AIBUs from parents of fictional children

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AIBU to be concerned about what DCs are up to? Since we moved to Yorkshire they've been hanging around the railway line most days and not made friends with the local children.

DS came home with a bag of coal which he said was "mined" and whilst he looked like he'd been down a coal mine I suspect it was stolen.

And then there's the station porter who seems to be getting very friendly with them - he's a nice man by all accounts but I can't help feeling suspicious.

Thanks Sophita, are you sure about rehoming pets? I was thinking perhaps that some pet rabbits might help to calm my poor DS.

Good thought about Dniece's post, that would work well. I'll just head off and collect her-I'm sure she'll be so grateful for some nice new frocks that she'll be happy to join the family permanently. My DH has an annoying nephew though, would I be unreasonable to try to prevent him from ever meeting my niece? I have a nasty nagging feeling that he might cause some trouble.

AIBU to be utterly disappointed with my child?

he completely ignores our traditional values, he is an embarassement to his parents and indeed the whole community!
we are all great performers, but he has no singing talent like us.

in fact he turned his back on tradition and is dancing around all day. he has got an ASBO now and had to leave.

we really hoped he'd be a good egg

AIBU to think my dw has only married me for the money, the title and the fuck off great house in the Austrian alps?

When we met she was all 'Oh I love your seven children' (they're from dw1), 'Oh I don't think I'm really cut out for my job and neither does Mother Superior', 'Oh quick! Let's run away from the Nazis. Especially that traitorous postboy one'.

She used to be really fun to be with, we'd sing old Austrian songs and dance the Ledenschnitzerln or she'd make clothes out of the dcs curtains and we'd all fall backwards into fountains laughing our heads off. Those were the days .

But since the wedding all she does is swan off to Paris on shopping trips for expensive furs and jewels and hang out on the terrace with my much more amusing mate drinking champagne and singing dirty songs about her 'favourite things'.

I know I'll get flamed for this but AIBU to think she is just a golddigger?

WIBU to LTB?

OK, so in the house, we've always been clear on what our roles are, and I work and my really lovely DW looks after our DC and house. And all was well with this until yesterday. I got home from work as usual, and the house was a bloody tip! I mean, I'm not talking about a couple of bits in the sink which I'd be happy to sort out, but it was like there'd been a riot.

Now normally I'd just assume it was the kid's high jinx, apart from, all my beer was gone! As was the bottle of wine we'd been saving.

DW swears blind that, get this, they were invaded by a wild animal. I'm not so sure. AIBU to be a bit suspicious?

DS often stays with my DB for the weekend. Said uncle is in theatre and has a weekly show on television. DS always has a great time and has met lots of celeb types, however I've recently discovered that all may not be quite right behind the scenes. DB's relationship with his partner is becoming increasingly abusive (she hits him quite a lot I think), one of the band members seems to be taking something, and I'm starting to wonder if the stunt man's relationship with his performing chickens is entirely above board. AIBU to keep letting him go? Only he gets paid for his occasional performances, and I would have to give up my weekend of if I stop him. It can't do any harm, right....?

clarinet yes dd could do that or become a nun or nurse/teacher.

she confessed she wanted a career and a family but after I pushed the rosary beeds into her hands and told her to confess her sin of feminism she realises that way leads to hell.

that school sounds lovely my dear. please do send them there.

AIBU to find my DIL a bit strange? She's always lost in a book, although how she has time to read much with that demanding police job I don't know. She also eats far too much cheese and has a strange idea of what makes a good pet. Worst of all, she and DS have followed her family's weird tradition and named DGS after a day of the week! We have normal names in our family! WIBVU to wallop her over the head with one of her croquet mallets?

best thread in a year I think ladies😄

and now in discussion of the day! congrats OP!

This is brilliant

When my DTs2 were born, my 'D'H refused to believe that he was the father - just because the have blonde curly hair when the rest of the family (including DTs1) have straight black hair..! He hated the names that I chose for them (Freddie and Flossie) and has given me almost no help in raising them - should I LTB?

