I have been asked by @mediocre_mum to join the bad parenting club She has written about some incidents and thought I might have a few to share! I am not a bad parent. I am just a little absent minded and a little accident prone!
It wasn't my fault that a few weeks ago I was crossing a busy road and dropped my youngest off the back of my bicycle in the middle of the road. I didn't mean to shut my middle child's hand in the car door either a few years ago. These things just happen!
I guess the first 'bad parenting' moment was when I forgot I had a child! I took my new baby to the shop round the corner with me. She was fast asleep in the pushchair but the pushchair didn't fit easily up the narrow aisles of the shop as they had had a delivery. The very nice lady at the check out suggested I leave the pushchair there whilst I got my shopping. I parked the pushchair and darted round the shop with my basket.
It was when I started walking home with bags of shopping I thought to myself it would be easier to hang the bags on the pushchair. Pushchair! Whoops. That would be the pushchair with my baby still parked by the check out in the shop! Lady at the counter was laughing when I walked back in. I had never been out of sight of the shop and she had been ready to call me back. She was just seeing when I would remember!!!
The second time I 'lost' a child was with my third. I was again a new mum and my husband was away. I had 3 children to deal with and was really tired. My son was asleep so I sat on sofa and fell asleep. When I woke up I went to check on the baby but he wasn't in the pushchair where I thought I had left him. I checked upstairs in the Moses basket but he wasn't there either. In a panic I searched the house for anywhere I may have left a baby!
He was nowhere in sight. I checked my doors and windows but they were all locked. I had done the school run and I had definitely bought him home! How on earth can you misplace a baby in your sleep. I was just on the point of calling a neighbour to help me when I heard a noise. The baby was definitely in the house! The noise was coming from the pushchair, the first place I had looked.
It turned out I had put the small child in the pushchair but not strapped him in. He was too small to move but he had slid down inside the cosy toes! I found the baby 'stood up' at the bottom of the cosy toes.Such a relief. ( You would have thought after that I would always strap children in but there have been several incidents of pushchair ejector seats going down kerbs!!!!)
There has only been 1 hospital trip caused by my 'bad parenting and 1 caused by my husband! The one by my husband was partially my fault. I caused the smoke detector to go off and my husband stepped backwards to blow at it. At the same time my toddling first child went to join in the smoke detector game. There was a collision and husband trod on child's leg. She lay there screaming unable to stand up. Off to hospital we went where small child saw a box of toys and ran across the room to them. A miraculous recovery!
My incident was with my son. I was a Pampered chef consultant at the time and had a huge crate containing my kit. I kept this out of reach of the kids, on top of the fridge. One evening I went to get the box down and didn't see small child behind. I swung round and hit the child in the eye. Being a bad parent I rubbed it better and left. The next day his eye was completely swollen. I got an emergency appointment at Dr's where I confessed to hitting him with the box. The doctor sent us straight to eye casualty but told me it wasn't my fault. He did actually mean that as it turned out son had a very rare eye infection and it was caught just in time to save his sight!The box injury was just a coincidence!
I suppose I was a bad parent when my middle child fell off a chair trying to dust the ceiling. She said her arm hurt but I made her eat her dinner with a knife and fork. She kept moaning so I agreed that if my Ann Summers delivery was postponed I would take her to hospital. It was and I did. Turned out she had broken her arm! ( I don't count that as a hospital trip caused by bad parenting as the accident wasn't my fault but the neglect may have been!!!!)
There have been several accidents that I had nothing to do with. My oldest fell down the stairs carrying my baby son and ran out the house screaming she had killed the baby. My youngest child, s a tiny baby had a dining room chair dropped on her head. These weren't my fault but maybe if I had been paying more attention they wouldn't have happened!
Accidents and minor mishaps are part of parenting. I don't think my family have suffered for it and I don't think I'm really a bad parent!
It wasn't my fault that a few weeks ago I was crossing a busy road and dropped my youngest off the back of my bicycle in the middle of the road. I didn't mean to shut my middle child's hand in the car door either a few years ago. These things just happen!
I guess the first 'bad parenting' moment was when I forgot I had a child! I took my new baby to the shop round the corner with me. She was fast asleep in the pushchair but the pushchair didn't fit easily up the narrow aisles of the shop as they had had a delivery. The very nice lady at the check out suggested I leave the pushchair there whilst I got my shopping. I parked the pushchair and darted round the shop with my basket.
It was when I started walking home with bags of shopping I thought to myself it would be easier to hang the bags on the pushchair. Pushchair! Whoops. That would be the pushchair with my baby still parked by the check out in the shop! Lady at the counter was laughing when I walked back in. I had never been out of sight of the shop and she had been ready to call me back. She was just seeing when I would remember!!!
The second time I 'lost' a child was with my third. I was again a new mum and my husband was away. I had 3 children to deal with and was really tired. My son was asleep so I sat on sofa and fell asleep. When I woke up I went to check on the baby but he wasn't in the pushchair where I thought I had left him. I checked upstairs in the Moses basket but he wasn't there either. In a panic I searched the house for anywhere I may have left a baby!
He was nowhere in sight. I checked my doors and windows but they were all locked. I had done the school run and I had definitely bought him home! How on earth can you misplace a baby in your sleep. I was just on the point of calling a neighbour to help me when I heard a noise. The baby was definitely in the house! The noise was coming from the pushchair, the first place I had looked.
It turned out I had put the small child in the pushchair but not strapped him in. He was too small to move but he had slid down inside the cosy toes! I found the baby 'stood up' at the bottom of the cosy toes.Such a relief. ( You would have thought after that I would always strap children in but there have been several incidents of pushchair ejector seats going down kerbs!!!!)
There has only been 1 hospital trip caused by my 'bad parenting and 1 caused by my husband! The one by my husband was partially my fault. I caused the smoke detector to go off and my husband stepped backwards to blow at it. At the same time my toddling first child went to join in the smoke detector game. There was a collision and husband trod on child's leg. She lay there screaming unable to stand up. Off to hospital we went where small child saw a box of toys and ran across the room to them. A miraculous recovery!
My incident was with my son. I was a Pampered chef consultant at the time and had a huge crate containing my kit. I kept this out of reach of the kids, on top of the fridge. One evening I went to get the box down and didn't see small child behind. I swung round and hit the child in the eye. Being a bad parent I rubbed it better and left. The next day his eye was completely swollen. I got an emergency appointment at Dr's where I confessed to hitting him with the box. The doctor sent us straight to eye casualty but told me it wasn't my fault. He did actually mean that as it turned out son had a very rare eye infection and it was caught just in time to save his sight!The box injury was just a coincidence!
I suppose I was a bad parent when my middle child fell off a chair trying to dust the ceiling. She said her arm hurt but I made her eat her dinner with a knife and fork. She kept moaning so I agreed that if my Ann Summers delivery was postponed I would take her to hospital. It was and I did. Turned out she had broken her arm! ( I don't count that as a hospital trip caused by bad parenting as the accident wasn't my fault but the neglect may have been!!!!)
There have been several accidents that I had nothing to do with. My oldest fell down the stairs carrying my baby son and ran out the house screaming she had killed the baby. My youngest child, s a tiny baby had a dining room chair dropped on her head. These weren't my fault but maybe if I had been paying more attention they wouldn't have happened!
Accidents and minor mishaps are part of parenting. I don't think my family have suffered for it and I don't think I'm really a bad parent!
Hysterical. I was on first aid duty once at school. This little girl came in...well she wasn't that little (very chubby), complaining of pain in her arm. I poked and prodded...found out later she had broken her arm. Ooops!
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