Reeciecup Posted December 20, 2012 Share Posted December 20, 2012 I let my kids ride in cars just like this Worst. Mother. Ever. :banghead: All three did miraculously survive to see their teenage years, however. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happi duck Posted December 21, 2012 Share Posted December 21, 2012 Great picture! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 21, 2012 Share Posted December 21, 2012 Oh, the tragic things we exposed our kids to before we knew it was ALL WRONG! I get a few freebie points for cloth diapering, though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TravelingChris Posted December 21, 2012 Share Posted December 21, 2012 I still don't have any idea what is wrong with winter coats and safety seats, WHat is the problem and when did it become a problem that was announced? My youngest is 16 and I have never heard of this. Of course we kept them in coats and winter gear. Who dresses kids in -40 degree weather? That is what we had at one point with one of our kids. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 21, 2012 Share Posted December 21, 2012 When I was pregnant with my second child, I wanted to make sure I ate enough protein. Not being a big meat-eater, I ate a CAN of TUNA for lunch *every* day! How is he not brain-damaged from mercury exposure? :ohmy: ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freckles Posted December 21, 2012 Share Posted December 21, 2012 LOL! these confessions are great. Lets see.... When we lived in China not only did they wear winter coats, but they didn't even wear seat belts because the Taxi's are so old they don't work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justLisa Posted December 21, 2012 Share Posted December 21, 2012 When I was pregnant with my second child, I wanted to make sure I ate enough protein. Not being a big meat-eater, I ate a CAN of TUNA for lunch *every* day! How is he not brain-damaged from mercury exposure? :ohmy: ;) I ate lunch meat turkey almost every day. WIth homemade mayo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Catwoman Posted December 21, 2012 Share Posted December 21, 2012 I ate lunch meat turkey almost every day. WIth homemade mayo. I'm pretty sure that was OK, because there were still some turkey parts in there somewhere. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Catwoman Posted December 21, 2012 Share Posted December 21, 2012 When I was pregnant with my second child, I wanted to make sure I ate enough protein. Not being a big meat-eater, I ate a CAN of TUNA for lunch *every* day! How is he not brain-damaged from mercury exposure? :ohmy: ;) Wow, what a rotten mother you were. And you had the nerve to want partial credit for the cloth diapers!!! :eek: . . . . ;) ;) ;) ;) (I ate quite a bit of tuna, too. At that time, they were still telling us it was good for us, and it would help the baby's brain or something. Now the mercury will kill us all, if the carcinogenic inner lining of the can doesn't get us first..... :rolleyes:) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justLisa Posted December 21, 2012 Share Posted December 21, 2012 I'm pretty sure that was OK, because there were still some turkey parts in there somewhere. I think it's the raw egg and I heard about some weird bacteria thing or something you can get from lunch meat type things. I never had a book though. Boy am I glad. Those books make for SOME kind of nervous wreck of a new mom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Catwoman Posted December 21, 2012 Share Posted December 21, 2012 I think it's the raw egg and I heard about some weird bacteria thing or something you can get from lunch meat type things. I never had a book though. Boy am I glad. Those books make for SOME kind of nervous wreck of a new mom I didn't do the raw egg thing -- I'm not big on mayo at all, but if I eat it, it has to be Hellmann's. I'm sure you're right about the lunch meat being quite deadly, though, despite the presence of the bona fide turkey parts cleverly hidden within it. ;) I agree with you about the books -- I swear some of those authors make up terrifying statistics just to scare pregnant women and new moms. :glare: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reeciecup Posted December 21, 2012 Author Share Posted December 21, 2012 I put sugar in my baby's cereal. :crying: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 21, 2012 Share Posted December 21, 2012 I put sugar in my baby's cereal. :crying: That's okay. When I was a kid, my sisters and I ate butter and sugar on white bread, while my mother looked on from the kitchen, where she was frying up SPAM for dinner. It was a LOT of sugar too, like, tablespoons-full. