To think my little boy is an absolute sweetheart?

OMG @IndigoIsMyFavouriteColour you never ever ever thought of just having careers - which are an infinite and readily available, and free commodity - before this comment, right?

I completely agree with you and I’m so sorry the sanctimonious posters have made you feel this way.

Mine is thankfully (hopefully) temporary but I’m already feeling the beginnings of this and this thread has been quite upsetting. I’ve had a hysterectomy a few weeks ago and will be undergoing radiotherapy soon. Cancelled holidays, a bedridden mum and no doubt a long summer of not being able to spend quality time with them - not to mention a DH with reduced income as he goes PT for a while to care for me and I live off sick pay means fewer treats and days out, is all about to ensue. Clearly children witnessing a not healthy mum is the equivalent of neglect to some people.

But I will say to you your children are not being destroyed, to learn empathy and care for a loved one is not the worst thing to happen to a child. I need to tell myself this, I know. At least OUR children are not being raised by sanctimonious shitbags.

Anyways...@Maythefoursbewithyou His such a sweet boy and very mature for 7 years old.I know if he needs anything he will ask you and you would get up.

Am loving how (on this thread) no-one admits to ever being hungover, despite alcohol threads frequently having people admitting to drinking about 5 bottles of wine a week 😂

Op should have been up! Cleaning and playing with her child and BATCH COOKING all day like any half decent MOTHER

that poor, poor child

Oh absolutely. He could've at least brought her some smashed avocado on sourdough with a tasteful thimbleful of freshly squeezed orange juice. Clearly they live in a shudder council house and I very much doubt the OP is a healthy size 6-8 if she's gobbling biscuits in bed

I think that the OP's son will have fewer 'issues' in the future than the super-cossetted, breast-fed til 12years old children that seem to be the norm on MN.

How do I get my kids to bring me biscuits??

I'm always awake stupidly early at weekends but I don't get up with the kids anymore. At 6 and 8 they are old enough to get cereal or something if they are hungry. I will make them toast when I go down to make coffee but not before.

If I had a hangover from hell I absolutely wouldn't be getting up until it was necessary and I would definitely be asking them to bring me something if I needed it (age appropriate) They don't need me leaping to attention at this age and providing it's not every day or every weekend I don't see the harm. Most of us seem to snooze with one ear open when kids are around and by 7 they shouldn't be trying to play with knives or climb up the bookshelves.

Think @steamedisbest needs to get off mumsnet. Keeps a blackbook and note of everyones names and what they say in each thread and foams at the mouth waiting to pull it out 😂 Get a life hun, every scathing word lately seems to be coming from you, multiple threads in the last 2 days. Open the door and go touch some grass x

Exactly what I just was thinking

You have a pool and a gardener ?

Totally missing the point of the thread
Your world is very far away from my world

He does sound so caring and lovely op

The comments on this thread have made me HOWL 😝😝

She said it was when she and her husband had covid, not that it was in the depths of lockdown.

I’d love to know why you have fixated on this particular poster.

MM is genuinely insane at times 😂

Bloody autocorrect!!!
dead
deaf and autistic!!!!

I know this thread is fucking bonkers. Most kids would love a lie in on the weekend and are more than capable of getting a snack or a bowl of cereal from the kitchen yet MN is making out he’s been left out to pasture

Ds2 is dead and autistic. When he was about 12 I went to the birthday party of one of my dearest friends and my best friends babysat. I got absolutely smashed resulting in friend putting me to bed when I got home.
The next morning I had the mother of all hangovers. Managed to get my shit together enough to drag myself off the sofa to give him him breakfast and lunch.
Halfway through the afternoon my best friend appeared in the sitting room... Ds2 had texted her.., "MUMMA IS ILL COME AND TAKE. ME. TO THE SHOP NOW!!!!!"
She did too bless her!!

fgs, and so it begins.

10am is hardly catastrophic. We sleep in on the weekend too and my 4 year old comes in to wake us at like 9/9:30. Presumably she’s just got up or got up a little while ago and had a play and then come to get us. Meanwhile my 2 year old is still sound asleep. Is that neglect too?

Fuck me. I used to hear conversations like this in the school playground on a Monday morning, mothers joking about how pissed they had been at the weekend and lying in bed most of Sunday etc. It used to annoy me because my eldest had considerable SN and if I'd spoken like that, I would have been judged immediately and probably blamed for all my son's conditions.

My main concern would be a 7 year old watching call the midwife!

Bringing your mum a drink and biscuits is hardly parentification. How dramatic!
I was making my mum cups of tea at this age. My brother was rolling up rollies for my dad 😂

Ordinary fallible human here. If I took any notice of the sanctimony and judgement pedalled out on threads like this I'd be a nervous wreck.

low key, unimaginative posts are always a MN hit!
Let's celebrate our collective rejection of intellect

He didnt cook her a fry up or bring her an irn bru though?

🤣he’s 7, not 7 months!

What a cutie