to think my Mum must have a selective memory....

[doublecakeplease]

I'm one of 3 children. Gems so far since I has DS 16 months ago include:
-"none of mine still woke in the night past 8 weeks"(helpful when ds was still a tiny 5lb at that point and was waking LOTS to feed)
-"none of mine had any problems when teething - not a murmur"(DS hasn't suffered much - just earlier waking and a touch of the runs - she told my aunt he's having a terrible time with them!)
-"none of mine had tantrums in public" (when DS cried in a coffee shop today when i wouldn't let him stir my coffee)

disclaimer - i love her, we get on well, she loves DS - these things just make me roll my eyes a little in disbelief!

mumnesia

I think its mummy brain thing. My DD is 26 and DS is 21, and I find I'm only remembering the good stuff. I have to think really hard to remember the horrible temper tantrums in Tesco that made me want to disown DD and the fact that DS wanted to play at 3am EVERY SINGLE BLOODY NIGHT

apparently I never EVER had a tantrum. This is obviously not true, I am still having them now at the age of 40, I definitely would have been having them when I was 2.

It happens to us all ....time and distance erase the grotty things and leave us with a rosy glow of perfect cherubic angels who did everything on cue, never put a foot wrong, and barely caused a ripple in the calm running of domestic bliss.

Of course that's not how it was, and I am sure your aunt could regale you with tales of the times your mother pulled her hair out (although actually, we were less inclined to talk about it as anything other than domestic perfection was considered to be failing on the job!)

Bear with her. One day, in a decade or three, your DIL will wonder how her DG could have been SUCH a perfect baby

whoops ...fat finger day!
"her DH"

Yup, my mum does this too. Apparently I never had a tantrum and was definitely not a fussy eater.Funnily enough I remember lying on the floor in M&S screaming about something or other, and the battle of wills over food that raged until I was at least 7.

I don't believe that I was potty trained by 16 months either.

I think she was so traumatised by having 3 children in 3 years and a husband who never so much as changed a nappy that she's just blocked out the horrible memories.

Ah well, if Mumsnet is still around in 20 years I'll have an archive of posts whinging about DS's toddlerhood to remind me that it wasn't all rosy.