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Catwoman Posted December 21, 2012 Share Posted December 21, 2012 I put sugar in my baby's cereal. :crying: And the baby was happy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unicorn. Posted December 21, 2012 Share Posted December 21, 2012 I think it's the raw egg and I heard about some weird bacteria thing or something you can get from lunch meat type things. I never had a book though. Boy am I glad. Those books make for SOME kind of nervous wreck of a new mom Nah, there's too many chemicals in there to worry about bacteria! My kids wore winter coats in their carseats- on the days we had winter. My crockpot actually belonged to my mother. It's the same one I had growing up. I'm sure we are all slowly dying of lead poisoning. And the worst of the worst.... wait for it...................... I cook our meals in Teflon pans! :svengo: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ellie Posted December 21, 2012 Share Posted December 21, 2012 I still don't have any idea what is wrong with winter coats and safety seats, WHat is the problem and when did it become a problem that was announced? My youngest is 16 and I have never heard of this. Of course we kept them in coats and winter gear. Who dresses kids in -40 degree weather? That is what we had at one point with one of our kids. I dunno, but I read about it here, so when I visited my dd in Seattle and she put her ds (aka World's Cutest Grandson. Ever.) in his carseat without his coat on, I was able to suck it up and not do this: :blink: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ellie Posted December 21, 2012 Share Posted December 21, 2012 That's okay. When I was a kid, my sisters and I ate butter and sugar on white bread, while my mother looked on from the kitchen, where she was frying up SPAM for dinner. It was a LOT of sugar too, like, tablespoons-full. Oh, butter and sugar on white bread is THE BEST!! ...but I didn't let my children eat it, lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ellie Posted December 21, 2012 Share Posted December 21, 2012 I ate lunch meat turkey almost every day. WIth homemade mayo. But see, the homemade mayo, which wouldn't have all the additives that storebought mayo has, trumps the mystery meat. :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justLisa Posted December 21, 2012 Share Posted December 21, 2012 But see, the homemade mayo, which wouldn't have all the additives that storebought mayo has, trumps the mystery meat. :lol: Yeah and I added a spoon full of whey and let it sit on the counter for several hours on PURPOSE! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elegantlion Posted December 21, 2012 Share Posted December 21, 2012 When ds was little he would sometimes eat margarine from the tub. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kirch Posted December 21, 2012 Share Posted December 21, 2012 I think it's the raw egg and I heard about some weird bacteria thing or something you can get from lunch meat type things. I never had a book though. Boy am I glad. Those books make for SOME kind of nervous wreck of a new mom Oh, yes--the listeria risk w/cold lunch meat & cold hot dogs. My OB actually told me to heat my lunch meat 15 seconds in the microwave before eating. I decided thatxwas one risk I'd take. The really ironic thing? When I was in the hospital a coupled of times w/pre-term labor, guess what they gave me to eat? A cold turkey sandwich! It was really yummy, too. And that's what they always kept on hand--I had a couple of them on different stays. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joker Posted December 21, 2012 Share Posted December 21, 2012 I would pretend not to know when my oldest dd (from about 18 months to about 3 yrs) would sneak to the fridge and run her finger through the butter. I would also look the other way when my grandpa would let her eat those little butter things at restaurants. :eek: She's now a healthy teenager. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mama2cntrykids Posted December 21, 2012 Share Posted December 21, 2012 I pretended not to notice my toddler just eating the parmesan cheese out of her bowl and nothing else. Plus I gave her more when she asked for it. Oh! I also put her in the carseat with her winter jacket on...c'mon, it's Minnesota in the WINTER for cryin' out loud! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DawnM Posted December 21, 2012 Share Posted December 21, 2012 I tried decaf and that chicory carp and vowed not to drink caffeine. And I didn't drink ANY, not for 2 whole hours during my pregnancy!!!!!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Catwoman Posted December 21, 2012 Share Posted December 21, 2012 I hate an obscene amount of Jelly Belly jelly beans. As long as some of them were fruit flavored, you're good to go. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ewe Mama Posted December 21, 2012 Share Posted December 21, 2012 I put raw eggs in smoothies. I make Alvin, Simon, and Theodore clean their bathroom because it is really scary in there. I threaten to feed the chihuahua to the red tailed boa on a regular basis. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Catwoman Posted December 21, 2012 Share Posted December 21, 2012 Oh, butter and sugar on white bread is THE BEST!! ...but I didn't let my children eat it, lol. Of course you didn't. You were a wonderful mother and you made them eat white bread with butter and honey, because honey comes from bees, and bees are natural, and natural is good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Catwoman Posted December 21, 2012 Share Posted December 21, 2012 Oh, yes--the listeria risk w/cold lunch meat & cold hot dogs. My OB actually told me to heat my lunch meat 15 seconds in the microwave before eating. :ack2: :ack2: :ack2: :ack2: That is just wrong. :ack2: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruby Rose Posted December 21, 2012 Share Posted December 21, 2012 I ate tuna and lots of peanut butter sandwiches and milk. My poor DS ended up with milk and peanut allergies. Ugh, the guilt! