Parenting by embarrassment

[ChunkyNicksChunkyMom]

Forget attachment parenting, no gentle discipline!! Veronica has me thinking parenting by embarrassment may be THE way to go. When Kate wants to wear age inappropriate clothing I think the next time we go to the mall I will just slip into a mini and belly shirt,maybe some glittery eye makeup and press on nails and sashay through the stores with her. Any ideas for or experience with being parented by embarrassment?? :)


Susan

#1 Nick 11-18-04
#2 Kate 04-26-06

[jd11365]

How 'bout fear and gulit? My grandma was a pro at that.

Favorite story...
The box of toes.
If you're not careful on the escalator, it will cut off your toes at the end! Then we'll have to go to the office where they have a box of toes of all the little boys and girls who didn't listen to their grandmas, and try and find one that fits...which almost never happens!

Or...
Watch out for the subway platform. I once saw a little boy get his leg ripped off right at the socket because he stood too close to the platform.

Hey, the woman raised 3 kids from the time she was 17, she knew what she was doing. I never went close to the end of an escalator or train platform. ;)

[Ceepa]

This is funny because I was talking to my brother the other day and we were remembering things my mom used to tell us. He said he was completely traumatized as a little boy because my mom had told him about a boy who was playing in the washing machine and the moving agitator ripped his arm right off at the shoulder. My brother said he remembered being scared of washers for a long time afterward.

So does that explain why he never does laundry?????? :)

When your DS is a teenager and want to drive around with the windows down and you can hear the "THUMP THUMP" of bass a mile away, you get into YOUR car and blast Carl Orff's "Carmina Burana" with the windows down. (Give a little wave to DS as you pass him for a nice touch. ;)) Bonus if he's driving with his buddies from school. Double bonus if he's driving with his girlfriend in the car. :)

[cilantromapuche]

My mom always told me if I didn't bathe everyday spiders would nest in my hair. It took me a long time to get over that (maybe until I had DS and daily bathing wasn't in the picture?)

Christine

mama to A (7/03)and a girl (6/06)

[elliput]

When your children are pre-teen, point out some totally uncool looking kid of the opposite gender and talk about what a great match they would make. I remember my Mom doing this... I didn't date until college.

[set81616]

Oh I like. Do you think it would work on DS?

Shannon

[lorien_ca]

too funny...

ok, well, when my father had 2 teenage girls in the house, he got tired of all the grief we used to give him about tying up the phone line dialing into work with the modem (early silicon valley techy). anyway, he eventually gave in and got a second phone line, which became the defacto "girls line". well when we were being our typical sub-human teenage girl selves, my parents (mom in particular) would answer 'our' line with something like "oh, i'm sorry shannon, lori can't come to the phone right now, she's too busy apologizing to her sister and spending quality time with the family. you'll have to talk to her tomorrow at school when she can act like a big girl again." mortifying at the time, now i just chuckle :).

oh, and my personal fav - picking us up from the mall by waving out the window of the big white club van... "girls, yooohhooooo, i'm here..." to me and my supercool group of girlfriends - so made me want to curl up and die at the time.

i have an awesome mom (dad too for that matter).

lori
Sam 5/19/05 How lucky I am that you chose me.

[Jenn98]

My grandma isn't the "cookie baking" kind of grandma, so it isn't with a ton of love that I retell this story, but my grandma always told me that the centers of Oreos we actually squished bug guts. How gross is that?!

[kaylinsmommy2]

That's funny - it reminds me of one of my friends' mom who once answered the phone by saying, "Oh, she can't come to the phone right now because she's taking a dump." At the time, we just thought her mom didn't know any better... but maybe her mom was just much smarter than we gave her credit for! ;)

Caroline
mommy to Kaylin 6/5/04

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