to let DD climb up the slide.

[TheIIlusiveShadow]

Am now completely unsure of playground etiquette.
Lovely afternoon here at the park but DD got told off by another parent for climbing up the slide instead of queuing like her DCs. Does it matter? Should I have insisted the DD only goes down the slide?

No OP my dd likes sliding down the fucking slide, not bum shuffling down it because it's been covered in your daughter's (& others like her) fucking feet. She likes climbing on/up the climbing frame, fence, roundabout, trees etc.

I shouldn't have to fork out for rank soft play couped up inside with noisy brats because you can't be arsed to control your child.

Ah yes, that feels better...

Would someone really start a wind-up thread about their annoying DD's slide-related habits?

Wow... Life on the edge, huh?

I know.

I just imagine some people do start these things and then wait and come back to make the "frothers" accusation. I might be wrong. It's just hard to imagine someone not realising that there are "rules" about things pertaining to children

OTOH, there are so god-awful spoiled DCs out there, so maybe not

Top Tip regarding the Warburtons bread wrapper, I have been known to take a can of pledge to the park but was advised to cease and desist since I was reported for suspected gas huffing. My children wept as I was escorted away shouting 'I was only buffing'.

Apologies everyone, I was feeling mischievous yesterday.

Like many of you I've been here for far too long. The Telegraph since 1852 has published letters regarding the first swallow/cuckoo/snowdrop for spring. Mumsnet has had the 'climbing up the slide' thread since 2006. [http://www.mumsnet.com/Talk/parenting/225081-do-you-let-your-dc-climb-up-slides-in-the 376 posts]] on a topic in those days took up half the board.

Mumsnet has become more efficient of the years we only needed 76 posts to reach a full house, - mud. rules, no rules, YABU, YAdefBU, YANBU, dog shit, control your child...

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/parenting/225081-do-you-let-your-dc-climb-up-slides-in-the bugger, still can't link.

YABU

Hahahahahahaha. Just sayin'

Fair enough to stop her running up if there are other children waiting at the top. But mud - wtf? There are so few spaces left where children can still be children - be noisy, get dirty, take some risks (anyome read the article in the times yesterday btw?) etc... A dirty child is a happy child imho. If you dont like the extra washing just get them some rain trousers, works a treat.

It's not the mud on the clothes that's the problem. It's the mud and dirt left on the slide's surface. Most playgrounds like ours are run by volunteers. We don't have time to keep going out every time a child has run up the slide in muddy trainers to clean the surface. That means the next child who goes down the slide can't really slide, because the surface is too grimy. It's no fun!

Some kind parents on this thread thoughtfully said they clean the mud or footprints off the slide. Thank you for doing that.