Mother of the Year...

I think we might get some funny stories from this one. Tell me something that you have done or let happen to your kids because you were too tired, not paying attention, etc.

I'll start.

This morning I didn't feel like making breakfast, so I fed my girls grape Jello.

When my oldest daughter was 8 months old, she got into my purse and ate part of a cigarette. (FYI: It is only an emergency if they eat and swallow a whole cigarette--per poison control. She just bit off an end and I got most of it out of her mouth)

Ok well I dont have kids but when I was little my mom was on the phone long distance to the US (we were living in Germany at the time) I wanted a tootsie roll really bad but couldn't get it open and couldn't get my mom to open it. So I went and got a steak knife from the kitchen and tried to cut it open succesfully slicing my finger open. The bloody rag sure got my mom off the phone!

ETA: There is no permanent damage to speak of except it I touch the right part of the scar my finger gets all tingly...

This is mostly embarassing for me, as I don't have children. When I was around 4 years old, I was attending preschool. One day (I don't remember this, I was told this) I went to preschool and the teacher realized I wasn't wearing underwear (I imagine I was young enough to need assisstance). My mom told me that I had gone into the bathroom after she dressed me and removed my underwear. I have no idea why I would do this, but I imagine it's because I was an odd child.

The worst part? The preschool teacher called Child Protective Services on my mom!!

When my youngest sister was a toddler, she was once so hungry that she went to the bag of potatoes in the pantry, took one out, and started eating it.

Hmm, I can start with yesterday..lol. My daughter decided to pour chocolate syrup all over one of the cats(Freddie). I guess I was too busy on here! I got it all off him, but he was still a bit sticky.

And well I have one from when I was a child, but it is so embarrassing!! It is something I used to do with extra dog hair~LOL. You can only imagine, right?

Originally Posted by catloverin_ks

Hmm, I can start with yesterday..lol. My daughter decided to pour chocolate syrup all over one of the cats(Freddie). I guess I was too busy on here!

I got it all off him, but he was still a bit sticky.

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That is too funny

Originally Posted by Trouts mom

That is too funny

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LOL-it was actually, but I did feel bad for Freddie.

Originally Posted by emrldsky

This is mostly embarassing for me, as I don't have children. When I was around 4 years old, I was attending preschool. One day (I don't remember this, I was told this) I went to preschool and the teacher realized I wasn't wearing underwear (I imagine I was young enough to need assisstance). My mom told me that I had gone into the bathroom after she dressed me and removed my underwear. I have no idea why I would do this, but I imagine it's because I was an odd child.

The worst part? The preschool teacher called Child Protective Services on my mom!!

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Oh no!

When i was 8 or 9 months old, i was already crawling the floor, we were in england and we used to have these Gas heater things.
I must have thought the flame was so attractive that i stuck my hand in the gas heater and burnt two of my fingers.

I only have scars!

When I was in second grade I had this teacher who was a witch and whenever she would tell me something, I would roll my eyes at her and then when my mom came in for a conference.... she rolled her eyes at the teacher!! the teacher said that now she knew where I got it from

This is way too embarrasing, so I have to make sure I never meet anyone on here after I tell you all this

My mom was a fine mother, but for some reason when I was in kindergarten, I would always draw stickmen with huge "you know whats"....Ew, what was wrong with me??

Nothing weird happened to me as a child, and I was brought up fine...what a freak child I was....

I don't have kids, but there are things I still tease my mom about. One of my favorites happened when I was about 5 or 6 years old. I woke my mom up in the middle of the night to tell her I had a stomach ache and she said, and I quote, "Go blow your nose." A few minutes later I guess she fully woke up, because she came into my room and found me sitting on my bed crying because I had blown my nose and it hadn't helped my stomach ache at all! I think saying that was just a reflex for her, because I was one of those kids who always needed a kleenex.

Originally Posted by Trouts mom

This is way too embarrasing, so I have to make sure I never meet anyone on here after I tell you all this

My mom was a fine mother, but for some reason when I was in kindergarten, I would always draw stickmen with huge "you know whats"....Ew, what was wrong with me??

Nothing weird happened to me as a child, and I was brought up fine...what a freak child I was....

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That is a priceless story

I went through a phase of poetry worthy of VC Andrews... teachers must sometimes really worried about me.

Then there was the time I wrote my family tree, refering to my mother as my Dam and my father as my Sire... I think that was one of the times I saw the school psychariatrist.

Originally Posted by mamacat

I don't have kids, but there are things I still tease my mom about. One of my favorites happened when I was about 5 or 6 years old. I woke my mom up in the middle of the night to tell her I had a stomach ache and she said, and I quote, "Go blow your nose." A few minutes later I guess she fully woke up, because she came into my room and found me sitting on my bed crying because I had blown my nose and it hadn't helped my stomach ache at all!

I think saying that was just a reflex for her, because I was one of those kids who always needed a kleenex.

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Poor thing! At least she did wake up - she must have felt awful, too.

I have another to tell you. This one is about my sister. We lived in military housing and my sister was in elementary school. We had this huge Mulberry tree with a tire swing in it. We we grilling chicken and a thunderstorm rolled in. Lightening hit the tree and knocked it down. My dad jokingly commented "Its a good thing it didn't hit the grill!" Well the following week there was an open house at the school and all of her class had written stories to hang in the hall. My parents read my sisters and there it was my dad saying how glad he was that the tree didn't hit the grill!!

Originally Posted by Phenomsmom

My parents read my sisters and there it was my dad saying how glad he was that the tree didn't hit the grill!!

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Like it's not hard enough to be a parent, you gotta worry about CBS (the Child Broadcasting System...)

Originally Posted by Satai

Poor thing! At least she did wake up - she must have felt awful, too.

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I think she did feel pretty bad, especially because I was crying. My poor mom, though, she was always exhausted when my brother and I were young, I can't blame her for only being half awake. It wasn't just us she had to deal with, but to bring in extra money she used to babysit all these neighbor kids--at one point she had 4 kids in the house plus her own two. No wonder she was zonked out! It does make for some amusing stories though.

Another good one was when I sat down to breakfast before school one morning and realized that she had poured orange juice instead of milk into my cream of wheat... I kind of felt bad for her--I guess I was around 8 or 9 years old then--so I ate it anyway. Actually, it didn't taste too bad.

Originally Posted by mamacat

Another good one was when I sat down to breakfast before school one morning and realized that she had poured orange juice instead of milk into my cream of wheat... I kind of felt bad for her--I guess I was around 8 or 9 years old then--so I ate it anyway. Actually, it didn't taste too bad.

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Kids can be amazing, can't they?

My mom let my dad watch me when I was younger. Well he had just taken out the central air unit in our trailor and we about to replace it. So of course there was a HUGE hole in the floor. Well my dad fell asleep and I wandered over to the hole to investigate and of course fell in. My mom came home to find me sitting in the hole playing with dirt. I didn't even cry!

Originally Posted by Jazmynn

My mom let my dad watch me when I was younger. Well he had just taken out the central air unit in our trailor and we about to replace it. So of course there was a HUGE hole in the floor. Well my dad fell asleep and I wandered over to the hole to investigate and of course fell in. My mom came home to find me sitting in the hole playing with dirt. I didn't even cry!

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Oh God, don't even get me started on the "One time my mom went out and left me with my dad..." stories.