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ellie Posted December 21, 2012 Share Posted December 21, 2012 Of course you didn't. You were a wonderful mother and you made them eat white bread with butter and honey, because honey comes from bees, and bees are natural, and natural is good. You know me so well!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ellie Posted December 21, 2012 Share Posted December 21, 2012 I tried decaf and that chicory carp and vowed not to drink caffeine. And I didn't drink ANY, not for 2 whole hours during my pregnancy!!!!!!!!! You da woman! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest TheAlmostCrunchyMama Posted December 21, 2012 Share Posted December 21, 2012 Not to be a Debbie Downer, but..... the whole coats & carseats thing is something everyone should really take into consideration. This is an excellent video showing very simply why it is so dangerous. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justLisa Posted December 21, 2012 Share Posted December 21, 2012 Ok you don't get this yet.....but this is a FUNNY thread for people who think it's funny....you know to screw up your littles. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unicorn. Posted December 21, 2012 Share Posted December 21, 2012 Given that this is her first post on the forums I wonder if she's a troll who just joined to post that video... Ya think? :lol: Maybe she's the secret "no coats in the carseat" govt. police, and she's taking notes on all of us! I wonder if she realizes that most of us not only wore coats in the car as tots, but also didn't wear seat belts much less have a car seat to sit in? I wonder how long it will be before the car seats come w/ built in air bags. Or bubble wrap. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SunnyDays Posted December 21, 2012 Share Posted December 21, 2012 I'm told I rode home from the hospital as a newborn in my grandmother's arms, LOL. She wouldn't relinquish me to my parents for the ride... but she did sit in the backseat with me! ;) Let's see... I ate all kinds of peanut butter during my first trimester of pregnancy, meat just didn't sound good but I craved protein. And I drank caffeine, although I tried to avoid it until second trimester. After that all bets were off. AND... I now let my son drink both soda and coffee. And his favorite lunch is mac & cheese. Mother of the year, right here, girls!! :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sahamamama Posted December 21, 2012 Share Posted December 21, 2012 I still don't have any idea what is wrong with winter coats and safety seats, WHat is the problem and when did it become a problem that was announced? My youngest is 16 and I have never heard of this. Of course we kept them in coats and winter gear. Who dresses kids in -40 degree weather? That is what we had at one point with one of our kids. Is this an issue now? I hadn't heard. Huh. What's up with the coats? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sahamamama Posted December 21, 2012 Share Posted December 21, 2012 I ate lunch meat turkey almost every day. WIth homemade mayo. :svengo: That's dedication! :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ali in OR Posted December 21, 2012 Share Posted December 21, 2012 I tell my youngest that she was formed on Jack in the Box tacos. The two-for-99 cents deal. I'm not sure what that "beef" really is, but we ate them as kids and it just sounded good when I was pregnant. This is the first I've heard of no-winter-coats in car seats. My youngest just stopped using hers a couple of months ago, age almost 10. Fifteen and a half years of car seat use with winter coats--feeling like I dodged a bullet! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Catwoman Posted December 21, 2012 Share Posted December 21, 2012 Not to be a Debbie Downer, but..... the whole coats & carseats thing is something everyone should really take into consideration. This is an excellent video showing very simply why it is so dangerous. I know you're trying to be helpful, but this is just a thread about the dopey things we did with our kids when we were too clueless to know any better. If you take a look through past threads, the coats-in-the-carseat issue has been covered on several occasions. But FWIW (and I don't want to debate anyone about this,) where I live, it gets COLD in the winter, so you can bet my kid wore his snowsuit in the carseat. No one I knew would have thought it was a good idea to walk out of the mall on a freezing cold night and TAKE THE BABY'S SNOWSUIT OFF BEFORE WE PUT HIM IN THE CAR. :eek: People would have thought we were terrible parents for freezing our kid half to death like that, and honestly, I still wouldn't do it. I was a complete and