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AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

to be PISSED off with this mum at a party?

525 replies

MaddonaldsMum · 06/11/2010 13:22

Ok so my son is going to the cinema party. The mum who took them ( small group) got the time wrong and missed their film by an hour.
So she decides to give them lunch while they kill time to wait for the next one.
Fair enough.
But then i get a text " hi hun, sorry missed time for film r w8ting 4 nxt 1. Lunch @maccyDs. ok?"

For GODS sake, if I wanted my kid to eat there ( as if) I'd take him. He knows we dont eat there or at similar places.
I am livid but what could I say?

Advice please on how to deal with this

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bellavita · 06/11/2010 13:57

I suspect Reality Grin

lcj68 · 06/11/2010 13:57

yr obviously not that worried or you'd have gone and picked him up, or txted to say thanks but no thanks, i'll pick him up!

MaddonaldsMum · 06/11/2010 13:57

I would do but its in the nearest town - a half an hour drive.

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AnnieBeansMum · 06/11/2010 13:58

Does the UK have the KFC double down? Blech...

badfairy · 06/11/2010 13:58

YABU ....I am no fan of MacDonalds my son has been about 4 times in his life but to be honest, I don't think once in a blue moon it does any harm. Yes it's over processed sugar and salt laden junk but so is most kids party food and unless you want to make your child a social pariah, who has to take his own food with him wherever he goes, you are going to have to get over it. It doen't mean you have to endorse the stuff in your own home, DS knows what I think of fast food but I would never impose those sorts of rules on others. I think you just have to let this one go....and accept that if this is the first time anything like this has happened, believe me, it won't be the last. Wink

hocuspontas · 06/11/2010 13:59

I prefer KFC chicken to Mac burgers but KFC chips are inedible. I can never get the perfect meal

taintedpaint · 06/11/2010 14:00

OMG this is funny. Grin

jonesy71 · 06/11/2010 14:00

DRIVE DAMN IT!!

you could still get there before it's too late

Shock
lowrib · 06/11/2010 14:01

YABVU!

I agree with you that McDonald's food is absolute trash and I am appalled by McDonald's practices on many fronts. I'd hazard a guess that my opinions on McDonalds are at least as anti-McDonalds as yours, if not much more - I've protested against them, I support the idea of fat people suing them, I took a keen interest in the McLibel trial and I talk about Fast Food Nation (great book, you should read it!) to anyone who'll listen.

I don't (and won't) buy DS fizzy drinks, crisps or highly salted food. I encourage him to help me cooking and I think it's very important that he learns to appreciate good food and has a healthy diet.

However if I was in your situation I'd think "yuk" to myself, but let DS enjoy it. (He'll know my views on Md's as soon as he's old enough to understand!) I wouldn't judge the other mum. Different people have different priorities. In fact, I would be grateful to her for looking after my son for an afternoon.

I accept that I cannot control everything that goes on out of the house. I also understand that if I limit DS in a way that singles him out from his friends (e.g. not allowing him to go to a McDonald's party) then this could actually do more harm than good in the long term. If you make it absolutely banned it makes it forbidden fruit, and what easier way to rebel ... ?
Lots of important things happen at children's parties - bonding between the children, creating shared memories, socialisation etc - even at McDonalds.

All I feel I can do is show him what a good diet is, and make sure he eats well at home (and school, later) and then the rest is up to him. If you are mentally strict you are shooting yourself (or more accurately your DC) in the foot I think.

Or - in a nutshell (sorry I'm in waffly mode today Grin) It's a party FFS! Eating one McDonalds isn't going to unbalance his otherwise healthy diet. YABVU and your comment "Look you go to a party you kind go make an informal contract as to what will take place. Macdonalds was never part of the deal." does come across as really quite control-freakery (sorry!)

If you say something to the mum, you will come across as a mentalist! And (this is important) a very ungrateful one at that. This woman has entertained your son for the afternoon. If you're too much trouble, she might not invite him next time, which would be a real shame.

I know it can be hard but you need to relax and trust that the good lessons you teach him at home will stick in the long term, and accept that other people have other priorities. I would never take my DS to McDs for his birthday. But I wouldn't judge someone else who did (although I might hope for a good moment to explain to the mum that there's poo in processed meats Grin - see Fast Food Nation if you don't believe me)

jonesy71 · 06/11/2010 14:03

Grin Grin Grin

cryhavoc · 06/11/2010 14:03

Then you are clearly not as concerned as you are claiming to be.

Frankly I'm disappointed in your lack of commitment.

Vallhala · 06/11/2010 14:04

I hope to god that the OP's lad finishes his milkshake before he gets home.

Imagine the tears as she snatches it from him on the doorstep whilst spraying Dettol on him from a safe distance.

SheikYerbouti · 06/11/2010 14:04

I am SNORTING at this thread

MM, I exepct you have your kid's birthday parties at Pont de la Tour.

I hope you can wash all the chav off him when he gets back.

lowrib · 06/11/2010 14:04

Sorry am I having a sense of humour bypass? I am aren't I?!

Really must get back to the essay I'm actually meant to be writing, rather than writing essays to trolls! Grin

The image of the mum dashing across town to save her child from McDs will keep me smiling while I'm writing about computer programs though Smile

SecretNutellaFix · 06/11/2010 14:05

bella- no chance it's shiney?

MaddonaldsMum · 06/11/2010 14:06

(whispers)
I had to buy him trainers to go in. Apparently school shoes are not de riguer.

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MmeLindt · 06/11/2010 14:07

Eugh to KFC.

It is a principle of mine never to eat anywhere where the food is served in a bucket.

What next? Troughs?

Sheik
I did consider the local Eagle sanctuary but DS would not be persuaded. They have such an educational birthday party schedule. Or the Chien de St Bernards Museum. They do a little quiz of the things that the DC have learned in the museum. Really very good, and educational too.

bellavita · 06/11/2010 14:10

SNF - hmmm I'm pretty certain it isn't Shiney.. My bet lies with Reality.

SheikYerbouti · 06/11/2010 14:10

McDonald's is the thin end of the wedge tbh

I imagine he is probably halfway through a pack of B&H by now and possibly drinking a few cans of Tennent's Super.

bellavita · 06/11/2010 14:10

I really should be getting on with some housework.. >

cryhavoc · 06/11/2010 14:11

MmeLindt, have you heard Billy Connolly talking about KFC? Something along the lines of buckets being the crockery of the farmyard.

GoldenHaze · 06/11/2010 14:12

YANBU.

No way would I allow DD to eat there and I'd be pissed off too if someone presumed that it was ok.

hocuspontas · 06/11/2010 14:12

But Reality would know how to spell 'de rigueur' correctly. Unless it's a double bluff...

MmeLindt · 06/11/2010 14:12

Cryhavoc
Sound about right.

I have been once because my Mum and Dad like it. Dad - who until we had the DC had never set foot in McDs.

It was awful.

MaddonaldsMum · 06/11/2010 14:13

Seriously, it is the thin end of the wedge I think Children need to value the fact that good things take time and in fact I am a keen supporter of the slow food movement and see a direct link between the instant gratification of fast food restaurants, x factor(which worryingly even has its own frozen pizza fgs) and the financial mess the country is in.

Good things are worth waiting for.

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