to ask for you help in defining PFB for my friends

[Kayano]

PRECIOUS FIRST BORN.

I need to explain the pfb mentality to my childless friends in just one sentence and I am totally drawing a blank.

please help!

A bit over-protective?

Wanting to wrap them up in cotton wool, doing everything by the book. My mind has gone blank too - I want someone to come up with a good explanation :o.

I was trying to be snappy so they would be 'oh yeah i know one of those!' but it turned into a long drawn out conversation with examples :/

A child around whom the entire world revolves. (Everything from refusing to attend a gathering because it clashes with nap time, to detailing every second of their latest nappy-offering, to assuming that all other children are thugs from who their innocent child needs protecting).

Doesn't happen with the second one because no1 is there making their voice heard!

My friend described me as a bit anal when I had my pfb. She was completely right.

Massively fussy and overprotective to the point of insanity.

When I first came across PFB, it was on a sort of 'what are your PFB confessions' thread. After reading some e.g. sterilisation of everything food related to age 3, I was trying to surmise what it stood for and came up with Pedantic Fucking Bitch.

Does that help?

Very good emma. An accurate summary. Lol.

Yeah, that sounds about right PicnicBasketCase.

PFB: thinking your need for a parking space near the supermarket door so your baby doesn't get wet is far more important than that of the 110 year old frail great-great-great-grandmother who's being taken to the cafe for a cuppa on her first outing in 25 years.