AIBU to be less than sympathetic to DS1 over his cut foot?

[Kirk1]

DS2 (14 months) dropped a glass on the kitchen floor. I told DS1 (8) to make sure he had slippers on, as there is glass on the floor in the kitchen. I made sure he'd heard and understood, I know what he's like...

Later, he's still wandering barefoot in the house and comes to help in the kitchen. He manages to find that one piece of unswept glass (WHY is there always a bit that escapes?) then has a meltdown because his foot is bleeding.

Am I a bad mother because I didn't sweep him up and comfort him, but instead made him wash his filthy feet and put on his shoes? (You know, like I told him to do hours earlier....)

To be fair to him, he did wait until he thought the glass had been swept up - not his fault you missed a bit.

You are BU, I think.

YABU. He's 8, it was 'later' - easy to forget, even for an adult.

YABU.

He's 8.

yabu.

You has cleared the mess. How is he supposed to know there was a bit there.

8yo think 'its cleared up, its fine' .

*had not has.

I am not a chav!

Actually, given he is constantly told to wear slippers in the house, I'd be unsympathetic whenever he stepped on something. Thorns he's brought in, Lego, cars, dropped crockery, broken glass.

Come to think of it, I don't tend to do the big sympathy thing at all. Maybe there's something deficient in my make up....

My dh does not have a sympathy gene.

Its possible!

Lets hope as his foot was filthy, he doesnt get an infection

YABU. Why does he have to wear slippers in the house when there isn't usually glass and he thought that this time you would have cleared all the glass up?

My ds1 hates footwear, shoes and socks come off as soon as we get in, even before jacket sometimes.

I am with you in the unsympathetic corner!

Ds1 was forever scuffing his feet along the floor, don't do that you'll get a splinter the only thing that stopped him was a ginormous splinter, a mercy dash to the surgery where our lovely doc stayed late to hack it out!

I also say this as the person who never wears shoes/slippers indoors and as the person who has the fatal attraction for any chip or shard of glass....it's always me in this house. Last time it was an inch long shard of pottery up my foot, three days after the smashing and after everyone swept up and hoovered.

He has to wear slippers in the house because that's a house rule. Like "shoes live in the shoe hole" and "washing goes in the basket not on the floor" I appreciate that different houses have different rules....

I'm usually hot on getting up sharp stuff (and small things that can be swallowed), since we have a crawler. I don't understand why but I always seem to miss at least one bit of any dropped smashed thing. Normally I find it when I sweep the corners.

He's 8 YABU. And slippers? It's the sort of summer!

Broken glass could probably have cut him even with slippers on,they aren't a very protective form of footwear.

I think you were harsh on him,so yes,YABU.

Lemarch Beat me too it.

It could also have come off somewhere where the crawler was. :(

YABU!

you should have made sure all the glass had been picked up

yabu, it was later on, how was he supposed to know you would be so sloppy in your cleaning?

I think some people are under the impression this was a huge shard of glass. It was about the size of a grain of rice. If he'd been wearing socks it would have protected his feet. Point taken it could have been tracked to somewhere the baby was crawling though, hadn't thought about that

He is a child FFS

Husband, YANBU.

Teenager, dittto.

Little boy.... sorry. Pombears for DS1.

Pombears!?? He's 8 not 4. Choc out of my tasting club box is more his taste...

Ok, well me and my sloppy housekeeping are going back to what I ought to be doing. I might be back later.

Hey, I am 24 and I like Pombears!