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.

LondonMother, I must admit I gasped and stretched my eyes reading your post - poor you!
I must admit I'm worried about DS - he seems to be sensory seeking. He started the chewing thing as a toddler and it didn't worry me too much then, but he's 9 now and the habit appears to be fixed. I've tried the sensory necklaces, but the only thing that seems to distract him is string. Otherwise he seems perfectly fine. Should I send him to an OT?

AIBU to be worried about DD? When she's good she's very very good, but when she's bad she's a right little bitch.

Should I be concerned about DS? He seems to be very competitive and is constantly trying to tell me how much he loves me, and each time its more extravagant...

AIBU to be fed up of the kids next door and their equally annoying friends. They're always mooching around the village interfering in other people's business and getting under the feet of our local bobby.
They're also constantly out prowling around at all hours of the night, shining torches into corners and hooting like owls, when normal well brought up children would me in their beds. They've woken me up three bloody times already this week.

WIBU to shoot them and pretend I thought they were foxes bothering my chickens?

AIBU to be pissed off with DSis?
It's nice that she wants to be involved in DS and DD's lives but all she's done since she got here is belittle my parenting. I figured I was doing OK - the DCs are doing well academically and I've tried to instil basic humanitarian values in them from an early age. I'm a single dad, I work FT (with lots of additional hours at the moment since I have a very tough case coming up) and tp cap it all I'm getting death threats from some of the less enlightened locals. Frankly, I don't need the stress of DSis bossing me about - and she's given no indication of when she's going home.
Help!

Vintage YANBU. I shot seven kids in our village last Summer for exactly the same carry on. I said I had been out shooting pigeons and hadn't realised they were human beings, not birds. I seem to have got away with it!

I can lend you my gun if you like.

Aibu to be annoyed that my aunt has just turned up at my home? I have recently had flu an have taken myself off to sunnier climes to recover. I left my 2 DDs at home with the housekeeper/cook. My aunt got wind and turned up to look after them. She's a dragon! DDs had a couple of friends to stay to keep them company. These poor kids have been living in the woods so that my DDs don't get me into trouble with the old lady...

Vlad, I don't want to alarm you, but I think you should call in Physicians of the Utmost Fame without delay. A strict 4-meals-a-day regime might help.

I am married to a man who has risen to an eminent position by his own efforts. There are some who seek to diminish his achievement by using rude words to describe our position in society, but no matter. The issue concerning me at the moment is that my DN has been destined for the highest political office since birth. Unfortunately he bursts into tears at the slightest provocation which is bound to affect his prospects. WIBU to drown the little beast?

AIBU to have disowned my DD. Ever since she started at that bloody boarding school in Austria she has been a PITA when she comes home from holidays. She will only speak English every third day and insists on speaking French or German the other days. I mean, the only German I understand is 'Heil Hitler' and there isn't a lot of use for that in Weybridge.
She also put a slang box in the kitchen and every time we say anything that's not the Queen's English we have to put in 50p. DH and I were absolutely broke, there must have been nearly a thousand quid in there by the time she went back to school.
In the end we had no choice but to move house and leave no forwarding address. We haven't seen DD for nearly two years now. But I heard she's been adopted by a nice English lady who lives next door to the school so it all ended well.

Aibu to think my twins need to face facts now they are growing up? Ds needs to man up and do the training to be a knight rather than moping about complaining that he wants to be a sorcerer (as if I'd let him meddle with that load of pointless twaddle) and Dd needs to stop with the tomboy nonsense and learn how to be a lady at the Temple - it's ironic really how they teach magic there too, whereas dd would have made a good knight if she had been a boy...

Me and dh are parents to beautiful twin girls. However, we are at loggerheads right now and I really think this relationship is doomed.

Wibu to leave for london with 1 dd and leave her dt with dh in USA and pretend that I only ever had 1 baby? That way it's fair for both me and soon to be exh and dd won't ever know she was a twin and won't miss a father she never had?

My friends think I'm being really unreasable but it's the only way we can split our assets equally iykwim?

I really really really want to shag my employer's arse off but he's engaged to some right uppity mare who doesn't even like his kids. Seeing as I can't have him AIBU to strop off without notice and go live in a nunnery?

While I'm here I'm a bit concerned about the oldest daughter's suitor. He seems to have joined some sort of gang and I don't trust him.

roadrunner, that sounds really sensible to me. No one needs more than one twin.

BlazinStoke you could always hope he befriends a stroppy girl - might take the pressure off..

Waffly, I think you should go to the hills while your heart is lonely. Climb every mountain and see if you can find some edelweiss.

Further to the unhappy experience I mentioned earlier in respect of our Albert, astonishingly lightning has struck twice and our Jim has also been eaten by a lion. I have always been absolutely insistent on the DC keeping hold of Nurse for fear of finding something worse. However, on a recent trip to the zoo the wretched boy slipped his hand and ran away! WIBU to avoid zoos in the future?

Well, you're not really surprised, are you, Londonmother? And at least your dh has been able to draw on the experience for his parenting of your other children.

As for avoiding the zoo- well, perhaps you should just stay away from the Big Cats enclosure when your dn from Latvia comes to stay. While we all like to see our young relatives smiling, their lasting happiness should be our main consideration.

Help please - dd has settled down really well at boarding school (I think - it wasn't convenient for her to come home at half term but she seems happy enough) and it's been great for me and new DH to have some time together just the two of us.

BUT - dd has a dog to which she's very attached, and frankly it's getting in the way: when she was at home she looked after it very well, but now she's at boarding school the majority of the walking and feeding etc is falling to me. In addition, new DH and I have found a marvellous new flat where we'd like to move - coincidentally , it doesn't allow dogs. My plan is this: write to dd and explain the situation, and try to get rid of dog before she comes home again in February (we would ask school to keep her over Christmas).

I think this would be fine, and can't see a problem with it - but then I have been told that at times I am an utter heel, so am doubting my judgment a bit! Thoughts?

My dh and i are having such problems with our entitled brattish twins. We made the mistake of sending them to an exclusive prep school where they were joint head girls. my dh has arranged for them to go to a down to earth school where they will learn how to mend their own clothes, make a fire and clean lacrosse boots but they are refusing to go as all their friends are going to a more exclusive school. Should we force them to go or give in?

What an interesting thread, maybe you could help me too.

My DD and her DH died in a car crash recently. Its awful, the only fortunate thing is that their DS (7 years) survived with nothing worse than a scar on his forehead (not lightning bolt shaped, why did you ask?). I adore him and am glad that his parents appointed me his guardian in the event of their deaths. I'm relieved they saw past trifles such as me being 80 years old, smoking cigars and being retired from a rather dangerous job hunting female child abductors/murderers.

Unfortunatly their will stated that we should live in their family home in England so that DGS can continue with his English school. Both Boy and I would have prefered to stay in Norway, where I lived. However, I accepted that we must respect their wishes and we planned to go back and visit Norway in the summer holidays.

The problem is, I have just recovered from a severe bout of pnemonia and the doctor says I shouldn't travel abroad. He thinks some sea air would be good for me though and has suggested somewhere like Bournemouth - yawn, probably end up in some conference hotel, you know the sort. But I'm thinking of going with this idea so I can compromise as I'm already ignoring his advice about giving up the cigars.

WIBU to take DGS to the seaside to stay in a big hotel? Will they let him bring his two new mice? He's going to be a mouse trainer when he grows up, so it is important.

Also, I am right in thinking that the grieving process is helped by sharing stories about horrible things that could happen to him? I've told him a lot about my old line of work to keep him on his guard, you never know when you need to spot one of those vile women.