In honor of mother's day, (and inspired by a Babes and Babies podcast I recently listened to), share your recent bad mom/ good mom moments.
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My bad mom moment was this morning, I had asked 3-1/2 year old DS to put pants on (vs. the shorts he had on and wanted to wear) and when I walked out of his room heard him say 'son of a bitch'. OMG.
I'm sure he probably heard this from me at some point, not that I say it often at all, so the fact that he used it in a semi-correct context makes me laugh now. (not so much when he said it).My good mom moment was this past Sunday, DH and I were going to go out for a bit but decided against it. Later that night out of the blue, DS says 'thank you mom for staying home with me'. Heart melted.
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Bad Mom moment : I gave in and let DD (17mo) watch the beginning of Moana on my phone, just so she'd lie still to get her pjs on. This was after 2hrs of whining, crying, throwing food, etc. after daycare. Its not her fault, she was over tired and has two molars coming in. I'd had a marathon day at work, and just couldn't take it. We broke a 4 month streak of no screen time, and I didn't tell my husband....
Good Mom moment: My daughter's life is like a musical, I have a song that goes with everything, and I constantly have Pandora on. She sings and dances constantly and is now trying to vocalize the lyrics. She now recognizes the "Skinamarink" song, and trys to say and do the "I love you" part. Its so adorable, and shes trying to say I love you, even if she doesn't know what it means yet!
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Bad mom: My 3 year old watches YouTube videos many mornings for like an hour and a half while I nurse the baby and snooze.
Good mom: My DH had to go to a work dinner last night so I did dinner and bedtime solo (v unusual) and we had such a lovely calm evening. My 3 year old ate all her dinner and was just being so sweet and helpful and the 10 week old actually let me sit down for dinner for once! At one point LO1 said “I love you and I love my baby sister AND I love myself!”
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Bad mom: I probably don't make enough of an effort to not let my 17mo eat as much sugar since my 3.5yr old gets sugary stuff sometimes. DD2 has definitely had way more junk at this point in life than DD1!
Good mom: Busted my butt yesterday to make it to DD1's Mother's Day Tea at school. It was at 1:45pm so I kind of just took a late lunch and then raced back to work after. She was SO happy I was there!
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From yesterday...
Bad mom moment: LO was asking for stuff on my nightstand and I didn’t feel like getting it for him, but told him he could go explore. He brought back a tube of Cortizone. I tightened the top, gave it back, and then thought better of it and took it away. He cried.
Good mom moment: LO wanted to finish dinner on the couch so he could sit next to me while I read him stories. He had peas and spaghetti and shredded Parmesan cheese topped on both for dinner so you can imagine how cleanly he ate. Ha! I convinced him a kitchen towel under the plate was a good thing and we read 8-9 books before he declared he was “all done.”
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bad mom moment: I may have yelled a little this morning when my youngest opened her breakfast in the car and dumped it all over the car floor and herself (note to self, place daycare bag far away from her from now on).
Good mom moment: Yesterday I was tired. I'd had a bout of insomnia the night before and had only gotten 2.5 hours of sleep and I was just dragging, but had to make it to the kid's bedtime somehow. The kids wanted to read lots of stories at bedtime and I reach down deeeeeep down inside and find that last tiny shred of patience and read each of the stories they picked out. Without losing my mind. I'm going to call that a win.
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Bad Mom: I was so sound asleep this morning that I didn't even hear DS wake up. It wasn't until DH plopped him down next to me in bed that I even realized anyone was awake and it was time to get up and get going
Good Mom: last night putting DD to bed, we were laughing and laughing so hard she kept tooting and it was hysterical. We laughed for a good bit and then finally just calmed down and both fell asleep.
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Bad mom- pretty much every time I lose my temper and yell at my kids. It happens too much.
Good mom: I just spent more than half an hour wrestling with our extra car seat and getting it installed tightly enough. My older one is just over 40 lbs so I didn’t want to use latch and this way either kid can ride in DHs car. But Jesus Christ it was hard to get t tight enough. DH has decided it was “good enough” but now I feel secure knowing it is installed well.
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Bad mom - I got super frustrated when DS1 tried to sneak into my bed this morning at 6 am and then kept whining for the next hour and I definitely expressed my disapproval. Then when we got up I noticed he was burning up and sure enough 103 temp
Good mom - I've been trying to make a more conscious effort to read to DS2 and his babbling has increased a lot this past week. Maybe its just coincidence, but I'd like to think its all the extra language exposure
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Bad Mom: I yelled at DD for dumping out the diaper bag and cried/hid in another room while she wailed for me throughout the house.
Good Mom: We ate dinner at the table together with multiple sides!
Average mom moment: My daughter ate dirt yesterday and I pretended not to notice till I made her spit the two rocks back out....
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@josina:
Bad mom - I let DS watch the entire* Cars 3 movie in bed with me this morning while I slept in and ignored him because I had a late work event last night.
Good mom - Not anything I did but this morning he said to me out of no where, you’re beautiful Mom. -
Lol this is making me laugh!
I don’t do a good enough job of making my daughter sit for meals. She’s just not that into food and most of the time we eat lunch at the park and she doesn’t care enough about dinner to sit and eat.
But I totally hit it out of the park with our morning activity. The local splash pad is on F/S/Su now that it’s May so we went and even though it was so cold she was shivering, she basically had to be dragged away. Plus I underestimated her desire to get soaking wet so she was just in a pull-up and rash guard and not a swim diaper. Fortunately I totally won at moming because I had two extra pairs of shorts and two T-shirts plus extra food. So she was able to change into more appropriate wet clothes and still more dry clothes before we left. Plus I forgot a towel but happened to have my playground towel in the trunk. I felt super great about how prepared I was in spite of not preparing, lol.
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Bad mom: I never sign off on the folder DS brings home from Kindergarten. I also never remember to turn in his weekly reading log. The teacher never says anything... But DS got mad at me this morning because everyone else's folder had signatures and his didn't.
Good mom: I'm taking DS to a baseball game tonight and leaving younger brother with a babysitter. He is so excited it was all he could talk about this morning!
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Bad mom: I forgot to contribute to the class gift for teacher appreciation week, so I stopped at the store this afternoon and brought stuff that was clearly super last minute. Also, DS thinks that dessert everyday is totally normal.
Good mom: I was so, so tired after a ridiculous day at work, but when DS asked for me to sing him songs before bed (DH did most of bedtime so I could rest), I rolled myself off the couch and went upstairs even though I was half asleep.
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Bad Mom: DD is now basically refusing to try any food that's not one of five things she knows she likes. We have decided that we aren't going to let her do that, so every meal has become a battle. It might be more pleasant if I invited some Dementors over for dinner. DH asked what was on the menu last night, and I said, "Coq au Vin, roasted carrots, sauteed mushrooms and pearl onions, and tears. Lots and lots of tears." We may be doing the right thing, but it feels wretched and everyone leaves the table miserable and exhausted.
Good mom: The other day, she said that she wants to be just like me when she grows up.
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Bad Mom moment/moments: DS 19 months watches WAY more TV than DD now 3.5 ever dis at this age, but it is "educational" TV lol
Good Mom moments: My daughter told me you must love us mom, you kiss us all the time
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Bad mom: My 2.5 year old expects a croissant from Starbucks every time we go to Target.
Good mom: I make her order it herself, and she says "please" and "thank you" to the barista without my reminding her (usually . . .
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I'm sure he probably heard this from me at some point, not that I say it often at all, so the fact that he used it in a semi-correct context makes me laugh now. (not so much when he said it).
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