Seen wonderful karma at work today

No that’s not what I mean at all. My child is quite challenging but I do my best to improve her behaviour and certainly I’m not one of those “my child can do no wrong” parents. When she’s in school or in childcare of course whoever is looking after her can discipline her, but I just don’t tolerate strangers coming up to my child and thinking they have the right to tell her off however they see fit if for any reasons I’ve taken my eye off the ball.

I used to be told that if I saw one rook, it was probably a crow.

Mind you, if it's a heck of a lot of crows then it's probably a rookery.

Yes, three or more crows are called a "murder" of crows. One or two is just "attempted murder".

Isn't it officially a murder of crows?

I’m well jealous
I want my own gang of corvids

I think you can report it to Mumsnet using the ! in a circle immediately underneath it, explaining why, and they will take it down for you.

Sorry I'm new to this 😬 I've reposted it to Mental health but don't know how to delete it from this thread 🤔

So the child is about to go to secondary school and “in the top tier of his year group” yet can’t leave the house because his behaviour is so bad that his mother can’t/won’t control him and strangers have to intervene? There’s definitely something not right there.

Except that the oft-repeated phrase 'shouting at children' is a little make-up of the previous poster.

A helpful poster upthread meticulously dissected the entire thread, revealing just how few posters actually claimed to have shouted at a child and even fewer, if any, had congratulated each other for said shouting.

Shouting in the street is absolutely not my style, whether to my own kid, somebody else's, or other disgruntled parents. It demeans you, aside from which it's completely ineffective and very unlikely to make the other person, no matter how old they are, capitulate to your will. I'd make so bold as to speculate that those who favour these methods of communication are likely also those who encounter poor behaviour from others on a regular basis, and that the two issues are directly linked.

Eh? Wrong thread!

I had a similar incident. Stopped a tiny toddler from running out a shop into traffic. Parents gave me the filthiest looks and the shop assistant called me interfering.
I was horribly embarrassed but do not regret it.

If you have a young adult/tween/teen who has special needs and are now too big to handle, you have my utmost sympathy. But most scumbag parents don't. I live among them. I've encountered them in my various workplaces. We are doing the children no favours by excusing piss poor parenting. I bumped into one today (Iwas a neighbouruntilshewas evicted), she's completely failing her eldest, the youngest toddler was in pj's and swearing her head off and the mother was buying pregnancy tests. Both children are feral because of her failure.

Strangers congratulating each other for shouting at other peoples children should never be the norm.

Of course it shouldn't be the norm because if parents did a proper job then it shouldn't be necessary.
I once got screamed at because I grabbed a child who was about to chase her dolls' pram, blown by a gust of wind, into the road, the mother was well behind me, attached to her phone. I'd hurt her arm apparently but as a passer-by told her, better her arm than the rest of her body being under the passing traffic.

This post explains a lot about why schools have so much trouble with some 'parents', they refuse to discipline their children then object when someone else does so.

Years ago as a teenager my friend was bought a new car, and proceeded to drive like a twat- usual 17 year old lad stupidity.

One of his favourite tricks was to skid round corners because he thought he was ‘drifting’ 🙄.

I told him it was dangerous and he insisted he knew EVERY eventuality, NOTHING unexpected could happen, girls don’t know about driving etc etc

One day he turned up to school late and shame faced- it turned out he had done his favourite drifting trick- no one was hurt luckily but the car behind him happened to be an unmarked police car so he had been pulled over, bollocked and embarrassed in front of the mates he had in the car.

I enjoyed that ‘I told you so!’

My 10-year old loved this story, which caused a lot of laughter in my house. He's constantly heard me complaining about idiots who feed horses - and the consequences for the horse - often against the express wishes of the owners and signs all around the field asking people not to do it.

I can't count the number of times I've witnessed those signs being ignored - usually by parents accompanying their children who think their right to feed/pet the pretty pony trumps the pony's welfare or its owners' risk of being landed with a vet bill of £KKKKs.

Bertie is my new personal hero.

I don't think anyone thinks twice about eating a wood-pigeon? It's just that they are not generally in the supermarket as the cheapest animal protein you can buy apart from Dubious Sausages.

I do hope nobody thinks eating city pigeons would be a good idea. They are very likely to be actively toxic. The same is true of ducks that live on polluted waterways, which these days is most of the waterways Thames Water has anything to do with.

EvangelicalAboutButteredToast and you have absolutely no idea what other people are going through either but we don't all use it as an excuse.

If karma is coming at me for telling parents to stop their kids from scaring animals, I look forward to her visit.

My workmate used to share part of his sandwich with a pair of crows every lunchtimeWhen we were sent to wfh during Covid he didn’t visit that park for 6 months. When he got back to office he did his lunchtime walk to the park, and both crows recognised him and followed him back to the office. He had to go in and get them a cereal bar from the vending machine.
it was amazing! They are so intelligent!

Walking back to work one lunchtime a couple of weeks ago with a male colleague.
As we walked across a small patch of grass nearby where we work, he kicked a bumble bee.
I tore a strip off him.
A couple of hours later, my colleague let out an almighty yell and jumped up from his desk. A bumble bee had flown in and stung him.
Karma is lovely.

A couple of years ago, I was near home on my motorbike, there's a 3 way roundabout. There are two lanes, left is left turn only and right is straight ahead only. I was going straight ahead and a black Range Rover came from the left and swerved at me, blaring the horn.

I swerved and almost hit the traffic island dividing the lanes at the exit. I thought I was going to be squashed.

Mr. Very Important got a lesson in road craft, to wit, use the rear view mirror. He hadn't seen the marked Police BMW X5, right behind him.

I pulled up near where they stopped him and a copper told me I didn't have to stop, it was all in camera. I said, "Great! But I'm just going to have a smoke and wait till I've stopped shaking."

PepsiAddiction · 25/07/2024 14:40

As I was walking towards them the horses started jostling as there was food on offer, Bertie the shitland as usual barged his way in, nipped one of my mares who in turn turned her arse and lashed out sending the father flying. It was carnage by this time as two horses hit the electric fence, squealed and bolted up the field, Bertie being smaller then the rest managed to scran the bag of apples rolling all over the ground which made the children cry, then the father tried to pull himself up using the electric fence. It was poetry in motion to watch. Of course it was all my fault according to him 😂. This is the one and only time I’ve used the phrase ‘get OFF my land’.

I laughed out loads about that! I had to explain it to my colleague...