# Things you swore you'd never do to your kids, but you do them anyway

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-swore-youd-never-do-to-your-kids-but-you-do-them-anyway/125874>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [August 28, 2002, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-swore-youd-never-do-to-your-kids-but-you-do-them-anyway/125874 "2002-08-28T02:34:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![belladonna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9fc29f/32.png) [@belladonna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/belladonna)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2002, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-swore-youd-never-do-to-your-kids-but-you-do-them-anyway/125874/1 "2002-08-28T02:34:31Z")

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So I’m diddybopping along through the grocery aisles the other day with Little Guy just chilling in the buggy when I notice something. He’s got a booger stuck to his nose. It’s gross, and I want it to go away but I don’t have any wipes.  
What’s an unprepared mum to do?  
Yes, that’s right. Just lick my thumb and scrub away, causing him to squirm and bleat at me but damned if I didn’t get that nose clean.

As I finish this charming little ritual, I remember just how much I HATED it when my mom did that to me as a kid. I remember swearing I’d “never do that to my kids”.  
::sigh:: Another ideal betrayed.

So what do you do to your kids that you always swore you wouldn’t?

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**Author:** ![Sylkyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/da6949/32.png) [@Sylkyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylkyn)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2002, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-swore-youd-never-do-to-your-kids-but-you-do-them-anyway/125874/2 "2002-08-28T05:13:21Z")

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(sigh)

I use the phrase “Because I said so…” when I am exasperated. I hate using it, but sometimes it IS because I said so. I might tell them later on why such-and-such had to be that way, but I hear myself saying those words and shudder.

But I still hate doing it. I do my best to refrain, but like I said, sometimes, it has to be said, in terms of time constraints.

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**Author:** ![LifeOnWry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/96bed5/32.png) [@LifeOnWry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LifeOnWry)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2002, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-swore-youd-never-do-to-your-kids-but-you-do-them-anyway/125874/3 "2002-08-28T05:56:19Z")

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I recently uttered the following sentences: “Turn that crap DOWN! That is not music, it is NOISE!”

:::::sigh:::::::