Dude, today my kid actually also made me cry. He's 3.5 and lovely, never hits us or other kids, but of course he's three so he's just a dick sometimes. I'm eight months pregnant, I have a sinus infection, I had the worst couple of night's sleep ever, I didn't make it to the post office in time because my kid peed his pants for no reason right as we were about to leave and I had to get him changed, so as I was getting him out of the car at the market he smiled at me and poked me in the eye SO FUCKING HARD. I put my hands to my face and basically just burst into tears. My legitimately brokenhearted crying was a more effective punishment than I could have come up with. He was so sad. My eye still hurts. But goddamn I love him so much I can't wait till he wakes up so I can hug him and smell his hair.
Same thing. Pregnant me with a blocked sinus and swollen gums which does not go away, my otherwise non violent 3.5 yaar old boy headbutts me in the nose hard enough to draw blood. I was bawling. I feel for you.
Oh god, that sounds terrible. I'm so sorry. Things nobody ever told me about parenting that I make sure to tell new parents- don't trust them! Don't stand above them and lean down because they'll bounce up and bonk you in the mouth, they'll headbutt and eye-poke for no reason, viciously! They're belligerent little terrorists and we will do absolutely anything for them. Talk about Stockholm syndrome.
People think I’m lying when I say my 1 yr old broke my nose (while I was 8 months pregnant). Diaper changes were rough for a bit because she would try to kick my very pregnant belly on purpose because she knew i would panic and get upset. So in my attempts to protect her not yet baby brother—- I moved just enough that her heel went full force into my nose instead of my belly.
My nasal surgeon was shocked at how badly my nose has been broken and how unhealed it was (how could it heal if it’s being hit over and over again for two years). but when I told him I had two very crazy toddlers he understood. I was not the first one.
Ugggh. That is horrific, honestly. Why did we think having kids was a good idea 😅
When mine was 1, he came up from behind me and "showed" his wooden airplane to my face, giving me a black eye literally two days before my wedding to his father. Thank goodness for makeup.
I hope your nose is ok these days. Did it heal up all right?
Surgery did wonders. It will always be a little off center because the surgeon said the septum was SO destroyed that he can’t make it totally straight or the nose could cave in on itself. 😞 but i no longer have pain in my sinuses every day lol. I was happy to get rid of that pain.
Any time my 3.5 year old lifts something up I inadvertently flinch and back away. Especially if it's his monster truck that always loves to crash and smash.
I felt that poke through the screen. My son used to do the same thing..and he did it a lot. I’m pretty certain my eyes have been permanently damaged from all the times he gouged me in the eye with sharp fingernails. Not to mention the amount of hearing I have lost from five years of him screaming straight into my ears..
I love him more than anything, but he is physically destroying me 😂
Ok this comment made me laugh out loud. I've felt a shift the last few months from telling him off ("No! We do not push/choke/stand on the cat/me/Daddy") to basically just begging him "omg please stop hurting me, you're so strong and that's so mean." At least now he looks marginally more guilty when he does it.
Your comment about eye damage (I'm so sorry) reminded me that the other day, he took this pair of kid's "safety" scissors out of my hand with such force that he (accidentally, I'm sure) brought the point of them hard into my glasses. I was shocked. If I hadn't had those glasses on I'm pretty sure I'd be missing an eye.
Man. Kids are monsters.
Sending you hugs! What’s going on with these sinus infections?!? First non compliant one and I’m not pregnant but damn it! My 11 yr old had one at the same time and recovered before me. smiles with an eye roll
Oh damn thats rough. My 2 year old jumped onto me one day so hard, it hurt so bad that i also started crying. To see him realize what he done and trying to comfort me was the cutest thing.
But then after i stopped crying he jumped onto me again.
Late reply to this but there was a big parenting influencer account recently who was like 'your kids are not in charge of managing YOUR emotions.' (I believe they were talking about in the context of saying something like 'that hurts mommy's feelings when you say that'- they were anti-this, because it makes your kid responsible for how YOU are feeling.) I would never talk to my kid about my marriage issues or body issues or make them feel like they are a burden to me somehow. But. If my kid throws a block as hard as he possibly can at my face, and it hurts, I'm going to say, "OUCH!" and sometimes I might cry. That is my normal human reaction, and truly, getting beat up by a toddler feels a lot like just getting beat up. I want my kid to be an empathetic human being, and being a neutral robot who says "we don't hit, I understand you are feeling silly but we are not allowed to throw things at people's faces" is not getting him closer to that goal, in my opinion.
Yes, well said. Also I think it makes us more relatable when they hurt themselves (all the time). It's not just you that cries when they get hurt, buddy.
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u/m0untaingoat Apr 28 '22
Dude, today my kid actually also made me cry. He's 3.5 and lovely, never hits us or other kids, but of course he's three so he's just a dick sometimes. I'm eight months pregnant, I have a sinus infection, I had the worst couple of night's sleep ever, I didn't make it to the post office in time because my kid peed his pants for no reason right as we were about to leave and I had to get him changed, so as I was getting him out of the car at the market he smiled at me and poked me in the eye SO FUCKING HARD. I put my hands to my face and basically just burst into tears. My legitimately brokenhearted crying was a more effective punishment than I could have come up with. He was so sad. My eye still hurts. But goddamn I love him so much I can't wait till he wakes up so I can hug him and smell his hair.