Slacker Moms Unite

Funnurse81 · July 2014

So, time to 'fess up. In what areas are you slacking as a mommy? Here are mine:- 1) DD still drinks out of a bottle. In my defense, it was a bit of a struggle switching her to dairy and I didn't want the experience to be too daunting / traumatic, so I let her keep the bottle. However, she's been on dairy for a minute now and I've kinda gotten lazy about transitioning her to a sippy cup. Funny thing though, she drinks water out of a straw cup just fine. 2) eh, this one I'm really embarrassed about. She still takes her baths in her tub. The little infant tub. Yeah. I'm lazy lie that. Oh well. However, in other areas of parenting I think I'm doing fairly well. She eats a very balanced, healthy diet, sleeps well etc, so I try not to beat myself up too much about the above.

jesuisfatiguee · July 2014

I nurse DS down for naps on the weekends and for bed every night. Not sorry.

I let him play with all kinds of non-toys. I also let him climb on the coffee table. It's the same height as the couch, so why the hell not?

Funnurse81 · July 2014

Oh yeah, I forgot. Dd still naps on the boob. I dried up months ago but she still likes to use it as a paci at nap time. I'm trying to wean her but sometimes I'm just not in the mood to fight her.

laketide · July 2014

I slack on letting her feed herself enough. I know she needs to practice more...but its so much easier to help and much less messy - especially when we are out to eat or in a hurry.

tamarar5 · July 2014

1. E still has his paci. I don't care. I've been trying to transition him to only using it the crib (or in the car because I can't handle his crying/screaming), but.... its a slow transition.

2. I'm a slacker when it comes to bath time. I can't remember the last time C took a bath. It's not too terrible, because I make her shower and wash off, hair included, after swim class on Fridays. But it was probably Friday the last time she was under water. And she's starting to smell funky. I should probably get on that one.

E gets more baths because I strip him to his diaper and let him eat. So he has food everywhere. He gets a sponge bath after every meal, and frequently a full head-to-toe bath after dinner.

3. Laundry. Nuff said.

4. Dishes. In my defense, I have a really hard time reaching the sink right now with the belly and all, and standing makes the BH super bad. But in truth, I'm just as terrible about doing dishes NOT pregnant.

5. Housework in general. It's so depressing to spend hours cleaning a room only for it to be totaled five seconds after the kids walk in.

6. Meals. I don't plan meals. I try to. I make menus, and go shopping for only those meals, but when it comes to making them, they no longer sound good.

$:\$ "> Okay, enough embarrassing confessions from me!

Meggiemuggins · July 2014

DS still has bottles. In the daytime I'll give him milk in a sippy but at night and before naps we're still giving him a bottle. I'm not stressing about it.

DH and I watch TV a lot; it's always been a shared thing for us. DS watches whatever we're watching, even if it's wildly inappropriate.

DS is in our room still and 'm not in much of a hurry to get rid of him. Part of it is because his room gets good wifi reception (the router's in the basement so the signal is pretty weak by the time it gets to us upstairs). Once it becomes 100% his room, I'll have to take my laptop into the kitchen where the signal is much weaker.

DublinMama · July 2014

The climbing for sure. If he can get up there, he's going for it. And I let him.

We are not strict about TV. If we're inside, it's usually on. He isn't always parked in front of it watching, but it's on. And it sounds weird, but I feel badly that he eats his meals "alone" bc he eats so much earlier than we do, so I let him eat and watch TV. If I sit with him he just spends the whole meal trying to feed me what's on his plate and not eating. During the school year it ends up being only dinner, so I'm cool to shake it off lol.

Puck1182 · July 2014

I still nurse DD to bed before her naps. Lately she hasn't been falling asleep when she nurses before bedtime, though, and will actually fall asleep in her crib if I'm right there, so I'm giving sleep lady shuffle a go. ;-)

She doesn't watch too much in the way of TV, not more than a half hour a day... But that doesn't count watching music videos on YouTube. If you count that, it's more like an hour, total. I justify it because I want her to appreciate good music. ;-) It's not awful, but it's more than I though I'd let her watch, and sometimes I just need to be left alone while I make dinner, or I want her to sit still so I can snuggle her!

kleigh926 · July 2014

We also still do a bedtime bottle. She won't drink milk out of a sippy cup, only water, so if we totally eliminated bottles she wouldn't get any milk. I'm okay with keeping it for now. It's not worth the aggravation of dropping it.

I don't take her outside to play as much as I should. I'm attributing it to being pregnant and lazy, and also a little scared that I wouldn't be able to catch her fast enough if she was running towards something dangerous (we live right along a very busy road). I don't like hot, humid weather either, so we tend to just stay inside. Blah.

Whenever we are visiting family, I mostly let them watch her and I kinda do my own thing. I feel guilty about it because she's my kid, but they usually want to play with her anyway whether I'm right there or not. MIL even seems to love feeding her meals and changing diapers. So why not relax and take a break for a couple hours?

