Despite what some people seem to think, I really do love being a parent. It's the best job I've ever had and I can hardly remember life before it. Nor do I want to. (Most of the time, that is.)
But, there are certain tasks I could really do without. Tasks that I dread yet seem to constantly be doing. All the freaking time. Tasks like these ...
1. Putting a fitted sheet on a bunk bed. There is no single task that is as horrific as changing the sheets on a top bunk. It's the bane of my existence.
2. Toenail clipping. Fingernails aren't so bad. You see them every day and if you're really lucky, you'll raise nail-biters. Toes are another story.
3. Hair cutting. I swear, my boys' hair grows at an accelerated speed. Must be related to my leg hair.
4. Folding laundry. It's not the doing of the laundry, it's the folding that I mind so much. Especially when it can all be undone when a certain 3-year-old rifles through his drawers.
5. Administering medicine. If I were any good at this, I would be a nurse. I am not a nurse.
6. Making school lunches. If I were any good at this, I would be a lunch lady. I am not a lunch lady.
7. Having to find a toilet in an emergency. There are few things worse than seeing the pee dance when you are nowhere near a bathroom. But, that's nothing compared to diarrhea in the middle of nowhere. It's almost enough to make you never leave the house again.
8. Combing for lice. Ever since our lice epidemic of 2008, Lily runs from me when I whip out a comb. I'm scarred for life as well.
9. Grocery shopping with kids. It takes an insane person to take three children to the grocery store. Or, rather the process makes a sane person insane.
10. Punishing. I know it's necessary, but most of the time it punishes you as well. And that just sucks.
What parenting tasks do YOU hate doing?
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I think the top bunk is pretty much the worst thing at home. My hubs and I flip quarters over whose turn it is.
But my absolute least favorite thing is trying to find shoes for my 8 yr old daughter. She wears flip flops half the year. Then, when it comes time to cover those toes, it's a 5 store ordeal! I'll pay almost as much for her shoes as I will mine if she'll just buy them & wear them! (That's saying quite a lot too...I own Manolos).
Laundry folding and putting away has to be at the top of my list, especially with 4 kids. Dishes and seeking out the bottles and sippy cups all over the house is next for me. I just love the sippy of milk under the couch that has been there for God only knows how long. Cleaning up after my 3 year old son after he decides to pull it out and pee all over his 1 year old sister. My one year old getting ahold of the bag of chips and dumping them in the floor so that she can dance on them!! Markers, crayons, etc... My kids must just be hellions!!! I am a nurse, so I can handle the medicine fights and the nose fights, but I truely hate the puke and poop blowouts!!!!
I'm with you on #1. That bunk bed is a pain in the shoulder, literally. 2 torn rotator cuffs later....
Vomit would be my #1 I would gladly change 1000 of the dirtiest, stinkiest diapers in exchange for on puke clean up.
Laundry, I don't mind the actual washing of it but the lugging it up and down the stairs, folding and putting away I could do without.
Constantly picking up toys or stepping on them.
The sneaky messes where they get into something like dumping all the macaroni noodles on the floor, getting ahold of the baby powder or lotion and it ends up everywhere and always happens when you don't really have time to deal with such a big mess.
That's pretty funny. I also HATE folding and putting away the laundry. I can wash it, dry it, and occasionally fold it, but once it's folded, I have the girls put their own clothes away, and DH helps me. And yeah, putting sheets or a mattress pad, etc on a bunkbed is NOT fun. There are many things that I don't "like" doing, but they have to be done. There are many MORE things that are fun and rewarding. :)