Mommy pet peeves...

jillybean7582 · July 2013

Now that I am a mom I have way more pet peeves than I use to involving children. I think I need to stop looking at friends pictures on FB because I get itchy with some of the things they do with their children.

For example:

Why oh why do people think this is a remotely safe way to tote an infant around in a shopping cart???

Other parenting pet peeves I can think of off the top of my head
1. Nine hundred items in the crib with baby (I am talking infants not older babies)
2. Not taking car seat safety properly
3. Letting little ones run around public places like crazies...I am not talking a kid having a tantrum, crying, etc. it happens. I am talking child having free rein and the parents not caring or paying attention.

What are some of your Mommy Pet Peeves??

Crossingfingers · July 2013

I will go with older kids running wild in the store. Drives me insane. Also parents not keeping their older kids out of play areas designed for infants and toddlers.

LindsayDesigner · July 2013

The shopping cart one was a big fear of mine. DH put her car seat in the seat of the cart. He figured it was okay because it could "lock." I insisted that we put the carrier in the main body of the cart. I never tried it again after that.

nopegoat · July 2013

Crossingfingers said:

I will go with older kids running wild in the store. Drives me insane. Also parents not keeping their older kids out of play areas designed for infants and toddlers.

OMG this! My kid should not be knocked down, squished, or pushed because your older kid is playing where they shouldn't be.

jillybean7582 · July 2013

kdm06c said:

Crossingfingers said:

I will go with older kids running wild in the store. Drives me insane. Also parents not keeping their older kids out of play areas designed for infants and toddlers.

OMG this! My kid should not be knocked down, squished, or pushed because your older kid is playing where they shouldn't be.

I haven't run into this yet but yeah that would annoy me too! Along those lines I don't like my DS to be around my cousin's son. He is three and she doesn't discipline at all.

Last time we were around them DS threw a toy and it hit her son in the arm. He turned around and chucked a wood block at DS's face as hard as he could. Her reaction was "he's all boy and plays rough so he thought it was ok since DS did it first" Um no my kid is 11months old he was just throwing the toy to throw it. Your son is 3 and purposely threw a toy at DS's face!

She is always asking us to come over for playdates because they are the only boys all my other cousins have girls. I am running out of excuses and might have to pull the truth card and tell her I don't want DS playing with her son because he is a terror and I am afraid DS will get seriously hurt.

Sorry that turned into a long winded rant!

amaite · July 2013

kdm06c said:

Crossingfingers said:

Also parents not keeping their older kids out of play areas designed for infants and toddlers.

This

rp-chicago-mom · July 2013

At the beach the other day, I nearly lost it because this dad was there with three who were his and two friends. He was on his phone or asleep the whole time--with other people's children. They were throwing rocks at seagulls, which is a huge nono to me. You teach children to respect wildlife. Then they took my two year old nephew's shoes and threw them. He went and told them not to throw his shoes and he did not like that and it is so rude to throw shoes when they are his. The icing on the cake? They proceeded to throw sand at Howell. I
told them they better get away from my kid before I alerted the cop who
was sitting in his car near the beach. What did the dad do? Nothing. Oh and when they weren't abusing my family,
they were in water over their heads
while Dad napped and talked on his phone. If I knew the "adult" my kid went with to the beach allowed any of those things, he'd answer to me and he would never take my kid anywhere again.

SJandVA · July 2013

Being at a playdate and the other other moms not watching their own child. It turns awkward when their child hits mine and isn't paying attention or doesn't care to discipline.

katiejo1216 · July 2013

Baker_Bride said:

They were throwing rocks at seagulls, which is a huge nono to me. You teach children to respect wildlife.

I lost my shit once when there was a group of kids on some kind of field trip throwing rocks at ducks in the lake. I was absolutely appalled that there were adult chaperones that said nothing. I walked right across the beach screaming. I don't even like ducks but was disgusted by their behaviors and by the adults who did nothing. When I came back to DH his jaw was on the floor because I am a completely anxious and non-confrontational person usually!

sammiesjd414 · August 2013

Not knowing when to stop. I went to the zoo with my sister and her five year old. It was so hot, and the kids were exhausted. My nephew had mentioned the alligators, but not begged to see them. When we decided to leave, and DD was exhausted and sweaty and sooo done, instead of just leaving my sister insisted on seeing the alligators, and going to the gift shop! Guess whose five year old had a meltdown in the gift shop? If we had just left he would have been fine.

fastcarsandfreedom3319 · August 2013

I agree with all of these! And yelling at your LO. A friend of mine has this tone with her baby that started when she was a newborn. She would yell at her to take her fingers out of her mouth because she doesn't want her to suck her fingers. At 6 weeks old. NMS. Let your baby be a baby!

rMe6411 · August 2013

I would also have to say other moms not watching their kids... Or the ones that tell me to talk to their misbehaving child because otherwise they won't listen.

Orrrrr the ones who ask for advice and then don't take it. Stop asking then.

