Soooooo dtwin1 has told me to pack my bags due to me being fired as a mummy

[MilaMae]

He's 7 and he's been sent to his room for not settling to anything all day,being a total pita. I've informed him if he doesn't amuse himself without bugging tomorrow there will be no ds all week.

I 'm quite strict re ds time and apparently I'm too strict to be a mummy as all the other mummies let their dc have ds and tv time whenever they want.

I know I have to stick to boundaries which I do and by the teenage years this will be small fry but reassure me please.

Other kids do say things like this don't they?????

That's amusing. I'm guessing of course they do. I definitely did to my parents and although dd is not quite one am fully prepared for this in years to come!
Didn't you ever threaten to ring childline? That seems to have been the most common one among friends and family.

According to my DNephew ALL the other children have iPads (he is 8 FFS). Be strict, he will eventually thank you (in his 30s).

Lol, my 4yr old dd tells me she's going to call the police, who will arrest me and lock me up. If I can take a book, that's fine by me!

Oh yes, they all say it from time to time. If I were you, I'd put my feet up for the rest of the day and not cook any dinner, since you're "fired"

I vividly remember getting all my important stuff out to pack so I could leave home when I was about 8. And then I realised I didn't have a bag big enough to carry it in and had to go downstairs and ask my Mum if I could borrow one because I had had enough of her and was moving out.

I think she found me a bag and left me to it. I was back at teatime.

Yes do not worry - my 5 year old dd said to her 3year old sister "its very hard being a kid isn't it Charlotte - when we have such a grumpy mum! I don't think other mums are like this are they - we need a different one!?" - I had shouted loudly as they were making a terrible mess with spag bol while I was feeding DS 4 mths! I felt awful to but had to remember that they were just acting there age - have to keep reminding myself that they are still only small and they will still do silly things most of the time - its what being a kid is about I guess!

I suggest to DD that she should ring Childline all the time. She's 2.

LOL! Had that loads of times when my DSs were small - happy days.

I used to answer by saying, "so you don't want me to:

Cook your meals
Tuck you into bed
Cuddle you
Listen to you telling me about your day
Sort out your game/computer problems
Buy your clothes
(add in anything they like you to do)
Yippee! I can have lots of time for myself, now I'm no longer your Mummy!"

Then I would quickly get reinstated! With hugs all round :)

Ooops sorry wrong place.

I'm not DD's best friend anymore. She's 3. Unfortunately, I get no more peace when I'm not her best friend than when I am.

Ds and I went through a patch of this.

Finally I told him if he could remember the mummy shop he got me from, he was perfectly at liberty to go and swap me for a better one.

But many thanks all I'm nicely reassured,just heard him add "and you don't let us have blue drinks"!!!!!!I'm evil I am.

Just putting on ET and as he's not the bravest kid on the block I'm suspecting he'll be in my lap after half an hour and I'll be un-fired.

Don't worry, it gets worse. My son quotes something from the European Convention on Human Rights at me whenever I tell him off

I was sent to the naughty step the other day by DD1, 4 yrs, and yesterday was told to 'go!' by DD2, 2 yrs.

But all is good now. DD1 told me today that in fact we both are married. I don't recall getting married to her but it all happened when she was in my tummy. Wonder what her unicorns make of it? See, she used to live in heaven, with all her 1011 unicorns (flying ones I might add), then she got send down to my tummy, we then got married and now she is my child.

Wonder is she learned all that in internet dot com?

DS2 told me to 'Stop behaving like a Victorian' because I asked him to hang his coat on the peg.

the last time my DS1 told me i was fired and he was moving in with his Nana i offered to help him pack his bag - which i did. Then asked if he wanted a lift down to her house - which i did. Got to the top of our hill when he piped up from the back seat "you know mummy, Nana's house is quite smokey so i think i'll just stay with you.....!!!"

Ds2 (now 9) googled orphanages in our city last year, and said that he was going to live there instead of with me.

My DS (also a twin) once said "If you don't do what I say, I'm going to leave this family!" He was 4 at the time and was totally unprepared for MIL and me bursting out laughing!

I tried to run away once as a child. When I came home, my mum told me next time I should take the dog with me.

I was told not collect dd2 from nursery on her first day back after a sickness bout I nursed her through because "Nana will get me and give me to a better Mammy who has a baby in her tummy"

My crime? Cleaning her vomit from her 'friend' the blanket. A Mammy with a baby would not have done such a heinous thing

She currently has ear ache so I have been re-instated

I think I was sacked yesterday when DD told me she was "going to leave this family and find a better one"

I also get "I don't need a mummy or a daddy, I'm going to take my money and buy a house and eat pizza whenever I want"

Wish I could buy a house (and pizza) for £27.00