What is the most difficult thing you have ever had to do as a parent?

Question

What is the most difficult thing you have ever had to do as a parent?

Answer 1

Bury my child

Answer 2

So far it's when both of my children were in the hospital (at different times) because of having gastroenteritis. It was so hard seeing them in the hospital bed, not being able to keep anything down without vomiting, and being so lathargic (sp?). I felt so helpless and sad. Thank goodness it wasn't something worse.

Answer 3

Sign the forms that allowed my son to join the army.  And the most difficult thing I couldn't do?  Get him out of there when it all started going pear shaped ...

Answer 4

Leave my eldest at school on his first day - and not just because the others wanted to go in too!

Answer 5

explain to my 2 eldest children that the great grandad they loved so much had died.

they were 15 and 11 at the time..and i"ll never forget their faces when i told them, it was heartbreaking..

Answer 6

at first I would say that letting them CIO was hard. But at least I knew they were safe.

But nothing compares to the mother up above saying goodbye to her son as he leaves for war. I am so sorry, and I pray he is safe.

Answer 7

Why don't you go to bed Sparks ? you have had a long day at the computer and you must feel like telling your children that you and !  ! are real sleepy.

Answer 8

Wave my son off to War in Afghanistan!!

Answer 9

Probably the day I told my kids about their grandfather. He's not dead, but they can't see him. It was really hard for me and them. They had a lot of questions, and I couldn't answer them. :(

[Not going into details why they can't see him]

~Kate

Answer 10

sneak into the kids bedroom and pretend to be  father xmas while totally pissed

Answer 11

Leave my first baby in special care as he came 7 weeks early! Then have to do exactly the same with my 3rd baby, then have to wait for my 3 rd baby go through a 3 hour op to correct a cleft palate and then get pneumonia! My 2nd son had countless hosp adms as he was Asthmatic! My 1st son also had suspected meningitis, thank goodness he didn't ! Hold my 4th son aged 8 months whilst he had a febrile fit and then wait to go to hosp in an ambulance! The list could go on and on!  

Answer 12

is to take my kids to the wither park because they get lost eays  

Answer 13

Good grief I can't come up with anything as difficult as the person at the top....

Maybe telling a very good friend that her daughter was being nasty to my daughter - both age 7 (that was very very hard)

Answer 14

I suspect you know the answer to this one from me B..

I prefer not to say publicly.

I know you will understand, thanks.

Answer 15

let my son move out! he is only 17 and wants to do his own thing!