Times when you've had to bite your tongue

[robinator]

3. Naked pictures on Facebook. I would be horrified if they fell into the wrong hands. I wish a serial offender on my fb would at least crop the photo so you can look at the bath bubbles on her daughters head from the neck up.

Yes, with this I don't buy the "it's just my baby in the bath" line; your baby is still a human being and you are putting their body online. I don't post those pics (or even show them to family) because I see it as protecting her privacy, whether she is one month or 10 years, etc. But that's just my opinion.

 

[kmbabycrazy]

I haven't read the whole thread but here are a few for me

1. people who look down on my toddler having a difficult moment or having a tantrum and get on their high horse about their child being a little angel. Yours is a baby, mine is a toddler. Wait until yours is capable of forming their own opinion and in the process of learning their own mind and then sneer at me when i'm having to explain to my heartbroken son that balloons sometimes pop and it's okay to be upset he doesn't have a balloon anymore. I was so pissed off when that happened.

2. Another vote for calling children sexy. Wrong on all levels.


3. Naked pictures on Facebook. I would be horrified if they fell into the wrong hands. I wish a serial offender on my fb would at least crop the photo so you can look at the bath bubbles on her daughters head from the neck up.


4. People taking pictures of their child in dangerous situations and then laughing about it on Facebook rather than inteveing. No I don't think it's funny your two year old is holding her dad's electric shaver that is plugged into the wall

There's actually loads of them now I think about it. Most of them I know are my issue though, like it has nothing to do with me that someone else's kid constantly has a dummy in every single fb pic. It's their parenting not mine sorta thing. But the ones regarding safety do bug me.

With regard to bath pictures when Lily was in her reclining seat I would always cover her with a flannel before taking a picture, but now she sits up in the bath I take it from the side of the bath so you can only see her head in the picture.

But the dummy comment reminded me I have to bite my tongue when parents don't encourage their children away from dummies when the child is at the age where they can take the dummy out of their mouth and speak in a coheren full sentence and then put the dummy back in, what bugs me even more is when they speak when the dummy is in. Again, like you said, this is my problem and it is just something that bugs me, it's their parenting and this is mainly why I hold my tongue

 

[babydust1990]

Seriously, though, who even has the time to notice what anyone else is doing?

I do. But in that time i lose sight of Evelyn and she throws/destroys/wees on something.

Wee's on something I have a puppy, please don't tell me potty training is THAT similar to having a puppy She peed on my OH's nans tv sockets...

 

[sevenofnine]

3. Naked pictures on Facebook. I would be horrified if they fell into the wrong hands. I wish a serial offender on my fb would at least crop the photo so you can look at the bath bubbles on her daughters head from the neck up.

Yes, with this I don't buy the "it's just my baby in the bath" line; your baby is still a human being and you are putting their body online. I don't post those pics (or even show them to family) because I see it as protecting her privacy, whether she is one month or 10 years, etc. But that's just my opinion.

Robinator had the 500th post on this thread!!!!



ETA: Oops, I got that wrong. 501st. Sorry Robinator

I'm a little loopy today. I think I've been in the house too long.

 

[AngelofTroy]

I'm on holiday and as Micah is asleep OH and I have been stuck in the hotel room since 8.. I've been so engrossed in this thread that my battery ran out, I plugged it into the socket and am now standing up by the socket reading it while OH is sprawled on the bed stop being funny and let me sleep!!!!!!!!

 

[pinkribbon]

I haven't read the whole thread but here are a few for me

1. people who look down on my toddler having a difficult moment or having a tantrum and get on their high horse about their child being a little angel. Yours is a baby, mine is a toddler. Wait until yours is capable of forming their own opinion and in the process of learning their own mind and then sneer at me when i'm having to explain to my heartbroken son that balloons sometimes pop and it's okay to be upset he doesn't have a balloon anymore. I was so pissed off when that happened.

2. Another vote for calling children sexy. Wrong on all levels.


3. Naked pictures on Facebook. I would be horrified if they fell into the wrong hands. I wish a serial offender on my fb would at least crop the photo so you can look at the bath bubbles on her daughters head from the neck up.


4. People taking pictures of their child in dangerous situations and then laughing about it on Facebook rather than inteveing. No I don't think it's funny your two year old is holding her dad's electric shaver that is plugged into the wall

There's actually loads of them now I think about it. Most of them I know are my issue though, like it has nothing to do with me that someone else's kid constantly has a dummy in every single fb pic. It's their parenting not mine sorta thing. But the ones regarding safety do bug me.

With regard to bath pictures when Lily was in her reclining seat I would always cover her with a flannel before taking a picture, but now she sits up in the bath I take it from the side of the bath so you can only see her head in the picture.

