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Would you smash up your kids ipads like Luisa has here?

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mumofoneAloneandwell · 23/08/2025 15:14

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/luisa-zissman-admits-harsh-parenting-35781185.amp

I quite like her, liked her on The Apprentice. Disagree with her on this though.

Yabu - its fine
Yanbu - not for it

Manifesting enough money to even have this be an option though 🙏🙏

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mumofoneAloneandwell · 24/08/2025 12:36

Theimpossiblegirl · 23/08/2025 20:53

I love the direction this thread has taken. It must have been her.
My daughters will be on Mumsnet when the time comes. Second generation. 💜

Me too!!

Mumsnet has really helped me so far with parenting my dd, so if in 25 years its still around, I'd avise mine to use it, although to be thick skinned when it comes to aibu 😭

Also there's so many threads I'd love the kids perspective on 👀👀

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mumofoneAloneandwell · 23/08/2025 21:22

QuickFawn · 23/08/2025 21:13

Sorry I meant that they posted about it, not you - it was clearly for attention and not to share their top parenting tips

i love celebrity gossip too 😂

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Oh okay, probably tbh

You're a woman after my own heart 😄🥰

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QuickFawn · 23/08/2025 21:13

mumofoneAloneandwell · 23/08/2025 16:22

I have an unhealthy interest in celebs 🙈

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Sorry I meant that they posted about it, not you - it was clearly for attention and not to share their top parenting tips

i love celebrity gossip too 😂

Theimpossiblegirl · 23/08/2025 20:53

I love the direction this thread has taken. It must have been her.
My daughters will be on Mumsnet when the time comes. Second generation. 💜

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mumofoneAloneandwell · 23/08/2025 20:19

Catsandcannedbeans · 23/08/2025 20:15

It was in 2007 around January my mum actually showed me mumsnet so could be her

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@Theimpossiblegirl this is so crazy to me 😄😄

Has this happened before, someone's dd growing up to be able to tell their side of a post?!

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Catsandcannedbeans · 23/08/2025 20:15

Theimpossiblegirl · 23/08/2025 19:27

I think your mum was a Mumsnetter at the time! I remember someone posted about doing this years ago. She was upset and I think the final straw was being sworn at.

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It was in 2007 around January my mum actually showed me mumsnet so could be her

Theimpossiblegirl · 23/08/2025 19:27

Catsandcannedbeans · 23/08/2025 16:37

I still remember my mum throwing my brothers X box out the window when he had been really rude to her and also refused to get out his room. I think she just snapped to be honest. I thought it was the funniest thing in the world at the time, and I don’t think she’s a bad parent for doing it I think she just lost her shit (freshly divorced, 5 of us living at home).

She isn’t right for doing it and I think she should say sorry - but I’m sure the kids will get a replacement.

I think your mum was a Mumsnetter at the time! I remember someone posted about doing this years ago. She was upset and I think the final straw was being sworn at.

Glitchymn1 · 23/08/2025 18:45

No. I’d confiscate it for a time but not smash it up. We just have designated screen times, a bit longer allowed on weekends.

WhereIsMyJumper · 23/08/2025 18:42

I don’t know who she is but she sounds like a knob

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mumofoneAloneandwell · 23/08/2025 17:59

Didn't know kirsty allsop did that but it sounds up her street tbh

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mumofoneAloneandwell · 23/08/2025 17:56

Catsandcannedbeans · 23/08/2025 16:37

I still remember my mum throwing my brothers X box out the window when he had been really rude to her and also refused to get out his room. I think she just snapped to be honest. I thought it was the funniest thing in the world at the time, and I don’t think she’s a bad parent for doing it I think she just lost her shit (freshly divorced, 5 of us living at home).

She isn’t right for doing it and I think she should say sorry - but I’m sure the kids will get a replacement.

This is where I can see a situation like this being understandable

Teenagers can be shits 😭 completely oblivious to their parents lives

It doesn't sound like luisa has any excuse to justify this

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TheNightingalesStarling · 23/08/2025 17:55

If she wasn't a celebrity that sort of parenting would be getting a safeguarding report if they told someone about it.

Put them in a draw, sell them, give them away to charity... lots of options that don't involve violence

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mumofoneAloneandwell · 23/08/2025 17:50

AnAlpacaForChristmasPleaseSanta · 23/08/2025 16:33

Join the Conor & Charlotte thread! Although celebs is stretching it a bit 🤣.

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/5396824-to-think-she-owes-him-a-public-apology?page=5&reply=146621256

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😄😅 i'm already there girl!

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Zoono · 23/08/2025 17:26

If this wasn't a celebrity, mumsnetters would be outraged. I think it's a pretty horrible thing to do and I'm not a perfect parent. My ex partner still remembers being 4 and his otherwise kind dad, destroying his favourite toy in a rare moment of anger. He went through a lot as a child but the memory still affects him.

MamaElephantMama · 23/08/2025 17:12

Smashing up any child’s belongings sounds cruel and not something that will be happening in my house.

RightOnTheEdge · 23/08/2025 17:12

I can't afford an iPad for myself never mind my kids, so definitely not!

Didn't Kirstie Allsopp do the same thing?

Coffeeishot · 23/08/2025 17:09

PennywisePoundFoolish · 23/08/2025 16:46

I seem to remember Kirstie Allsop posting about smashing her DC's iPad up.

It's a bit of a mixed message to smash something up because the DC aren't able to regulate their usage. I don't know how old her DC are, not inclined to Google. And I guess it could just be staged and she's doing it for views, and to do the daytime TV circuit for a couple of weeks.

Oh yes GMTV on Monday morning sitting sneering at the "against" mum.

Charlize43 · 23/08/2025 17:07

Is she getting her parenting ideas from Joan Crawford? What an awful woman!

When is violence ever acceptable, even against objects? What a horrible example to set in front of children, to smash things.

PennywisePoundFoolish · 23/08/2025 16:46

I seem to remember Kirstie Allsop posting about smashing her DC's iPad up.

It's a bit of a mixed message to smash something up because the DC aren't able to regulate their usage. I don't know how old her DC are, not inclined to Google. And I guess it could just be staged and she's doing it for views, and to do the daytime TV circuit for a couple of weeks.

Ratafia · 23/08/2025 16:42

Silly woman. She's just taught her children that it's OK to get into a childish temper and smash things. If she wanted to take the iPads away, the very least she could have done would be to give them to, say, a local school as they are absolutely invaluable for children with SEN.

CallieOMally · 23/08/2025 16:39

I’m a big LuAnna fan but she absolutely loves to wind people up 😂

Catsandcannedbeans · 23/08/2025 16:37

I still remember my mum throwing my brothers X box out the window when he had been really rude to her and also refused to get out his room. I think she just snapped to be honest. I thought it was the funniest thing in the world at the time, and I don’t think she’s a bad parent for doing it I think she just lost her shit (freshly divorced, 5 of us living at home).

She isn’t right for doing it and I think she should say sorry - but I’m sure the kids will get a replacement.

Anna467 · 23/08/2025 16:31

Meanwhile normal parents just don't buy the tech in the first place or take it away if it's a problem. But I guess that doesn't garner enough attention.

InMyOpenOnion · 23/08/2025 16:28

I am sure plenty of us have felt like doing that on occasion, but that's very different from actually doing it. It's appalling parenting, no idea why she thinks it's a good idea to post about it publicly. She should be ashamed of herself for such a terrible display of anger.