[momofmykids]

Here's one of mine...

One Sunday afternoon, we left for church early to stop and get gas, that kind of thing. Well, when we got to church, we all unloaded. At that time we attended a very small church and the kids just sort of scattered, sitting with different friends. As the preacher was beginning his sermon, we heard a car alarm go off. It sounded like the alarm on our van, but stopped rather quickly so we just ignored it. The next think I know a lady is coming to get me and takes me back to the back of the church where my Riley was standing with a very shocked, yet sleepy look on his face. What had happened, when we all unloaded from the van to go into church we didn't do a head count. We didn't know it, but Riley was asleep in the back seat. He was panicked when he woke up so he got out of the van (thus the alarm being activated) and came running into the church and caught one of the ladies coming out of the restroom! Needless to say, we now do a headcount when we get somewhere!

[bromanchik]

This is not really a bad mommy story as it is a funny one. I got my 2 year old a pack of "smelly markers", you know the ones that have fruit smells. We spent the afternoon before my mom's retirement party playing with them. She had a lot of colorful dots and slashes on he face from smelling the markers. Well, I thought theywere washable, but they're not! My kid look like she had rainbow measles in all those nice family pictures. Sheesh!

[chrisandaaron]

I'm not a mom yet, but I've made a few mistakes of my own. When I was 16, my youngest brother was 4. I liked to take him places with me and he liked to go, especially to McDonald's. One afternoon I took him, my sister (age 6), and a friend to McDonald's. After we finished we went out to get in the car. As I was pulling away I glanced in my rear view mirror, only to see my 4 year old brother running behind the car crying. I guess he couldn't get the door to my Jeep open on his own and no one realized he wasn't in the car. He is now 15 and he still loves to bring up "remember the time you almost left me at McDonald's." I'm sure he will happily share this story with all my future children!

[Wolfpack]

OK, my bad mommy story....

Dh is a tournament fisherman, we only had one kiddo at the time, he was 5. He was so excited to go the the "lake with gators"...I was scared to death. Dh puts the boat in the water, and we get in. I make sure R has his life jacket on, and is sitting in the middle of the boat. I go through all the "rules", and especially don't go near the side of the boat. Dh is laughing at my paranoia....well....We are flying down the lake, and the boat just sort of dies, I look at the engine and flames are shooting out. I grab my baby and sit him at the front of the boat. In one fell swoop, I grab the fire extinguisher, dh pops the cover off the engine, and we put out the fire...the adreneline is pumping, I am so proud that I stayed calm and everthing is "OK". I turn to check on R and to "comfort" him. I still had the fire extinguisher in my hand. As I step down, I look across the lake, people are rushing in their boats over towards us, I raise my hand to say "we're ok"...and accidently squeeze the fire extinguisher again...poor R is standing with his back to me watching the other boats...and I completed covered him head to toe with the foam/powder out of the fire extinguisher. I have thanked God MANY times that he wasn't facing me, but I have yet to live this down. Everyone was fine, and we ended up getting a tow into the Marina, but my poor little guy kept saying...I never saw gators mommy LOL!

Becky

[mimc]

I'm not a mommy yet, but I wanted to share this story from my family. I am the first born in my family and thus the guinea pig on which my parents learned how to raise a kid. When I was a baby, my mom got ready to go to the grocery store, packed me into my carseat, made sure she had her list, her purse, her keys. She locked up the house, got in the car and drove off.... leaving me sitting in my carseat on the driveway.

She only got about half a block before realizing she was missing something. She was so traumatized by it that she called my Dad at work, sobbing hysterically that she was a terrible mother because she forgot her baby.

[gregorysparents]

This thread is so funny!! Thanks for starting it!!

I will not be telling any bad mommy or bad daddy stories on my dh or myself. Why? Well, let's just say that we have hired an attorney to fight for our fs "rights" so.....we don't want to mess up now!!!!

This one will be about my mom. We only lived in a small town once in my life - now you will find out why!! When I was a toddler - I talked all of the time. Well, I still talk all of the time and so does my fs!!! Anyway.....one day I was talking so much and bothering my mom that she told me to go out and play in traffic. Well, being the good girl that I was (am) I went out into the street and started playing. My mom noticed after a little while that it was very quite in the house. She went looking for me. It was only after she heard someone honking their horn did she look outside and see me sitting in the middle of the road!! From that time on, she had to remember that what ever she told me to do - I would probably do it!!!

Thanks again for starting this thread!!

Christina

[Kelli]

Guys, these stories are funny. Forgetfullness, carelessness, tiredness . . . true qualities of a "bad mommy" moment.

I'll now jump a couple of years forward and share a more recent story. My daughter (3 1/2 yrs.) came home from nursery school one day complaining that her feet hurt because she tripped and scuffed her toes while playing on the playground. The next day she said her feet felt good and we thought everything was fine. A couple days later she came home complaining about the same thing and this time we inspected carefully and noticed that her toes were red and thought that maybe it was time for some new shoes (even though we had just purchased some new ones with room to grow less then a month before). A couple days later when I went to pick her up from school her teacher handed me a pair of shoes that looked like hers (Size 9) that another parent had returned. Apparently the two girls got their shoes mixed up when they were changing back into their clothes after their ballet lesson. The shoes my dd had been wearing for a week off and one were a size 7 1/2 ! Ouch!!! Ladies, we all know how bad our feet can feel sometimes in shoes that are the right size, so I felt terrible about this. My dd has two pairs of different style navy shoes that we alternate each day that go along with her school uniform. Three of the five days she wore shoes for eight hours that were a size and a half too small.

