To think this child shouldn't show off this way?

[Fourtwenty]

One of the children in my dd's school has taken a page out of a brochure and put it on the wrong of a clear plastic pencil case and has been showing everyone.

(She comes from a wealthy family so it's more than likely not a lie.)

Obviously I'm not saying this girl should say nothing. But I feel like it would almost be the equivalent of me buying a Porsche, taking photos of it and showing everyone at work.

I think everyone is entitled to nice things, but I don't think you should rub said things in everyone's face. Other way around I wouldn't want my dd cutting out our holiday from a brochure and taking it into school to show off.

You were lucky. We lived for three months in a brown paper bag in a septic tank. We used to have to get up at six o'clock in the morning, clean the bag, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down mill for fourteen hours a day week in-week out. When we got home, out Dad would thrash us to sleep with his belt!

Mumsnet at its best! The OP owns this thread. She doesn't give a shit and so many people are biting back. Its a shame that I have finished my popcorn.

Oh I think she definitely gives a shit....

I do believe jealousy is an emotion you can't control

OP I have to disagree with this. You absolutely can learn to control jealousy. You can control all your emotions if you take your time and stay calm enough. I don't even know the last time I felt genuinely gut-twistingly jealous of anyone because I've taught myself it's a pointless emotion. I stand by that; no good ever comes of jealousy. Switch off and do something you enjoy every time you feel a tiny bit jealous and eventually you'll stop registering it.

Think someone is jealous...

I don't think you can control how you feel INSIDE but you can control how you show that emotion. Some of my clients make me rage, but obviously I'm not going to go punch one of them.

I remember being 12yo. We didn't really do many holidays when primary age, and at secondary level we went to the same place in Wales and went on the beach through all weathers.

I remember my friends (and other not-my friends) going on much more exotic holidays and being exciting and talking about them. I remember one or two pages from brochures etc.
We loved looking at them and saying "oh, do you think you'll be able to..." etc. Making impossible plans for them to nip off and see Pompeii because they are passing "close", well, going somewhere in Italy .

I don't recall any jealousy at all from people on that, even though we had people who in today's money would have been millionaires and people for whom a holiday was just a pie in the sky dream that other people did.
I also don't remember any reaction from anyone implying that one holiday was better than another.

Maybe we were just all nicer in those days.

Good grief! My eldest is a teen and last year was the first time kids went abroad. Should we have told thier friends never to mention their foreign holidays all these years?

Kid get excited about holidays it's not exactly earth shattering news.

Oh I think she definitely gives a shit....

I don't think she does. I've seen so many threads like this (OP getting flamed) and some who proper wind themselves up.

What the OP said in her last few posts actually did wind some people up. To the point where she left 6 hours ago and people are still commenting.

6 hours?

That's nothing, wait until it's dug up again in 6 years.

I really hope you are just a strange person who enjoys making up absolute bullshit to put on mumsnet because if not then you are a proper weird nobhead OP 😂🙈

OK I'll say it ( If it hasn't been said already)

OP, you're a dick
Let 12 year olds get on with it. The fact you've written a thread,you clearly are bothered an it's so pathetic you've even acknowledged it
Grow up

OP, I remember saving like hell to take DCs to Disney before they got too old to enjoy it.

DD1 was 7, and told her primary table she was going in the half term. When she got back, she brought a little photograph, of herself dressed up with the princesses.

One girl said, "Who cares, they aren't even real princesses, just women dressed up. And you aren't one either, have you ever seen a princess who has short hair and wears glasses?"

I expect she had a Mother who was equally bitter like you.

Also, you're a bit deranged. HTH.

The first posts set the tone of the thread because there is only one answer to your OP and that's YABU. You aren't going to find anyone to agree a little girl shouldn't be allowed to be excited to go on holiday!

This.

There's not a thing you can do about it anyway, so it's all wasted energy. The girl can do this if she likes. She can also talk about her holiday when she gets back too