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AIBU?

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To be cringe every time someone

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helloclitty · 15/04/2012 16:19

says something loud to their off spring so that everyone around can hear and then look for reactions from the nearby people.

"Oh! Johnny how clever of you to know that the green man means you should walk across the road" cue smug expression to anyone near enough, and waits for reaction.

OP posts:

bubby64 · 16/04/2012 15:11

I have an aquaintance from my DC's school who is a PP, her son is a little
shit terror, and he was repeatedly hitting another child as he wasn't as good at a game they were playing, rather than chastise him, she said very loudly, whist making eye contact with all in eyeballing distance, "Oh, he is so bright, he just gets bored with "ordinary" children, and finds them impossible to play with properly!", She is also a vegetarian (not that I have anything against vegetarians), and repetedly says how "his diet must be a factor in him being so clever" Do I dare tell her how he was stuffing his face with sausages and burgers at the scouts BBQ?

PurplePidjin · 16/04/2012 15:37

Guilty as charged, although in my case it's Performance Auntying

DNephew is both small for his age and late August born. He is halfway through reception, loves reading and identifying letters.

Aunty Pidj and Small Nephew is Sainsburys... "SN, where's the milk? Can you find the one with the green lid? Right, now let's find the cereal. Can you find S for Shreddies? OK, wave the black and white stripes at the Red light. The money goes in this slot. Now we put the receipt in the bag..." etc ad nauseum.

In my defence, I concentrate on him and ignore all the looks im probably getting...

ripsishere · 16/04/2012 15:56

DD was accused of being a performance child recently. In a lesson at school they were told to write all the places they'd ever visited down.
DD ran out of space for the abroad bits (30+) but had plenty of room for UK based ones.
The person she was paired with called her a liar and stood up in the class and announced it to them.
Poor DD was in floods of tears when she got home. The parent of the other child had the gall to phone me up and accuse my DD of lieing.

TroublesomeEx · 16/04/2012 15:59

I take it you put them in their place?

Frontpaw · 16/04/2012 16:00

YRBVVVVVVVVU.

It is very amusing and usually makes them look a complet twit. Especially went they are announcing something very loudly but very wrong.

ripsishere · 16/04/2012 16:09

I did. I even sent her old passport in to stick up Emily's nose to prove to the delightful child that she is indeed well travelled.

TroublesomeEx · 16/04/2012 16:15

I'm pleased to hear that!

zookeeper · 16/04/2012 16:21

I hate it too. I last saw it at a - very worthy - toyshop (ie full of expensive wooden toys in an art centre) where a father was following around his daughter as she looked at the merchandise.

.."Oh look Jemima, a toy piano! But you wouldn't be able to practice on that one as well as you do on your one at home would you darling? Oh look Jemima, a diver! Look at his tanks! They carry his oxygen, don't they darling? Do you know what oxygen is Jemima? The chemical sign is O2, isn't it Jemima? Let's take it home and I can explain all about buoyancy to you after before your bedtime story, can't I darling!" etc etc

Jemima of course was completely engaged and answering all the questions whilst my three gazed on gormlessly, slack-jawed in wonder...

grrrrrr

zookeeper · 16/04/2012 16:23

bubby64 of course you dare

OhDoAdmitMrsDeVere · 16/04/2012 16:44

I have done it.
The more outrageously pretentious and the young my DC the better.

I long to see a thread

AIBU to think the women in Chigford Sainsburys is a complete twat for asking her 6mth old DC 'why dont we buy Non free range eggs darling? Yes thats right, clever boy! Because they do not meet mummy's ethical standards'

Sometimes of course I do the other thing in the hope of getting a

AIBU to be judgy at the women in Chingford Sainsburys who told her toddler 'Dont be silly of course you cant have RedBull. Thats for mummy! You have Sainsbury's own brand energy drink!

Do you think all these PP and the other ones are actually people like me who have sad lives and like to cheer themselve up with a bit of supermarket theatre?

Diamondback · 16/04/2012 16:45

Arf! Was trying to get some work done in a cafe last week (limited time, baby in nursery for the morning) and was distracted by the woman at the next table loudly trying to interest her three kids (aged 8-11 roughly) in the business pages of The Times: "Now darling, read this, it says 'Pizzanomics' - what does that mean?"

