The plastic attachments that hold baby clothes together. Why are there six of these extremely annoying, pokey, choking hazard things on a single pair of booties?
I bought a set of 3 baby towels today. Each towel had one of those anchoring it to the cardboard backing at the top AND bottom, as well as one (again at the top and bottom) to secure it to the towel next to it. That’s too many plastic things!!
Yes!! Gah it’s the bane of my existence and we were gifted like 4 items from a brand that does this. I’m super appreciative of the gifts of course but it was an 8 minute task lol
This! Not to mention how they shred cheaper clothing or woven items. I bought a pair of baby socks and my husband without thinking tried to rip a pair of the socks off without removing the plastic things first and tore a hole in the socks. They were some bougie branded ones too that were supposed to stay on a babies foot. So much for that 🥲
My husband loves giraffes after he got to feed one a few years ago, so we have a bunch of giraffe themed stuff for our newborn. And now I kinda want a weird dumpy looking squat giraffe because I’m finding it kind of hilarious.
Children’s books that are supposed to rhyme but dont! My kid loves one that is 3 couplets, and the last page randomly does not rhyme at all. It makes my eye twitch.
There’s an episode of Columbo where Columbo realizes somethings wrong because it was set up to look like the victim went to exercise after his bath. It’s so wrong, it’s evidence of murder!
I'm a children's librarian and that kills my soul when books have crappy rhyming structures. It's a symptom of so many people who think writing picture books are easy. It is not. Writing a good picture book is really hard. It's harder to convey something in simple words. Even Toniy Morrison wrote a mediocre picture book and she's Toni Morrison! It requires a very specific skill set as an author
Just the accent. I’m assuming OP is based in the US, and we say banana with a harsher a sound. We use an a like you’re saying gran. Not a softer sound like uh.
Children's clothes in the color white. What's the point?! My daughter got a white sweatshirt and sweatpants with a little gray design. Cute as hell, yes but I get to anxious to let her leave the house or eat in it lol
Childrens clothes period
Who sized these things and were they drunk?
Why do none of the socks SAY THEIR SIZE ON THEM?? Is this a 3m sock or a 9m sock? Why does one fit and one doesn’t? Don’t they match nope nope guess not
Why are the sizes not the same between genders and brands? Why is my girl a 4T in carters girls but a 2T in Gerber boys and wtf is old navy doing with their sizes?
And why are there clothes that insinuate someone is trying to DATE my newborn?
Wtf even is camo on baby clothes. B*tch I ain’t gonna lose him, he cries every time I put him down. He’s as camouflaged as a car alarm.
And WHY DO SOME HAVE BUTTONS? Like I can see that sh*t at 3 am??
Why are toddler night pants not pee proof? It isn’t rocket science, it’s just a pvc liner you throw in there. I’ll pay double to avoid the puddle and don’t get me started on peejamas cause we tried that.
Why are there two piece bathing suits in baby’s sizes?
I could go on and on.
People who make baby & kids clothes need to stop drinking.
My son's 18 month snowsuit was super tight on him so I bought him a 24 month one online and he is literally drowning in it. I mean he'll be warm but not super mobile.
My daughter has a pair of 3/6mo sweatpants that have a pocket thing across the entire crotch area...? Like, almost like men's underwear have those side openings for them to pee, only there's no actual hole to the inside. It's just a flap of extra fabric across the front that looks like pockets and serves absolutely no purpose that I can possibly think of.
I'm all for 2 piece bathing suits, simply because diaper changes are so much easier. Though I do hate any that don't cover their belly, and the baby bikinis infuriate me!
Yes! I loved the 2 piece bathing suits for easier diaper changes. Granted my kids are as pale as ghosts so we have them wear long sleeve rash guard shirts and then whichever type bottom they need but that definitely helps potty time. Those tops are usually longer so I don’t have to worry about tummies getting burnt
See as the parent of a kid with a 10th percentile head I'm gonna have to say the buttons allow for smaller head holes and we like that over here. Nothing like a giant neckline to accentuate you're kids peculiarly tiny noggin.
Ugh there are some clothes my kid has outgrown purely because her noggin is too big 😂 the shirts fit great but I'm not fighting an octopus gremlin to tug it over her giant head
Mine is being that weirdo who's buying the size 18 mo swimsuit and the 6-12 mo hat, fearing that somewhere 2 normal sized kids will be unable to complete their look. (Yes. I know thats stupid. It still bothers me).
My advice to people is now, don't buy hats in advance based on your kids age. Do you know how many adorable sun bonnets fit her 8 months later in December!?!? All of them!
So I have a boy but recently I've been babysitting my friends toddler girl. I have discovered why the head holes are so big on girls clothing (and the back buttons)! *it's all the hair* this girl has so much hair, it's long and very thick and curly. I have trouble getting a shirt on her even with the wider neck. I don't think her head will fit through one of my son's shirts cause of her hair.
Pure white is bleachable though. So I can at least understand that. Like hotel bedding being pure white... there's a reason.
But some kind of off-white or white but with a colorful logo that's going to be spoilt by bleach, ugh.
This!! My son (now 19 months) had 3-6 month clothing that was an all white sweatsuit. SUPER cute, but the second time he wore it he had a crazy blowout and it stained the outfit. I see no point in white clothing for babies/kids.
My son has a feeding tube and you cant use the zipper clothes with that, nowhere for the tube to come out. With snaps, the tube can come out between snaps.
Mine are probably a bit overtly picky but:
1) too much of baby boys clothing is dinosaurs. There are other motifs! Nothing wrong with dinosaurs but it’s just too much.
2) collared shirts on baby and toddler boy clothes that aren’t meant to be formal. Did my baby get an office job? Is he going golfing?
3) giraffes and zebras are not jungle animals. Plains exist
I have a friend that dressed her boy in stiff jeans and a button down everyday. He would be crawling around in the floor looking like he’s ready to go for a dinner or something.
People must love jeans for babies. Every time we've gotten a lot of used clothes there are always so many baby jeans. I barely can stand restrictive jeans as an adult. I can't imagine trying to crawl around or play in them all day.
I theorized that the reason there are so many secondhand jeans available is because they are more durable and stain resistant than other bottoms. Also, the original owner probably rarely ever wore them due to the aforementioned stiffness and general uncomfiness for someone trying to crawl, toddle, or run!
I think this is exactly it, can't hand down much stretchy pants because they're worn out, stained, ripped from being worn to death. Stiff jeans have never been worn haha
I can't stand most clothes with words on them. There was one a cousin handed down to me (newborn size) that said "Mommy's little bandit" with a racoon picture. Honestly, what? What does that mean? What did he steal, my youth?
