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WIBU to report neighbours to social services. Their DS (11yo) is a spoilt brat quite frankly. He's been clinically obese since he was a toddler and thinks the world revolves around him.

Their DNephew (also 11yo) has lived with them since he was a toddler and his parents died. He is quite the opposite of their DS and appears malnourished. I'm getting even more concerned as I haven't seen him for several months and they say he's away at some institution for incurably criminal boys. I can't believe that such places exist and he has always seemed to be a nice boy albeit slightly strange. I've also heard that they lock him in the cupboard under the stairs and make him sleep there even though they have only the one DC and a 4 bed house.

I've a feeling they may be keeping him permanently in the cupboard or worse. Do you think I should contact SS?

AIBU to be concered about my ds, he has recently got involved in a scam, he thinks that if he gets ( a ticket) he will win the ultimate prize, now I'm looking after two sets of elderly parents ( I'm wrecked) and we have no money, ds does seemed sad but I can't cheer him up anymore ( i hate singing) he found some money the other day and bought chocolate, seriously, we are hungry and he bought chocolate, I'm very disappointed with him, he now keeps going on about a factory and he wants to visit it, apparently there is some man that will take him on a tour of the factory, ahh I don't know it seems weird to me, maybe iabu, advice appreciated

I need help with my DS. We're broke. Cold stony broke. We've been reduced to the level of subsistence farming, and it's all gone pear-shaped. Our last remaining asset was the family cow Flora (name changed for posting). I hated to see her go, but we're desperate. I can't walk that far, and someone had to watch the farm, so DS went to market to sell Flora. And came back with a (small) handful of beans. Beans, ffs. And came up with some ludicrous story about them being magic. Magic? They were minging, clearly been kept in poor conditions, looked mouldy...obviously I had to chuck them out. Then he gave me all sorts of cheeck about it.

How long should I ground him for?

AIBU about my DP?
He took the DCs out, through the long grass (they couldn't go around it), then through some mud (again, no idea why they had to go through it) then they all went through the river (not over the fucking bridge like normal people). Then they all came running home screaming their heads off.

1. LTB?
2. Does Persil Small & Mighty remove mud and shit stains?

Stupid head that's hilariu

Hilarious

Grrr, I am so fed up with my fucking ex Dh, talk about competitive parenting. He has ds for the day, ds has come back in bits because whatever he says, xdh has to go one better. Eg-he tells him, as lo are wont to do, that he loves him. Can he not just say "I love you too son"? Nooooo, has to be this big production about how he (xdh) loves him more than anything, ever. Poor wee thing has just looked at me and said "I'm never going to be good enough for daddy" Aibu in thinking smug EA TWUNT?

May I ask a question about my friend? I think she is a little strange as she keeps asking me to call her Cordelia and saying we're kindred spirits. She doesn't half go on about some weird shit (tree nymphs and woodland fairies) and she thinks diamonds are purple! My Mum doesn't like me hanging about with her cos she got me pissed on medicinal wine when we played at cooking tea and I'm only 11. Plus the hottest boy in school well fancies her and she won't even look at him because he made remarks about her hair colour. Should I stick by her or lose her cos she's strange? Oh yeah and she is adopted!!!

DeWee

DeWee I am concerned that your twins seem to spend a lot of time unsupervised with only a small dog for company, while your DS1 flirts with the local reservoir keeper's daughter. Maybe a break from Shropshire would do you all good? I believe Rye is nice at any time of year.

Aibu to go against the wishes of my late dh?
I live with his dd and my own two daughters as well. He wanted them all to be treated the same, which is fine, however his dd doesn't look like mine (ie not as pretty). She is also very lazy and does not do the jobs I ask her to. There is a big party coming up and I have said she can't go, but I will let my daughters go. Is that bu?

fishwithabicycle what is yours? I'm sure I will kick myself but please put me out of my misery!

AIBU to think I live in the worst village in existence? I only have a few neighbours and live in the most beautiful countryside but they're all mentally disturbed, honestly. The one that sees himself as the big kingpin around here is a nice enough chap, very jolly and would do anything for anyone, but is morbidly obese with what seems to be a very serious obesity problem so probably isn't long for this world anyway.

