not get kidnapped and showed up for those expensive character dinners!

Not quite sure what will happen when she goes to the religious college she has chosen. My guess....she will be teaching some of those over protective parented kids a thing or two!

 

[golfgal]

I will even throw this out there and say that everyone that has posted on here should really be a member of the GOOD PARENT club. I don't understand the thinking that you are being a good parent by coddling and hovering so your child never makes a mistake or has a bad day .

I have no idea what music my kids listen to since they listen on their IPods, when they were little they weren't allowed to watch R rated movies but now, who cares. They have been able to play outside without MY supervision with the neighbor kids since they were 3-younger with some of the neighbor kids even.

The funny thing is every time we go to parent/teacher conferences or talk with their confirmation teachers or other church leaders, etc. we are told what great kids they are and how responsible they are. Our kids notice the difference between them and other kids too. They don't get why our neighbor girl isn't allowed out of her yard without her mom or why her mom walks her to the bus stop every morning--especially since she is in 9TH GRADE.

See, the role of a parent is to prepare children for adulthood but if a child hasn't been allowed to grow up-guess what, you didn't do your job.

 

[pilotwife_02]

DD stays up late and goes to bed with us, and wakes up at 10! MUAHAHAHAHA

See, now I'm the opposite, I NEED my kids to go to bed early so I can get some time to myself

They also will wake up at 7am no matter if I put them to bed at 7PM or 11PM, so I figure I might as well get them in bed as early as I can so I can enjoy as much "kid free time" at night as I can.

 

[Mrs. Charming]

See, now I'm the opposite, I NEED my kids to go to bed early so I can get some time to myself

They also will wake up at 7am no matter if I put them to bed at 7PM or 11PM, so I figure I might as well get them in bed as early as I can so I can enjoy as much "kid free time" at night as I can.

Haha THAT would be a different story... if she was up at 7AM, I'd have to be in bed at 8PM... so her little tooshie would be coming with me! I try to get my "me time" in the morning before she wakes up... the whole like, 45 minutes.

 

[disneyjunkie]

They don't get why our neighbor girl isn't allowed out of her yard without her mom or why her mom walks her to the bus stop every morning--especially since she is in 9TH GRADE.

Yikes

That poor girl is going to go crazy when she goes off to college. If mommy let's her go away.

 

[golfgal]

Yikes

That poor girl is going to go crazy when she goes off to college. If mommy let's her go away.

You should see the mom when the kids go on marching band trips. Mom goes ON THE BUS with her, helps her pick out a seat, makes sure she has someone to sit by, etc. The rest of the kids hop out of the cars, dump their stuff on a bus, any bus except the senior bus that is, and go off and find their friends. They are constantly complaining that no one wants to sit by her but what they don't understand is that no one really "sits by" anyone, they just grab a seat. When they went to band camp the mom was calling the directors every day for "updates" on how she was doing . This is the same mom that complains that her Dd doesn't get invited to things because she doesn't have a cell phone--we get her a cell phone if you think that is the reason. The mom called our house the other night to complain about our neighbors that were making all kinds of noise. We didn't hear anything and if the are bothering you, go say something to them.

 

[hereyago]

Yikes

That poor girl is going to go crazy when she goes off to college. If mommy let's her go away.

Very true. And when said girl finally gets away, she will be going buck wild and then the mom will be like" What happened to make her act like this"?

And that mom, needs to get a life, seriously.

Now I love DD11, but I had a life before Ihad her and will have one with her in my life. I dont want to be one of those parents who had made my life all around my kid and then when said kid goes to college or a career and moves out, I will have a break down and not know what to do with myself.

 

[Mrs. Charming]

You should see the mom when the kids go on marching band trips. Mom goes ON THE BUS with her, helps her pick out a seat, makes sure she has someone to sit by, etc. The rest of the kids hop out of the cars, dump their stuff on a bus, any bus except the senior bus that is, and go off and find their friends. They are constantly complaining that no one wants to sit by her but what they don't understand is that no one really "sits by" anyone, they just grab a seat. When they went to band camp the mom was calling the directors every day for "updates" on how she was doing . This is the same mom that complains that her Dd doesn't get invited to things because she doesn't have a cell phone--we get her a cell phone if you think that is the reason. The mom called our house the other night to complain about our neighbors that were making all kinds of noise. We didn't hear anything and if the are bothering you, go say something to them.

What the......?!?!?! I guess the truth is stranger than fiction!