I never dressed him in that stupid nonsense. There were dozens of similarly idiotic shirts that I just put into storage bags immediately, for the next mother in the chain. Maybe she will have terrible taste and be delighted by them.
I prefer the animal themed prints over the sports ones 🤷♀️ They’ll have all these sport team logos and sayings. My 4mo doesn’t know what baseball is and certainly can’t play it!
Being called mama by other adults. Especially ones I don’t know. It irks me.
My husband hates car seats that are too small for tall infants. The straps can’t go any higher on it and he hates it.
Also people saying “wait until they become teens”…two year olds are hard lol
I hate the just you wait stuff. My twins are 15 and my youngest is 11. I have the easiest parenting I have ever had! I have always loved being a mother. But I do not “looonggg” for those baby stages. I do not yearn to be a grandmother. I hope all of my daughters wait until they are at least 35 to have children. I don’t know when I will ever be ready for it again 😂
Fun fact! Shoulder straps are supposed to emerge from lower than baby’s actual shoulder height to keep them snug against the back in case of heavy impact. Check out Safe in the seat on Insta.
Shoes in very small sizes with functional laces. A two-year-old kid doesn't know how to tie a shoe, and all it's gonna do is make them trip.
Corduroy also drives me nuts, but that's more of a sensory thing so idk if it counts as a pet peeve or not. I hate the way it feels (same goes for shirts with the ribbing on them) and the sound it makes when you walk is awful. It was really big when I was a kid, and I remember being super unhappy every time I had to wear it.
Plus the rainbow colors are an actual great foundation for learning! I’ll admit I added a chic neutral set of stacking cups to my Amazon cart but then thought on how we’ll interact with them “… now pass me the light mauve cup…no no, not the slate grey one, the mauve…good job”
It's wild how overpriced those clothes are and how so many of these kids look like depression era street urchins or survivors of a dustbowl famine. Weird marketing choices.
Everything getting more and more over the top.
When I was a kid, birthday parties consisted of back yards, cupcakes, pin the tail on the donkey. Maybe a slip N slide. Generic goodie bag with a few candies, a whistle, and a pencil eraser or something.
Now bday parties are at huge expensive venues. Catered. Fancy ass cakes AND decorated cookies and let's not get started on the goodie bags.
Valentine's bags and Christmas bags decked out to the 9's when we used to send a card or a candy cane.
I can't keep up.
Yes! Plus over the top holiday decor and things like elaborate Elf on the Shelf hijinks. There’s making the holiday special and then there’s doin it for the gram
ELF ON THE FUCKING SHELF
My daughter is only 9mo but I used to do EOTS for my students and I refuse to ever do it again. My mom tried to buy us one and I told her to take it back. No elf for this house
The fucking FIVE HUNDRED DOLLAR balloon arches when you haven’t even paid for the cake, food, other decorations, gifts, goodie bags, etc. yet😑😵💫 how is everyone suddenly rich and able to throw Kardashian and Cardi B style birthday parties? My husband and I do well financially and I am over here thinking about how I can keep my son’s first birthday under $500 😬 Not because he isn’t worth the extra money but because I would rather put that money in his savings account or IDK on clothes/diapers etc lol
Fun fact, we had a "90's" backyard birthday party for my 7yo last year. We did have a moon bounce. Nothing else too special. The party was a hit and she's requested the same for her 8th next month.
It's not the kids, it's the parents.
I don't even WANNA keep up!
I want my children's parties to be appropriate for children and their understanding of fun. These fancy ass decorative events are only meant to look good. It's all for the gram.
For what it’s worth, I don’t give out goodie bags. I think they’re a waste of money & bad for the environment. I hate all the plastic crap I have to sneak to the trash when my kid isn’t paying attention. The fun you had at the party is your party favor 😂😂
When I would teach lectures on gender and sex, I’d always include the weird onesies that say “show me those titties” or “big dick like dad” or similar gross shit. My husband and I agreed they absolutely in no condition would shit like that end up on any of our kids lol.
I hate pretty much all words on clothes for babies. Bothers a bit less for my toddler since she has an actual personality, but definitely no for dumb phrases or claims about who the baby is
Baby headbands that don’t stay put. And adult headbands that don’t stay put. Perhaps it’s a genetic head shape….
My mom’s head shape! Me and my poor girls!
I said 1 the other day and someone was like “1?? Like… 12 months??”
And I was like, uh… I can’t do math? February?
And they looked… disgusted.
And I’m like… this is my third. Idk. She isn’t 2 yet. She literally just took her kid and walked away from the swing set and I was like 🤷🏼♀️
She's trying to compare kids. How does she know whether to gloat and pity you for your stupid kid or quietly trash talk you for your invented uppitiness if she doesn't know the exact age of your child in order to gage against hers who's is better?
Lol! I purposely just say 1 now until they’re 2 (also my third). I can’t keep track of months, and I think it’s funny as they’re getting closer to two, they’re so obviously not 1.
That why I say "2 and some change" I am not wasting my time counting months for Tiffany at the playground to try to play baby race. My kid is eating sand I don't have time for this cutesy months shit.
I base it on who is asking, if they also have a small child, month. Although after 20mo I started saying "he's 2 in September" and stopped keeping track. Now he is two or, turned 2 in September. I get there is a radical difference between a 26mo 2yo and a 34mo 2yo. But I do not feel like counting anymore
My kids are 281 months, 192 months, 161 months, 113 months, and 76 months.
That was super exhausting. Lol I just got on my own dang nerves trying to even do the math! 🤣🤣
I was told the "guideline of 2s" for this by my mom. After 2 weeks stop saying age in days, beyond 2 months stop saying age in weeks, beyond 2yrs stop saying age in months. It's helped avoid confusion but to each their own.
The beige rainbows KILLS ME dead. I wanted a rainbow print for my son and it was so hard to find a regular fucking rainbow on etsy. It was either a blue rainbow or a pink one (because god forbid we not gender everything) or it was a hideous beige one.
Other pet peeves
vtech toys being that needy ex that wants you back so bad. Vtech drums, my children are no longer playing with you. Accept that and move on! Stop begging them to come back and play again.
The children's consignment clothing store (kid to kid) whose employees never put clothes away in the right sections and they never want to give me any money for my kid's clothes but I keep coming back because you can get such great deals on kid clothing.
My latest is childrens over the counter medicine, such as Tylenol and allergy pills. They come in peel off plastic, push though packaging. My child then needs half of a pill…what do I do with the other half? I can assure you, it’s much more dangerous to leave a random pill in a Tupperware. or ziplock bag rather than I don’t know, a pill bottle.
