Least Fav Parenting Duties

[mommyatty]

This weekend seems to be filled with my having to do my least favorite parts of parenting. 

So make me feel like less of an ungrateful ogre and share your least favorite duties. 

Mine this Weekend:

1. Picking up Legos
2. Cutting finger and toe nails. 
3. Figuring out birthday party venues. 

[akafred]

Dealing with tantrums/meltdowns, going to birthday parties, making lunches (I don't hate it EVERY day but some days I HATE it).

[helenahhandbasket]

1. Bath time. Seriously I hate it, but until she learns to shower w/o supervision, this chore is 100% on me.

2. Planning and organizing the social calendar

3. Picking up all the little pieces of her toys and trying to keep them together

[supertrooper1]

1. Wiping DS's butt

2. Keeping him from picking up my nephew's bad habits

[rere26]

I don't have to do it anymore, but I used to loath bathtime. This was several yrs ago before smartphones, so you were trapped in a small room while they played in the tub. Plus, for several months, DS would poop every time, which made it that much more fun.

Not much I despise now, except for when we seem to be on the road constantly running to events.

[sandandsea]

MOTN wake ups. And bedtime procrastination. Both are killing me now.

[billybumbler]

Bath time, going to other kids' birthdays, cutting tiny fingernails and toe nails, taking kid to the dentist.

[vavavictoria]

Other kids parties are horrible! Bedtime procrastination as well. Mine toddler is manipulative with hers and I'm currently feeling guilty about the arrival of #2 splitting my attention so it's hard for me to not get sucked in. "Mommy I neeeeeeed you".

[erinshelley21]

I suck at pretend play. I hate that one of my least favorite things is related to playing but I like all the other stuff you all hate so now I feel a little less guilty. Except MOTN wake ups and picking up pieces. Planning parties, social calendars and bath time though I'm all over. I don't even mind wiping his butt anymore since he's pooping in the toilet.

I just suck at pretend stuff.

[librarychica]

Arbitrating toy disputes.

Cleaning kid nonsense out of my car.

[allthedrinks]

Play dates unless they are with my friends kids.

[traveltheworld]

Am I a bad parent if I say I hate playing with my kids? I enjoy reading to them and doing activities together, but I hate sitting on the floor and playing their toys with them. I just get so bored!

This probably explains why we are never home on weekends and why I always complain about being tired.

[vasc]

Also baths and imaginative play here too.

[CoverGirl82]

+1 for hating pretend play. I'm with traveltheworld that I love to read to my kids and go places with them (museum, zoo, library, etc.), but pretend play is like parental punishment to me.

I also hate making lunches. I don't understand why it takes so long, but it takes me at least 20 minutes each night and 5 minutes each morning to get lunches prepared and then in lunch bags.

[Widget123]

1. Bath time & i only do it 2x a week, which is probably bare minimum
2. Bedtime
3. Daycare dropoffs and pickups when i have to do it, which fortunately isnt very often
4. Dinner time
5. Grocery shopping

[justcheckingin73]

1. I hate birthday parties or hosting in any way. Even when other kids are at my house - this pertains more to my youngest. I don't mind the older one having friends over because they tend to stay in her room.

2. Bath time. I have always hated bath time even though I've made it pretty fun for my kids.

3. Feeding my children. They tend to be picky (so am I) so trying to figure out what everyone wants to eat is hell to me. And then if I make something that I think everyone will like, someone will say - I don't want that. Argh! I do realize that I am partly responsible for this. 

4. I second pretend play. I used to love playing pretend as a kid but as an adult I loathe it. Thankfully even my youngest seems to have outgrown it.

[kimberlyb]

1. MOTN wake- ups
2. Pretend play
3. Cleaning up bodily fluids
4. Meal time

[saraml13]

1. Everything around pumping milk. The pumping itself is bad enough, but what really kills me is all the bottle and parts washing/organizing, portioning and labeling bottles, rotating freezer stash, etc.

2. Bath time. I don't mind the actual time in the tub, but all the set up and clean up. With a toddler and a baby, it's such a production. This is why my kids get bathed about once a week,

3. Wiping sticky hand prints off the table and chair where DS1 sits.

[sudokufan]

Pretend play kills me; I can take 10-15 minutes, but that's about it. Lately I've been kind of mentally setting a timer and doing 15 minutes, then I either go clean something and leave him playing, or suggest play doh or making cookies or something. If I give him 3 such sessions on a weekend day, I get a gold star lol.

I hate all the following up and calling people; doctors, speech clinic, legal stuff, etc.

[somebabiesmom]

Bedtime!!! It takes FOREVER and they both fight it so bad.

I make my kids dumber when I pretend play with them so we end up tickling and chasing each other.

I also hate trying to teach sharing. Everything I say goes right over their heads.

[jlaok]

1. Clipping finger/toe nails
2. Bedtime stalling
3. Making them every damn meal and fighting them to eat it

[2chatter]

1. Meals - I eat with them alone five nights a week so am the only one to deal with "I don't like this" or "I want milk instead of water now" or "I don't eat meat, I am a vagitarian" (that was DS and I laughed SO HARD but still a beat down. Layer in no starch and inventing meals everyone likes and that are healthy - just shoot me.

2. Mornings. Three schools, three schedules, two lunches, water bottles, DS is a bear and this is something I do 98 percent of alone because DH isn't here or won't engage/is already at the office if he is in town.

3. School events (like open house). What a beat down. Hundreds of families, tons of kids, chaos. I do these alone, too. DS loathes them, for an added layer of fun.

[k3am]

1. MOTN wakeups. Or the first wake up of the day on weekends. Those kill me. DS is supposed to split the weekend with me, but more often than not, I'm up at 5.

2. Bottle/pump part cleaning duty. I am so ready for this to just be bottles and then diffuse down to sippy cups. I dream of the day.

[mustardseed2007]

1. Bath time. My H normally does it. Now when I do it my 5 year old lectures me on how i'm doing it wrong. 
2. Cleaning up after dinner. My 2 year old is a mess. 
3. Picking up toys in general but especially little legos. I HATE those things. 
4. Cleaning out the little potty. Hate. 

ETA: oh I hate making lunches too! I try to order hot lunch if I at all possibly can. 

[indyrowergirl]

All of the food related things. Meal plan, grocery shop, clean out fridge so groceries fit in it, meal prep, harangue kids into eating meal, meal clean up. Rinse and repeat. It makes me want to give up and take them to a restaurant.

[Unknown]

So glad I'm not the only one who hates pretend play.

Bath time...ugh...hate it
Packing lunches/snacks

[liziz]

Cutting nails
Eleventy micro-negotiations about which way or how many or when

[billybumbler]

I wish I could do bath time just a couple of times a week! Alas, I live in a tropical country and we must shower every day.

[justcheckingin73]

Mar 6, 2017 9:05:50 GMT -5 saraml13 said:

1. Everything around pumping milk. The pumping itself is bad enough, but what really kills me is all the bottle and parts washing/organizing, portioning and labeling bottles, rotating freezer stash, etc.

I agree with you on pumping. I exclusively pumped for my dd for an entire month (she wouldn't latch). I couldn't take it anymore and went to formula. When ds was born, I was able to BF and thought - this is great! I WFH so I'll be able to pump in private and will be able to BF longer. I only lasted 3 months with him - about 1 month of pumping. Pumping is such a drag and add in everything else you mentioned, I am truly awed by the ladies who keep up with it.

[tas1883]

-Throw up
-pretend play (I last maybe 15 minutes before I get bored)
-homework at least this year homework which is just tracing her name and letters has been murder