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.

AIBU to be seriously considering getting my dd sectioned? She keeps going on about a beast in an enchanted castle and apparently all the household objects (clocks,teapots,candlesticks,wardrobes ect) are alive and can talk?! I know she doesn't really fit in with the locals and likes to read a lot of books while singing and dancing round the town and her DF is a lunatic has a few "quirks" but this is just completely mad and not normal surely?!

AIBU to employ a nanny who can apparently fly, feeds my DCs medicine with sugar and lets them dance around on rooftops? I never wanted her in the first place but the DCs were insistent and we are exasperated after getting through 4 nannies in as many months.

AIBU to worry that dd has gone mad through fever? When she was poorly she said a boy fell into the fireplace and now looks like a baby with gills and lives in the river with other fish babies

AIBU to let my 14yo enter a prestigious sports competition? It is technically against the rules, and it is very dangerous, but she's so very good and she's set her heart on it. The thing is, the horse she's entering with was won in a raffle and has had no formal training at all (he isn't even a racehorse, TBH). So it's a proper rags to riches kind of thing.

The thing is that it costs a shedload of money to enter. I have the money, it was mine before I married, so have basically paid behind DHs back. Now I have told him, but he's gone ballistic at me. He thinks I should have kept the money for fuck knows what.

Perhaps he's got a point. Only it would be really amazing for her, I mean, we're talking unbelievable here, if she won.

AIBU to force dd to keep a promise to a frog? She lost her golden ball in the garden (I know it's extravagant but I bet your kids have all got iPods) and he retrieved it for her. In exchange she promised the frog that he could live with us. I'm not that happy about this arrangement but it is important to keep your word wwyd?

Not to drip feed - I Am a little worried that the frog might fancy her

AIBU to tell my children that their pet has to go. it's eating us out of house and home. It's very, very hungry.

AIBU to spend all our savings on buying a pony for dd4 and a hunter for myself. I mean, we might be a bit short on schoolfees for the four dds and ds2 still at school, but what the hell, something'll turn up won't it? Pass the gin.

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

And our twins, despite being 58 years old, still haven't been given names.

Aibu? I'm a single parent and run my own business and have ds who is 8 (ish). He is so full of life and energy I just adore everything about him. However, some locals think he is an ASBO kid just because he sets fire to local businesses on a regular basis, I mean come on? It's not that big a deal is it, the fire service round here have nothing else to do and tbh set fire to their own station now and again. Some parents have suggested I should keep a closer eye on him and not let him, for example, walk up the local mountain without a vest on in winter but where's their spirit of adventure? Anyways he wouldn't be so naughty if his useless father showed the slightest bit of interest in him instead of fannying around playing the hero.

Aibu? We live in a lighthouse and have 10 kids, they like to hang out the windows and wave, admittedly they're pretty high up but they enjoy it. Also my friend recently suggested that I get a psych out to assess them all because one of my kids thinks they're a tree, where's the imagination? I'm sick of all this stifling of kids personalities, I mean, one of my kids likes drawing on their knees, I don't see a problem but school have complained so I've decided to home school and now we all lie on beanbags wearing homemade clothes and smiling serenely all day, much better. Means I never have to pretend to be sober either, ideal.

My DSis sadly died some years back and since then I have been living with my DB to help him look after his brood of children. I know I'm BU, but honestly! They are so noisy, never do as they're told, and the minute I get them all up and dressed and looking neat for school they break their bootlaces - I mean, who does that? - or lose a button or something. I just can't keep up.

When I lived at home I had loads of men fancying me, but I feel old and faded now with these children running me ragged. In an attempt to make the summer go well I bought them a new swing, the guy who helps with the garden was supposed to fix it today but he forgot, just one more thing for me to sort out. AIBU to leave it till tomorrow and drink and MN instead? It's the only break I have. I mean, what's the worst that could happen?

AIBU my DC have befriended a local child while we are on holiday, the child is a dirty gypsy child, she even has a fox cub as a pet! ..I gave her a bath with carbolic soap and dressed her in an old dress belonging to DD.
Surely her mother should be grateful?

AIBU to carry on and have the quads I have been promising everyone? My husband is a doctor at the local sanatorium, and I am a famous authoress, so we can easily afford to have them privately educated along with our other 11 children (the girls will go to my sister's school).

AIBU to dress the 7 DSC in matching clothes made from curtains?

My DD is really young, and my wife is dead. I've been offered an amazing job in Russia and I can't take DD - she doesn't know any Russian and it's cold. I've just heard that a friend of the family who I met once on holiday is starting a school somewhere in Austria - so would IBU to just leave her with the friend for the next 5 years or so? The friend doesn't have any teacher training and I don't think the school is Ofsted registered with it being in Austria, but the 'head' is jolly pretty and has a lovely voice. I'm sure DD will be fine. AIBU?

(Oops, did I say DSC? Technically I'm still the "nanny" but I have a huge crush on their DF, I have a bit of a thing for strict men)

Boaty

Am I being unreasonable to pack my DC off for a wilderness ornithology holiday with an enigmatic man we don't really know very well, who has a very dangerous job and is, in fact, currently on the run from nasty organised crime types? I can't find them a nice normal governess to take them away because of dss's blinkin' parrot who keeps shrieking at the top of her voice, while ds lets his mice run about all over him and poke their noses out of his sleeves when he shakes hands with new people! They can't stay here - I have measles

Morgause, good luck wifing you dd's up with these men. My dd is lovely and hardworking. These dudes just skip off to work every morning sing that new pop song..HI HO HI HO, IT'S OFF TO WORK WE GO...
I really object to them referring to my darling daughter as HO!

Grubbybrat, I think you'll probably get away with it - I mean, it's not like DH is around much to notice and you have to do something to keep yourself entertained.

Might want to watch out for DD6's tantrums, though - I don't think she'll see it that way at all.

I am at my wits' end with DD. Today she called a doctor to come round and look at her bloody doll, ffs. And he is apparently going to come back tomorrow to bill us for his wasted time. WIBU to confiscate her phone and stop her pocket money until the doctor is paid?

AIBU to report my father to the Radiation Protection department of the Environmental Protection Agency , for failing to follow the correct procedure for the disposal of radioactive substances?

Corrie her name I'd Bella, and her fiancée is Edward