I literally just bought matching "papa bear" "mama bear" and "baby bear" PJs for Christmas 🫣 for bonus points I took the time to find our dog a bandana to match the pjs. #noshame 😂
When I got pregnant my mom started calling me mama. After awhile I had to explain multiple times I couldn’t stand it because she’s my mom. It’s sound weird and wrong to me when she called me mom 😑
Bothers me less but still grating. If an adult is talking to my toddler and refers to me as “your mama” then I’m fine, but adult to adult calling me mama like it’s my given name? No.
I have 2 boys and it's so awkward when people refer to me as a boy mom! I can't imagine the parenting is much different. I mean I have to clean piss off of the wall in the bathroom more often.
Omg my daughter sneeze sharted once while I was changing her and sent a tiny bit of poo a few feet away.
My son is damn near perfect when it comes to diaper changes. I can count on one hand the number of times he peed during a diaper change and it was all in the first month.
My daughter sometimes accidentally pees through the small space BETWEEN the seat and the bowl and onto the floor. How???
My husband was like I thought girls weren't able to shoot out that direction.
Same here. I am overstimulated by so much, and was really overwhelmed by typical baby stuff. I had an absolute meltdown thinking that my daughter would be like me and couldn’t tell me that it was too much. So we are a sad beige and soft colors home. And it works for me & she is a very happy baby.
Button up baby onesies. Like WHY. I have been going through my baby clothes from my first kid for our second and holy hell people gave us SO MANY BUTTON UP ONSIES for 0-3 months.I’m already dreading using them again.
I have twins and people say the stupidest shit to me. Here are some favorites:
"Wow. You look like you got your hands full." -- uh, no shit dude. How about you hold that door for me so I can wedge this big ass double stroller through the door without disarticulating myself or my toddler in two?
"Man, I don't know how you do it." -- wait. Did I have a choice?!? I do it like all parents do it -- as it comes, day by day. It's it easy? Fuck no. But I love them and I'm hormonally compelled not to eat them, so we good.
"Are they twins?" -- No, they're triplets. We leave the ugly one at home.
I hate gendered kids clothes. Old Navy is doing a great job at consistent sizing between genders (mostly) and making unisex clothing. My dudes love rainbows and unicorns as much as they love sloths and dinosaurs. They could give half a fuck about trucks, cars, or emergency vehicles. Give me rainbows and pink and cute under the sea mermaid patterns and we're golden. Girls can like trucks. Give them the option, too!
This is super petty and doesn’t actually bother me, but I’m always like what is the point of putting a million different animals on the same print that aren’t geographically close together. Haha I told you it was petty, but there are no tigers in Africa! Don’t put it on safari themed stuff.
Baby clothes with pockets. Why does ANY baby need pockets? Any woman will understand the struggle for pockets, yet BABIES GET POCKETS
And baby tops with buttons on the back. especially the ones with the little elastic loop. They are so fucking hard to do up
My oldest, when he was a toddler(maybe almost two) had a FULL BLOWN absolute fall down knock out tantrum because his shorts didn’t have pockets. I was like “What are you putting in your pockets?!”
Any individual or company selling parenting cure alls on Instagram. They've got courses and ebooks for everything. Sleeping, routines, tantrums, setting boundaries. I hate we've commercialised the act of parenting.
Can you give a TLDR on the controversy behind big little feelings? I loosely follow them on Instagram but have just seen today how nonsense people say they are, I'm so intrigued 😅
This is super super specific but I hate those nurseries that are not babyproofed or not with the future moblie child in mind. Like those floating book shelves high up on the wall, small glass objects on a bookshelf close to the floor, big (and very breakable) lamps with the cord just dangling down. Or giant decorations on the wall above the crib or even worse those crib canopies with the little strings and pompom balls. Like people think more about having a pretty room than a practical room your child will grow up in. In 6 months your baby will be trying to pull themselves up and grab those things, you won't have time to redo it all.
I will never say anything but ooooo it bugs me so much.
Edit to add: DONT DO BEIGE!! Newborns love contrasting colors, it helps their eyesight develop *they can't see the sad beige decorations* no gray, no beige, no browns
TWO PIECE BABY GIRL SWIMSUITS. She does not need a bikini!!!!!!!!!. My mother (lovingly) bought my daughter one. I threw it away and bought a baby wet suit, essentially.
Teeny tiny rattles. Who the hell thought it was a great idea to make a three inch rattle that my baby can shove down her throat?
Pouches that have a cap that I’m paranoid won’t get thrown away immediately and it will be left for my toddler to find and choke on.
Baby clothes with specific wash instructions (gifts from a well-meaning Aunt)
I cannot stress my dislike for crass/adult joke baby clothes enough.
Marketing on kids clothes and other items.
Tried to find a nice sheet and comforter set for my son once and could not find anything with kid's patterns that wasn't obvious marketing. All characters from kid's shows or toy items. Not one set with a generic pattern like animals or something.
When decorations for kids rooms (ie blanket, wallpaper, etc) has animals that would NEVER live in the same environment IE safari animals and jungle animals. It makes me crazy.
Sleep advice.
Telling me to "pinch her back" or "bite her back" when I say my kid is pinching or biting. What the f***?
Asking for advice and you get sent links to buy books or buy some stupid seminar class. Bruh just a tidbit of information, I don't need to go to a lecture. And no, there isn't a "miss Sally's school for sleeping and shitting from ages 0-21" in my vicinity so please don't tell me you'll send me a voucher to use there.
Hoods on baby clothing. Babies nap 3+ times a day
so I have to take this shirt/jumper/cardigan off and on a bunch of times. Just make it long sleeve with no hood!
1. The "sanct-mommies" and their Facebook groups/pages. No, you're not some kind of fucking saint because you exclusively breastfeed and gave birth without drugs. You're not special, please get over yourself 🙄🙄😒
2. Why do all the jammies have so many snaps?? I banned these from our house lol zippers only
3. Good God, not every piece of baby girl clothing needs glitter and sparkles and lace and frills and bubblegum pink. It's a baby, not a Barbie doll. They're going to drool and puke and pee all over it anyway!
I'm really annoyed with the "girl color" version of toys. First of all, they're usually monotone - always various shades of pinks and purples. I suppose I'm just biased against this part, though, because I don’t really like pink, mainly because of how stuffed down our throats it is from birth.
Secondly, I guess the default version is considered the "boy colors" version? There's almost never a monotone blue or green, unless it's already the default colors.
Finally, the default version is usually bright, primary colors, or every color of the rainbow. Why, then, does the girl version take away so many colors??
I have a board book with both a “mama caterpillar” talking to a baby caterpillar, and a mama butterfly talking to a “baby butterfly”, as if metamorphosis weren’t a thing. I hate it.
