to hope that I do a better job at childreering than many of the parent's I see around?

[carlysreducingtummy]

I know my chubsters only 5months (and 3 days lol), but after a few months of observing the behaviour of older kids, I just hope that my boy will grow up to be better behaved than alot of kids I see around. Some boys today in the park, well I won't go in to it but, I would of been horrified if my one grew up to be as disrectful as that?
Am I wrong in thinking its time for a change and that all new mummies should take a pledge to bring up polite and caring kids as a kickback to this rude genneration that we have before us at the mo?

And apart from bleeding eyes, I now have an earworm...thanks OP!

HoneyD, this thred iz gr8. I fink we shud all type in txt spk.

don's body armour

**yes that was a blatant attempt to get this thread going again

We need an update on the Hot Dawg Van, Maura and Mario the ice cream man.

That wud b gr8. Thanx. Lol.

Hmmmm that's a sentence I don't ever thought I'd type

Right up there with my all time favourite uttered sentence ever ...

Son, let's be clear about this. Mummy's bum is not, I repeat not, a vortex.*

• child reering at its finest I think you'll find.

megalolz huns

OP, please come back in 13 years time and tell us what you think then evil karma cackle

you sound very judgmental,

I am part of that 'rude generation'

whispers I have manners and I can spell.

oh hun, yours will be just as bad in many ways.

I once hoped that too, hes now a 6.5 year old boy and I have no idea whats happened.

My sis is due her first in a few weeks. She takes great delight in telling me what i do wrong as a parent. She thinks being a parent is black or white but i have news for her sometimes theres a bit of grey too.

No matter how much u hope and want your child to turn out a certan way theres no guarantee unless u keep them in and away from other people.

Stop being so judgemental OP. Someone may b saying the same about ur child in a few years.

I think most us desire for our children to turn out well. YANBU.

AKE2012 I have a similar sister. Only thing is it got worse for the first 6 months after she had her baby, as suddenly if my children made any noise or came too close to her little prince, they were the big, bad naughty children who were endangering her lamb! Happily it has got easier now her son is mobile and can be a handful himself! :o

Yeah YABU - Come back when your little darling is 14 and then tell us how fab he is....havent read all the replies to you OP but I reckon almost all of them say this!

Smugness is not a nice quality...all 5 month olds are lovely, its when they start getting their own personalities, their own views and their own friends - thats when the shit hits the fan!

I agree with everything that has been said (but only read the first 3 pages) but want to stick up for bad spellers. I'm dyslexic and spell things ferneticly (?!) Most of the spelling in the op is spelt that way hence pledge was spelt correctly. It takes me ages to write replys because of no spell check and having to google words then copy and paste them so I don't get laughed at.

I'm lucky DP is amazing with words so DC's will always have to go to him but I HATE that I can't spell it makes life very hard.

If the op is just lazy though that is another matter!

Tiredcommuter, have you tried google chrome? The auto spell check is fabulous. Obviously you don't need it for forums but it's great for emails and so forth.

HoneyDragonWearingLederhosen I do have spell check on emails, maybe I should write replys there and copy and paste. I have no idea if the OP is dyslexic but sometimes spell check is useless, I spell words so wrong I get no suggestions or all of the suggestions look so similar I can't tell which is the right word!

Google at least has definitions so I know if its the right word.

I know this has very little to do with the OP but I have struggled all of my life with this and I hate it when people take the mick out of bad spellers, some of us can't help it! :)