Parenting frustration thread

My 2yo has discovered that screaming like a banshee is fun. I thought I had seen it all with his two sisters before but in retrospect theyre a walk in the park. AHHHHHHHHH

My four-year old daughter doesn't like the color of our dining room table, so she's using markers to make it red.

Buy ear plugs and don't react to him. It does wonders for peace of mind.

Learn selective hearing like all good parents!

My husband whines like a bitchy teenager and expects me to treat him like his mother does.

My 12 year old is in full blown puberty (yes, early) but with the maturity of a 12 year old dealing with a 14 year old's body in a class full of pre-pubescent 10 to 12 year old kids.

And his mood swings make my puberty look like a sea of tranquility. On the up side, he gets to take it all out on my mother when he goes to visit in August.

Boys will be boys. I hope your neighbors don't complain! My 4 y.o. son was like that, and he still shrieks with joy [we just found an enormous snake outside!].

Yesterday, I listened to the entire family next door screaming outside at one kid. Parents, grandparents, uncles, aunts... they are from Mexico. Oh, the drama! They are tied with another as my favorite neighbors, even with all the yelling. It's good to be back in Calif.

My daughter refuses to go poo in the potty. She's almost 4!

My. Older kids wait until I'm feeding the baby to poop, go deep toilet fishing, destroy the house and leave the house for a stroll around the block!

And I hear ya with the selective hearing. I can tune anything out now...

ewww, PezMom. My son can't properly wipe his butt yet... normally he will call for me, but today he was stealth and just got off the toilet and started walking around with dingleberries hanging off his butt. I had to go on a "poop search" of the floor.

It must have been about 15 years ago - my daughter[sup]*[/sup] discovered a big pot of Nivea and used the entire contents to cover herself (she did remove clothes first). I have an incriminating photo of the evidence plus my wife who had just discovered her...

*Daughter is now 17...

Spank him with a hairbrush and send him to bed without his supper then. That'll teach him.

Uh, the average age is 11. When he gets the crotch itch, tell him not to scratch during square dancing in gym class. It is a horrible thing to get caught by the girls and then have them not want to take your hand when you dosey doe.

My son is 3 and I refuse to allow him to wipe himself yet. i m not a fan of skidmarked undies! We are going start training my daughter soon...wish me luck!

selective hearing doesn't work in this case because the sound reverberates in the body.

At 4, my son went shopping without us. Seriously, he walked to Tenglemann and "bought" (he didn't pay for it) some yogurt dessert and then came home with it. He was so proud that he went shopping all by himself. He is now 7 and this past weekend decided to cut his own hair. He actually did a decent job. He is very "cool" conscious these days and that is a bit worrying.