Whats the silliest parenting "mistake" you have made?

I went to my parents home with our baby girl in the stroller, I did a bit of shopping on the way there as my wife was still at work (We worked shifts then) My mother had taken our daughter out of the stroller and placed the shopping I had bought on the seat of the stroller not realising and only stopping for a few minutes I said goodbye to my father and proceeded home, when I arrived home I opened the front door and eased the stroller inside when I discovered she was not in the stroller! In a blind panic I rushed outside thinking she had fallen out of the stroller to be met by my mother in their car with our baby in tow! I felt a complete idiot! and still have not lived it down to this day!

I'm sure most parents have done things such as you and felt absolutely awful for it. I felt so guilty one time when my fiance and I were going out shopping and we were running late. I thought I'd fastened my son into his seat and I turned the alarm on and went out of the house. It took us the drive to the supermarket to realise my poor two year old was in the house on his own, terrified because the burglar alarm was sounding. I remember first becoming a Dad at the age of seventeen and dropping him numerous times, it took me a while to get used to that one. There have been lots of silly mistakes I've made - head butting my son whilst playing football, putting clothes on him which were too small without realising, sending him to nursery with his shoes on the wrong feet - it wasn't long before he tripped over.

At least they forget about it all.

Actually, putting your baby in daycare while you were resting and trying to feel better was a good thing to do. That way you both were taken care of. Your paying for that service. Nothing to feel guilty about at all. Plus, I'm sure that at one time or another we all have forgotten to change the baby when feeling the same as you did. I sometimes forgot to bring the changing bag when I took the kids out somewhere. lol

- Turned my back for 2 minutes on 3 toddlers, with food colouring.

- Used toothpaste as nappy rash cream.

- Made a coffee with a bottle of formula.

- I forget what I am doing all the time, have half drunk coffees laying everywhere.

- I fed my dog cat food, instead of dog food.

- Changing nappies, changed the same baby twice, and wondered why he hadn't been.

- With William's hearing aid, I have 2 glasses in the bathroom, one dry one filled with water (for my teeth cleaner tray). I dropped the hearing aid in water.

- I call my son's 6 names. I am eventually going to get the right one.

Heck that was only today.

OMG haha thats terrible that ahah am thinking i cant remember of hand there is bound to be something that oh i know what did embarass me sooooo much was i accidently hit a nursery kid in the eye i felt so wicked i went a severe colour red i was talking to the teacher as i went passed and as i talk my hands try to describe what am saying (i cant help it) and as my hand did this a kid ran passed me and got a wack in the eye omg i apoligised about 3/5times and went home i keep my hands in my pocket now when i talk at school anyway hahah

Well I was putting my son to bed, walking up the hallway, got too close to the corner of the wall (not paying attention) and his head smacked on the corner of the wall.......oops bad mummy. Tried to continue on to bed like nothing happened and looked at my son, he was all bewildered and looked like he was set to cry. I have smacked his head into a door knob doing the same thing. Given my daughter left overs........from lunch and you should have seen her face (OMG mum I didn't eat it then, why would I eat it now) I actually forgot, lol.

I think as parents we are bound to make mistakes and as long as we don't expect our kids to be perfect and let them know that adults make mistakes too then it is fine.

Lol, funny. If thats the worse then you are doing well!

My worst to date ( I have a 7, 4 and 2 year old) is, we went on holidays and were driving from one resort to the next when my 7 year old says 'Mum, where's Tyler?" Husband and I turn around, mortifid to discover we had left our 4 year old back at the last resort. We turned around, drove the 5 minutes back down the road to find our poor little son bawling his eyes out, surrounded by 7 very concerned employees. Gee we felt bad. Naughty, naughty us, BAD BAD parents!!

When my son was a newborn, (this was last summer) we had him outside in the swing with us. Well me and my husband had a few beers and we went inside for a minute... Well we ended up falling asleep (it was like 1 in the morning) and my mother woke us up at about 3 in the morning saying that she went outside to smoke a cigarette and he was out there in the swing sleeping away...

I don't drink anymore =)

Me and my husband still feel horrible about it to this day =(

nothing wrong with you taking her to daycare cause you were sick...I am a SAHM and I don't have that privilage or help so when I was dying sick and my husband went to work and left me with a 2yr old and new born.........I felt so bad AND laid there drying cause I was dying...what I did and I feel guilty for was put a baby gate in their room and laid in the floor. they played and I slept and laid there on the floor...I had no other choice and i was too weak and sick to do anything else.

well, i did my babys sleepsuit up, without putting a nappy on! i did realize though before i put him to bed.