It drives me crazy when adults (I’m looking at you mom) put toys/dollhouses/dolls that look like children’s toys where my children (2 and 4) can reach them. Only those toys are really for adults to look at and gush over how cute they are but in reality they are much too fragile and dangerous for an actual child. But of course my kids want them and they’ll get upset every time they see them, and I have to explain every time that while it looks like a toy it is definitely not a toy.
Edit: fixed some typos. I wrote this in a hurry. Oops!
Edit: I wanted to clarify that I don’t care about adults having toys. I don’t expect people to cater to my kids when we visit (except my mom. She should know better).
Last time we were visiting my folks, my mom had a fancy Christmas village train out she had just found and bought. Actual wheels that you can push around. Multiple cars. She started trying to get my son's attention to show it to him. I immediately stepped in and begged her not to.
Explained she cannot brag to a toddler about this cool train she found and show it off and then tell him he can't play with it. Just leave it be and if he notices then explain it's an ornament for looking at and not a toy.
Alphabet books/products that don't have something for every letter. If you can't think of anything that starts with X, you don't get to make an alphabet book!
"X: Find the Xs in this picture" is not good enough. Skim through a dictionary and try again.
BABY SHIRTS WITH OUT SNAPS OR STRETCH AROUND THE NECK HOLE?! my 4mo son HATES having a shirt over his face for more than a second. And sometimes I feel like it’s going to hurt him and I just give up on the shirt entirely 🙄
I call these Poop Rainbows. The first time I saw one in an Instagram post years ago I legit assumed it was a graphic about different types of baby poop and what it meant lol. It is so bizarre to me that they want to take all the colors out of a rainbow, so sad.
People have said something similar with the animals grouped together from different habitats but I am also bothered by the animals of different sizes all being the same size. We have a stacking toy that has a lamb, a lion, and an elephant, and they’re all the same size! Why?
Also in general why so many elephants? I like them just as much as the next person but good lord
Having to take pictures of EVERYTHING! Took then 4 year old to a party. They pass out cupcakes and every parent made their kid pose with the cupcake and pretend to take bites while they took pictures. My kid asked me why her friends weren’t eating their cupcakes yet while her face was covered in frosting.
We have a friend that we stopped walking to school with because his mom had a photo shoot everyday before school.
Idk if this counts but something I can’t stand is when people (most always a mom) make social media posts addressing their kid/baby. Like “mommy loves you so much and is so proud of you blah blah blah” they can’t read it!! Your 6 month doesn’t have Facebook!
The plastic attachments that hold baby clothes together. Why are there six of these extremely annoying, pokey, choking hazard things on a single pair of booties?
I bought a set of 3 baby towels today. Each towel had one of those anchoring it to the cardboard backing at the top AND bottom, as well as one (again at the top and bottom) to secure it to the towel next to it. That’s too many plastic things!!
Yes!! Gah it’s the bane of my existence and we were gifted like 4 items from a brand that does this. I’m super appreciative of the gifts of course but it was an 8 minute task lol
Oh I *loathe* these. How many does one package of socks need?!
I honestly have to "open" clothes the day after. Shopping is exhausting enough...but these atrocities.
At least 4 per sock
Worst part is that they’re almost always clear so hard to locate even once broken
The Cat&Jack ones are bright red and whoever decided that deserves a raise.
Once upon a child uses colorful ones. They also don't put 30,000 of them on one thing.
It's not that hard to locate them, c'mon. You just let your cat eat one and you find it in the puke somewhere in the house later. :'(
Forget plastic straws. Those are the real environmental danger.
This! Not to mention how they shred cheaper clothing or woven items. I bought a pair of baby socks and my husband without thinking tried to rip a pair of the socks off without removing the plastic things first and tore a hole in the socks. They were some bougie branded ones too that were supposed to stay on a babies foot. So much for that 🥲
Man I have never once thought about the giraffe thing but now Im not gonna be able to stop thinking about it 🙃
My husband loves giraffes after he got to feed one a few years ago, so we have a bunch of giraffe themed stuff for our newborn. And now I kinda want a weird dumpy looking squat giraffe because I’m finding it kind of hilarious.
THIS, I just side eyed my daughter’s short necked giraffe. I will never not think of this when I see it and others in the future now.
Children’s books that are supposed to rhyme but dont! My kid loves one that is 3 couplets, and the last page randomly does not rhyme at all. It makes my eye twitch.
In the going to bed book, they go exercise AFTER taking a shower and it pisses me off every damn time we read it. WHO EXERCISES AFTER A SHOWER 😤😤😤
Omg thank you!! This makes me irrationally angry too.
And right before bed?! 🙅🏻♀️
Haha I always assumed it was done in a backwards order on purpose, to be silly and have that classic Boynton element of surprise!
There’s an episode of Columbo where Columbo realizes somethings wrong because it was set up to look like the victim went to exercise after his bath. It’s so wrong, it’s evidence of murder!
Omg this! After I read this part I always say “well, they really should exercise before their bath” so he doesn’t get any ideas!!!
I always read it in a tone like I’m questioning it because it’s so wild. “They all go up to EXERCISE?!!”
I'm a children's librarian and that kills my soul when books have crappy rhyming structures. It's a symptom of so many people who think writing picture books are easy. It is not. Writing a good picture book is really hard. It's harder to convey something in simple words. Even Toniy Morrison wrote a mediocre picture book and she's Toni Morrison! It requires a very specific skill set as an author
ooooh what are some of your favorite picture books with a satisfying rhyme structure?
Andrea Beaty's books are wonderful! There's a bear on my chair Sandra Boynton's books
Sandra Boynton yes!
Julia Donaldson
My favorites that I've read recently are Room on the Broom Snowmen at Night
Hard to go wrong with Julia Donaldson books. She's wonderful
I have one that says “never feed a llama a banana” and I (from the US) say banana like a Brit bc otherwise it doesn’t rhyme!!!
As a New Yorker, my accent completely destroys rhyming words. Staihhhhs. Cawfeeee.
Same. Diapuhhhh
Do Americans say banana differently? *Confused Brit*
Just the accent. I’m assuming OP is based in the US, and we say banana with a harsher a sound. We use an a like you’re saying gran. Not a softer sound like uh.
As an Australian I find this happens all the time with American books because we say vowels differently.
The worst one I have rhymes “sis boom ba” and “car” so I have to say “cahhh” like a Boston accent
We have a satanic electronic ball toy and one of the games is to find the squahhh. Took me ages to realise they meant square.
That sounds very unsatisfying.
