[austlanabmv]

Confessions of a Mother: Guilty Things Moms Secretly Do - Holidash News

Fess up ladies...lol

note:i am personally offended by the mother that would dye her kids hair if it came in red ... i have 2 red heads... people ask me if my daughters hair color is natural and if she has a perm ... are you crazy... That is vain to me... what does that teach your child ??

[noworries]

Yeah, the dying hair one is ridiculous. I can totally relate to some of the other ones though....love the last one.

[mrsjl]

I always let my kids eat things at the grocery store and then I pay for it on the way out.

[hilachu]

i think the only i one i have an issue with is probably the bathtub alone time

[mommydiva]

Yeah the coloring of the hair is a bit much for me. The rest not so much. Even the bathtub one but thats because I am giving the benefit of doubt that she is able to see/hear and would be able to be right there type thing.

The rest were pretty good.

[mrsjl]

I am so nervous with kids in the water, but I did start to let my daughter play alone in the tub (with the door open, and our apartment isn't very big so I can get to her in seconds) around her third birthday.

last night we went swimming and I was playing with Nathan on the stairs in the pool, the water was about a foot deep. a man and his little baby girl sat down and he lets her stand by herself and he is like, 3 feet away from her. she JUST turned a year old, and she was about my son's size, and he just turn 9 months. anyway, she tries to walk over to her dad and falls and I reach out and grab her and pull her up, and her dad didn't even make a move toward her. he just casually swims over, smiling. I'm like, "is she okay? sorry I grabbed her like that" and he's like, "oh no, she's fine, she doesn't mind dunking under water" and I'm thinking, there's a difference between dunking her quickly and having her fall and not be able to pick herself up

[TeresaSuperMama]

Originally Posted by hilachu

i think the only i one i have an issue with is probably the bathtub alone time

I found the whole thing disturbing. That and the letting a 3 year old play alone outside.

[inyourhonor]

Originally Posted by TeresaSuperMama

I found the whole thing disturbing. That and the letting a 3 year old play alone outside.

Same here. I don't let my 5 year old play outside alone.

These are just insane. The bathtub, at ONE?! C'mon, that is such a sad ending waiting to happen and the guilt she would feel would be so much. So things sit un done around your house, your childs safety and life are more important. That or she should find a way to better manage her time or something.

[Irish_Wristwatch]

the bathtub makes me nervous, and dyeing a toddlers hair if it is red saddens me too, id LOVE to have a red headed kid.

But I would let Ross eat pizza for breakfast, snack in the grocery store (pay for it on the way out) or play outside alone if he were a bit older (3 or 4), we have a small enclosed fenced in yard, with sliding doors to get out from the kitchen, and there is no way to get in the yard without walking through my house (we live in a townhouse) so hes really safe back there, of course i would stay within viewing distance

[inyourhonor]

Yeah we don't have a fenced in yard yet. Once we do, I will let him go outside in the back to play.

We've had candy for breakfast but its not like we have it everyday haha

[Trish36]

some of the things I do too. I let the kids climb play structures by themselves when they get to a certain age or letting the baby snack on some bread while we are shopping (I'm payig for it anyways). But if you are just gonna let them eat and not pay for it I don't think that's right. The other day I bought a can of puffs and when I got home I noticed that the can was opened. I guess someone let their kid snack on it in the store and just put it back on the shelf.
Also I'm only now letting Isabelle play alone in the tub and she's almost 4. That does make me nervous. I would never let my kids play alone outside, unless they are in the backyard and it's fenced in. I still worry when my 12 year old goes biking around the block by herself. However, I do let them come home from school by themselves (my 12 & 8 year old) and they are always walking with the neighbour.

[mommydiva]

I thought the age for the bathtub one was 2. Not that it matters. I just like to give benefit of the doubt sometimes. Even though I wouldn't do it.
The playing outside is all about location for me. At my parents place I would have no problem letting a 3yr old play outside without supervision and also taking account of the child themselves. Our neighbor would sit out on the curb at around 3 and play in the yard and it was nothing anyone batted an eye at. She knew everyone in town before her parents did..lol But we also lived in a town of 800 people so it wasn't something people worried about.

[austlanabmv]

yeah i am not letting my 2 year old be alone in the bathtub either

[TeresaSuperMama]

Originally Posted by Irish_Wristwatch

the bathtub makes me nervous, and dyeing a toddlers hair if it is red saddens me too, id LOVE to have a red headed kid.

