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AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

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Original poster

to be gobsmacked at how intelligent, beautiful and generally wonderful my daughter is?

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Ormirian · 27/01/2011 13:01

Because I keep being surprised by her. Every few weeks she seems to grow up a bit more and do something amazing.

That's all.

Thankyou

PS does anyone beleive in changelings?

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NinkyNonker · 27/01/2011 18:48

Dd is only 6 mo but by far the best and most advanced baby around.

kensworth · 27/01/2011 19:06

all your children sound wonderful. Make the most of them their childhoods are SO short even when they are being monster cherish the time . Mine are now 19 18 17 and 14 the time has gone so quickly what i would give to have them all little again. But hey they are obviously the best nearly adults in the world!!!!!! and yes still need their mum and dad for ....money lifts more money!!! but i wouldn't change them for the world . LOVE THEM AND BE PROUD OF THEM X

Hullygully · 27/01/2011 19:56

Tethers - reminds me of when dd was five and we had arrived home in the car with the posh grandparents (not mine). All had gone terribly well, and I said all brightly, "Come along, darling, let's get out of the car."

"I would if you'd open the fucking door," she said.

coatgate · 27/01/2011 20:01

at Hully

Gogopops - I stopped videoing my DD when she started to know what the camera was. I have some fantastic footage of her as a toddler, talking total gibberish in a very serious fashion, or doing all sorts of stuff, but then she started posing for the camera.

She now videos herself and her mates endlessly....

Orm - she too is 11 and quite scarily gorgeous. But the attitude is growing by the day.....

tethersend · 27/01/2011 20:04

Hully

ShowOfHands · 27/01/2011 20:11

Can I join the smugness. My Mum has been poorly recently and has had surgery and dd has understood only to the extent that Grandma has a poorly leg and we're waiting and hoping that the doctors can help. She's only 3 and we didn't want to explain cancer just yet.

Over the past couple of months every time anybody has asked her what she wants for Christmas or if she's made a wish (blowing out candles) she's just said "only for Grandma to be better again". And it's floored me every time because she genuinely doesn't want anything. She's started preschool recently, dealt with being left overnight for the first time, slept reliably in her own bed and we offered to let her choose a present and she just repeated the same thing. She's such a kind, caring, selfless little girl and I'm proud of her.

So yes, hurrah for the opportunity to be smug.

My dd's wishes were answered btw. My Mum has just got the all clear. DD burst into tears when we told her. As did I a bit.

Lizzylou · 27/01/2011 20:15

Oh SOH, that just made me weep a little!

How lovely, so pleased that your Mom is OK as well

buggerlugsandbananafeet · 27/01/2011 20:35

When i first read your thread title i thought it was a bit sickly but i take that back, it's really refreshing to hear somone being positve.
Also,i know what you mean, i look at my 2 DD could just eat them they're so cute.

MrsDrOwenHunt · 27/01/2011 20:42

ds is 5 on tuesday and i can hand on heart say that he is the best thing that has ever happened in my life, i look at him whilst he is sleeping and could eat him up!! he is just gorgeous!

saffyronron · 27/01/2011 20:49

I want to join in too. My DS is a little so and so but I adore every inch of his little being. He's so beautiful. We were walking to school this week and he stopped me in the street pulled me to him and gave me a kiss. When I asked what that was for, he said, because you're lovely. Awh.... He makes me so happy, I simply adore him.

saffyronron · 27/01/2011 20:50

MrsDrO - I do that too - just watch his little face while he's asleep.

eden263 · 27/01/2011 20:51

YANBU :) Let's face it, if a child's own parents don't think they're fantastic, there's not much hope...

PavlovtheCat · 27/01/2011 20:54

orm you are not unreasonable at all. I feel like this. In fact, me and DS had a little chat today when I told him i loved him so much i did not think love was even the right word as it was not big enough.

I sometimes catch myself looking at the children, and i don't know, DD will smile and just make me melt and I think all the things you think.

It goes so fast, and they change so quickly and I often catch myself wondering when it all started to change, when did she really stop being a baby!

And yes, DH and I often just look at each other and say 'how? how can we have such perfect children?'

In fact you have made me feel tearful just thinking about them.

ByTheSea · 27/01/2011 20:58

I can soooo relate to OP. My wonderful DD is also 11, almost 12.

ShirleyKnot · 27/01/2011 21:02

Ive just got in from DS1's open evening where I have been informed that if he continues the way he is, he should breeze his GCSE's and has an expectation of an A grade in maths.

Changeling indeed.

Hullygully · 27/01/2011 21:05

Show - hurray!

Habbibu · 27/01/2011 21:10

Brilliant news, SOH.

iwastooearlytobeayummymummy · 27/01/2011 21:12

YANBU I too have the most wonderous DDs in the world, they are cleverer, emotionally more responsive,beautiful, intelligent and supportive than ever I was at their age (14, 19 and 22 if you were asking)

And don't believe all the gumph about 'wait till they're teenagers' either, IMO you do the spadework when they are little: a child that knows they are loved and is listened to, and understands boundaries turns out able to cope with most things, including peer pressure.

Should I change my name to Smuggy Smuggy Smug Pants?

Buda · 27/01/2011 21:22

Lovely to hear Orm. Enjoy her!

SoH - good news about you mum.

I'm the same about DS most of the time. He can be a cheeky sod though. 9 going on 13. And too old for cuddles apparently.
I love his sense of humour tho and his teacher said the same yesterday and that he is a dream pupil. Very proud!

thefirstMrsDeVere · 27/01/2011 21:44

YANBU. How lovely. She sounds wonderful.

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Ormirian · 27/01/2011 21:49

May I just add that my sons are wonderful too. But as I have just had to drag them apart because DS2 was thumping DS1 (after epic teasing)and DS1 was laughing hysterically and trying to hold DS2 at arms length, I think they demand a whole different definition of the word 'wonderful'

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birthdaychick · 27/01/2011 21:54

So glad mine's not the only swearing toddler. DH and I were stood over her today as she cleaned her teeth, I said, she's not a baby any more (nearly 3), DH said, she'll always be my baby, toddler looks up, grins and says fucking hell.
It's cracked me up all day.

A1980 · 27/01/2011 21:56

I never met a parent who didn't think that of their own child.

However YABVVU in using "gobsmacked" as a way to describe it. How eloquent I hate that word.

Surely in awe of, etc is a bit nicer

mumbar · 27/01/2011 22:03

SOH - glad your mum is ok, and how lovely your DD sounds.

mumbar · 27/01/2011 22:06

The swearing reminds me of a conversation I overheard between my DS and mt friends DD. She told him to 'shut up', he did the 'uuuummmm thats a really naughty word to use' with expression.

Her reply 'no its not, fuck is a really naughty word' . They were 4 and 5 at the time. I just sniggered excessively in the next room.

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