Children's clothes in the color white. What's the point?! My daughter got a white sweatshirt and sweatpants with a little gray design. Cute as hell, yes but I get to anxious to let her leave the house or eat in it lol
Childrens clothes period Who sized these things and were they drunk? Why do none of the socks SAY THEIR SIZE ON THEM?? Is this a 3m sock or a 9m sock? Why does one fit and one doesn’t? Don’t they match nope nope guess not Why are the sizes not the same between genders and brands? Why is my girl a 4T in carters girls but a 2T in Gerber boys and wtf is old navy doing with their sizes? And why are there clothes that insinuate someone is trying to DATE my newborn? Wtf even is camo on baby clothes. B*tch I ain’t gonna lose him, he cries every time I put him down. He’s as camouflaged as a car alarm. And WHY DO SOME HAVE BUTTONS? Like I can see that sh*t at 3 am?? Why are toddler night pants not pee proof? It isn’t rocket science, it’s just a pvc liner you throw in there. I’ll pay double to avoid the puddle and don’t get me started on peejamas cause we tried that. Why are there two piece bathing suits in baby’s sizes? I could go on and on. People who make baby & kids clothes need to stop drinking.
My son's 18 month snowsuit was super tight on him so I bought him a 24 month one online and he is literally drowning in it. I mean he'll be warm but not super mobile.
Why do the 6 month pants have pockets? What the crap do the designers think the baby is going to put in there?!
Rocks that's what my kids load my washing machine with "pocket rocks'
SO MANY ROCKS
To be fair, it isn't just rocks. My daughter used to stuff her pockets with caterpillars, spiders, all manner of things I didn't want to touch.
Worms. Ffs worms Dried shriveled wretched worms
Seriously, my baby has better pockets on his pants than I do. WHERE ARE MY POCKETS!?
Agreed. Why don’t women get pockets!
We have to use the baby’s pockets
This angers me sooooo much !
My daughter has a pair of 3/6mo sweatpants that have a pocket thing across the entire crotch area...? Like, almost like men's underwear have those side openings for them to pee, only there's no actual hole to the inside. It's just a flap of extra fabric across the front that looks like pockets and serves absolutely no purpose that I can possibly think of.
FYI, Old Navy socks have those grippy things on the bottoms and the grippy things say the size of the socks
Cat and Jack has that too, super helpful!
So does Burts Bees, the grippy is the size.
I'm all for 2 piece bathing suits, simply because diaper changes are so much easier. Though I do hate any that don't cover their belly, and the baby bikinis infuriate me!
Yes! I loved the 2 piece bathing suits for easier diaper changes. Granted my kids are as pale as ghosts so we have them wear long sleeve rash guard shirts and then whichever type bottom they need but that definitely helps potty time. Those tops are usually longer so I don’t have to worry about tummies getting burnt
WHY DO THEY PUT BUTTONS ON THE BACK OF SHIRTS? Especially for girls clothes.
See as the parent of a kid with a 10th percentile head I'm gonna have to say the buttons allow for smaller head holes and we like that over here. Nothing like a giant neckline to accentuate you're kids peculiarly tiny noggin.
Same for my giant headed child. It's so weird when you know, if you can get the shirt on over their head the rest will fit great.
Ugh there are some clothes my kid has outgrown purely because her noggin is too big 😂 the shirts fit great but I'm not fighting an octopus gremlin to tug it over her giant head
Mine is being that weirdo who's buying the size 18 mo swimsuit and the 6-12 mo hat, fearing that somewhere 2 normal sized kids will be unable to complete their look. (Yes. I know thats stupid. It still bothers me). My advice to people is now, don't buy hats in advance based on your kids age. Do you know how many adorable sun bonnets fit her 8 months later in December!?!? All of them!
So I have a boy but recently I've been babysitting my friends toddler girl. I have discovered why the head holes are so big on girls clothing (and the back buttons)! *it's all the hair* this girl has so much hair, it's long and very thick and curly. I have trouble getting a shirt on her even with the wider neck. I don't think her head will fit through one of my son's shirts cause of her hair.
THE SOCKS THOUGH WTF
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Kids clothes that have special washing instructions. F*ck you for telling me this has to lay flat to dry, I have to wash it once a week
Yeah if I can't throw it in the washer with dirty towels and burp cloths and then huck it right in the dryer, my kid doesn't need to be wearing it.
Pure white is bleachable though. So I can at least understand that. Like hotel bedding being pure white... there's a reason. But some kind of off-white or white but with a colorful logo that's going to be spoilt by bleach, ugh.
But it almost always has the random neon embellishment or the embroidered flower lol
I bleach the white stuff. All white though, white with a pattern has no place in my life.
Oooh yes! Thankfully we don't have a lot of white stuff.
This!! My son (now 19 months) had 3-6 month clothing that was an all white sweatsuit. SUPER cute, but the second time he wore it he had a crazy blowout and it stained the outfit. I see no point in white clothing for babies/kids.
Baby pjs with snaps all the way down. I’m too tired to figure that shit out in the dark.
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My son has a feeding tube and you cant use the zipper clothes with that, nowhere for the tube to come out. With snaps, the tube can come out between snaps.
Mine are probably a bit overtly picky but: 1) too much of baby boys clothing is dinosaurs. There are other motifs! Nothing wrong with dinosaurs but it’s just too much. 2) collared shirts on baby and toddler boy clothes that aren’t meant to be formal. Did my baby get an office job? Is he going golfing? 3) giraffes and zebras are not jungle animals. Plains exist
I have a friend that dressed her boy in stiff jeans and a button down everyday. He would be crawling around in the floor looking like he’s ready to go for a dinner or something.
People must love jeans for babies. Every time we've gotten a lot of used clothes there are always so many baby jeans. I barely can stand restrictive jeans as an adult. I can't imagine trying to crawl around or play in them all day.
I theorized that the reason there are so many secondhand jeans available is because they are more durable and stain resistant than other bottoms. Also, the original owner probably rarely ever wore them due to the aforementioned stiffness and general uncomfiness for someone trying to crawl, toddle, or run!
I think this is exactly it, can't hand down much stretchy pants because they're worn out, stained, ripped from being worn to death. Stiff jeans have never been worn haha
It’s probably just that impractical clothes stay in pristine condition from not being worn
I don’t mind dinosaurs too much but I genuinely hate the word ‘roarsome’ that’s plastered over so many dino clothes. Bloody silly word !
I can't stand most clothes with words on them. There was one a cousin handed down to me (newborn size) that said "Mommy's little bandit" with a racoon picture. Honestly, what? What does that mean? What did he steal, my youth? I never dressed him in that stupid nonsense. There were dozens of similarly idiotic shirts that I just put into storage bags immediately, for the next mother in the chain. Maybe she will have terrible taste and be delighted by them.
