I'll be sad FOREVER if you go to work, mummy

[ZackPizzazz]

Wailed out by DS1 (almost 4), apropos of precisely nothing, as I tucked him into bed tonight.

Tear my heart right out, why don't you, child.

I'm shortly to return to work after maternity leave with DS2 and have been doing some KIT days in preparation, which evidently have not gone over well with DS1. He has always been the guilt trip master, but this is a new high (low?). AIBU to ask for your stories of your DC being tiny little guilt-trippers?

Once I woke up to eggs all over the floor.

I shouted

She crumpled in a heap and said "but I just wanted to make you pancakes"

Also... She kept getting her knickers out in public (we don't do dresses anymore) I said "stop doing that you horrible child"

Ten minutes later she was wailing.
I said "what's the matter?"
She said "you called me a ho-Ho-horrible child"

DS 1st day at school "if you leave me here I'll never speak to you again"
He did though....

I recently got a job after being a SAHM for over ten years. We were all so happy except for 6yo DS, who said “I don’t want you to work”. He often says he wants to be with me all the time, why can’t I be with you all the time etc?
Guilt!

My friend once sent her DD, aged around 4, up to her bedroom to calm down after she had been told off several times for bouncing on the new sofa. She paused halfway up the stairs and with a tragic look on her face announced “mummy, sometimes you make it very difficult to love you”

I only work part time.
Ds2 : " could you work more days because I really like going to football camp at half term". 🤔😁

Mine would be angry if I collected them early from after school club - “we like it here, it’s fun! Go away and come back later, very late!”.

My DD also loved after school club. "Don't come and pick me up so early, I don't want to go home yet"

More recently "So when you and Daddy die I will get your house and all your money. Fantastic!"

I lost my temper with dd when she was about 6, it was a straw that broke the camels back thing and I shouted at her. I went to apologise a few minutes later and she looked me straight in the eye and said "I don't forgive you mummy." Ouch.

I rarely need to shout at her so she knows how to guilt trip me on that one!

My neighbour was a soldier and he had three robust sons. His youngest son was the same age as my very petite daughter and she spent a lot of time in their house. She was 4 and she adored the dad who taught the kids to march, do assault courses and loved rough play.

One day, I said to his wife that, ‘I hoped it was not too much for her, that she was always there. Please tell me if it is’. She laughed and said jokingly that her ‘DH would kidnap her if he could and take her to Barracks. She could teach his soldiers a thing a too’

When she came home she delightedly told DH that she was going I to the Army with Ben. She was so excited at the thought.

@ZackPizzazz once treats start coming in due to extra income he'll soon change his tune.
I'm not allowed to quit now .😂😂

I'm rolling at "you make it hard to love you, mummy". Where do they GET this stuff?

Also "I love you to the radiator". Now that I think of it, my KIT days may be the reason that DS1 didn't participate in our usual escalating game of Guess How Much I Love You last night. He stubbornly stuck at "I love you one hundred much" and when I got to "to the moon and back", he rolled into his pillow and muttered, "Okay".

It was a bit of a gut punch last night but I see the funny side this morning. His birthday is just after I go back so I might make a big fuss about how his present happened because of the money I got for my work.

My DC took a while to adjust to me working after 8 yrs at home having the 4 of them. This was despite the fact that the hours were part time term time and they were all at school and no extra childcare was required!

I'm loving reading these. A nice (or not so!) glimpse into what the future holds for us here.