In my defense, my dh dresses her every morning and puts her shoes on. Need I say more? I'm sure I would have noticed that I was squeezing or forcing her feet in her shoes. But I'm the one who changes her out of her clothes most evenings and I didn't notice anything different about her shoes so I have to chalk that one up as yet another "bad mommy" moment.

Kelli

[kllee4]

I will begin with a "bad daddy" story in which I became the "bad mommy" based on what he did. I will say this first....for all the parents out there, no matter how many children and how many years it's been, just when you think you have seen or experienced it all, leave it up to the kids to prove you wrong!!!!!!!

Well, this one is not very nice, kind of a "potty" topic. Well, baby boy #4, and we're on a roll, believing that we're old pros (NOT!!!). On one Saturday trip out we get all of the boys ready for a nice zoo trip. We're proud of the fact that everyone is dressed, ready to go fairly quickly. My hubby was in charge of the youngest while I had the oldest 3 (7, 4, 2). Well, after having a nice trip there (it's not that far from our house), I put the 2 youngest in the double stroller, and we proceeded to check out the animals. I wasn't too concerned after visiting the hippos and I kept smelling something, thinking that it was the animals. It wasn't until my son tells me that my youngest has M&M's in the stroller. I begin scolding my oldest (who would sometimes try to sneak them to his brothers) telling him that he is NOT to share candy with his baby brother! Upon further inspection, the baby (who liked to pull up and sort of bounce on his knees) was soaking wet! I should've suspected the quick timing of hubby in getting the baby ready to go (with no diaper on)! Well, you can guess by now what the small brown "mystery candies" turned out to be in the stroller!!!!!!! YUCK! I had to seriously apologize and suck up to my oldest son for falsely accusing him!!!!!! He's never lived that one down either!

[lmrod55]

These stories are all too funny, and I have my share of "bad mommy" moments. The one that I will share here happened when dd was 11 months old...

dd was not feeling well, and I was having a heck of a time getting her to sleep - as long as I was rocking in the chair she was fine, but once I put her in her crib she would wake right up and since she wasn't feeling well I felt guilty about letting her "cry it out". I was exhausted (at about 1AM), so I took her to bed with me and laid her on my chest. I was out like a light (as was she), not too sure how much later but dh wakes me up and says dd just fell...I hadn't heard a thing, but apparently she fell off my chest and onto the floor on top of the dogs (they sleep at my side of the bed)...she didn't cry or even wake up!!! Dh just heard the "thump" and knew it was her. He of course took her up to her room and she slept fine the rest of the night...I felt horrible for the next few days, but I have realized (especially after reading this thread) I am probably going to have more moments like this!!

[SquirlyGirl]

when my first daughter was born we were very careful to strap her into her car seat, however we forgot to strap the car seat in and when we made a sharp turn out of the parking lot, she rolled across the back seat and ended up in the floor board upside down car seat and all. She didn't cry at all but when I got stopped and uprighted the car seat she gave me this pitiful look as if to say "what did I do wrong?"

A bad daddy story is that when my oldest was about 16 months old I was working a lot of nights so I left her in the living room with her daddy in the middle of the day and went in my room to catch up on some sleep. I hadn't been asleep but maybe an hour when the light pops on and my husband throws her on me telling me to do the heimlich on her. She was turning purple and was having problems breathing so I was doing everything I knew to do and we realized that she wasn't getting enough air so we decide to go to the hospital. My husband grabs her like a football and is running to the car (in his boxers, no shoes) while I hurry to at least grab my shoes. As I get out the door he turns around and tells me that she is ok now and hands me the battery from the remote that she had swalled. We went ahead and called the hospital to find out if we should bring her in and fortunatly they said no need since it was a new battery.... evidently daddy fell asleep while watching dd and she figured out how to open the remote control. Moral of this story - the football carry while running is a good alternative to the heimlich.

To this day I swear she can take anything apart and is the most distructive girl I have ever heard of. She used to take her wagon apart (no matter who put it together or what tools they used) and would use the handle to hit her sister over the head with it. I can't even tell you how many times we have had to re-build her bed because she has torn it apart, even the one we built out of 4x4 deck lumber had to be rebuilt.

[Kelli]

Thank you guys for sharing your stories.

I felt horrible for the next few days, but I have realized (especially after reading this thread) I am probably going to have more moments like this!!

Lena, I think it probably comes with the territory. It's nice that we don't have to take ourselves too seriously and we can look back and laugh at some of our "finer" mothering moments. Every time I tell my sister about a new "incident" she teasingly threatens to call children's services. My response back to her is always "Call 'em . . . they don't want this little crazy 3 1/2 year old and they'll just toss her back to us and say 'YOU KEEP HER!' " Some of you who've been here may know what I mean.

Kelli

[mroot]

Awesome thread! Here goes...

The top floor of our house has an office, a guest bedroom and a guest bath, and I only go up there to be on the computer once or twice a day. Like a "good mommy," I always take my three year old son upstairs with me when I go and let him bring a toy while I am on the computer. Yesterday, he comes walking in the office with blood running down his chin! Upon closer inspection, I noticed a 1/4 inch cut on his bottom lip line that looked like a paper cut and it was bleeding quite a bit. I asked him what he cut his lip on and he proceeds to go into the guest bath, (which I only go into to clean once a week or less if no one has used it) and produces a disposable razor that was left in the tray across the tub I presume by my mother in law when they visited last week. He then says, "I was trying to shave like Daddy." I freaked! I totally beat myself up about it and made a new rule in our house that all disposable razors must be disposed of in the kitchen garbage can which is out of reach!! Luckily, it was a tiny cut and liquid band-aid did the trick!!!

[Kelli]

I'm glad I'm not the only one!!

Naah . . . there's probably "only one" mother in this world (if even that) who hasn't had an "oops" moment. Glad your little guy is okay.

Best wishes,

Kelli