But I would let Ross eat pizza for breakfast, snack in the grocery store (pay for it on the way out) or play outside alone if he were a bit older (3 or 4), we have a small enclosed fenced in yard, with sliding doors to get out from the kitchen, and there is no way to get in the yard without walking through my house (we live in a townhouse) so hes really safe back there, of course i would stay within viewing distance

I have a fenced yard. In fact I have a fence around my yard and the neighbors have a fence around their yard too and their pool. One day, oh it's been about 9 years ago now when I was a younger parent without as much life experience I had my kids and my sisters outside playing. I was babysitting so I went inside to change a diaper. I let them all play outside while I went to change the diaper. I went back outside to check on them because I was inside a little longer than I thought and no kids to be found. Steven had to have been about 6 and Jeremy and Kaelan were almost 3 I think. Guess what those 3 little boys did? They crawled under the fence. Somehow they peeled it up and opened the fence right up to the pool. To this day it gives me the chills. I found the two boys in the pool with my 6 year old standing there. I don't even think he realized the seriousness of the situation because there was a cover on the pool. I was only gone for a few minutes to change a diaper and that's how fast that happened.

I will let my kids play outside by themselves now, but it has to be in view of the window where I can see them and hear them. A fence gives you less protection than you think. Kids are smart.

[inyourhonor]

I'd never let my 2 year old be in the tub alone. He will not sit still, Dane is a mover. Constant mover and he is up down up down in the tub even with me right there.


How scary Teresa! We don't have any pools in our sub so it wouldn't be a concern but a fence would be nice for us. Privacy is the main thing haha. I couldn't let them go out for hours on end without supervision but I'd be checking on them constantly. Knowing me I still couldn't do it.

[rainbow_brite19]

Yeah, some of these were funny and some were kinda like "really?" in my opinion. I like to live and let live, but the bathtub thing is scary. Also, the red headed thing made me sad. I could never dye my child's hair.

A confession of mine? I swore up and down that Jackson would not watch a bit of TV until he was 2 (AAP recommendation) but he has this Little Einstein video that he watches about every 2 days, and I usually let him watch the whole thing (it's 40 minutes long). I hate that I have to use it because I feel like I should be able to handle my ONE kid but sometimes I just need a break so I don't go crazy! He loves the DVD and he is SO good and quiet and still the whole time it's on, it's so hard NOT to reach for it.

[mommydiva]

Aimee I wasn't going to be one to turn on a show for Rosie at this age. But every morning we watch Mickey Mouse Clubhouse its the only show she actually sits and watches. Lets me make breakfast for DH and then last night DH and I were playing Guitar Hero and she was so into it. I mean she was not moving at all to play like she normally does..lol

[Calendula]

Ugh... a few of these bothered me.

Toddler playing outside alone- I can see maybe letting a three and a half year old play in a well-fenced backyard for a bit, but toddlers unattended with loose dogs? My paranoia went nuts there.

I don't like crude T-shirts on little ones, but I wouldn't go over and tell off another parent for putting their child in one.

A kid under two alone in the tub? Oh, heck no! I've been to the funeral of a drowned toddler (not in the bath tub, but was left briefly unattended near water), something like that never leaves you.

The red hair one- holy cow.

Favoring one child. I don't know how you could honestly favor one child but not show it in your parenting at all. If the non-favored child engages in more extreme attention-grabbing behavior, maybe you aren't hiding it as well as you think you are.

The early bedtime one- if you want to send them to bed early, fine. But don't 'make up a reason why they're in trouble'.

[krislati]

I'm guilty of some of them.

I've let my dd go to bed after midnight, eat pizza for breakfast, eat while in the grocery store (of course I paid for it), I've thrown away artwork. (because she gets coloring pages sent home daily and I can't keep them all.

But I have a hard time letting my 7 yr old play outside alone, I never let her when she was 3. We do have a fenced in yard now but didn't when she was 3 so Im not sure if I will actually let Tommy play outside without supervision, I am to big of a worrier. The bath tub NO WAY I would never do it. And the dying of the hair makes me sad, how can your child have self confidence if you are dying there as to say there is something wrong with them.....sad!!! I definitely will never favor one child over the other.