.to wonder if the vast majority of parents on this web site are perfect?

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Not been here too long, but it seems that almost everyone here is a perfect parent who look down on the mere mortals who come on here for help and support - maybe i have just been unlucky in the threads I have picked to look at or comment on, but surely not everyone here has an ass so tight it squeaks when they walk??!!

We were at Silver sands last weekend; bobble hats and thermal gloves! Even the dog wasn't brave enough to go in the water, and he's a fat labrador

I think I'm getting webbed feet

I'm on a few different fora, with an animal name for each. It's the only way I can remember the log in stuff.

Ahhh, i figured it out - the reply was to Heleninahandcart who said she was perfect :)

my eldest was born with flippers - he'll swim in anything.

righto - I'm off to bed, work in the morning so feel free to argue amongst yourselves and last one here please put the light out :o

My bad OP - I wasn't sure.

sorry Tapir - think it was my my inefficient use of of punctuation that didn't help.

at pagwatch

I don't get the impression MN'ers think they are perfect parents, I get the impression a few like to think they are but they are very much in the minority.

Posters that come on to admit some parenting fail usually get lots of reassurance that they are perfectly normal.

If you read the right posts then MN is really funny.

Me and dh spent afternoon in the pub garden with our 4. Got nicely pissed with older ones ( 23 and 21) and younger teen and 12 year old had hot choks, crisps and we had chunky chips for lunch.

Bad bad mommy and daddy!,

I'm pretty sure that I was told I was not a perfect parent on my request for film suggestions thread on chat recently.

According to my 16yo I am apparently unreasonable and clueless at times too. Usually when he is throwing a wobbly.

i love how this board always acts like these observations are completely barmey whenever someone highlights them.

There are some arseholes on here, but thats life innit. Who is being mean etc is very subjective. I don't mind out and out rude; I cant stand it when people are terribly polite and horrid by stealth......

< do you realise OP, it is you coming across all holier than though, when you start threads like this....>

Plus, AIBU is fightclub....try Chat or Relationships or FWR or any of the other boards....they are all very lovely, with no meaness generally

I can't bear it when posters 'feel sad' - or even worse 'saddened' - by a little girl/boy they saw at supermarket/park who's parents didn't engage them in conversation/watch them play for TEN WHOLE MINUTES.

Equally can't bear posters who pretend claim another mother has challenged their child's lunchbox and proceed to list all the contents and ask whether MNetters think it was unhealthy. Contents will be: homemade humous on wholemeal seeded bread, goat's cheese yoghurt, mango, grapes water, etc.

Stealth boasting and phoney sadness on behalf of other people's children should be a Mumsnet crime and dealt with accordingly by MNHQ.

That said OP...YABU as ^these posters are not nearly as common as the slummy mummy brigade of which I confess to being a member.

They are all the things that make it so funny and addictive,Proudnscary!

You are deeply unreasonable to remind me of chippy sauce when I have been in exile from Edinburgh to the north of Scotland for TWELVE YEARS and I want some. They put ketchup on chips up here, it's barbaric.

No, we're all perfect.

I let 2yo DS eat uncooked pasta from the kitchen floor the other day.

dd2 likes cat biscuits

lol, you have restored my faith in human nature......and speaking of cat biscuits, i once caught my then toddler licking water form a puddle as he was being a cat - not really worth sterilising and anti bac ing stuff after that really.

Yes, especially seeing as you completely contradicted yourself.

My dcs had a taste for worms - would search for them every time my back was turned.

Tapir I have just come in from work brandishing the teenagey bargaining tools of super noodles, Dr Pepper and microwaveable burgers.

Spooky.

Line I'm keeping my fingers crossed that it works for a while yet - my ds has yet to transform into proper teenagerhood aka Kevin & Perry.

I am LineRunner and I am Shit Parent to a teenage son, and Scared Parent to a teenage daughter. And I will have my Pinot Grigot in ths world or the next.