Well, one thing is for certain. When you get a bunch of Mommies in a room, they like to talk and compare stories. In fact, the last entry the confessions were already starting to fly. We all have embarasssing parenting/babysitting mishaps (except me). What is yours?
Just kidding of course, I just have to think about mine.
Have fun with this one Jessi! P.S. I know about the water spilling at the restaurant.
Well,I guess I'll have to go first.
ReplyDeleteI'm pretty much embarassed every time my child eats. But I remember, I'm actually a very picky eater as well so it shouldn't be a surprise.
I felt really terrible the first time I was truly the cause of my daughter's pain - I was carrying her on my hip when I walked into her room and her head hit the door jam. I felt like a loser. But she was OK, it wasn't that hard...
I'm embarassed I still have to lay with my daughter every night for her to go to bed. But hey, it's pretty special time and I don't have to worry about #3 sneaking it's way in.
I'm embarassed I didn't know the crappy shoes I was buying my 15 month old were hurting her feel and keeping her from actually walking. Hello Stride Rite! Fixed the problem in minutes.
I didn't know I was supposed to eventually take the bottle away....it kept her quiet and the only way I could get her to sleep. I broke all the rules about routine and making the baby fall asleep on its own. I like to rock my babies. I'm embarassed I fell out of the rocking chair sober one night holding my daughter. The chair fell on us and I had to get my husband to help me get up. Diana slept through that, probably the only thing she slept through that year. No one got hurt, just a little surprised. That is what happens with a late night rocking with a sick kid.
I was embarassed dropping Diana off at daycare every for the first year. I could hear the screaming in the parking lot. (She was always happy in the afternoon when I came back.) Now I am embarassed for other parents when their kids are screaming. I act all cool like I haven't been there - as I hide behind my shame. (kidding)
I'd be embarassed if my kid pooped in the pool, but that hasn't happened yet.
I was embarassed that we got two incident reports at daycare caused by Diana biting her friends. I was less embarassed by the fact that we brought about 6 reports home where she was the bitten one.
I was a little embarassed by the fact I let Diana wear a dress to bed and then sent her to school the next day in the same outfit for about a month. She was insistent on wearing the same three dresses over and over. It did save time and I even did it myself one night (not a dress though).
I haven't yet embarassed myself with Clark, but there is still lots of time.
And finally, every time the teachers at daycare ask me a question I panic it's going to be something that my daughter has said to them .... like she is ratting me out on something. I was terrified she was teaching her friends about pumping because she was fascinated at the beginning. I can only imagine what those kids say to each other.
Ha, there are tons. I dropped Saylor on her face and her mouth bled alot when she was about one. Then there is the, "water in the restaurant" incident, which wasn't actually water, it was Shirley Temple, but yes my newly potty trained daughter peed all over the seat at a restaurant and it was dripping down the fabric chair and I panicked and poured her drink all over her rather than fess up. There are many really, I can't even type them all or I would have carpal tunnel afterwards. These are the fun parts though in parenting. Saylor has told many people - "Hey you have no legs! You are really fat! Etc etc etc" and that is always an embarrassment but I have a standard response now of "I know, aren't they beautiful? God makes everyone different." and then shuffle away fast. This was a steep learning curve though and the first didn't go so well.
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