Just buy the poor kids a bloody Beano and read your own paper in peace!

Diamondback · 16/04/2012 17:00

PS, mmmmm, Pizza Express... Wish Baba would wake up so I can go buy some tea!

ragged · 16/04/2012 17:09

I have done the Loud speech therapy parenting thing, I think you can easily distinguish us. Because we say such mundane things & enunciate each sound very slowly, especially the "problem" ones very clearly. If we're doing it right. Especially if we are on the second child we've had to do with this with & are obviously bored stiff by it. We also faint if child says the right sound clearly back.

Proudnscary · 16/04/2012 17:13

There have been approx eight billion threads on this subject but I shall forgive you because I love a bit of Loud Parent bashing!

I heard a mother say to her nursery school aged child once, 'Oh look darling, it's Wagamama's, that's your favourite restaurant isn't it, the one with the edamame beans?' and he replied 'No my favourite is McDonalds'.

That was about five years ago and it still makes me snigger.

Along with dad 'quizzing' his son in on dinsosaur names in the park by booming 'Okay, Noah, what is this one..that's right a stegasaurus' answering for him

picnicbasketcase · 16/04/2012 17:32

I saw this recently - parents in an art gallery loudly trying to educate their sons, roughly 5 and 8 ish, about the paintings. Smaller son: 'Are we nearly at the end? I'm so BORED', older son: 'I'm practically falling asleep with my EYES OPEN...'

Pinkshoes2 · 06/05/2012 19:32

Im so glad theres a name for this!! i see it all the time and has anyone else noticed that sometimes such as on a train etc when you first end up beside these pp parents that they are quiet for a minute to suss out if you are as loud as them and when they realise you arent they go in full steam ahead and point out every fluffy cloud, speck of dust etc to their little darling lol

TitsalinaBumSquash · 06/05/2012 19:41

We have a lot of PP around here.

I recall one mum (who still does this several years on) dragging her 2 yr old DS into nursery on world book day in a costume he had "designed and insisted he wore" of the hungry caterpillar which then opened into a butterfly, she stood and told us all "little Walter designed this himself, I was reluctant as we didn't want to seem showy but he insisted, he has been reading this book independently since his first birthday...."

Little Walter was whinging and tugging said costume off whilst trying to crawl under a desk

MummytoKatie · 06/05/2012 21:12

I do wonder if I have been guilty of this. Many a time dd has done / said something new and I've repeated it over my shoulder to dh as he always seems to be looking the wrong way only to realise that he is at work and it is just me and dd.

In my defence I am very very tired....

raspberrytipple · 06/05/2012 21:21

I was in town with a friend once who used to be a clothes shop manager, I commented about the rather loud mother just over from us 'oh look little blossom isnt this top devine' 'oh look how fabulous mummy would look in this' type crap being spouted to a six month old. My friend took one look and said 'shop lifter'. Apparently it was always the obnoxious women with prams who used to nick stuff - good distraction technique, they are so awful people go out of their way not to look at them which makes sticking stuff in their handbag easier.

CocoPopsAddict · 06/05/2012 22:48

I work in a gallery and just love hearing PP... especially when the parents don't have a clue what they're talking about. They sometimes try to engage me in conversation (whilst kids wander off and touch priceless pieces of art), and I end up having to correct them. That rather deflates them.

CallMeAl · 06/05/2012 22:51

It couldn't possibly be that some people are just loud? No, its for your benefit. It's all about you, after all.

marathonrunner · 06/05/2012 22:51

A woman the other day was really loudly reading her son's (very good) report. Cringeworthy!!

hattifattner · 06/05/2012 23:15

in local sainsburys, mum and child of about 2 walking around, she's got he constant monologue going about shall we find the pasta now etc, and child constant reply: "Uuuuuurrrr!"

I seemed to be following them, about half an aisle behind. Got to the aisle for salad dressing and heard her utter:

"Now then Jamie, shall we practice your french: Lets count! Un... "
"Uuuuuurrrr!"
"Deux"
"Uuuuuurrrr!"
"Trois"
"Uuuuuurrrr!"
etc.

Never heard he child say more than "Uuuuuurrrr!". I did wonder why she was teaching him french when he wasnt actually speaking Engish yet. And very loudly too.

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