What do you wish your kid WEREN'T doing?

[jillywilly]

Inspired by billyhorrible mentioning BH's new light switch trick, and a fun new skill DS learned, what skill has your child discovered that you could have lived without (at least for a while)?

[pghtruelove]

Unscrewing lids.

[jillywilly]

We have the doors on the inside our house that are the lever-style, and DS is fully tall enough to have become proficient at opening and shutting them at will. This morning he took great pleasure in trapping himself in my closet, and also escaping out of my bedroom, leading to a mad dash to catch the toddler and shut our baby gate down the hall to go downstairs that I told H he could just leave open and close our bedroom door while I finished getting ready. He also now decides to go into the pantry every 30 seconds, and ask for basically every snack in there. And has locked the dog in the pantry at least once.

[sabrinaml]

C has figured out how to open the front door. Normally it wouldn't be a problem but DH leaves in the morning through that door because the garage door was waking C up. (His room is right above the garage. Well for a little while longer- I've decided after we have an US to determine there is only 1 baby in there we're moving Cs room to the big room next to his room. If there's 2 then that will be new nursery and C gets the smaller room next to the master bedroom. )

[blueskiessmiling]

-saying no constantly and wagging her finger at me
-opening doors (namely the pantry)
-figuring out to ask DH if she wants something she knows I will say no to
-running fairly fast...down the driveway when I'm trying to get her in the car

[blueskiessmiling]

Oh, and sometimes using the potty. I'm glad she's interested and doing well, but it's pretty annoying to sit and mess around with waiting for her to go if we have somewhere to be. God forbid I pull her off the potty before she's ready...

[billyhorrible]

*Swinging from the beams on the playset
*jumping off everything
*climbing on bar stools and counters
*counter surfing
* eating and dumping dogfood
* sticking his hand through the counter locks to grab the objects inside
* digging through the garbage and recycling and/or pulling bottles out and putting them in his mouth
* screaming for beer
*screaming at night

[veggiemo]

Pushing the button on the dishwasher. He keeps re-starting the cycle and it's the most annoying thing ever.

[Widget123]

+1 light switch
+1 turning off/restarting the dishwasher

also turning the tv on and off
turning the dvd player on and off, injecting the DVDs, and taking them out
plus climbing on top of all of the things

He is close to being able to flush the toilet by himself. I'll give him a few more weeks for that one.

ETA: He still loves throwing things and watching them land on the floor. Out of all of the above, that is probably my least favorite.

[blueskiessmiling]

Oh yes, AND calling all male strangers Dada. Embarrassing, DD, very embarrassing.

[mrsdee1982]

* +1 to opening all the doors. Then going into the room and shutting the door and sitting up against it so i can't get the door open. Apparently that HILARIOUS.

*throwing her toys

*Fake burping and then loudly exclaiming "BURP!". Thanks for that one, DH...

[wegrowsheep]

Nov 3, 2016 8:36:50 GMT -5 budders said:

Nov 3, 2016 7:00:28 GMT -5 jillywilly said:

We have the doors on the inside our house that are the lever-style, and DS is fully tall enough to have become proficient at opening and shutting them at will. This morning he took great pleasure in trapping himself in my closet, and also escaping out of my bedroom, leading to a mad dash to catch the toddler and shut our baby gate down the hall to go downstairs that I told H he could just leave open and close our bedroom door while I finished getting ready. He also now decides to go into the pantry every 30 seconds, and ask for basically every snack in there. And has locked the dog in the pantry at least once.

So glad we have knobs. V can reach, but not well enough to turn them yet.

T can reach the round doorknobs. And turn them. Lucky me....

[jillywilly]

Nov 3, 2016 9:47:45 GMT -5 billyhorrible said:

*Swinging from the beams on the playset
*jumping off everything
*climbing on bar stools and counters
*counter surfing
* eating and dumping dogfood
* sticking his hand through the counter locks to grab the objects inside
* digging through the garbage and recycling and/or pulling bottles out and putting them in his mouth
* screaming for beer
*screaming at night

yes x a million to the beer. We were out to dinner last week, and DS just kept pointing a H's beer and saying, "more! more!" at the top of his lungs. 

[tiffbot]

Nov 3, 2016 10:27:28 GMT -5 blueskiessmiling said:

Oh yes, AND calling all male strangers Dada. Embarrassing, DD, very embarrassing.

DS used to do this with our fairly attractive married next door neighbor. It was so embarrassing. Worst part is his wife had recently cheated on him and small towns talk and everyone knew about it.

