What is Your Worst Bad Habit?

Led by one of our very favorite recurring guest bloggers, mom Maria Young, this real conversation discusses the many bad habits that real moms try to shed: Do you procrastinate? Do you overeat? Here's a good one! Are you always 15 to 20 minutes late for every single appointment and meeting? We hate that! Our self-effacing mommy bloggers take this opportunity to address their more negative women's issues and lay it all out for you. Mom-to-mom advice is seriously requested!

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acm
2 yearss ago

I don't understand Jessica' calling liking time alone and shrinking from (even fun) social situations a "bad habit" -- that's just being an introvert! Yes, an introvert can be self-confident and make video webcasts! it just means you restore yourself in isolation and find socializing draining (rather than the reverse, for real extroverts). Knowing this can make you more realistic about your social schedule and less hard on yourself when you just want to hide out!

Dreya
2 yearss ago

I have a classic. I bite my fingernails. I don't bite them back until they look bad though, I bite them to trim them. I've tried to stop but for some reason taking a nail clipper to my fingernails squicks me out. About the being late thing, I am neurotically punctual. My husband, on the other hand, is the worst procrastinator and whenever we have to go somewhere as a couple we are late. The number of times he goes "I just need to do this one more thing" before we leave the house... I swear yesterday he said it like 4 or 5 times. I've learned that I have to tell him we're going like an hour before we really have to go so that he can get all his faffing around done. I'm a procrastinator in a different way. I procrastinate about house work. I hate house work, so it frequently means the sink is full of dishes and the floors are un-vacuumed. I can ALWAYS find an excuse not to clean.

Maria Young
2 yearss ago

We have a lot in common, Dreya: I bite my cuticles because the manicurist always hurts me when she does them so I prefer to just gnaw them off, I'm always on time and I get really anxious and irritated if I even think I'm going to be late or cutting it close (no matter if it's a Dr's appt or a movie), and housework is THE DEBBIL so it's the thing I avoid the most.

bwankel
2 yearss ago

Oh my god, the soda! And fast food! It's awful! I know they're terrible for me, but this does not keep me from having a Diet Coke almost every day, and a McDonald's value meal like once a week. This is something I've been trying to change for a while now, especially since my son is getting really observant and impressionable. And I know some of you are thinking, "just stop eating/drinking it", but it's my compulsion. If it were that easy, I'd have done it long ago, BELIEVE YOU ME. Some others that are not so horrid but I'd still like to change: I don't exercise enough, I procrastinate (esp. housework), I'm fairly judgmental and I don't talk to my parents often enough.

gracelaronde
2 yearss ago

Picking my nose... but otherwise, probably talking on the phone or texting around my kids. Another study, another reason to feel guilty about not being a good mom http://bit.ly/bogU6v. It's not enough that I'm WITH my kids -- I can't talk on the phone, text, or deal with the office. I admit, I have a very personal relationship with my Blackberry, and I cannot resist it's call, but that doesn't mean I'm not paying attention to my kids. I think it's called multi-tasking.

Lou
2 yearss ago

I'm a Coke (cola) addict too! One a day ... but I have made the switch to diet. Also, Starbucks Chai Lattes 2 or 3 times a week ... seriously, $11 a week on Chai? Silly. Oh, one more ... watching old soaps on You Tube .. I could do it for hours. Gotta love DOOL from the 80s and early 90s.

Sugar Mama
2 yearss ago

The *F* Bomb is my bad habit. This is coming from someone that didn't even say "crap" 5 years ago... and now I'm throwing this word around. It's ugly & dirty. I think it sounds awful and I know my kids cringe when they hear it. Another bad habit is getting up in the morning and getting RIGHT on my laptop. Not spending any quality quiet time meditating, praying, etc. Instead, I'm on here. I'm not clearing my head, I'm just adding tot he clutter. Maria, Looks like quite a few of us will be in the nursing home cussing with you. They'll give us our own sound proof room.

Maria Young
2 yearss ago

Me? I passionately love the F bomb, in all of its different connotations. Sometimes, there's just no better way to express what I'm feeling or what I want (heh). As long as the room's not padded too - I'm totally down with that!

Maria Young
2 yearss ago

Heh, I didn't even think about the swearing. I curse like a trucker and a sailor having a battle royale. All the time, unless I need to not do it for some important reason. I guess I didn't think of it because it's not something I feel the need to change. Or because I know I probably will be the old woman in the nursing home screaming expletives about how cold it is in my room no matter how hard I work on it!

SilverXeno
2 yearss ago

For me...Since I have a very clear memory of entire months where a pejorative didn't cross my lips...I feel like it's not something I *need* to do. And I tend to only do it when I'm really angry...and for a kid...seeing their parent in a rage, and on top of that screaming obscenities? I know it's not a healthy image for my kids to be taking in. And since I am their only parent for the next 6 or 7 months (at least), I don't like thinking that they may avoid coming to me b/c they are worried about one of those moments, or that they are holding in feelings b/c they worry it could 'set me off'.

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