utter lunatic about being sure ds's coats and snowsuits weren't too thick and puffy, and that the 5-point harness thingie was super-tight, though -- and no one but me was allowed to strap him into his carseat. Believe me, that kid was strapped in so tightly that an earthquake couldn't have shaken him out of that seat. But in our defense, at that time, everyone else did it, too. Nobody told us that the whole coat-in-a-carseat concept was a bad thing. Hey, we thought we were incredibly safety-conscious. I even bought new, safer cars when I had ds, just to be sure he was in the latest and safest vehicles available (and my dad did the same thing, because he wanted ds to be safe in his cars, too!) And don't even get me started on all the car seat research I did before we bought them... Paranoid and anal retentive much? Oh yeah, that was us. All the way. :rolleyes: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meriwether Posted December 21, 2012 Share Posted December 21, 2012 I would pretend not to know when my oldest dd (from about 18 months to about 3 yrs) would sneak to the fridge and run her finger through the butter. I would also look the other way when my grandpa would let her eat those little butter things at restaurants. :eek: She's now a healthy teenager. My dad was always putting his finger in the butter when he was little. Grandma let him eat a whole stick thinking it would make him sick and he'd leave it be. It didn't make him sick at all, and he still stuck his finger in the butter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sahamamama Posted December 21, 2012 Share Posted December 21, 2012 That's okay. When I was a kid, my sisters and I ate butter and sugar on white bread, while my mother looked on from the kitchen, where she was frying up SPAM for dinner. It was a LOT of sugar too, like, tablespoons-full. We did this, too. Including the fried SPAM. ROFL. Did you ever sprinkle cinnamon on the butter and sugar on white bread? Yummy. You know, my girls have never done this. What a pathetic excuse for a childhood. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joker Posted December 21, 2012 Share Posted December 21, 2012 My grandma used to make me fried spam because it was my favorite. :001_huh: I survived. I'm kind of afraid to try it now as an adult, but I really did love that stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Catwoman Posted December 21, 2012 Share Posted December 21, 2012 Did you ever sprinkle cinnamon on the butter and sugar on white bread? Yummy. I loved it -- and I still do -- but I toast the bread first. I'm such a rebel. ;) You know, my girls have never done this. What a pathetic excuse for a childhood. Get them started on it now, while there's still time to save them! Otherwise, it might take years of therapy to help them deal with it when they get older. And while you're out at the store buying the white bread, you might want to pick up a couple of boxes of Pop-Tarts, just so your kids will remember you as an extra-special mom. :001_wub: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SunnyDays Posted December 21, 2012 Share Posted December 21, 2012 And while you're out at the store buying the white bread, you might want to pick up a couple of boxes of Pop-Tarts, just so your kids will remember you as an extra-special mom. :001_wub: Well heck, I forgot to say I also let my kid eat Pop-Tarts!! Thanks for the reminder.... ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
5LittleMonkeys Posted December 21, 2012 Share Posted December 21, 2012 I've let my kids have ramen noodles for breakfast. :leaving: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sahamamama Posted December 21, 2012 Share Posted December 21, 2012 And while you're out at the store buying the white bread, you might want to pick up a couple of boxes of Pop-Tarts, just so your kids will remember you as an extra-special mom. :001_wub: Aw, man! Another epic parental fail! My children have also never had a Pop Tart! What am I doing to them? Aahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! Woe to me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Serenade Posted December 21, 2012 Share Posted December 21, 2012 Well heck, I forgot to say I also let my kid eat Pop-Tarts!! Thanks for the reminder.... ;) I still let my kids eat Pop-Tarts for breakfast. Every Thursday. And I know better... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justLisa Posted December 21, 2012 Share Posted December 21, 2012 On my list: Buy Pop Tarts and Ramen. My kids have never had either. *hanging head in shame* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justLisa Posted December 21, 2012 Share Posted December 21, 2012 Given that this is her first post on the forums I wonder if she's a troll who just joined to post that video... Oh dear God and she knows what I look like!!!! :ohmy: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Truscifi Posted December 21, 2012 Share Posted December 21, 2012 I let my dad give ds9 a ding dong when he was only a year old. I'm sure it has permanently warped him somehow. :p Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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