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AIBU?

to think pushy Mums should at least take a break during the flight?

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Talkinpeace · 07/04/2013 20:59

Flying home from holiday today, yummy mummy of OUTRAGEOUSLY named children spent the whole flight
getting them to do maths (or actually she did the whole lot and they looked longingly at my game of bejewelled)
then read Harry Potter to them (loudly)
then got them to write up their holiday diaries (yes dear, other people had villas with pools too)
then nagged her husband to read to them (he didn't)
and basically stopped anybody near her from enjoying their reading material and all of us wondered if she really knew what her child's name said about her (read your history BEFORE naming the child, not after)

PS economy airline - so she was cheap as well as loud.

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minouminou · 07/04/2013 21:33

We most likely would say tie-tuss.

UniqueAndAmazing · 07/04/2013 21:35

tye-tus

Badvoc · 07/04/2013 21:36

Oh! Not Achilles?
(Almost good it's so bad)

MrsLettuce · 07/04/2013 21:38

Thank you both!

Mominatrix · 07/04/2013 21:40

Poor child - will be known as Tight Ass.

Maggie111 · 07/04/2013 21:54

I've only been on this site a few weeks but one of my favourite discoveries has been the term Loud Parenting - which very much describes the OP!

Bridgetbidet · 07/04/2013 22:28

Tito. Titian. Titan.

I think it's Titian.

fuzzpig · 07/04/2013 22:37

So we will never know what the sibling's name is? :(

kritur · 07/04/2013 22:38

I teach a Titus... He's lovely and doesn't get the mick taken out of him (boys Indy)

MadameDefarge · 07/04/2013 23:03

I taught a Titus too...adorable. but his name didn't stand out in a london primary.

Skinnywhippet · 07/04/2013 23:55

Was the other sibling also named after an emperor?

Skinnywhippet · 07/04/2013 23:56

Didnt know the name Titus was quite so popular.

nooka · 08/04/2013 00:23

Our family dog was called Titus. Good name for a dog

quesadilla · 08/04/2013 07:09

Poor little sod. My dad was like that. I found some holiday scrapbooks he had made me do in Greece aged about 8 or 9. Precocious-sounding horseshite.
Titus will have a brush with hard drugs in his middle teens and probably will struggle with depression until well into his 20s. Whether he shakes it off or not will depend on whether his mum destroyed the last of his inner strength. First up against the wall come the revolution, that mum.

SoupDragon · 08/04/2013 07:21

economy airline - so she was cheap as well as loud

Whereas you were just cheap...?

Squarepebbles · 08/04/2013 08:16

We were once trapped on a boat in the South of France for a whole day with a family loud parenting a child called Balthazar.

Bearcrumble · 08/04/2013 08:19

Oh poo, I wanted it to be Heliogabalus.

Talkinpeace · 08/04/2013 08:58

I did not hear the name of smaller child clearly - mother tended not to address that one directly - but it was long ....
and dad was totally zoned out from the lot of them

PS I was on cheap airline because I save my budget for restaurants!

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Guitargirl · 08/04/2013 09:14

I was sitting amongst several examples of LOUD parenting at the theatre yesterday morning. Family in front of us with the slightly pained looking DD (aged about 6) whose mum

listed loudly all the homework she had to do during the holidays,
tried to get her DD to translate into Spanish part of the programme,
gave her DD a lecture on the benefits of being able to look back at her scrapbooks when she was 18 when her DD said she didn't want to take handfuls of the leaflet back home to stick in that afternoon,
gave the four girls sitting in front of them a right telling off for being too enthusiastic waving their glowy stick things along with a lecture about appropriate theatre-going behaviour,
listed the times of DD's gymnastics/piano lessons for all our benefit.

I blame her for my need of alcohol during the interval before lunchtime on a Sunday

Orianne · 08/04/2013 09:21

Tie-tus?

Moominsarehippos · 08/04/2013 09:25

I saw (well, heard braying mumeeeee yelling for) a little Elvis playing with Maximus in the park yesterday. Why do the kids with unusual names have the loudest mums?

UniqueAndAmazing · 08/04/2013 13:57

because they're the rules, Moomins.

(what would be the point of a pretentious name without a loud pretentious mum?)

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Mrsrobertduvall · 08/04/2013 14:03

It could have been Biggus Dickus (lowers tone)

I quite like Titus, but then I'm thinking Titus Salt who founded Saltaire, and was a big Victorian philanthropist. Named the streets after his children.

Moominsarehippos · 08/04/2013 21:01

Oh please let the kids surname be Mycock. Pleeease.

Talkinpeace · 08/04/2013 21:50

Moomin
thou are truly a warped person.
LOVE it ;-)

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