My only female neighbour (in case I ever hoped to meet anyone) is some sort of repressed 50's housewife, only I still haven't been able to work out where her ex ran off to, but her attitude is beyond belief - I heard her singing about the role of a mother the other day and it's like women's lib never happened! She has a small child who I actually find quite delightful but he's easily led astray and has no discipline whatsoever - if I gently try to suggest he might refrain from wrecking the joint I'm looked on as some sort of bad tempered curmudgeon.

There's a stuck-up professor type living on the edge of the village and a small man who is very very quiet (so we get on extremely well) but he's so shy, reserved and easily startled I'm worried he may have some sort of PTSD.

The worst one I've saved for last - quite frankly I think he's either psychotic or on a very serious cocktail of illegal substances which is especially worrying as he spends so much time, often alone, with the child I spoke of earlier. Surely some sort of safeguarding issue? He describes himself as 'bouncy' but that isn't the half of it, he's never still, jitters around and doesn't even seem to have a permanent abode here (although he tried his best to get in with the boy's mother, extremely unseemly if you ask me). He destroyed my garden once, pulling up all the vegetables I'd worked months over, especially important when you live rurally without even a Tesco Metro nearby, but when I got cross about it once again I was ganged up on as the unreasonable one. He needs an ASBO, at the very least.

To make matters worse there appears to be no police force or NHS around here willing to deal with any of this, just a young boy who occasionally does his best to arbitrate disputes, but that's no life for a child.

I've had an offer from a Mr Heffalump to buy my house, it's a very low offer but should I take it and just move while I have the chance?

DW and I have just heard that my boss is coming to stay. He has been very kind to me, but three rather weird fortune tellers have told me that if he dies I will get his job! Sounds silly but DW takes it seriously and wants us to kill him . . . I think she is going a bit far and will end in tears for is all. What shall I do?

Andrew, I'd leave her now tbh, I've a feeling whatever you do won't be good enough and that way madness lies. Perhaps suggest she remarries your boss instead, sounds like she'd be happier and it would save everyone a lot of time.

More of a WWYD really but posting in AIBU for the traffic.

My daughter has been confined to a wheelchair for a number of years. We live in a busy German city but her physical condition means she rarely gets out so I arranged for a companion of sorts to come and stay with us to keep her company.(An type of au pair really).

She is a young Swiss girl - quite nice, albeit terribly uneducated. Though she provided some companionship to DD she wandered around the house like a wraith moping so much I ended up sending her back home to her grandfather but she has written to us claiming goats milk will help my daughter walk again!!!

I don't know what to do - obviously I know this is preposterous and likely some snake oil charlatan situation and I would dismiss it out of hand but for some reason my good friend (who is a Dr and who has visited the young au pairs home ) seems very keen for me to send DD. I don't even like goats but I would give anything for DD to break free from her invalids life. What should I do?

I love my DS and know he can be a handful but he has been a complete little monster today and I am exhausted!

Was IBU to send him to his room without any tea to calm down? Feeling guilty now - should I give in and reheat his tea in the microwave and take it up to him - or would that be defeating the point?

guaranteedpersonality - Do it. There have been lots of studies recently about the health benefits of goat's milk, (along with a gluten-free vegetarian diet) - what have you got to lose.? And if your DD is a bit lonely it might bring her out of herself a bit.

Andrewofgg - We are selecting Mumsnetters to take part in a trial for a new anti-bacterial handwash - would you and your DW be willing to take part? You would be entered into a prize draw for a Weekend Woodland Break if you agree.

AIBU to have concerns about my neighbours children? They seem to spend all their time (including a baby) in a gravel pit speaking to a pretend fairy, it's pretty dangerous to play in a gravel put surely and the parents just seem to let them do what they like!

They then all traipse off on ridiculous errands, last week they went off into the local town and ended up getting arrested for trying to buy horses with a load of fake gold. I heard their maid or au pair or whoever she is had to rescue them and get them home and the parents still never say a word.

