15 ridiculous things parents do in the name of parenting

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If there’s one thing I’ve realised in my almost eight years of being a parent, it is that being one involves having to do some pretty insane – and often downright mortifying things – in the name of parenting and keeping the peace.

We often hear about how parents have been charged guilty with embarrassing their children, but we do NOT hear so much about is how we are time and time subjugated by our little humans with the most excruciating of outcomes.

So let me ask you this now. How many of these ridiculous things parents do in the name of parenting have you found yourself doing to date?

15 ridiculous things parents do in the name of parenting

#1: Feeding your child their breakfast/putting on their shoes/brushing their hair whilst they are having a poop on the toilet

#2: Eat food that your child has dropped onto the floor just to prove the 5 second rule (which nobody even knows is true anyway)

#3: Catching sick in your hands (wow how’s that for reflexes!)

#4: Let your child give you the spanish inquisition while you are trying to have a poo on the toilet

#5: Have your child convince you that you will have an amazing time at Go Ape even though you will probably crap your pants

#6: Plead with your children to eat their chips/chicken nuggets/junk food of choice – JESUS – did you really just do that?

#7: Tucking your child into their bed using their thousand stuffed toys and realising that you now have to do that every single damn night!

#8: Marvelling at the size of your child’s poop in the toilet bowl and feeling secretly proud that they produced such a monstrosity.

#9: Wipe copious amounts of snot off the walls and wondering how on earth it managed to get there (just joking on that last part: you know the answer to that deep down inside!)

#10: Getting stuck in soft play tubes – though even as you looked into it there is no way you would ever be able to get out of it without a barrel of shame in the mix!

#11: Playing hide and seek over and over and over again (at least sometimes you actually get to have a lie down whilst doing so!)

#12: Making out that the food you serve your sproglets is some ridiculous piece of art by cutting it into star shapes or making the sum of parts look like a face (though a highly questionable one at that).

#13: Apologising because your child decided to unleash a poop or throw up all over someone else’s carpet

#14: Pretend to be hugely enthusiastic about a whole myriad of things including but not limited to Pokemon, Roblox, Minecraft, various mythical creatures and LOL dolls when you actually have NO EFFING IDEA what on earth they are talking about.

#15: Making your child’s favourite toy come to life for so many hours, days and weeks on end that it actually begins to feel that it’s the boss of you.

How many of these ridiculous things parents do in the name of parenting have you clocked up in your parenting career to date? I’m guessing a fair few! Let me know in a comment below.

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8 comments

  1. I can safely say I haven’t done most of those. OMG, the things parents have to do. Looks like i was luckier than some.

  2. The last one is THE WORST! I hate doing silly voices for toys and making them do stuff but my daughter loves it so I feel I have to keep it up if I’m stupid enough to start it. #fortheloveofblog

  3. I used to be the manager of a soft play place and I flat out refuse to go in them now. I make my husband do it.

  4. Mine is the Minecraft one!! They try to explain everything to me and I have no idea, or any want to know more about it! I love their creativity and love that, but I don’t need to anymore than yes that looks amazing!

  5. This did make me laugh out loud! I think have done pretty much all of these. The food pleading is still going on in this house too.. cant wait for my youngest to grow out of that one!

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