To not go to see ds1 in a show this afternoon?

[mosschops30]

My excuses are as follows:
Ds2 up all night with croup and not at all well
Ds2 normally sleeps at that time
It goes on for over an hour
He has an after school club tonight so i would have to go down at 2pm, watch show til 3.30, come home, then back to school for 4.30
He has very little idea of what it is hes doing, just singing in a song about chicken tonight .

now dont get me wrong, i do go to all assembly's, harvest festival, book fayres, xmas concerts, but today would just be a nightmare!

Get over youself soh who made you great speaker. And if you think im rude im wondering how you cope on other threads?

I think you'll find i haven broken any MN rules so i stand by what i say that a lot of you on this thread are a bit precious about attending everything in case your dcs have some sort of meltdown because youre not at the back waving!

Luckily my ds has survived his mother not being there on one occasion to take care of his poorly brother

OK

I wouldn't have gone if I were in same position I.e. had ill preschooler and had already briefed ds1. I would probably have tried to get alternative person to go like my mother. But no way would I have taken croupy young'un to a 1 and a half hour school show. Have missed one of dd's and one of ds1's shows for similar reason - ds2 had croup, followed by a&e (sent straight from docs), followed by steroid meds and very little sleep as a consequence. That meant missing dd in an easter show (year2). Other time, dd had had her tonsils out a couple of days before, and so I missed her younger brother (ds1) in his reception show. Shit timing, but such is life. These things happen.

You're just not listening. People were responding to the notion that he was expecting you there. Nobody said that all mothers should attend everything in order to protect their precious ickle babies. What I said was that if they're expecting you and then you're not there, it's a bloody blow for them. But put words in my mouth if you like. What annoys me is that people use aibu not to ask a question but in order to get people to agree with them. If that's what you wanted, you should have said.

And calling people names is rude. Don't worry though, I'm not sobbing into my hanky, just pointing out that you're being offensive to people who were only trying to help you.

I missed my oldest boy's leaving assembly when he moved from infants to junior school aged 7.

He's now 19 and I still regret it ( though he won't even remember it, never mind care)