I'm particularly worried about the baby, the older children do their best but its really not fair for them to have the responsibility of such a young child.

Cricketpitch - yes yes you must. Does your son have a wild imagination? He's probably up in his room lording it over his toys and when he has calmed down finding his warm supper will prove to him that you will always love him and cherish him unconditionally.

Yes guaranteed - he does. I just didn't want to be too soft and make a rod for my own back. Thanks for advice - I think I will.

CadburyTime - If I were you I'd stay where you are. Things could be worse. At least you have got a house! It can get pretty cold in the winter - especially at three o'clock in the morning - so don't be in a hurry to move.

Try and look on the bright side. The neighbours may be weird but they don't sound evil. (By the way why don't you suggest that the obese neighbour simply cuts out his elevenses - it could make a huge difference. He should go and talk to that other chap, you know, ( I forget his name but the vegetarian with the large extended family), he might be able to help.

This is a lovely thread - but I must go out!!!! Will have a look when I get back. ( I have a difficult conversation ahead of me - so this has really cheered me up. thanks)

AIBU to worry about a DD who is currently doing a gap year? She just decided one day that's what she wanted to do and left a note at the port near to where we live saying she'd like to see the world. Shortly afterwards a large grey blue fishing ship arrived and she decided to just get aboard and see where it took her!

From her recent correspondence I believe she's visited Antarctica, Costa Rica, Canada and the Scottish Highlands. I'm just a bit concerned about her method of transport and safety as from what I can gather she doesn't have her own sleeping quarters and appears to just be sleeping on the deck.

But DH seems completely enthralled by it and has said when DD comes home he wants to travel round the world too.

Many appy-polly-logies for the long and wearisome raskazz oh my brothers and ptitsas, but in brief I haven’t always been the most horrorshow malchick in the metro and govoreeting plainly my poor old pee and em have spent many a wearisome hour boo-hoo-hooing over yours truly and his wicked wicked ways. Nachinatting with crasting local shops and delivering a few horrorshow tolchoks on the Gullivers of them as deserved it, and graduating to dratsing with thebritva and nozh work with my droogie brethren who have since, I blub to relate, proved to be disloyal and untrue so much so it would make you creech. Any old how to razrez the raskazz malenky the Millicents laid their long arm upon your humble narrator and confined him most unjust, like, and with the most serious and judgmental goloss from the old vek in the wig to a term in the local staja. Nothing but time on my rookers and going out of my rassoodock with the boredom of the day by day, and surrounded by the most baddiwad and vonny chelloveks you can viddy. The high and mighty vecks of this stripey hole have told me there’s a new treatment to put my Gulliver right and help me be a real horrorshow chellovek and out in the free and easy in just a couple of weeks. WIBU to sign up for this new veshch even though it’s clearly just some politically correct yarblockos in the hope I can say goodbye to the Staja once and for always, and back home to dear pee and em and a breakfast of eggiwegs and lomticks of toast and butter?

PS – if any of you devotchkas out there are interessovatted in corresponding with YHN to pass the time you can scribben to me care of the old staja, my number’s 6655321, we can discuss the real horrorshow music of dear old Ludwig Van and his ilk, and you can maybe like include a poly-olaroid of your sweet sweet litsos and bolshy horrorshow groodies for me to viddy.

AIBU about DD (14)? She is a lovely girl really but a bit difficult as they all are at that age, and I worry we have spoilt her a bit. Anyway, the issue is that she met this boy at a party, and now has convinced herself she is in luuurve with him.

Fine, let her get on with it, you say. But seriously, you have NO idea what this lad's family are like. They are as rough as badgers' arses. Just to give you one example, a cousin of his stabbed another young man in a street brawl the other day.

I would let the relationship run its course but I know he just want to get into her knickers at the earliest opportunity and I don't want her to end up in trouble or hurt. To add insult to injury, I recently introduced her to an absolutely charming, suitable young man, but she's having none of it.

WIBU to put a stop to this before it all end in tears?