Things you have done to embarrass your child today... (Well, yesterday. Today would be quite impressive 1.00am)

[WhereTheSuburbsMeetUttoxeter]

On Saturday I received letters from our NHS dentist to say they were now going private only. DD is having braces fitted in the autumn so cue panic. Found another NHS just up the road. All good!

So as not to dripfeed, imagine me ADHD, ASD. Say anything. Awaiting full diagnoses 2 years post initial appointment.

So we're walking up the road and meet a man walking with his 2-3 year old daughter. Polite hello as she'd shown me her special princess phone. A hello to dad and said to little girl are you going to the park? He said no, we're going to the dentist.

My heart sank a little as it was quite a fair walk with a toddler, but didn't feel we could just steam off ahead. So we walked together. Nice chat.

Another drip feed. I'd recently been on the phone to a Family needs Father's advocate for my son, so out of nowhere...

"Are you still with your little girls Mum?"

Teenage daughter dying beside me gripping my arm. It only got worse when he said

"Hanging by a thread, it would be lovely to meet someone new" !!

Daughter and I spent a long time filling forms and walked home a different way. All the way it was "Mum!!!! Think about what you are saying! You are SO Embarrassing"!!!

To which I just 🤣🤣 I did admit though that it sounded wrong, but his reply was worse!

Just me then. I'm not surprised 🤣

Not recent, but I did manage to fall off a seat and cause a table to collapse during my daughter's Nativity. Every head in the place swiveled. 🤣

🤣 I like your style! Or as we like to say in this house... Like a ninja... (CRASH BANG Nothing to see here!!) 🤣

I gave ds a hug. There was no one else in the room. Apparently this is very embarrassing.

I gave him another to comfort him from the embarrassment.

He is 16yo.

I opened her bedroom door and complained about the smell - to be fair she had mouldy bread on the floor 😱

🤣🤣

I feel for your daughter, and I'm saying that as a 40 year old who's had to learn social conventions.

Took me a while to work out who said what. Yeh that's embarrassing af, I don't think I can match that, soz 🙈

Oh I can, another has just come to mind
. Eek.

I'm sure she doesn't want your sympathy. She learned very early on (before me even).

She was 7 and I asked he headmaster to smell my fingers.

He did!

We walked home and she said, you do know Mum that you have no social skills don't you?

I'm not even going to explain what is was about. Especially as we've been laughing about the OP for days. Adult son came round last night and he had a good laugh too.

I'm glad you learnt at 40. My life could have been so different.

She calls me Martin - after Friday Night Dinner.

She is fabulous.

But a big clap for you.

I told a woman driver off in a sports centre carpark, when she drove across it at about 30mph, while there were little kids falling backwards to get out of her way.

I'd had to put up with a road rage incident earlier on and I'd had a gutful of bad driving, so I told her she was a crap driver, had just missed one small boy by millimeters and why didn't she slow down and get some driving lessons.

DS looked like he wanted to sink into a crack in the pavement.

I don't normally lose it with total strangers, but her driving was awful.

👌

@MintJulia 👏👏
I did something similar once, though not even as <ahem> frank, and good such as mouthful of abuse I'm sure it made no difference... It would be nice to think your 'feedback' might sink in at least in some small way.

That needed doing, well done!

A woman reversed in to my daughter once on the school run. We walked 4 miles a day, she'd drive 5 minutes and still could not use a mirror to reverse. No warning for us as she was foot down.

The air turned slightly blue!

Well done!

I expect your kids were a bit hmm as they'd never seen Mum in such a way.

I expect they were secretly proud (Mum's rock hard 🤣).