Today my son told me I should be in an old people’s home.

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Last week we did jetskiing, buggy racing, up a mountain together.
I didn’t think I was ready for a home just yet.

When I used to challenge mine on what I found to be a rude comment he always used to say he was only joking, I reminded him I did not find it funny. They will find a way to weedle out of it and as the adult you must let them know it is not acceptable.

I think get some brochures and organise foster carers for him. I could keep that one going for a while. Some calls for him to eavesdrop on.....the joy of being ancient, mess with his mind, this IS your superpower.

They grow out of it and start being lovely and loving again. Honestly!

My DD9 told me (via teddy) that I was old and fat! When I grounded Teddy (!) she told him off too :-) DH wondered if she was using him to tell me something ...

I feel your pain. Nearly 11 year old ds2 is going through this phase too. Every couple of days he tells me I have literally ruined his life.

he's 11 he's getting old too why doesn't he get a job and earn some money to pay for your home, that's what id be insisting on, and make sure that home has a nice balcony with a pool view, and the one and so far only time my ds said he hated me and I'd done a lot worse than asked him to get dressed, I told him I really really really loved him despite that, and watched him squirm as I continued to repeat it to him for next day. 'Here is you dinner I made for you as I love you not hate you' you know he doesn't mean I, t but I kept bringing it up as sometimes its good to remind them that words said in haste can't just be recalled at will or with I was only joking comment.

My six year old told me yesterday he wishes I'd never been born.

Me: erm, ok, but that might not be great for you

Him:

Tell him he belongs in an orphanage!

Tell him you are in an old people's home, and he's living in it with you. He gets to leave in a few years.

The only answer to that is that you'll have to sell the house to pay for it, then.

My 9 year old boy would rather poke his eyeballs out than say anything mean. To the extent that I'm trying to model banter. 😂

BUT my 5 year old has no filter. In the car recently she told me my hair was very grey. I said "I don't mind. I quite like grey hair.". In a very determined and cross voice she shouted "WELL I MIND!". I'm clearly an embarrassment. I had to try not to laugh while I gave her a very serious chat about not commenting on people's appearance and being kind.

After laughing at him I would tell him that he would have to pay for my home and start giving him a long list of requirements. I saw one today with an on-site cafe that sounds quite nice. Also a gym and swimming pool would be nice. He'd better start saving his pocket money.

Children come out with all kinds of crap. But saying he hates you isn't on. That's unacceptable and you need to have consequences for that.

If you owned a restaurant, I would never go there

Haha

I'd have said "Well in that case, you'd have to stay home and cook your own dinner! Want to try it?"

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My wife will enter menopause when puberty strikes my daughter. I have no man cave. HELP!!

@Kokeshi123 Please never say that to any child. My ds was in an orphanage. It carries enough stigma as it is without people using it as an insult.

You’re really old, and you should be in an old people’s home. You’re nearly 50”
I’m 48, he’s 11

Ha! I'm 46 and my youngest is three. You've just shown me what awaits in my future...

DS 7 told me on Sunday he no longer wanted to go to school, I pulled up a few job websites and told him, he could stop going to school when he got a job.

I am ruining his life apparently.

Don't give him the opening. Instead of coaxing it out of him, just shrug and say 'ok then' or whatever.

Breezy nonchalance is your friend.

My 20 something sons told me recently that they'll choose me a nice nursing home. Thanks lads.

DS1 then said that actually I can come & live with him & do his laundry. My reply was no thanks, I'd rather have the nice nursing home.

If you are old DO NOT feed him, let him be a KEVIN.

DS 7 told me on Sunday he no longer wanted to go to school
Ha that reminds of when DS 2 was about 5. He came home from school and said'well, I gave it a go but it's not for me!!'
🤣

I was told that the moment your child tells you they hate you, is the moment you should be reassured that you’re doing alright at this parenting lark. So every time it gets chucked at me from one of the teens for not giving in to one of their billions of demands, I just say ‘thanks’!

Used to ask my mum what the dinosaurs were like but i absolutely adore my mum