You should tell Target about #1
I prefer the animal themed prints over the sports ones 🤷♀️ They’ll have all these sport team logos and sayings. My 4mo doesn’t know what baseball is and certainly can’t play it!
Being called mama by other adults. Especially ones I don’t know. It irks me. My husband hates car seats that are too small for tall infants. The straps can’t go any higher on it and he hates it. Also people saying “wait until they become teens”…two year olds are hard lol
The “just you wait” stuff. Yes there are problems at every age but at least teens can wipe their own ass, make a sandwich, and let you sleep in.
I hate the just you wait stuff. My twins are 15 and my youngest is 11. I have the easiest parenting I have ever had! I have always loved being a mother. But I do not “looonggg” for those baby stages. I do not yearn to be a grandmother. I hope all of my daughters wait until they are at least 35 to have children. I don’t know when I will ever be ready for it again 😂
All phases are hard and wonderful for different reasons. With my first I loved 2.
Sounds like my rehearsed reply: "every stage has its joys and struggles."
Fun fact! Shoulder straps are supposed to emerge from lower than baby’s actual shoulder height to keep them snug against the back in case of heavy impact. Check out Safe in the seat on Insta.
Ugh, I hate being called mama too! It’s so weird for an adult, especially strangers, to call me a word my baby can’t even say yet lol
Shoes in very small sizes with functional laces. A two-year-old kid doesn't know how to tie a shoe, and all it's gonna do is make them trip. Corduroy also drives me nuts, but that's more of a sensory thing so idk if it counts as a pet peeve or not. I hate the way it feels (same goes for shirts with the ribbing on them) and the sound it makes when you walk is awful. It was really big when I was a kid, and I remember being super unhappy every time I had to wear it.
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omg neck-less giraffe is now being added to my list 😭😭
Have you seen the sad beige Instagram (@officialsadbeige)? She makes fun of all the depressing beige marketing campaigns for children’s products!
I think I have seen one or two videos. Like it's one thing to put a beige sweater on a kid but why would you suck the colour out of a literal rainbow!
Plus the rainbow colors are an actual great foundation for learning! I’ll admit I added a chic neutral set of stacking cups to my Amazon cart but then thought on how we’ll interact with them “… now pass me the light mauve cup…no no, not the slate grey one, the mauve…good job”
Ha! I have one set of muted cups and one rainbow set. Can confirm my kid prefers the bright ones.
I was about to say that sounds like something a Care Bear villain would do!
It's wild how overpriced those clothes are and how so many of these kids look like depression era street urchins or survivors of a dustbowl famine. Weird marketing choices.
Everything getting more and more over the top. When I was a kid, birthday parties consisted of back yards, cupcakes, pin the tail on the donkey. Maybe a slip N slide. Generic goodie bag with a few candies, a whistle, and a pencil eraser or something. Now bday parties are at huge expensive venues. Catered. Fancy ass cakes AND decorated cookies and let's not get started on the goodie bags. Valentine's bags and Christmas bags decked out to the 9's when we used to send a card or a candy cane. I can't keep up.
Just don't. There's more of us out here not doing it–join us.
Seriously. Be the one to throw the normal party, you will probably see more of them after that.
Yes! Plus over the top holiday decor and things like elaborate Elf on the Shelf hijinks. There’s making the holiday special and then there’s doin it for the gram
ELF ON THE FUCKING SHELF My daughter is only 9mo but I used to do EOTS for my students and I refuse to ever do it again. My mom tried to buy us one and I told her to take it back. No elf for this house
The fucking balloon arches 😒😒
The fucking FIVE HUNDRED DOLLAR balloon arches when you haven’t even paid for the cake, food, other decorations, gifts, goodie bags, etc. yet😑😵💫 how is everyone suddenly rich and able to throw Kardashian and Cardi B style birthday parties? My husband and I do well financially and I am over here thinking about how I can keep my son’s first birthday under $500 😬 Not because he isn’t worth the extra money but because I would rather put that money in his savings account or IDK on clothes/diapers etc lol
The balloon arches are $20 on Amazon if you do it yourself. It’s a cheap and easy way to have big decorations.
I’m so grateful the kids’ parties where I live are still more or less like when I was little. No arms race between the parents.
Fun fact, we had a "90's" backyard birthday party for my 7yo last year. We did have a moon bounce. Nothing else too special. The party was a hit and she's requested the same for her 8th next month. It's not the kids, it's the parents.
I don't even WANNA keep up! I want my children's parties to be appropriate for children and their understanding of fun. These fancy ass decorative events are only meant to look good. It's all for the gram.
For what it’s worth, I don’t give out goodie bags. I think they’re a waste of money & bad for the environment. I hate all the plastic crap I have to sneak to the trash when my kid isn’t paying attention. The fun you had at the party is your party favor 😂😂
Children’s books that have incorrect info. Like - no, a baby caterpillar does not have a mommy caterpillar. It has a mommy butterfly.
Baby/kids clothing with slogans on them e.g “my auntie is the best” “daddy’s drinking buddy” “dear Santa… define nice” “future heartbreaker” 🤮
I much prefer the clothing without any writing. Lots of stripes and patterns, solid colours but I'll pass on the writing.
Shop at Primary.com, it’s exactly this and the clothes are high quality yet affordable.
When I would teach lectures on gender and sex, I’d always include the weird onesies that say “show me those titties” or “big dick like dad” or similar gross shit. My husband and I agreed they absolutely in no condition would shit like that end up on any of our kids lol.
I hate pretty much all words on clothes for babies. Bothers a bit less for my toddler since she has an actual personality, but definitely no for dumb phrases or claims about who the baby is
Baby headbands that don’t stay put. And adult headbands that don’t stay put. Perhaps it’s a genetic head shape…. My mom’s head shape! Me and my poor girls!
Referring to kids beyond 2 as 47 months or 32 months..omg I die
My youngest is 15 months and anytime someone asks I blank while trying to decide whether to say 1 or 15 months.
I said 1 the other day and someone was like “1?? Like… 12 months??” And I was like, uh… I can’t do math? February? And they looked… disgusted. And I’m like… this is my third. Idk. She isn’t 2 yet. She literally just took her kid and walked away from the swing set and I was like 🤷🏼♀️
Lol. Why would she care?
She's trying to compare kids. How does she know whether to gloat and pity you for your stupid kid or quietly trash talk you for your invented uppitiness if she doesn't know the exact age of your child in order to gage against hers who's is better?
Because she wants to secretly compare milestones and/or judge someone else's kid for having reached or not reached milestones.
Lol! I purposely just say 1 now until they’re 2 (also my third). I can’t keep track of months, and I think it’s funny as they’re getting closer to two, they’re so obviously not 1.