Sorry, but I'm incandescent, and just need to vent a bit here. My bloody BIL, who's always been a PiTA, frankly, has suddenly announced he's getting married tomorrow instead of in three week's time, as announced and planned for . Sounds like the GF has gone totally bridezilla on him, too, as he's moved it to fecking Oxford, FFS, where she's been living on and off for the last year. Is it just me, or do you think he's shitting himself she'll get involved with one of the dons if he doesn't marry her right now? Should I warn him to get out while the going's good?

Grubbybrat - don't tell me that's the same BIL who got involved with the woman on trial for murdering her ex lover? Please don't tell me it's the same woman!

And didn't your SIL end up marrying beneath herself?

I don't want to be rude, but your family's a bit, well, daytime TV, isn't it?

Yes, that's her. Un-fucking-believable, isn't it? Jeremy Kyle has been pestering us since forever, Lurcio, and DS doesn't have the sense he was born with and I'm scared he'll do the show just for a laugh. DH is being no bloody support at all, as per. WIBU to fuck off to Monte until the scandal blows over?

my son who is only just 6 keeps disappearing in the woods for hours and hours with his stuffed toys and all my bloody DH does is write stories about it. Am at my wits' end! What should I do?

We advertised for an emergency nanny with experience with multiple charges and toilet training. I was at the end of my tether with the DCs' constant bouncing, yowling and bickering: found myself barking at them and flinging them around by their necks with my teeth. DH has been sniffing around OW ever since I suggested he have a vasectomy

The only applicant seemed mature, confident, had her own transport, and dramatic personal style. The DC cowered and quietened right down. But one thing bothers me: she was wearing what looked like real fur.

WIBU to withdraw the job offer, try to win back DH and ttc DC102?

You know, grubbybrat, it wouldn't surprise me if something untoward happened on their honeymoon. The two of them seem to have this absolutely uncanny knack of simply tripping over corpses. Monte sounds the only option - pack lots of gin, and don't buy any English newspapers while you're over there.

But you must tell what the bride's dress is like - I'm guessing it'll be something she thinks is "bohemian" and any right thinking person would think was simply ghastly.

The kids are doing my head in. WIBU to go out for a coffee with a friend and leave them in the house? It's too wet to go out and too cold to play ball, they'll just sit there all day and do nothing at all. Surely they can't get up to anything too bad for an hour or so?

Dere little Basil hav been at St Cstards for a few terms now. I had. hoped that he would make friends with that nice Grabber boy, whose father is so well conneckted. But he hav been forced to mingle hem hem with a colleckshun of oiks, toffs and new bugs, chief among whom (gramar) is Nigel M*esworth. He forces poor dere Basil to pla foopball and other pursuits altho Basil rightly sa that Nature alone is beautiful. I fear also for a small boy named Eustace who hav not been seen since his first night. My DW says it is all good preparation for Life.

I say Life is so sordid it make me shuder.

Which of us is right?

Lurcio/ grubbybrat, as long as she and her friends don't start kissing all the female dons giving her away, which would show a most ill-timed crisis of sexual identity.

still, I guess it's only fair, as I hear they are taking that "butler" who is so, ahem, inseparable from his "master" on honeymoon with them.

I'm a single parent, 3dds and 1ds who is so naughty I can't cope. He's been somewhere expressly forbidden today, lost his coat and shoes and been sick from over eating.
His uncle says he needs corporal punishment, which he uses on his own son. AIBU to put him to bed without any supper?

AIBU to be worried that my child is in danger?

after all he is only a little kid! and there's a TROLL under the bridge ffs!

United, , I slipped it into a Terry Pratchet reference alongside werewolves and Olivia hasn't caught me yet,,,,

AIBU? My db and i decided to adopt as we are getting on a bit and struggling with our farm. Now (please don't flame me) we specifically asked for a boy but got a girl instead. We couldn't return her so have tried our best with her but she's not made it easy and I have been finding it super hard. Anyway today she's really pushed all my buttons. She has a very naice friend, with good parents, who came over to play. I had to go out but told dd that i had left homemade lemonade in the pantry for the girls. I returned two hours later to discover they had drunk instead my homemade wine. dd claims it was a mistake, but I am not so sure. AIBU to jump to conclusions that my DD is a raging alcoholic? AIBU to be so concerned about what the naice parents will think of me - should I care? Was I BU to have left them alone, in the full knowledge DD is a fiery one?