The one who does nothing is not mistaken. And it is almost impossible not to be mistaken in raising children, because there are no ideal people.
A kind of flash mob was born on the social network Reddit: moms and dads shared their shameful mistakes in dealing with children. As it turns out, almost everyone has something to be ashamed of. “Many years have passed, and I still remember it, and I am so ashamed!” – they write. We have collected several such situations – in which parents repent in front of their children.
“I once put my eight month old son on the changing table to change diapers. She took off the dirty one and turned to take the clean one. In a split second, the son rolled over and rolled off the table down to the floor. He landed on his face, face down, and his legs flew up. He had never cried like that in his life, not before or after. I held it and just sobbed for causing the baby so much pain. “
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“I warned my XNUMX-year-old twice not to stick his fingers into the fan. And the third time he didn’t say anything, he let everything take its course. I thought he would learn his lesson this way.
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“My daughter, when she was three years old, woke up in the middle of the night and came to my bed. She said she had a bad dream. I took her back to her room, asked what she was dreaming of. She said that there were bugs everywhere, they crawled along the walls and on the bed. I said that it was just a dream, that the bugs existed only in her head. This was a huge mistake. The daughter could not calm down for a long time after learning that she had beetles in her head. You always have to think twice when formulating a thought for a child. “
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“I publicly shamed my son for his misdeeds. I thought it was a good educational method – to dishonor in front of everyone. “
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“As a child, my daughter spent all her savings on a skateboard. I told her then that I was very afraid that she would fall off him or be run over by a car. I don’t know if I scared her, or if she just really wanted me not to worry, but she never got on that skate. Perhaps my fear was transmitted to her. Even now she doesn’t really like physical activity. “
“When my son was 14 years old, he rode a bicycle and hit his scrotum on the frame. He crawled into the house and lay down on the sofa, twisted in pain. He asked us to take him to the hospital, but we shrugged it off. Well, which of us in childhood did not fall off a bicycle? They said that he would hurt and stop. But after an hour and a half, he still could not straighten up. And we still took him to the hospital. It turned out that he had testicular torsion and needed urgent surgery. Due to the fact that we did not immediately take him to the hospital, he lost a testicle. It seems that he will never forgive us for this. “
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“Once a heavy snow fell, and I went into the yard to dig out the car. My son volunteered to help me, he was then 7 or 8. He took his shovel and also went to dig snow. And he got too close to me from the back, I didn’t notice him, straightened up and hit him in the face with a shovel. He screamed, clutched an eye, blood dripping through his fingers. I was terribly scared, I thought I knocked out his eye. They took my son to the hospital, his wound was sealed. everything healed, the eye is intact. But you can still see a hole on his forehead – a trace from that blow. “
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“Once my wife and I went for a walk, took our son with us. We had fun, we were going back, and suddenly the wife looks at the back seat and asks: “Where is our son?” Fortunately, this story ended well. We left the baby in the ice cream shop. The owner looked after him, even gave him free ice cream until we got back. “
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“My son has always been very careful. Once, when he was two years old, he was just getting ready to climb on some attraction, which was quite suitable for him in age, I told him to be more careful. And he stopped and refused to even try to climb the attraction. I still reproach myself for this. “
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“When my son liked a girl, I made fun of it every time.”
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“I haven’t taught my children to hug and show feelings. I should have hugged them more often. “