But the dummy comment reminded me I have to bite my tongue when parents don't encourage their children away from dummies when the child is at the age where they can take the dummy out of their mouth and speak in a coheren full sentence and then put the dummy back in, what bugs me even more is when they speak when the dummy is in. Again, like you said, this is my problem and it is just something that bugs me, it's their parenting and this is mainly why I hold my tongue

The one particular person who posts a million photos a day of her daughter doing x,y,z (scroll through them quick enough and you'll have a flick book ) - her daughter is 2+ and I can't remember the last time she didn't have a dummy in in a picture.

 

[robinator]

I bit my tongue the other day when my neighbor came outside with her 11 month old, with the onesie snapped over the outside of her pants. Oh wait, no, I was biting my lip to keep from laughing.....

 

[babydust1990]

I'm on holiday and as Micah is asleep OH and I have been stuck in the hotel room since 8.. I've been so engrossed in this thread that my battery ran out, I plugged it into the socket and am now standing up by the socket reading it while OH is sprawled on the bed stop being funny and let me sleep!!!!!!!!

No You must stay and read! (I really want to go sleep too)

 

[robinator]

What time is it there, babydust?

 

[Lola90]

I was meant to be having an early night ladies!! I feel like a naughty kid everytime I'm on here, cackling away, OH probably thinks I'm up to allsorts!

 

[Twister]

I'm on holiday and as Micah is asleep OH and I have been stuck in the hotel room since 8.. I've been so engrossed in this thread that my battery ran out, I plugged it into the socket and am now standing up by the socket reading it while OH is sprawled on the bed stop being funny and let me sleep!!!!!!!!

Why are you standing? Sit/lie down on the floor and make yourself comfortable!



(I really want to sleep too, I'm shattered)

 

[Jinnah]

I've just had to hold my tongue when I saw 3 'friends' on fb discussing that how they keep their children in bed at night... One locked the door, the other tied string from their handle to another door handle and the other turned the handle upside down... I felt like putting 'what if there's a fire?!'

No kidding!!

When we moved into a farmhouse we're renting from an older couple, one of their kids' old rooms had a lock on the OUTSIDE of the door... and it gave me the creeps.

I'm not saying it was for locking the kid in there, but what other reason would there be to have a lock on a door from the outside... for a kids room...

We just bought a new house and moved in last week. The children's rooms have locks on the OUTSIDE of the doors. We couldn't imagine someone would purposely lock their kids in a room. The best we could come up with is that maybe one was a sleep-walker and would get hurt if they didn't??? Is that wishful thinking?

 

[babydust1990]

It's 10pm, I've been out all day and I'm KNACKERED! I'm normally on here till 11.30-midnight

 

[robinator]

Only 2pm here, we still have a playdate in the park to go to later. Although I kinda wish it was bedtime.

 

[pompeyvix]

33 people viewing this thread!!

Yep, I'm another one who finds it hard to see a toddler talking through a dummy. A fb friend posted a pic of his 3 yo dancing and singing to gangnam style with a dummy in the mouth and still wearing a nappy (the nappy isn't such a big deal I admit, but I couldn't help raise my eyebrows at the whole clip) I tried not to judge, but I did become a bit of judgy mcjudger then...

 

[lhancock90]

Seriously, though, who even has the time to notice what anyone else is doing?

I do. But in that time i lose sight of Evelyn and she throws/destroys/wees on something.

Wee's on something I have a puppy, please don't tell me potty training is THAT similar to having a puppy She peed on my OH's nans tv sockets...

Earlier she peed on the sofa!

 

[babydust1990]

Only 2pm here, we still have a playdate in the park to go to later. Although I kinda wish it was bedtime.

Is it nice weather over there?

BTW, your limerick skills are wanted in the nappy thread

 

[sevenofnine]

I bit my tongue the other day when my neighbor came outside with her 11 month old, with the onesie snapped over the outside of her pants. Oh wait, no, I was biting my lip to keep from laughing.....

I'm offended.





She protested to me undoing her for this picture!

 

[pompeyvix]

Can I point out we put a lock on our bedroom doors....but for a legit reason! We have (or used to have) students stay with us and for their privacy and ours, as well as to stop them going into our bedrooms when we were working, we put locks on the doors. They are still on there as we don't see the need to remove them especially as we are potentially having students again in the summer.

I hope when we sell the house potential buyers won't think we are weirdo's locking up their children!

 

[babydust1990]

Seriously, though, who even has the time to notice what anyone else is doing?

I do. But in that time i lose sight of Evelyn and she throws/destroys/wees on something.

Wee's on something I have a puppy, please don't tell me potty training is THAT similar to having a puppy She peed on my OH's nans tv sockets...

Earlier she peed on the sofa!

Gotta love kids!