To think If Mumsnet were a country

[Bannalebasadi]

We would be living in a country unlike all others. Most posters' children eat healthy (despite obesity stats), no one ever admits to being married to a man who does not pay child support(dispite the many threads about fathers(mostly) absconding from responsibility)without justifying it, we have no Wendy on here, none of us or our children are bullies, our children can speak at 5 months old and are all top of the class, etc

Am I unreasonable to think somethings on here are beyond belief in relation to what happens outside of MN?

Well... My DD eats healthily most of the time but is only 15 months so it's not difficult at this stage.

DH doesn't pay child support because he doesn't have any other children and lives with us.

At 15 months she can say mama, daddy, Peppa and George, shoes, teddy, cheese, woof, quack, the name of our dog and grandad. Fairly average id say. She watches too much Peppa pig .

I actually think for all the people on here claiming they have gifted children etc there are as many saying their children are struggling/they need help getting them to eat healthily etc. Just like real life really.

YABU

Now get out of Stepford!

My DD can't speak.

Got you are being intentionally obtuse, of course if your husband does not have any other children this op would not apply to him

kitchen what's so backwards?

fanjo you are the only one

I wasn't being deliberately obtuse. I thought it was a fairly light hearted post and responded in a light hearted way. Massive apologies.

Yes I am probably am one of the only ones.

Well, to even it up for you.

My kids eat a balanced diet with plenty of fruit and veg but I don't restrict unhealthy stuff at all, they're all good weights although one of them is on a prescribed high fat diet.

My ex pays child support and my DP doesn't have other children.

My children all talked early and met targets easily but they're average academically and that's just dandy.

I'm not a bully, having been bullied , as a kid I wouldn't inflict it on anyone I would come down like a ton of bricks if I found my kids were bullying anyone.

kim147 MN children don't have salt.

fanjo My DS is rubbish at talking. He's excellent at pointing and dragging people around the house to make up for it.

fanjo not sure how old your kid is but my 25mo can say 4 recognisable words, mama, dada, baba (boobie he means) and cheese. He also is obsessed with touching numberplates and headbutts the floor/table/wall when frustrated (which is all the time). My eldest has ADHD/ASD. The middle one, so far, seems relatively ordinary. I'm going to write a memoir and call it "Perfectly Normal".

OP partly everyone pretends on the internet that their life is not the way it really is (better/worse depending on going for boasting/sympathy) AND a lot of people have different levels of experience.

Loads of threads full of "my child never bullies" and "my child loves raw vegetables as a treat" are by people who have ONE fourteen month old! In five years their parenting experience will have broadened, but they are also likely to have gotten sick of mn and moved on. I say that as someone with a 9yo who dips in and out of forums but quickly gets bored of the vitriol nowadays and always wanders off again after a few weeks of posting.

If mn were a country I'd emigrate - pretty bloody sharpish

She is 8..she has ASD..it's fine..we are used to it and she gets her point across!

My dc eat healthy home made food maybe 50% of the time

I don't have a partner but my exp no longer contributes to the dc

All three dc have been good talkers, eldest struggles with reading, middle with writing

Eldest two didn't toilet train til about three and a half

I thought you were going to say there would be no wedding gift lists or poems, no table bagsing in cafes, no parent and child parking and no eating in the supermarkets.

It's not Mumsnet, it's the Internet. People present a glorified version of themselves unless, of course, they're looking for pity, they do the opposite. Grain of salt.

Is this a lighthearted thread? I need to know.

Should have added

I'm hoping so sparkling

No drinking of squash either.

mrs don't you know your children will miss out on making "social contacts", you crazy woman!

kim you eat leftovers

I like white bread, margarine and peanut butter downed with tea with sugar

It's lighthearted of course

Tbf, I'd probably be exiled and shipped out sharpish once the authorities caught wind of my loo brush and my Ribena addiction anyway