Major parenting FAIL.

[RadiationTherapy]

Scene:

7 year old daughter sits on the toilet for morning pee; in the bedroom, the parents hear the child call

"MOOOOOOOOMM!" (accusatory)

"What, sweetie"

"A-hem." (points to her arm)

"What is that?" (Mom is now in the bathroom to look at her little, sweet, baby 7 year old girl's arm; so innocent and gentle.)

"Mom, it's your nicotine patch!"

Stunned look on mom's face as the "wah wah WAHHHHHHHH" losing game show music plays in the background and large, stone hewn letters crash to the bottom of the screen:

FAIL.

...on the plus side, her teacher said she was very focused and relaxed today at school.

[My Good Babushka]

1. real women

quit cold turkey. Like me :)
Unless you count that bag of lollipops I blitzed through.

[hedgehog]

2. I put my son's shoes on him one morning when he was a baby, and

it was only several hours later when I took them off for his nap that I found out that I'd bent one of his toes back. I took him to the doctor right away and he was fine. I still don't know why he wasn't screaming!

[DS1]

3. wah wah WAHHHHHHHH ???

All that reminds me of is

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sI5Nhnrr05U

[Arugula Latte]

4. When my daughter, baby #2, was an infant, I put her on the bed and went to the bathroom

thinking, "Oh, she's so little, she can't possibly move around much..."

A few minutes later *THUNK* (hardwood floors x( ) and "Waaaaaah!"

Luckily, she's a very intelligent child, so apparently suffered no permanent brain damage. :blush:

[My Good Babushka]

6. That happened with my son.

And I was standing right there in front of him, ready to put his clothes on. I never would've guess he was capable of rolling so far, so fast. He was just a totally, totally different kind of baby from my first son. He landed pretty flat, and on a carpeted floor, so he was more frightened than hurt by the ordeal, but I felt like a bad, bad, parent for a while.

[Arugula Latte]

8. It's a horrible feeling when you hear them hit the floor.

Luckily, they seem to be very resilient!

[GreenPartyVoter]

12. Did a similar thing. He's fine too

[snailly]

5. Um, maybe I'm reading this wrong

Did your daughter actually have a nicotine patch on her arm?

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7. yeah, was it just seeing your patch? (not fail) or... something else?

why is this a fail?

[snailly]

9. You do realize that children can die from nicotine overdose

There are warnings all over the place on patches.

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11. calm down. go back and read the op. wtf is she talking about?

i only asked the op to retell the story.

in english this time. complete sentences.

is the patch on the child's arm? that's fucking amazing? how did that happen?

you know, questions like that.

so back the fuck off with you "do you realize" accusations...

[RadiationTherapy]

13. yes. It was on my wife when we went to bed and on the girl when we awoke.

My wife puts a new one on in the morning, so it was pretty old and dead.

Yes, nicotine is deadly.

This is a FAIL.

[snailly]

10. I got it

I hope ya'll are happy. I guess you feel better about yourselves now.

[RadiationTherapy]

14. Now I don't get it. I usually feel pretty good about myself, though. nt