Fact Ring Binders And Reciting The Family Calendar: 11 'Routines' Parents Regret

Parents editor at HuffPost UK

Parents are getting real about the parenting techniques they deployed which they now completely and utterly regret.

Sharing the routine they are “so mad” they started, Redditor pmd815 said: “A year ago we were going through a ROUGH bed time phase with our three year old. In my desperation, I mentioned a couple of her classmates who were definitely ‘already sleeping’ at that time of night and *every single night* since I have to name every kid and teacher in her class individually and say ‘____ is sleeping, ____ is sleeping.’

“She also recently started public school so now I have to do her old classmates AND the new ones, because I’m a clown.”

At this point, 10 other parents said: Hold my beer.

1. The homemade encyclopaedia

“My 4yo likes lists of inane facts. I initially just put these on scraps of paper, but he kept losing them. Then I had the bright idea to put everything into a notebook, so I did that. Then he carried the notebook around so much that it was falling apart. So then I........

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