The epic bad parenting thread

[PebblesMK]

I got a few...

When dd13 was a newborn, I made her a formula bottle before I went to bed and to save time and my insanity for getting up every 3 hrs. in the night to feed, I thought it made good sense to keep her formula bottle under her bassinett so I didn't have to warm it up, it would already be room temp I POISENED HER! I gave her a spoiled bottle! She projectile puked up the whole thing...I felt soooo bad. REMEMBER--ALWAYS REFRIGERATE BOTTLES!

I used to dip my babies paci's in sugar to get them to, for a lack of a better word...SHUT UP!

I accidently shut dd9 finger in the van door when she was about 5 She was fine, but I felt horrible.

I spank!

My babies used to spend hours in the baby swing so I could get stuff done around the house.

I have had 2 babies have RSV and have to spend a week in the hospital on oxygen That one is a hard one to let go. I still feel really bad. Happened to ds9 and dd3. ds was 4months old and dd3 was 2 months old. They both developed pneumonia too.

Hahaha, I took my daughter to the movies one summer day and we pulled into the parking lot and I had rolled up the windows and went around to open her door...and I noticed her hand sticking outside the window....that I had rolled up. Hahaha, I felt so bad! She was crying and I had to go back around and start the car to unroll the window. She had a big dent in her wrist that later turned black and blue. We laugh about it now.

Also, she had a nightmare one night and was sleeping with me and I woke up to see her on the floor crying. She had landed on on a wicker basket that broke and put a giant gash on her arm (which she has a scar from 5 years later). In the morning I noticed her arm and said "Oh my gosh! What happened!!" and she said "Don't you remember waking up last night and seeing me on the floor crying?" I told her I didn't remember so she continued on "You shoved me out of bed because you thought I was trying to eat poisonous berries and I landed on the basket and you told me I'd be okay and went back to sleep"

I'm not a very good mom, considering that is just two stories of the many where my child was injured because of me.

 

[Wall-E1]

I got a few...

When dd13 was a newborn, I made her a formula bottle before I went to bed and to save time and my insanity for getting up every 3 hrs. in the night to feed, I thought it made good sense to keep her formula bottle under her bassinett so I didn't have to warm it up, it would already be room temp I POISENED HER! I gave her a spoiled bottle! She projectile puked up the whole thing...I felt soooo bad. REMEMBER--ALWAYS REFRIGERATE BOTTLES!

I used to dip my babies paci's in sugar to get them to, for a lack of a better word...SHUT UP!

I accidently shut dd9 finger in the van door when she was about 5 She was fine, but I felt horrible.

I spank!

My babies used to spend hours in the baby swing so I could get stuff done around the house.

I have had 2 babies have RSV and have to spend a week in the hospital on oxygen That one is a hard one to let go. I still feel really bad. Happened to ds9 and dd3. ds was 4months old and dd3 was 2 months old. They both developed pneumonia too.

I would like to revise my previous post. I believe you edged that poster out as worst parent ever by viciously slamming your daughter's finger in a van door because of your untreated anger issues. Please pm me your issue also. You will need to be reported.

 

[Wall-E1]

Hahaha, I took my daughter to the movies one summer day and we pulled into the parking lot and I had rolled up the windows and went around to open her door...and I noticed her hand sticking outside the window....that I had rolled up. Hahaha, I felt so bad! She was crying and I had to go back around and start the car to unroll the window. She had a big dent in her wrist that later turned black and blue. We laugh about it now.

That is excellent. I shall try this technique on my own child(by accident, of course)

Also, she had a nightmare one night and was sleeping with me and I woke up to see her on the floor crying. She had landed on on a wicker basket that broke and put a giant gash on her arm (which she has a scar from 5 years later). In the morning I noticed her arm and said "Oh my gosh! What happened!!" and she said "Don't you remember waking up last night and seeing me on the floor crying?" I told her I didn't remember so she continued on "You shoved me out of bed because you thought I was trying to eat poisonous berries and I landed on the basket and you told me I'd be okay and went back to sleep"

I'm not a very good mom, considering that is just two stories of the many where my child was injured because of me.

Sorry, I've got to side with the kid on this one. Why didn't you just take the poisonous berries and remove the evil flying monkeys from her room?

 

[clovergirl5]

I would like to revise my previous post. I believe you edged that poster out as worst parent ever by viciously slamming your daughter's finger in a van door because of your untreated anger issues. Please pm me your issue also. You will need to be reported.

I can't do that until Jan 9 @5pm!

 

[Wall-E1]

I would like to revise my previous post. I believe you edged that poster out as worst parent ever by viciously slamming your daughter's finger in a van door because of your untreated anger issues. Please pm me your issue also. You will need to be reported.