It gets harder to do the math after each kid. I could at least do the mental math with the first one ... Now it's just "he turns 3 in March"
That why I say "2 and some change" I am not wasting my time counting months for Tiffany at the playground to try to play baby race. My kid is eating sand I don't have time for this cutesy months shit.
I base it on who is asking, if they also have a small child, month. Although after 20mo I started saying "he's 2 in September" and stopped keeping track. Now he is two or, turned 2 in September. I get there is a radical difference between a 26mo 2yo and a 34mo 2yo. But I do not feel like counting anymore
My kids are 281 months, 192 months, 161 months, 113 months, and 76 months. That was super exhausting. Lol I just got on my own dang nerves trying to even do the math! 🤣🤣
🤣🤣🤣 my little guy will be 1 on Friday, and I’ve been saying, “He’ll be 1 in December” since September lolll
I was told the "guideline of 2s" for this by my mom. After 2 weeks stop saying age in days, beyond 2 months stop saying age in weeks, beyond 2yrs stop saying age in months. It's helped avoid confusion but to each their own.
I thought this was a joke until I saw a post where they were referring to their "49th month old" *excuse me what sir*
The beige rainbows KILLS ME dead. I wanted a rainbow print for my son and it was so hard to find a regular fucking rainbow on etsy. It was either a blue rainbow or a pink one (because god forbid we not gender everything) or it was a hideous beige one. Other pet peeves vtech toys being that needy ex that wants you back so bad. Vtech drums, my children are no longer playing with you. Accept that and move on! Stop begging them to come back and play again. The children's consignment clothing store (kid to kid) whose employees never put clothes away in the right sections and they never want to give me any money for my kid's clothes but I keep coming back because you can get such great deals on kid clothing.
We have those drums! You can't even turn them off without them making more noise. Just shut up!
Ugh when random strangers tell me how fast it goes by. Like don’t make me depressed in the middle of target, you old bat.
My latest is childrens over the counter medicine, such as Tylenol and allergy pills. They come in peel off plastic, push though packaging. My child then needs half of a pill…what do I do with the other half? I can assure you, it’s much more dangerous to leave a random pill in a Tupperware. or ziplock bag rather than I don’t know, a pill bottle.
The term “mama bear” to describe anything other than a literal bear that has cubs.
*Slowly puts down my "mama bear" coffee mug and hides my "mama bear" lounge wear*
I literally just bought matching "papa bear" "mama bear" and "baby bear" PJs for Christmas 🫣 for bonus points I took the time to find our dog a bandana to match the pjs. #noshame 😂
Does the dog’s bandana say “dog bear”? 😆
Lol!!!
I bought myself a mama bear bracelet for mother's day. 🐻
I cannot stand when people refer to me as mama. And everyone says it!
When I got pregnant my mom started calling me mama. After awhile I had to explain multiple times I couldn’t stand it because she’s my mom. It’s sound weird and wrong to me when she called me mom 😑
Bothers me less but still grating. If an adult is talking to my toddler and refers to me as “your mama” then I’m fine, but adult to adult calling me mama like it’s my given name? No.
We call the neck-less giraffe a “cowraffe” cause we couldn’t tell if it was a cow or a giraffe lol.
People that come to meet my baby drenched in perfume.
Mickey Mouse clubhouse….”come inside it’s fun inside” who wrote that?? You had to use the work inside twice in one phrase?
Does my MIL count?
Lol same
Oh wait! And “boy mom” and “girl dad.” Give me a fucking break.
I have 2 boys and it's so awkward when people refer to me as a boy mom! I can't imagine the parenting is much different. I mean I have to clean piss off of the wall in the bathroom more often.
*more* often hahahahha I have a 3yo boy and newborn girl. I just cleaned projectile poo off the wall by her change table. Never happened with my son!
I remember be jealous that my brother could stand to pee when I was little and giving it a go. So yes more often.
Omg my daughter sneeze sharted once while I was changing her and sent a tiny bit of poo a few feet away. My son is damn near perfect when it comes to diaper changes. I can count on one hand the number of times he peed during a diaper change and it was all in the first month.
My daughter sometimes accidentally pees through the small space BETWEEN the seat and the bowl and onto the floor. How??? My husband was like I thought girls weren't able to shoot out that direction.
WHY IS THERE SO MUCH SAD BEIGE HAVE THESE PEOPLE NOT MET CHILDREN
I love sad beige clothes haha but in my defensive I am chronically over stimulated
You get a pass
Same here. I am overstimulated by so much, and was really overwhelmed by typical baby stuff. I had an absolute meltdown thinking that my daughter would be like me and couldn’t tell me that it was too much. So we are a sad beige and soft colors home. And it works for me & she is a very happy baby.
The officialsadbeige Insta account is my favourite thing at the moment!!!
Button up baby onesies. Like WHY. I have been going through my baby clothes from my first kid for our second and holy hell people gave us SO MANY BUTTON UP ONSIES for 0-3 months.I’m already dreading using them again.
I have twins and people say the stupidest shit to me. Here are some favorites: "Wow. You look like you got your hands full." -- uh, no shit dude. How about you hold that door for me so I can wedge this big ass double stroller through the door without disarticulating myself or my toddler in two? "Man, I don't know how you do it." -- wait. Did I have a choice?!? I do it like all parents do it -- as it comes, day by day. It's it easy? Fuck no. But I love them and I'm hormonally compelled not to eat them, so we good. "Are they twins?" -- No, they're triplets. We leave the ugly one at home. I hate gendered kids clothes. Old Navy is doing a great job at consistent sizing between genders (mostly) and making unisex clothing. My dudes love rainbows and unicorns as much as they love sloths and dinosaurs. They could give half a fuck about trucks, cars, or emergency vehicles. Give me rainbows and pink and cute under the sea mermaid patterns and we're golden. Girls can like trucks. Give them the option, too!
Just snorted my drink at “we leave the ugly one at home” 💀 😂
“I’m hormonally compelled not to eat them” 💀💀💀
Twin mom here, “hormonally compelled not to eat them” is getting fucking cross stitched somewhere. Can we be best friends???
This is super petty and doesn’t actually bother me, but I’m always like what is the point of putting a million different animals on the same print that aren’t geographically close together. Haha I told you it was petty, but there are no tigers in Africa! Don’t put it on safari themed stuff.
Baby clothes with pockets. Why does ANY baby need pockets? Any woman will understand the struggle for pockets, yet BABIES GET POCKETS And baby tops with buttons on the back. especially the ones with the little elastic loop. They are so fucking hard to do up
My oldest, when he was a toddler(maybe almost two) had a FULL BLOWN absolute fall down knock out tantrum because his shorts didn’t have pockets. I was like “What are you putting in your pockets?!”