[dmoney]

DD LOVES to run away from me. We were walking the dog yesterday and i put her down because she was heavy. Holding my hand one second and the next running towards the street. Walking to the car after day care. Running straight to the middle of the parking lot and laughing at me as im chasing after her.

[blueskiessmiling]

Nov 3, 2016 12:16:38 GMT -5 tiffbot said:

Nov 3, 2016 10:27:28 GMT -5 blueskiessmiling said:

Oh yes, AND calling all male strangers Dada. Embarrassing, DD, very embarrassing.

DS used to do this with our fairly attractive married next door neighbor. It was so embarrassing. Worst part is his wife had recently cheated on him and small towns talk and everyone knew about it.

Next door neighbor, doctor, guy at the pizza shop who's old enough to be my own dad...they're all fair game in her eyes.

[ashbash]

stcyct every word of #3, it is beyond over the top. It is so old at this point.

[erbear]

Climbing on the couch. For some reason this freaks me out more than anything else she climbs.

Throwing food. Instead of telling us she's all done anymore, she just throws food. I've found all kinds of old food in her toy box...

[pghtruelove]

Nov 3, 2016 7:00:28 GMT -5 jillywilly said:

We have the doors on the inside our house that are the lever-style, and DS is fully tall enough to have become proficient at opening and shutting them at will. This morning he took great pleasure in trapping himself in my closet, and also escaping out of my bedroom, leading to a mad dash to catch the toddler and shut our baby gate down the hall to go downstairs that I told H he could just leave open and close our bedroom door while I finished getting ready. He also now decides to go into the pantry every 30 seconds, and ask for basically every snack in there. And has locked the dog in the pantry at least once.

We changed every door handle in our house to knows because of this, also because our dog knew how to open them too. So annoying.

[holliberry28]

Count us in here for taking our socks off, then desperately attempting to put them back on himself and getting mad when I try to help him.

Learning how to turn the tv on and off and stopping any cartoon he requests using the Roku remote. And, by request I mean pointing to the remote and saying "da da da." Then whining if it's the wrong cartoon.

[sugarkissed]

CLIMBING. You guys, this week I went to the bathroom and came out a minute later to find her standing on the kitchen counter. She climbs everything.

[periwinkledaydreams]

Shouting Nooooo. Not saying it but shouting it in the squeakiest most drawn out dramatic fashion. Its like "NAAOOOOOAAOOOWWWW!!"

Climbing all the things. sugarkissed same thing, I turned my back to rinse a dish turned back and she was ON the kitchen table. Please stop this.

Standing next to the fridge and screaming when she wants food, then wanting nothing but condiments. We have to stop drinking condiments.

Asking always for crackers "caka? caka?" but then not wanting the cracker and throwing it across the room.

[heartofglass]

Taking socks off as soon as he gets out of my sight.

Flushing the toilet...thanks H.

Opening any and all doors since we have lever style.

Climbing the oven. It has a big handle on the bottom pull out drawer.

Spitting, then playing in it.

[erbear]

periwinkledaydreams YES to the condiments. My kid loves ketchup. She uses other foods as simply a way to eat more ketchup.

[blueskiessmiling]

The sock thing is making me laugh. Whenever I go to pick DD up from the sitter, I have to dig through a pile of all the kids' socks to find hers, because ALL of the kids take their socks off. Monkey see, monkey do.

[jessila]

As I was reading the thread he realized he could plop down in the bathtub and slosh water everywhere. Thrilling and very wet.
Now he's just standing in the tub. This defeats the purpose of an oatmeal soak.
Putting the plug in the tub back down when I start to drain the water.
Oh, the socks. He takes then off, chews on them, then stashes them in sneaky places.

[erbear]

I forget about the socks because my kid's done that for a long time. She's never liked socks.

[stinybean]

*Turning my laptop off while I'm working on it!
*crying and hanging on my leg when I'm cooking or washing dishes
*"breaking into" my bedroom
Eta
*dropping her milk behind the couch
*drinking and then letting it all dribble from her mouth

[jessila]

Nov 5, 2016 13:42:30 GMT -5 stinybean said:

*Turning my laptop off while I'm working on it!
*crying and hanging on my leg when I'm cooking or washing dishes
*"breaking into" my bedroom
Eta
*dropping her milk behind the couch
*drinking and then letting it all dribble from her mouth

Oh, the milk dribbling from the mouth!!!
I thought we had passed the phase. Wrong.

[Bluedaisy]

+1 for milk dribbling and climbing everything