Dannysmama · July 2014

I let DS get into everything - cabinets, shelves, drawers. Unless its sharp, hot, or blatantly dangerous, I let him have at it. My aunt is a teacher and she said the best way to prepare your kids for school is raise them to be curious. Soooo, that's what I'm doing.

I also don't see the point in walking around following DS going "no, no, don't go in there. That's a no-no," because then everything in our house would be off-limits.

Our dishwasher detergent comes in little squares wrapped in cellophane, so I let him take them out of the box, and then I "teach him" to put them back in the box. (read: I don't want to fight him and it keeps him busy while I work in the kitchen.)

I've put DS in the bathtub without water before because I needed him to stay put and play instead of chasing me around screaming for my phone while I was on a work call. He was happy, I was happy, I see no problem.

I don't think I've put away DS' laundry in a month - it's piled up, folded on a bed. I can only fold laundry effectively after DS is in bed, and I don't want to wake him up to put it away ... so on the bed it goes.

Nothing I've seen on this thread so far is even remotely flameworthy in my book ;-)

wifeofadam · July 2014

She's still latched on through most of the night. It's free birth control, so I'm not about to change that.

We're also still not eating many solids. Her diet is probably 75% breastmilk, but she's growing and thriving, so I'm not going to change that either.

djm31012 · July 2014

we do bottle at bedtime (tho he goes in his crib fully awake and puts himself to sleep). we also have a bottle in the am when we wake up while watching the bubble guppies. my pedi told me to get him off the bottle, but i dont see a big deal and honestly, while im working still, im not about to fight him on anything like that. we also still use a pacifier at bed time and in the car if he wants it. again, should drop it, but wont.

StephPeth · July 2014

DD is still in our room. She's in her crib in our room now, but still in there. We are expecting another so I'm not sure how that's going to work. We may just all sleep In there, and I am totally ok with that.
She just learned how to use a fork and she's still not using a spoon. Because she tosses yogurt around the dining room, and I'm lazy. She will eat yogurt neatly by her college years, I'm sure.

wifeofadam · July 2014

Sagen said:

I slack so much it is hard to narrow it down

Seriously. K'Nex are babysitting my kids while I play online looking for recipes to test out today. Inevitably, while I'm testing the recipes something else will be babysitting the kids. I'll count it as an accomplishment if it's not something electronic!

Slacker moms, unite!!!

jesuisfatiguee · July 2014

wifeofadam said:

Sagen said:

I slack so much it is hard to narrow it down

Seriously. K'Nex are babysitting my kids while I play online looking for recipes to test out today. Inevitably, while I'm testing the recipes something else will be babysitting the kids. I'll count it as an accomplishment if it's not something electronic!

Slacker moms, unite!!!

I have one kid. I feel this.

wineandcake · July 2014

He still has bottles and I'm not concerned because he's just not ready to drop them yet. He's taking less and less at a time so I figure he will completely drop it when he's ready.

I slack at brushing his teeth. Sometimes I remember, but there are a lot of times I forget or only do it once a day.

If I'm not eating at the same time as him I throw a plate on the coffee table instead of having him eat in the high chair.

He eats food off the floor from time to time. Or sometimes he puts it in the dogs mouths and then eats it. He drinks from the dog bowl on occasion, he sticks his face right in and then comes to see me with water dripping off his forehead makes an 'ahhh' sound and then walks away.

I rarely dress him, not much point since he hates clothes and always gets so messy. He wants to be 100% naked when he uses the potty so that makes it easier.

I let him watch Frozen when he starts flipping out and I don't know what else to do. The bugs are so bad here that I hate taking him outside so we stay inside most of the time, I think he's sick of his toys.

Today we let him have a cookie with his breakfast. He woke up miserable and saw the box of cookies in our room. In an attempt to keep him semi happy we let him have one.

And now I feel like a pretty horrible mom :0

BabyMayinMarch · July 2014

We still give DS a bottle when he wakes up at 430-6am. It soothes him, and lets us get another hour of sleep, and that way he can wait to eat breakfast at daycare. I know I should feel bad about the bottle cavities, but man I LOVE my sleep!

eriannc22 · July 2014

Where do I even begin? I am so glad for this thread because I have a load of mom guilt over this. Brushing teeth. He hates it. I frequently forget. Eating balanced meals. He still nurses to sleep, all day, and all night as well. I try to feed him whatever we are eating but sometimes he is just not interested. Also, probably twice a week we are eating take out. I don't make separate healthy meals for him. Once a day he gets juice. I know....I'm the worst. He is still sleeping with me at night and nursing all night. He can't lay still long enough to fall asleep, so it's either rock him completely to sleep or nurse him. Inconsisent bedtime routine. He gets a bath almost every night, then nurses, then we read books, but after that he's not always tired.. so the routine falls apart. If we are out and about all day and he doesn't poop, I don't change him as often as I should. Ugh.