You guys are always commenting on other moms' parenting skills so I'm going to open myself up for an assault...do you get annoyed when your DS or DD hounds you to read them a certain book constantly, or wants to stand on you when you're trying to relax after working all day? Or climbs on you and puts his butt in your face and tries to slide down your face on to the floor? My DS is becoming very aggravating to me b/c he wants to stand on my stomach and sit on my face, and he has this LONG book that he keeps bringing me. I read it the first few times, but damn after the 5th time I am just done w/it. Patience has always been a weak point of mine, and I don't yell at him or anything, I just get annoyed. Anyone go through this or am I just horrible?
-Ashley, Soldier/Army Wife/Mother to one Amazing little boy, Azriel (Survivor of Gastroschisis, SBS, and a triple organ transplant)
You are not horrible. No one told me that when I became a mom I was to give up personal space. I have felt the same way you do but After a while I just kinda got numb to the kids climbing on me. I usually have 3 at a time doing it and I guess I'm just so used to it that I don't think about it anymore. And hide that book.
My solution to the book thing was to do two things....have him read it to me...because by this time even if he cant read he knows the story...and take him to the library to pick out new books lol.
I know! DH got it off the shelf and now whenever he sees me pick it up (to go put it away) he comes running to me! So I hand it to DH, since he's the one that got it down...
Quoting mom2four1978:
You are not horrible. No one told me that when I became a mom I was to give up personal space. I have felt the same way you do but After a while I just kinda got numb to the kids climbing on me. I usually have 3 at a time doing it and I guess I'm just so used to it that I don't think about it anymore. And hide that book.
-Ashley, Soldier/Army Wife/Mother to one Amazing little boy, Azriel (Survivor of Gastroschisis, SBS, and a triple organ transplant)
Nope...your not a bad mom.
This is how i look at it , yes...we gave birth a child...and yes we are as mothers supposed to love, care and do everything for that child that we can.
And...as mother's we do this, HOWEVER...it does not mean that we have to give up who WE are as an individual.
You bet your arse, there are times when i have wanted 5 minutes to myself,...
Im not the happiest person in the mornings (during the weekends), when i wake up to ....mommy...mommy...mommy...wake up!...and then i get up (at 7 am), only to have her go and play or do something else and leaving me absolutly alone...dammnit i could have slept!
She is 7 years old now, she can get herself some cereal...a drink and either watch a movie and play a bit...until i wake up on my own (the latest i sleep in is 8:30).
The whole ...read me a story...well, she is 7. So i have just recently turned it into...you read the book (cause she needs the reading practice), or no book at all. Of course i sit beside her all cuddled up while she is reading.
lol It doesn't make you a bad mom....I feel the same way sometimes bc my daughter does the SAME thing lol
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- SoldierMom86
on Nov. 21, 2009 at 9:51 PM