PurrCrasher · August 2013

Baker_Bride said:

At the beach the other day, I nearly lost it because this dad was there with three who were his and two friends. He was on his phone or asleep the whole time--with other people's children. They were throwing rocks at seagulls, which is a huge nono to me. You teach children to respect wildlife. Then they took my two year old nephew's shoes and threw them. He went and told them not to throw his shoes and he did not like that and it is so rude to throw shoes when they are his. The icing on the cake? They proceeded to throw sand at Howell. I told them they better get away from my kid before I alerted the cop who was sitting in his car near the beach. What did the dad do? Nothing. Oh and when they weren't abusing my family, they were in water over their heads while Dad napped and talked on his phone. If I knew the "adult" my kid went with to the beach allowed any of those things, he'd answer to me and he would never take my kid anywhere again.

I would have lost my mind. I have yet to encounter anyone being mean to my kids but someone better put a brick wall between me and the first person that is. I am generally pretty passive but since becoming a mom I have a serious tiger inside of me willing to protect my little cubs. It makes me so sad to think of someone throwing a 2 year olds shoes or sand at a baby. Who does that? This makes me mad at that "adult" that was responsible for those children.

bigbootyjudi · August 2013

The whole car seat on the cart drives me nuts. Plain as day, in black and white, on the actual cart, with a photo, it says not do place the car seat on top of the cart. I see it all.of.the.time....even in BRU, where they have the carts that have the car seat attachment as a physical part of the cart.

Other things:

Kids in movie theaters. We saw a movie last night and there must have been about 8 young girls, around 8-10, next to us, all with two adults, being ridiculous - on their phones the whole time, yelling back and forth, throwing popcorn at one another. Who lets their kids act like that? Even if they aren't your kids, you're responsible for their behavior. I didn't pay $20 to listen to your kid sing 50 Cent through the credits.

Also the whole screaming in the store thing. I know, I know, don't talk about it until you've had to experience it...but I never acted like that in the store and my mom will tell you it's because I knew not to. If G ever did that, regardless of what I had to buy, I'd take him out of the store.

Stained clothes in public/to nice establishments.

Crossingfingers · August 2013

@bigbootyjudi - Stained clothes?! Oh lordy- You would side-eye me for sure!

Not so much with baby things, but the older boys' clothing is awful. I swear that I bought Logan school clothes on three separate occasions last fall because he gets a hole in the knee of the pants faster than I can keep up! My kids are outside in the dirt and mud all the time so their clothes get stained, I don't take them to a nice restaurant with that clothing on, but to walmart, pizza hut, etc- without any hesitation!

bigbootyjudi · August 2013

Crossingfingers said:

@bigbootyjudi - Stained clothes?! Oh lordy- You would side-eye me for sure!
Not so much with baby things, but the older boys' clothing is awful. I swear that I bought Logan school clothes on three separate occasions last fall because he gets a hole in the knee of the pants faster than I can keep up! My kids are outside in the dirt and mud all the time so their clothes get stained, I don't take them to a nice restaurant with that clothing on, but to walmart, pizza hut, etc- without any hesitation!

Lol, well you have 4 to wrangle, and I have 1, so I'm sure that makes a difference. G has play clothes, so any time we leave the house, he gets changed into "real" clothes, then when we get home, I'll change him back into his "lazy" clothes.

rp-chicago-mom · August 2013

I have a thing about kids who aren't allowed to get dirty. I was at the park, and a little girl was in the sandbox in an eyelet sundress, white ruffle socks and white sandals. Her grandma was with her and kept yelling at her not to get dirty. Um...why would you have her wear that to the park and put her in a pile of dirt if you want her to stay clean?

And another I have is the infant carrier on top of an upside down restaurant high chair. It has a sign on it saying don't and servers even suggest it. It's so top heavy, I can't see how that is safe.

Mrs. Rohde · August 2013

I have so many. Most have already been listed. The older kids playing in baby or toddler equipment drives me
nuts. There are always middle school kids who run from the "big kid" structure at the park to the "little kid"
structure and I wait a couple of minutes to see if an adult will speak up and usually no one does. So I do.
Young kids using foul language. When did it become okay for school ages kids to swear?
Kids running around a store drives me nuts too. Especially when the parent isn't even trying to wrangle them. I get that kids go nuts at stores for various reasons from boredom to tiredness to just plain spite. If a parent is trying then I empathize but do not judge because I have been there. If the parent is doing nothing then I always step in. It's probably not my place but I just don't care. If they're being unsafe then someone should step in.

vic8504 · August 2013

jillybean7582 said:

3. Letting little ones run around public places like crazies...I am not talking a kid having a tantrum, crying, etc. it happens. I am talking child having free rein and the parents not caring or paying attention.

What are some of your Mommy Pet Peeves??

This one has to be the biggest for me! I was at TCP the other day and this woman had 3 kids. the girls were older but the little boy was maybe 3 they were running all around the store and he was going back into the employee only section. The oldest girl was the only one trying to stop him, and when the little boy started screaming the mom would yell at her daughter?! And then when the daughter said her brother is being bad and need punished the mom yelled at her again!

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