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AIBUs from parents of fictional children

629 replies

ProudAS · 13/08/2013 18:31

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.

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BlazinStoke · 13/08/2013 18:51

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KatieScarlett2833 · 13/08/2013 18:51

These are brilliant Grin

Morgause · 13/08/2013 18:52

AIBU to take a poisoned apple to my step daughter's playhouse in the forest?

I hear voices in there and I think she's mixing with the wrong sort.

Secretswitch · 13/08/2013 18:52

AIBU to want a different life? I have seven men to sort out in the morning. One is always grumpy, one is sleepy, one is sneezy...should I leave the bastards?

TheOriginalSteamingNit · 13/08/2013 18:52

Secretwitch.... Sounds like whiteswork to me!

MrsMoffat · 13/08/2013 18:53

AIBU to allow the children to go into the strange woods at the bottom of the garden once they have finished their chores around the house (sewing and cleaning for the girls, digging for the ds). I don't send them to school or pay them any attention at all so I think it's nice for them to take some jam sandwiches and a bottle of milk and climb the big tree. Mind, I was worried there might be strange men in the woods when they bought a man home naked but for saucepans hung on string about him, but the children said he was fine...

MN216 · 13/08/2013 18:53

AIBU to make my DD (13) sleep in a bed piled high with mattresses under which there is a pea? I think she is being a tad dramatic about the bruises but am a little concerned a neighbour will report me to social services. Still, it could be worse, at least I don't have my brother's problems - his 12 daughters appear to wear their shoes out every night, goodness knows what they are up to.

Morgause · 13/08/2013 18:53
KatieScarlett2833 · 13/08/2013 18:54

AIBU to live in a shoe?

BeaWheesht · 13/08/2013 18:54

Aibu to give in to my child's every request and to let her be a precocious brat who scares people with her stupid toy spider?

Aibu? We live next door to a zoo, dd is a nightmare at bedtime and after years of trying to get her to sleep I now just open the window and let her go and visit the wild animals in their cages. I think it's fair enough, I can't be arsed with reading stories / tucking her in etx, I want to drink wine and mumsnet.

Aibu to let my ds (8) essentially bring up dd (5)? We live in a nice flat and ds has much more patience than I do for her constant stupid demands for no tomatoes / pink milk / biscuits? He's pretty sensible if a little boring and his friends mum has 3 boys and lives along the corridor and she does exactly the same, we like to sit outside smoking and drinking. Bliss.

HoneyDragon · 13/08/2013 18:55

nit Grin rofl

TSSDNCOP · 13/08/2013 18:56

AIBU to report the elderly people next door to SS? They have a small boy staying at their house, but he seems to have taken refuge in a giant soft fruit in the garden.

I know MN will probably flame me to keep my nose out. I'm just concerned that its only going to take a huge flock of birds to rock up and it's NYC he we come.

WWYD?

DiseasesOfTheSheep · 13/08/2013 18:57

AIBU to whip my daughter out of her very posh and reputable boarding school and send her to my Aunt's cheaper and more "character building" school instead? Sure she'll miss her friends and there are rumours of explosions, moonshine and unorthodox digressions from the national currciulum but she's a bit of a drip and could do with learning some real life skills...

Salmotrutta · 13/08/2013 18:57

AIBU to think that Tom is a bad influence on Sidney and make him whitewash the fence?

KatieScarlett2833 · 13/08/2013 19:00

AIBU to wonder why our youngest, we call her " the bairn" hasn't aged at all in 50 odd years?

jennycoast · 13/08/2013 19:01

AIBU to wish DS would stop with the competitive "I love you all the way to..." rubbish.

insomniarules · 13/08/2013 19:01

Oh mrs moffat! That just brings it all back!!
This has really cheered me up! (Thank you.)

HoneyDragon · 13/08/2013 19:02

AIBU to disagree with my ex? [long sorry]

Dd has gone to live with her father in our old home town. He is upset because our dd wants to marry her boyfriend despite being a teenager. She has been moody and uncommunicative for a whole and very reckless, which he puts down to her new boyfriend.

I have met her fiancée twice now. He seems a lovely boy, and is very supportive of her when she keeps passing out in woods and falling out of windows. He doesn't go out much, but is from a very wealthy family.

I am currently very invested in my new relationship, AIBU to think that as her mother I know best and give this marriage my blessing? After all they are young and in love and she intends to go to college. It's not like she's going to get married, get knocked and live in a little cottage in the middle of nowhere and fogey about her education setting a shit example for young girls everywhere? What's the worst that could happen.

ScooseIsLoose · 13/08/2013 19:03

Aibu to send my daughter to a posh school then disappear to India and pretend to be dead so she gets made to live in a garret. I feel it will be character building and she will have a rat and the guy from next door to keep her company. Think how happy she will be to see me after being made to scrub a few floors Smile

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Turniptwirl · 13/08/2013 19:04

Aibu to send my dn to another shrink? She bit the last two but I'm worried that she keeps going on about a raggedy doctor that landed his space ship in our garden. She says the space ship looked like a big blue box.

VinegarDrinker · 13/08/2013 19:04

AIBU to rig a national competition to visit a sweet factory, so that my adorable bratty overindulged PFB can be one of the winners? And AIBU to find it unbearably cute every time she stamps her foot and bursts into song, I'm sure she doesn't really mean to be so rude when she sings "I want it NOW". I mean, she does have an AMAZING voice.

Uverguv · 13/08/2013 19:04

DD has taken up with the son of a local family with which we have a longstanding feud. Our nanny, who has been with us for ages, is colluding with her to get them together. I think he has sneaked into our house and spent the night with her. DH and her cousins would go ballistic if they found out. WIBU to send her away to Padua for the rest of the holidays?

LadyBryan · 13/08/2013 19:06

AIBU?

My oldest friend and her brother have fostered a child. Now they were intending on getting a boy, which would at least have been useful on the farm.

Instead they were sent a red-headed snippet of a girl. Who has a fiery temper to match.

WIBU to tell her to send her back immediately? The brother has gone doolally for her and bought her a dress with puff-sleeves. PUFF-SLEEVES, I ask you!

ScooseIsLoose · 13/08/2013 19:06

Aibu to keep sending my son to visit the Batty old woman who lives in the big house. He said she is always wearing a wedding dress and is very odd but I think he's exaggerating.