to really dislike the term PFB?

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I thinks its a bit snide and rude to people who are just want to protect their kids

its normal to be more clucky over ther first surely as your learning on the job?

whats the line between normal protective parent and PFB-ness??

I'm very new. What does it mean? I can guess most of the others...

Do you only have one tho? I look back and laugh at my pfb moments. I remember with dc1 asking dh to fetch me a bottle from the kitchen as the one I was using was leaking. He did... It was only later that I discovered he had brought me a clean one, but it had only been washed up and not sterilised. I shouted and cried and demanded he slept the night in dd's room in case she stopped breathing or something in the night, due to the non sterlisation of her bottle. She was about 6 weeks old. I count that as a pfb moment.

It means Precious First Born and refers to boughts of craziness such as walking backwards, dragging the pram for five miles to stop sunlight getting into baby's eyes, or having a fit when great-aunt Wotsit slips your 2 year old a chocolate button, or looking up sign language courses so you and your DH can communicate silently thus not waking the baby.

Only one of which I have done

it is very discriptive. had fun observing my dsis with her first on our holiday together. I might have given her weanling a spoon to play with at mealtimes to shut baby up

I think it's quite funny

And it does sum up a certain set of behaviours exhibited by (commonly) 1st time parents

I don't see it as snide, more gentle mockery

whats the line between normal protective parent and PFB-ness??

Normal protective parent can look back and laugh. PFB parent looks back and still blames themselves.

I like it. It is not nasty, as most of us have a PFB moment.

Mine was a TWO PAGE list of instructions for my Mum when we went away for a couple of nights and left the DC with them.

I regularly updated it.

There's absolutely nothing wrong with the phrase - it's very apt.

But I can see that in certain circumstances it can be used in a derogatory fashion. As can most phrases. It's all in the intent.

So, therefore YABU.

There's absolutely nothing wrong with the phrase - it's very apt.

But I can see that in certain circumstances it can be used in a derogatory fashion. As can most phrases. It's all in the intent.

So, therefore YABU.

There's absolutely nothing wrong with the phrase - it's very apt.

But I can see that in certain circumstances it can be used in a derogatory fashion. As can most phrases. It's all in the intent.

So, therefore YABU.

There's absolutely nothing wrong with the phrase - it's very apt.

But I can see that in certain circumstances it can be used in a derogatory fashion. As can most phrases. It's all in the intent.

So, therefore YABU.

There's absolutely nothing wrong with the phrase - it's very apt.

But I can see that in certain circumstances it can be used in a derogatory fashion. As can most phrases. It's all in the intent.

So, therefore YABU.

There's absolutely nothing wrong with the phrase - it's very apt.

But I can see that in certain circumstances it can be used in a derogatory fashion. As can most phrases. It's all in the intent.

So, therefore YABU.

There's absolutely nothing wrong with the phrase - it's very apt.

But I can see that in certain circumstances it can be used in a derogatory fashion. As can most phrases. It's all in the intent.

So, therefore YABU.

There's absolutely nothing wrong with the phrase - it's very apt.

But I can see that in certain circumstances it can be used in a derogatory fashion. As can most phrases. It's all in the intent.

So, therefore YABU.

Jesus christ moshling aha,

I think I've seen it used in some nasty ways, on threads in the past.

like 'control your pfb then!' which is just bitchy you know what I mean.

Also I've noticed by some comments, that some perhaps borderline negligent parents used it to laugh at others in a way of distracting from their own behaviour?

or maybe its just me who thinks that sometimes.

There's absolutely nothing wrong with the phrase - it's very apt.

But I can see that in certain circumstances it can be used in a derogatory fashion. As can most phrases. It's all in the intent.

So, therefore YABU.

There's absolutely nothing wrong with the phrase - it's very apt.

But I can see that in certain circumstances it can be used in a derogatory fashion. As can most phrases. It's all in the intent.

So, therefore YABU.

There's absolutely nothing wrong with the phrase - it's very apt.

But I can see that in certain circumstances it can be used in a derogatory fashion. As can most phrases. It's all in the intent.

So, therefore YABU.

There's absolutely nothing wrong with the phrase - it's very apt.

But I can see that in certain circumstances it can be used in a derogatory fashion. As can most phrases. It's all in the intent.

So, therefore YABU.

There's absolutely nothing wrong with the phrase - it's very apt.

But I can see that in certain circumstances it can be used in a derogatory fashion. As can most phrases. It's all in the intent.

So, therefore YABU.

"its normal to be more clucky over ther first surely as your learning on the job?"

Well exactly. And that's being PFB. In most cases it's only meant as to be gently mocking whilst acknowledging we have all been there!

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