What exactly do you think that crazy poster was trying to say. Maybe...information? He seems a bit off. I would just ignore him.

 

[AlexWyattMommy]

I refuse to put my bad parenting examples in writing on the grounds that they may be used against me in the future.

I will, however, admit to putting money away for their therapy. They will need it. It will all be Mom's fault.

 

[Erin1700]

Can I join this thread???

I was just fussing at my kids, DD9 and DS2, for the mess of toys all over and DS says "Mom, I give you 5 dollars if you shut up and stop "welling"!

wonder where he heard that before??

Oh, and I am about to take them to McDonalds, but it is ok b/c I will get them milk and apples.

 

[Wall-E1]

Can I join this thread???

Oh, and I am about to take them to McDonalds, but it is ok b/c I will get them milk and apples.

Sorry, it's not okay. Their milk and apples are not organic.

You, however, have qualified yourself as a bad parent and are welcome to join my thread.

 

[abdmom]

My son accused me of trying to poison him today. We had leftover ready-made frozen vegetarian lasagna. It was the vegetables that he maintained were poisonous. OTOH, I let him and his brother stay in their pjs all day today, seeing as it was the last day of winter break. Oh yes, and he drank coke, several times during this vacation. I'd better stop there, my dsis knows my screenname. Is that enough bad parenting?

 

[PebblesMK]

Okay...more bad mom stories. When my kiddo was 2 or 3, she told my mom that I got upset with her and put her in the oven to "cook her like a turkey". My mom believed her She was mighty tasty though.

She went to a private school and when she was 4 she went in one day, sat down at the table and put her head down. The teacher said "What's wrong honey?" And she looked up with the most pitifully sad eyes ever and said ":::Sigh::: today my mom pushed me down the stairs and laughed as I hit the bottom and then she ran down and started kicking me as hard as she could". I looked at the teacher with a bewildered look and said "What?!?!?! I didn't do that!!" and then my kid jumps up and said "Yeah! I know...I just wanted to see you get in troubel!" She then skipped off to play. So fast forward to that night when my dad was babysitting. She fell off a table and got a black eye. The next day at school she was questioned and said "It was an accident, right mom??". The teachers looked at me questiongly (is that even a word?) but didn't say anything. Her black eye went away and what do you know, she fell and her OTHER eye was black and blue. More looks from the teachers. I said it was an accident. AND THEN....my kiddo was in the hall and I said "come here" and she started running off, so i went to grab her shoulder, but my nails (aka: Dagger) caught her back and she looked like she was mauled by a tiger. I had her skin under my nails and blood was dripping down and she screamed and teachers ran out and the first thing I said was "I swear I don't abuse my child!!".
We left the school soon after and I'm surprised CPS was never called on me.

 

[Wall-E1]

Okay...more bad mom stories. When my kiddo was 2 or 3, she told my mom that I got upset with her and put her in the oven to "cook her like a turkey". My mom believed her She was mighty tasty though.

She went to a private school and when she was 4 she went in one day, sat down at the table and put her head down. The teacher said "What's wrong honey?" And she looked up with the most pitifully sad eyes ever and said ":::Sigh::: today my mom pushed me down the stairs and laughed as I hit the bottom and then she ran down and started kicking me as hard as she could". I looked at the teacher with a bewildered look and said "What?!?!?! I didn't do that!!" and then my kid jumps up and said "Yeah! I know...I just wanted to see you get in troubel!" She then skipped off to play. So fast forward to that night when my dad was babysitting. She fell off a table and got a black eye. The next day at school she was questioned and said "It was an accident, right mom??". The teachers looked at me questiongly (is that even a word?) but didn't say anything. Her black eye went away and what do you know, she fell and her OTHER eye was black and blue. More looks from the teachers. I said it was an accident. AND THEN....my kiddo was in the hall and I said "come here" and she started running off, so i went to grab her shoulder, but my nails (aka: Dagger) caught her back and she looked like she was mauled by a tiger. I had her skin under my nails and blood was dripping down and she screamed and teachers ran out and the first thing I said was "I swear I don't abuse my child!!".
We left the school soon after and I'm surprised CPS was never called on me.

It's okay. Some kids need to have their lights knocked out. All of us here understand that it was just an accident.

 

[rkwells]

OK, time to fess up...am I the only parent who has misjudged the distance between the door jam and my kids' head when they were infants?

I am a horrible parent!

