About the product: One brand new girl’s 2-piece summer dress by Koala Kids. Size: 12 months. Retail Value: $11.99. Colors: Lime green with pink flowers. (If you don’t have a girl, it makes a great gift for someone who does)
Are you eligible? You must have a valid email and mailing address.
How can I win? What is your WORST bad parenting confession? For example, giving your 9 month old soda instead of water because you didn’t have any water at the moment.
Am I the winner? We will select the “best” bad parenting confession. If you are the winner, your name will be announced in the Winner’s Announcements category on Monday, April 28th, 2008. You will be contacted via email to confirm your mailing address in order for us to send you the dress. You have 3 days to respond to confirm your mailing address. Otherwise, you will forfeit your prize and we will select another winner.
When will this giveaway end? The winner will be selected on Monday, April 28st, 2008 at 9:00 pm PST.
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April 21st, 2008 at 11:14 pm
I can tell you what felt the worst! My oldest son had separation anxiety and school phobia off and on from preschool through first grade. At one point, while the school principal and social worker held him down on the ground, I had to walk away! Worst parenting moment?! Cindi
April 22nd, 2008 at 3:09 am
I’ve been known to let them run around after dirtying up their clothes if I know we are going someplace where they will get messy again.
April 22nd, 2008 at 3:58 am
Outfit is okay - little too green and red in it
April 22nd, 2008 at 4:14 am
Using the TV as a babysitter
April 22nd, 2008 at 6:19 am
I didn’t give my son a bath before bed even though he was dirty from playing outside.
April 22nd, 2008 at 6:38 am
My 2 year old managing to get alcohol. My wife had left a bottle of banana flavoured booze out on the mini fridge, and when I was cleaning up I somehow missed it. Next morning went downstairs with my son, put on his Sesame St and went in to make him breakfast, came back to find him hugging the bottle! His breath absolutely stank of it too, I was pretty hysterical.
April 22nd, 2008 at 6:40 am
Got a new niece that would look adorable in this!
April 22nd, 2008 at 6:51 am
My worst parenting confession is: Putting her in her crib so I can relax for an hour.
April 22nd, 2008 at 7:09 am
My 4yo was attempting moves that she saw figure skaters making on tv one Saturday when she fell. Cried that her arm hurt. I called 2 friends, one an RN, the other an EMT. Both came to try things to determine the seriousness of the problem. Assumed a severe sprain. By MONDAY she was holding her lower arm all the time, so I took her in to the Dr. Yep, a break of BOTH bones, above the wrist. You want to talk poor parenting?
April 22nd, 2008 at 7:17 am
My one year old son bit me on the shoulder and I dropped him on the bid.
April 22nd, 2008 at 7:44 am
I love that dress.It’s adorable.Worst thing,I know there is something,maybe I will remember it later.
April 22nd, 2008 at 8:21 am
didn’t wash off the pacifier.
April 22nd, 2008 at 8:33 am
I can’t stand tantrums in public places, so I keep lollipops on me for distraction when he does decide to have one. I only use them when I can’t just leave the store, like when I’m grocery shopping.
April 22nd, 2008 at 9:09 am
Absolutely gorgeous!! have to have it.
April 22nd, 2008 at 10:32 am
I called some guy who pulled out in front of me an “idiot” while driving. Days later a tractor was going very slow and it was prolonging our destination of the library. When my 3 year old son realized how slow we were going he said “Mom, now what’s this idiot doing?”………GULP! I had to explain it wasn’t nice to say that and he said “But you say “idiot”. Lesson learned!
April 22nd, 2008 at 11:06 am
I would love to win it for my great granddaughter
April 22nd, 2008 at 11:35 am
not exactly a terrible thing…but it was something that to this day has left an impression on my three girls. At Christmas time, when all of the commericals are aimed at kids and all you hear is “I want that!”, I had my girls listen to “You Can’t Always Get What You Want” by the Rolling Stones. For many years, they honestly believed that it was a CHRISTMAS song, and that it was true! When I’d hear one of them say “I want…” all I’d have to say was “what does mick jagger say?” and they’d know that they couldn’t always have what they wanted! We still laugh about that and have to listen to it during the holidays!
April 22nd, 2008 at 12:21 pm
I spend too much time on my computer. (sob) And, as Bill Cosby once said..’Whats wrong with chocolate cake for breakfast, it has eggs…flour..
