What is your worst parenting mistake?

[BrilloPad]

Inspired by What are your worst parenting mistakes? | The panel | Comment is free | The Guardian

[LondonManc]

Becoming one?

[TykeMerc]

Their Mother, without the tiniest shred of a doubt.

[GlenW]

Shooting lessons and Sambucca.

[expat]

Becoming one?

One contributor to the article actually listed that. I hope his kids don't read it.

[EternalOptimist]

I knew a bloke who reckoned his kids were all c*nts

he blamed his wife though. because if he had his way
they would all be @rseHoles **




**there is a fair chance that I made this up, in order to get a laff

[Bacchus]

When Bacchus minimus was a tiddler I used to play around with words and we had a "sort of" code...

I got into trouble one day when his mum picked him up from Nursery, she was taken to one side and told in hushed tones that, when asked whether he wanted a snack, he replied ""yes, please, chips and lager"



(This was Ribena)

[MarillionFan]

Teaching MF04 that the correct way to greet a primary school teacher was to give them the middle finger and say '**** you, you sponging, money grabbing socialist'. I should never have taught him the word money, he's asked for a rise in pocket money.

[MicrosoftBob]

Believing a woman when she said she didn't want children

[BrilloPad]

Mrs BP's was calling a lorry driver a piece of knob cheese in front of a 15 month old who never spoke(except at 9 months to say mum, dad, door). He then repeated it several times. She was mortified. I could not stop laughing.