 

[luvmy3]

Well since we are admitting physical abuse, I have a few incidences to share.
I dislocated my dd's elbow when she was 18 months. She was about to run out into a herd of teenagers in the mall and I grabbed her so she wouldn't get trampled. Poor thing was screaming all the way home. When I noticed she wasn't moving her arm I took her to the ER. About a year later, dh was giving her a piggy back ride and was lowering her down by her arms and dislocated her other one.
I shut my one ds's finger in the back part of the sliding door of the van. He was screaming and I was yelling at him to hurry up because we were late for soccer practice. After about a minute of him not stopping or following us I went over to see what the heck his problem was and found him stuck to the van.
And not to leave my other ds out, while in Target he decided to throw on of his fits (I know hard to imagine one of my precious snowflakes having an all out tantrum) and plop himself on the floor. After trying to reason, and the threatening him I finallly went over to grab his arm and hoist him up. When I bent over to grab him the 36 pack of AA batteries fell out of my arm right on his head.
I'm sure there is a CPS file on me somewhere

 

[Tinijocaro]

As much as I hate to admit it, this episode happened exactly as I posted. So, paragraph A would be appropriate. Oh, and he is fourteen. That explains why he knows everything. I don't feel bad about losing my temper because I know it doesn't hurt his feelings in any way. To him, I am just something to be toyed with for his own personal amusement. It probably gave him great satisfaction to unravel me the way he did. I'm sure this ability of his will help him later in life when he becomes a defense attorney and is able to plant the seeds of doubt into the jury by unnerving credible witnesses, even though the accused is obviously guilty. But, until that day arrives, I must suffer alone and in silence at the hands of a child who I'm beginning to think is smarter than me.

I have a 14 year old son who might succeed in driving me INSANE in much the same ways your son drives you crazy. Mine is the oldest of 4 and he's been this way for years- my other kids are all pretty even keeled. I suppose it's best to get the worst of it over with first, then the other kids will seem like pieces of cake.

 

[txSleepingBeauty]

I don't have any kids, but I did deliberately make my 5 year old neice cry yesterday in the grocery store. I told her I was giving her away to the first person to make eye contact and to enjoy her last few seconds of being part of the family....does that count?

 

[Wall-E1]

Well since we are admitting physical abuse, I have a few incidences to share.
I dislocated my dd's elbow when she was 18 months. She was about to run out into a herd of teenagers in the mall and I grabbed her so she wouldn't get trampled. Poor thing was screaming all the way home. When I noticed she wasn't moving her arm I took her to the ER. About a year later, dh was giving her a piggy back ride and was lowering her down by her arms and dislocated her other one.
I shut my one ds's finger in the back part of the sliding door of the van. He was screaming and I was yelling at him to hurry up because we were late for soccer practice. After about a minute of him not stopping or following us I went over to see what the heck his problem was and found him stuck to the van.
And not to leave my other ds out, while in Target he decided to throw on of his fits (I know hard to imagine one of my precious snowflakes having an all out tantrum) and plop himself on the floor. After trying to reason, and the threatening him I finallly went over to grab his arm and hoist him up. When I bent over to grab him the 36 pack of AA batteries fell out of my arm right on his head.
I'm sure there is a CPS file on me somewhere

The amount of physical abuse that you have inflicted upon your children is absolutely heartwarming. May I extend the warmest of welcomes to our newest bad parent. What makes you so special is you obviously have no favorites. You abuse each of your children equally. That is so important. You don't want them growing up feeling that there is favoritism going on. Again...welcome!!!

 

[nmmom95]

OK, time to fess up...am I the only parent who has misjudged the distance between the door jam and my kids' head when they were infants?

I am a horrible parent!

My husband did that with my older son! We still say "that's what's wrong with him."

 

[dislal]

I am just shocked at this thread as my 3 little snowflakes are all tucked soundly in their beds. Wow you guys all have problems!




No seriously my kids will need therapy, because their mother is sitting in front of the computer laughing hysterically.

 

[NikiM20]

OK, time to fess up...am I the only parent who has misjudged the distance between the door jam and my kids' head when they were infants?

I am a horrible parent!

Or the baby swing ????

How about the parents that really are bad parents, but their children act like angels around others?

DD's teachers think she is the best thing since sliced bread, honor roll, helpfull, polite.........As soon as she steps through the door it all changes. She yells and rolls her eyes, and I have to become the worst mom ever. Sigh

 

[Wall-E1]

My son accused me of trying to poison him today. We had leftover ready-made frozen vegetarian lasagna. It was the vegetables that he maintained were poisonous. OTOH, I let him and his brother stay in their pjs all day today, seeing as it was the last day of winter break. Oh yes, and he drank coke, several times during this vacation. I'd better stop there, my dsis knows my screenname. Is that enough bad parenting?

We'll let you enter, but you'll really need to step things up a bit. You need to inflict some lasting mental or physical abuse on your children to gain our full respect here.