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.

We're on holiday here in the Swiss Alps, and we're a bit concerned about the family in the next chalet. It seems to be this 'grandfather' living alone with a small girl, but he lets her run totally wild. She's wearing nothing but rags and I suspect she doesn't even have her own bed - she seems to be sleeping in the hay loft. AIBU to think it's a clear case of neglect of her physical wellbeing? Anyone got the number of Swiss social services?

And then there's this friend of hers called Peter, who seems to be engaged in child agricultural labour with a herd of goats...

AIBU to wish my daughter would just watch TV and eat pom bears and Greggs sausage rolls instead of wanting to cook gourmet foods and bleat on night and day about wanting to go to school. Bloody school, who needs it when you can earn money scamming the locals by selling them cars filled with sawdust mwarrr. Actually come to think of it, I met a lovely lady who's a headmistress of a lovely village school so perhaps my daughter can attend there...

Aibu to drag dd to the hairdressers by her very long main and demand she gets it cut into a nice manageable bob? It's handy enough to shimmy down the tower with but the knots take all day to detangle :(

Maybe I'll give the argan oil one last go...

WIBU to take a carving knife the my DC's pet mice? The wee brats darlings keep letting them run about the farm house. Yuck!

AIBU to leave my two small children shovelling snow while I go out for the day. My friend told me I was mean, but someone's got to do it.

I often leave them alone. Nothing has ever gone wrong. Although the other week the goldfish looked a bit traumatised . . . but what could have happened to him?

Oh this is brilliant, good work OP!

AIBU to send my niece to boarding school? Frankly, she is a PITA to have in the house - always antagonising my DC, particularly my poor DS. I think a regime of fresh air and porridge would do her the world of good, and anyway, I've been meaning to redecorate her room for ages. I never actually liked red...

Help! My parents have abandoned me and I live by myself with my horse and a monkey.

I'm 9.

My son is sickly and reminds me of my late wife. AIBU to stay away on business, instructing the staff to keep him safely shut in his room? It would do him no good to learn about his cousin who is moving up

Got a bit carried away this afternoon, ooops , I drank all DH's beer! Was too pissed to give DD her bath or make any tea, so I started a pretend game with DD that a tiger had drunk the water and the beer, and eaten the tea! Trouble is, DD totally believed it all and told the same story to DH. He was great and took us out for tea but I am a bit worried that my story will get out.

Nor that wretched garden. Aibu unreasonable to protect him from this?

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.

AIBU to be concerned about this? My children keep disappearing into the woods. The thing is they are good kids and do their chores first and they do keep the cousins and friend's child who have visited occupied. However, there has been talk about lands at the top of the tree and they frequently return with random stuff. On one occasion this involved a goat and some chickens (who admittedly have been quite useful) my youngest also brought back a talking doll who seems strangely lucid and chats unprompted. I am also a little concerned I am being lax as my Valium is playing up and the eldest had a pair of fairy wings which appeared to work (must see GP about meds adjustment). This has all really come to a head with the appearance of an odd man wearing a variety of cookware who has been trying to sell them to me and a weird bloke called Moonface (I think?) who pushes this bizarre toffee onto folk. So, AIBU to worry about this at all?

My DS has allergies to ham and eggs, particularly eggs that are green. AIBU to stop his friend Sam from coming round as he is most insistent on DS trying some ?

AIBU to leave my DD in the custody of my DB in the event of my death? It's a long voyage across the Empire for a young child, and she's never been to Yorkshire before. He's my only relative and I hear he's become a recluse since the death of his wife, and he doesn't cope well with DN's SN. He's loaded and has servants that would do most of the childcare. There's loads of room in the house and gardens.

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.

Bea - very amusing.

AIBU to be concerned about 6 year old DS who plays all day in the woods with his toy animals. They all live in trees and it is a hundred acres big. Am I being pfb or is this too much freedom for a six year old?
Heigh-he'll be off to boarding school next year...

AIBU

I have three daughters, one is completely spoiled, she does remind me of me though, not her sainted mother.

She's set her cap at the young man next door although he'd intending to marry his cousin from Atlanta, Wilkes always marry their cousins.

She's now at a function at their house and surrounding herself with every other boy in the town. She's even making eyes at her sister's beau

Would I be unreasonable to send her back with her mammy?

Fiddle dee dee

AIBU to use a dog as a nanny? Childcare is so expensive but would this satisfy Ofsted requirements?

aibu to have to put up with this trouble maker of a boy that seems to have become friends with my son and wants him to drop out of school and go away and do a job for a crackpot old fool of an ex head master.....

HoneyDragon I'm baffled! What is the name of your dd?