Good morning everyone! I just have to share my "bad mommy" story for the day. So we went camping this weekend and of course as soon as the sun goes down "Can we make S'mores? Can we make S'mores?" so fine, I shove a marshmallow on my kid's stick and plop him in a chair while I turn my back to get the graham cracker and chocolate ready. Mind you, my son normally holds his stick like 4 feet in the air like the smoke is going to heat it up or something. But as my back is turn, I hear him let out this scream like I've never heard before. I turn around and he's holding a stick with a flaming marshmallow and he's got white & black stuff on his lips. So I don't know if he was trying to blow out the flame and bumped his face or what, but now my baby has a puffy lip and a scab. Luckily he didn't have much on his face so it's not a deep burn but still..... BAD MOMMY!

Anyone else have a similar story they'd care to share so I don't feel so bad?

 

He will learn more from that tiny little scab than he would from a thousand 'rescues' by you. It's OK. The idea isn't to rescue him from every peril, but allow him to learn how to recognise and survive perils on his own. And I betcha he doesn't stick flaming goop into his mouth again any time soon!

 

Nope....good lord you are a horrible parent....

 

Yeah, I wouldn't feel too bad. If that's the worst that ever happens, well, you know.

The puffy lip reminds me of the time my son, through his own dramatic angy fit, trippied and bit it, face first, on the corner of the couch. He had yanked the cusions off, a thing he always did back then, and smacked his lip right on the wood frame. Poor kid had a fat scabbed up lip for a week and a half. I was affraid to take him anywhere for fear somebody might accuse me of doing it to him. Gnarly lookin anyway.

So, no, don't feel too guilty, and like was said, I bet he won't do that again any time soon.

Just make sure he doesn't trip and roll through the fire. I did that once as a little tike.

 

Glad you are not my mother....I can't believe you would take you kids outside with all those bugs!

 

I could tell you about the time my son (6) wanted to jump/ride his 4wheeler over a railroad tie in our driveway. I advised against it and to take it slow until he had better control of the 4wheeler. He said "I can do it Daddy".

Well ok than....

I went to his "landing point" and waited. He lined it up, hit the sucker square went over the handle bars, didn't let go (MY MAN!!!) pulled himself back down and rode it out and over. When he stopped he looked up at me with tears in his eyes. He scared himself and kinda scratched his stomach and side on the bars but other than that no problem. I helped him with his helment and wiped away the tears. I told him he should've listed but way to go on handing on and riding it out when he got scared.

Now when I got in my wife about beat the crap out of me but that is the bad husband thread.

 

Look at it this way, at least he didn't start waving the stick around trying to put the flaming marshmallow out and no one ended up with a flaming marshmallow to the eye! They lookm all cute and innoncent, but in reality marshmallows are cream colored puffy little deamons.

 

Seem to recall doing dumb stuff like that all the time on camping trips with my father. But what I remember is being out there and enjoying nature, not how bad of a parent my father was for exposing me to risk...

 

Anyone know the # to CA Child Services? I need to make a call...

 

bad mommy....


that's hot.

 

Well I feel better, and turned on all at the same time.

Thanks guys!

 

Adrianspeeder

 

Well I kinda like the hot candle wax thing, does that count??

 

As long as my "lips" aren't 1/2 charred, we could talk....

 

Dammit, where is my leg humper smiley when I need it?!