April 22nd, 2008 at 2:27 pm
Too much TV
April 22nd, 2008 at 2:32 pm
My worst parenting confession… Not baby proofing the house. My daughter got ahold of fingernail polish remover. It was yellow, maybe she thought it was Mountain Dew but she drank half a bottle of it. After calling poison control and them calming me down said that small amount wouldn’t hurt her. It sure hurt me! I learned a lot that day!
April 22nd, 2008 at 2:56 pm
yelling in public to discipline my son.
April 22nd, 2008 at 2:58 pm
letting my sister babysit never again
April 22nd, 2008 at 3:56 pm
When I was a new mom the first time, I sometimes forgot I had a new baby. Once I left my son, in his stroller at Costco. I was almost to the car before I ran back to get him. Another time I left him in a pharmacy in Brazil. The clerk had to run after me as I was walking down the street.
April 22nd, 2008 at 4:27 pm
Worst parenting moment for me came once my son was grown and making terrible decisions in life and I had to just stand back and watch him because he would no longer listen to me. Sometimes it’s really hard to go from parenting a child to parenting an adult. I think the two year old tantrums are 100x easier!
April 22nd, 2008 at 5:45 pm
i’m a little ashamed to admit this but my daughter who was 4 at the time was really scared of bugs-so at times when she wouldn’t listen i would say oh look a bug. that would get her attention and then i could get her to stop what she was doing. yes definately a bad parenting confession.
April 22nd, 2008 at 6:12 pm
I still judge othe parents too harshly and jump to conclusions even after being in their shoes
April 22nd, 2008 at 6:31 pm
i put my sons thumb in his mouth he wouldn’t take a pacifier and he wanted to suck on something
April 22nd, 2008 at 8:09 pm
Ok mine isn’t a bad parent- it’s bad parents. My husband and I were both home and each of us thought the other was watching our 11 month old. I was in the bedroom wrapping Christmas presents and he was in the bathroom helping my 3 year old with the potty when we heard a thud and a terrible scream. Somehow my baby (who wasn’t even walking yet) managed to climb onto the couch and fall over the back of it onto her head. She started throwing up and we rushed her to the er. Try explaining how two parents (both of whom are teachers) are home and no one sees how an baby gets a severe concussion. I’m sure she’ll use it against us when she’s a teenager!
April 23rd, 2008 at 8:25 am
getting mad at my son, teaching him to drive.
April 23rd, 2008 at 11:07 am
I would this pretty little sundress for my little neice
April 23rd, 2008 at 1:10 pm
In the grocery store over candy. He dropped to the floor like a wet noodle. I left my cart-picked him up while he’s screaming and left the store
April 23rd, 2008 at 2:29 pm
Let grandkids eat potato chips for breakfast
April 23rd, 2008 at 6:27 pm
When my daughter was around 8 months old, she stopped drinking her formula. I started putting in nestle quick to get her to drink it.
April 23rd, 2008 at 9:35 pm
my daughter was going off to a friends pool party and I sent her off in her normal clothes! needless to say it was a disaster!
April 24th, 2008 at 7:29 am
I gave my oldest son an oreo at 3 months and dr pepper at 4 months. I have given my 9 month old big red(soda), piece of chocolate chip cookie, chocolate, dr pepper, food from chic-fil-a and all other types of stuff he probably shouldn’t have.
April 24th, 2008 at 7:37 am
Having used cloth diapers on both my daughters, I decided I was going to try the \’disposable\’ kind with my son in spite of the cost (this was almost 20 years ago). While attending a large family gathering and having just changed my son\’s diaper. I observed the familiar facial grimace of an infant moving his bowels and then the odor permeated the air making it obvious to all around us. Being the ever dutiful mother I immediately went into the guest bedroom and bathroom where we were staying to change his diaper. I am ashamed to say that I promptly emptied that turd into the toilet and reapplied that expensive disposable diaper with medical tape that I found in a drawer. We re-entered the gathering with noone the wiser. UGH!
April 24th, 2008 at 7:40 am
I fell asleep (I was working the graveyard shift) and forgot to pick up my son from a birthday party at a park. I awoke to police officers banging on my door telling me my son has been at the police station for almost 2 hours. Talk about the guilt and shame.
April 24th, 2008 at 8:37 am
worst bad parenting confession is my son watches too much tv!!!!
April 24th, 2008 at 9:26 am
My husband has a few more than me. But I suppose my worst parenting moment is letting my 2 1/2 year old son still have a bottle at night because i’m too tired to deal with getting him off of it. He’ll get off of it eventually!! lol
Jamie Schloemer
7609 Towhee Trail
Orlando, FL 32810
April 24th, 2008 at 2:42 pm
Telling my child “because I said so”. I never intended on turning into my mother!
