To think this woman has to be a Mumsnet plant

[yoshiLunk]

From what I have seen she ticks so many "MN will judge you" boxes, I can't believe she's real.

This morning finished it off for me; she's driven in, late, bumped up on the kerb, double yellows and the 3.5 year old is in the front seat, dummy in, no seat belt.

other points of note:-

Cold weather, one child in Pyjamas (food stains down the front) and slippers, infant with no coat on.

3.5 year old dummy in (as always), carrying baby bottle of what looked like chocolate milk

all sat in car, on double yellows, smoking

She can't be real surely, - and I'm truly not making it up.

Ok, Derailer. I take your point about the second front. You're obviously perfectly happy with the stick up there. And I'm not judging you for that

So do I. This is a load of judgemental supercilious bile, thinly disguised as 'humour'.

Nice get out clause Yoshi - wasted on me....but your backpeddling is duly noted.

I thought this was a thread about laughing at ourselves.

I'm not into judging. I have nothing to be judgey about. (Sitting in pyjamas at 1.30pm. I have mock-crocs on my feet.)

I read the thread as a jokey observation about MN judgeyness.

I might buy petit filou if they were cheaper than supermarket own brand. As for choc milk.. well guilty of strawberry and banana in this house.

No seat belt an issue though.

This thread is obviously a piss take and intended to be funny. If you can't see that then you are pretty boring. There, I've said it .

zukiecat - Are you having a laugh? People judge each other all the time. If anything this site is an absolute bugger for competitive non-judgementalness where people will find any bloody excuse they can think of for why someone was behaving they way they were, even when its totally outrageous.

There seems to be this warped idea that to be judgemental means that you can't have empathy and the only way to show empathy is to not judge and respect the actions of others, even if it involves not dressing your children, fastening them into a car properly and smoking in an enclosed space with them.

Sometimes you just need to say, "You know what, that's not a good thing to do" and maybe if more people did and there as a bit more concern about what your actions say about you then people may make different and, frankly, better choices.

lol at pumpkin. If it pissed you off so much why did you not say something to her.

Obviously the smoking bits not right but a dummy, stained pj's and slippers, thats got to be wrong, surely not. Have you informed SS.

As for having no coat on in a car in May, thats just outrageous

Smoking in a car with young ones in the back is disgusting and wrong

Lack of seatbelts very wrong too

The rest is not a problem although if it were winter it could be as the poor kids would be cold. I am not a fan of dummies but i don't judge them although I do think once they get to a certain age you should
Wean kids off em

The problem is that very rarely have I seen a thread judging parents for being late for school, using dummies, having pajamas on in the car - or infants not having coats on in the car which wouldn't be shouted down by the mainly normal members of MN.

So the original post not only manages to be snide and judgy, but also incorrect and shite.

Very very well said babyheave

Someone will soon be defending a women's right to shoot heroin whilst pg - it will happen on here I'm sure!

Totally, totally agree with babyheave.

I judge. I do, and I'm not even sorry.

I judge people for smoking in cars with children in them.
For not keeping their children basically safe (incorrect car restraints, letting their 4 year-old walk to the shop alone, etc).
For not dressing their children appropriately (pyjamas in the car on a school run [foodstained or not] is fine. No coats in cold weather is not).
For feeding their children shit food (the odd fruit shoot/sausage roll is ok. Tea/flavoured milk, constant processed/fast food, no fruit or veg etc is not).

There is a huge list of things I will judge people on. And I really don't care what the competitive anti-judgers think. What amuses me is that the non-judgemental people judge me for judging!

This thread is not a judgemental thread. It is a thread poking fun at the stereotypes which are so often judged on MN. Had I started it, then it would have been a judgey thread.

Perhaps I should clarify that these observations were not all this morning.

Also repeat that the pyjamas and no coat were outside for some time waiting to pick up eldest child and during cold weather

And repeat again that no the children were not smoking

AND, as Oopsadaisy and others have said, - it's more a self dig at MN than anything else.

I can see I'm going to run out of shineys to hand out today.

OMG, I have absolutely no sense of humour, and even I can see this is a thread taking the piss out of MN, not a thread judging the mother. Lighten up ladies :)

Oh MN does make me laugh at times!

When some posters get flamed so utterly for making relatively innocuous observations and others are agreed with for more or less the same thing.

...also don't understand how people aren't getting that this was a pisstake?

And also, I think the dummy point wasn't that the child had a dummy, but that it had one at 3.5

Oh yes, so it was.

However, the above observation still stands. About certain other threads, obviously.

yes, 3.5 dummy, and a baby bottle of choc milk

Pizza anyone?
[Plates great for crafty things!!].

Is there any ketchup with it, my boys have to have ketchup with pizza, it counts as one of their 5 a day.