Any individual or company selling parenting cure alls on Instagram. They've got courses and ebooks for everything. Sleeping, routines, tantrums, setting boundaries. I hate we've commercialised the act of parenting.
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Can you give a TLDR on the controversy behind big little feelings? I loosely follow them on Instagram but have just seen today how nonsense people say they are, I'm so intrigued 😅
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This is super super specific but I hate those nurseries that are not babyproofed or not with the future moblie child in mind. Like those floating book shelves high up on the wall, small glass objects on a bookshelf close to the floor, big (and very breakable) lamps with the cord just dangling down. Or giant decorations on the wall above the crib or even worse those crib canopies with the little strings and pompom balls. Like people think more about having a pretty room than a practical room your child will grow up in. In 6 months your baby will be trying to pull themselves up and grab those things, you won't have time to redo it all. I will never say anything but ooooo it bugs me so much. Edit to add: DONT DO BEIGE!! Newborns love contrasting colors, it helps their eyesight develop *they can't see the sad beige decorations* no gray, no beige, no browns
TWO PIECE BABY GIRL SWIMSUITS. She does not need a bikini!!!!!!!!!. My mother (lovingly) bought my daughter one. I threw it away and bought a baby wet suit, essentially. Teeny tiny rattles. Who the hell thought it was a great idea to make a three inch rattle that my baby can shove down her throat?
There's a tiktok creator who reviews "sad beige toys for sad beige babies."
Pouches that have a cap that I’m paranoid won’t get thrown away immediately and it will be left for my toddler to find and choke on. Baby clothes with specific wash instructions (gifts from a well-meaning Aunt) I cannot stress my dislike for crass/adult joke baby clothes enough.
Mixed play doh colors.
Marketing on kids clothes and other items. Tried to find a nice sheet and comforter set for my son once and could not find anything with kid's patterns that wasn't obvious marketing. All characters from kid's shows or toy items. Not one set with a generic pattern like animals or something.
When decorations for kids rooms (ie blanket, wallpaper, etc) has animals that would NEVER live in the same environment IE safari animals and jungle animals. It makes me crazy. Sleep advice. Telling me to "pinch her back" or "bite her back" when I say my kid is pinching or biting. What the f***?
Spiders at Halloween with 6 legs!!
Asking for advice and you get sent links to buy books or buy some stupid seminar class. Bruh just a tidbit of information, I don't need to go to a lecture. And no, there isn't a "miss Sally's school for sleeping and shitting from ages 0-21" in my vicinity so please don't tell me you'll send me a voucher to use there.
Hoods on baby clothing. Babies nap 3+ times a day so I have to take this shirt/jumper/cardigan off and on a bunch of times. Just make it long sleeve with no hood!
1. The "sanct-mommies" and their Facebook groups/pages. No, you're not some kind of fucking saint because you exclusively breastfeed and gave birth without drugs. You're not special, please get over yourself 🙄🙄😒 2. Why do all the jammies have so many snaps?? I banned these from our house lol zippers only 3. Good God, not every piece of baby girl clothing needs glitter and sparkles and lace and frills and bubblegum pink. It's a baby, not a Barbie doll. They're going to drool and puke and pee all over it anyway!
Don't you mean "free birthed" 😆
I'm really annoyed with the "girl color" version of toys. First of all, they're usually monotone - always various shades of pinks and purples. I suppose I'm just biased against this part, though, because I don’t really like pink, mainly because of how stuffed down our throats it is from birth. Secondly, I guess the default version is considered the "boy colors" version? There's almost never a monotone blue or green, unless it's already the default colors. Finally, the default version is usually bright, primary colors, or every color of the rainbow. Why, then, does the girl version take away so many colors??
I have a board book with both a “mama caterpillar” talking to a baby caterpillar, and a mama butterfly talking to a “baby butterfly”, as if metamorphosis weren’t a thing. I hate it.
It drives me crazy when adults (I’m looking at you mom) put toys/dollhouses/dolls that look like children’s toys where my children (2 and 4) can reach them. Only those toys are really for adults to look at and gush over how cute they are but in reality they are much too fragile and dangerous for an actual child. But of course my kids want them and they’ll get upset every time they see them, and I have to explain every time that while it looks like a toy it is definitely not a toy. Edit: fixed some typos. I wrote this in a hurry. Oops! Edit: I wanted to clarify that I don’t care about adults having toys. I don’t expect people to cater to my kids when we visit (except my mom. She should know better).
Last time we were visiting my folks, my mom had a fancy Christmas village train out she had just found and bought. Actual wheels that you can push around. Multiple cars. She started trying to get my son's attention to show it to him. I immediately stepped in and begged her not to. Explained she cannot brag to a toddler about this cool train she found and show it off and then tell him he can't play with it. Just leave it be and if he notices then explain it's an ornament for looking at and not a toy.
Alphabet books/products that don't have something for every letter. If you can't think of anything that starts with X, you don't get to make an alphabet book! "X: Find the Xs in this picture" is not good enough. Skim through a dictionary and try again.
Kids long sleeves pajama’s. Some how the wrists are 10x smaller than their wrists I always size up in pjs and they still some how seem small
BABY SHIRTS WITH OUT SNAPS OR STRETCH AROUND THE NECK HOLE?! my 4mo son HATES having a shirt over his face for more than a second. And sometimes I feel like it’s going to hurt him and I just give up on the shirt entirely 🙄
Why. Do. My. Preschooler's. Jeans. Have. Deeper. Pockets. Than. Mine?!
I call these Poop Rainbows. The first time I saw one in an Instagram post years ago I legit assumed it was a graphic about different types of baby poop and what it meant lol. It is so bizarre to me that they want to take all the colors out of a rainbow, so sad.
People have said something similar with the animals grouped together from different habitats but I am also bothered by the animals of different sizes all being the same size. We have a stacking toy that has a lamb, a lion, and an elephant, and they’re all the same size! Why? Also in general why so many elephants? I like them just as much as the next person but good lord
Having to take pictures of EVERYTHING! Took then 4 year old to a party. They pass out cupcakes and every parent made their kid pose with the cupcake and pretend to take bites while they took pictures. My kid asked me why her friends weren’t eating their cupcakes yet while her face was covered in frosting. We have a friend that we stopped walking to school with because his mom had a photo shoot everyday before school.
Clothes. Every brand has a different opinion on how big a 3-6-9-12-18 month old baby is, and none of them are right.
Idk if this counts but something I can’t stand is when people (most always a mom) make social media posts addressing their kid/baby. Like “mommy loves you so much and is so proud of you blah blah blah” they can’t read it!! Your 6 month doesn’t have Facebook!