Right now I feel like a very mean and boring mum and don't think IWBU but maybe I was?
Just finished work and picked ds (3 years old - 4 in a week) up from nursery.
He asked if he could go play out in the back garden, I said yes while I did my jobs (wash pots, put washing on, Hoover up etc)
After a few minutes I heard him shout "my friends!" And run inside to the front door, which was locked.
For background these "friends" are a group of about 6 children on our road, very nice kids ages ranging from around 5 to 8 I would say. We know a few of their names but my son just refers to them as "friends"
I told him to wait until I had finished my jobs and I would go out with him because he wasn't old enough to play out without me or his Dad being on the front
He screamed, shouted, hit me and kicked me. At that point I told him that because he had hit and kicked me (ongoing issue when he doesn't get his own way at the moment) he wasn't going out at all now.
He cried and screamed for about 10 minutes and kept shouting "mummy don't!!" (that'll go down well with the neighbours)
I know that our generation wraps kids in cotton wool a bit, and I played out when I was little but always with my older brother and not as young as 3 I don't think.
I feel mean and that I was being unreasonable, but at the same time I don't think I was!
WIBU?
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Chipshopninja · 03/08/2015 15:20
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