April 24th, 2008 at 3:55 pm
I would clean my kids pacifiers in my wife.
April 24th, 2008 at 7:50 pm
Bumped his head (not hard) trying to put him in a swing.
April 25th, 2008 at 11:56 am
I give in sometimes just so I don’t have to hear them complain.
April 25th, 2008 at 1:18 pm
Using the TV as a baby sitter. Now my four year old is addicted. Help!
April 25th, 2008 at 9:01 pm
With our first child, we were told by the pediatrician to give prune juice to our baby to help her have a BM. Well this is where we messed up: we didn’t pay attention close enough to where you add water to make it half and half. So one full ounce bottle of prune juice in our 8 month old baby equalled to purple poop all over our child, including her hair, ears, and the wall and the bed….the child was purple! She felt good though! No more consitpation!
April 25th, 2008 at 10:25 pm
I was sitting in the waiting room for my infants routine check up. I noticed his fingernails were long so while waiting I trimmed his nails. I was startled by our name being called and cut too close and drew blood.
April 25th, 2008 at 10:49 pm
I’m so guilty of buying one too many videos for the express purpose of a few moments of silence in the bathroom.
April 26th, 2008 at 6:18 am
I must to win this dress for my little niece!
April 26th, 2008 at 2:12 pm
my daughter who is 40 still remembers me making her wear mittons so whe wouldnt bite her finger nails!!! granddaughter would look so cute in this dress!
April 26th, 2008 at 2:30 pm
Probly the worse thing that I do as a parent is let me kids plays video games and stay on the computor too much!!
April 26th, 2008 at 3:46 pm
I ran out to the car to get something when my daughter was about 18 months old and she closed the door behind me and it was locked and I couldn’t get back in. I tried to get her to turn the doorknob but she couldn’t do it. So I had to call for help and have someone cut the window out and unlock the door and then they put the pane back in for me. I felt so bad because she was in there all alone but she was happy and smiling at me through the window the whole time.
April 26th, 2008 at 4:03 pm
Pretending to sleep through the baby crying so that my husband has to tend to her!
April 26th, 2008 at 6:39 pm
I enjoyed reading these stories. I realized I am probably all of them. I guess my worst parenting mistake was not reading a large number of books to my son. His school has a program where if you read 25 books a month for the entire school year, he will get a prize at the end of the year. I learned my mistake from last year and I do not want to bring another real rabbit home (we gave it away- but that is another story in itself). So he has only read a few books all year.
April 27th, 2008 at 11:14 am
My eight month old was so screaming while her siblings ate b-day cake, in my search for one silent minute in the day….I gave her chocolate cake. Of coarse I got a few moments of silenec followed by a mess that took so much longer to pick up & a baby that had her first dose of sugar! It was so not worth it.
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April 27th, 2008 at 11:25 pm
I clipped my sons thumb with the clippers because I was trying to hurry
April 28th, 2008 at 2:16 am
yelling and getting mad
April 28th, 2008 at 4:53 am
I would like to win this dress so much for little girl:)
It’s looks very! I like flowers and smart colour. Really pretty!
April 28th, 2008 at 6:01 am
way to many mistakes to write or remember lol ty 4 the cute contest!
April 28th, 2008 at 6:51 am
I told my daughter that the ice cream truck was really a sneaky way to give kids shots.
April 28th, 2008 at 8:06 am
I used Tide detergent to wash my daughter clothes the first time before she was born, and she got rash right after she wore it. I should have used Dreft
April 28th, 2008 at 8:32 am
Neither of my sons liked anything green in their food aside from a salad of iceberg lettuce(they wouldn’t eat the other kind) so as they have grown up its been difficult for them to adapt to eating in restaurants or at social gatherings because I didn’t teach them to eat everything. My oldest will still pick out items from his meals and line them up on the edge of his plate. Needless to say…he gets some strange looks now and then. But then I’ll get a second chance with the grandkids. I guess thats what my mom meant by “Being a parent is a lot of live and learn.”
April 28th, 2008 at 2:08 pm
Raising my voice when I talked to my son and maily when he was learning to drive. I would love to win this for my great neice
April 28th, 2008 at 4:56 pm
Wanting perfection from my children.
April 28th, 2008 at 7:15 pm
My worst disaster was when I put the little one in the corner on her \
June 6th, 2008 at 9:48 pm
This isn’t something that I did but what my ex-husband did… Read our four year old Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Black Cat” as a bed time story… I found out by my little guy describing the graphic details after a nightmare.