To snigger unhelpfully in the background while dh is SERIOUSLY telling the children off???

[Greensleeves]

I couldn't help it

I heard him go stomping into the boys' room (they are 2 and 4) and say, in his best righteous no-messing voice, "WHICH boy has spilt something strange on the bathroom floor?". Silence. "WELL?". Silence. More stomping as he goes back to the bathroom to assess the damage. Then back to the bedroom. "Right, now this is VERY serious. WHICH boy poured something strange into the bath and then danced in it? WELL?". "Nobody, Daddy, it was just an accident, we spilt some of your green shampoo." DH: "Now, I KNOW that's not true, because there are muddy footprints in the bath!"

DH: "Right. Now I want you both to go STRAIGHT to sleep, and I do not want to hear any giggling or silly noises. If I do, I will come up and take away Bed-duck AND Minty." (their bed-friends)

He's still stomping about downstairs in a mood about it, it's only a bit of shampoo, fgs

" I do not want to hear any giggling or silly noise"

Aint gonna happen Mr Greeny

snort

they either don't give out when they should or they go mental about something silly.

not unreasonable to laugh at all imo!

pmsl at 'and then danced in it'.

I would have been right there sniggering with you I'm afraid.

I particulary like the line-"If i do ,i will come up and take Bed-duck and Minty"
I bet your ds are quaking in their boots!

Oh dear, he wasn't very amused by my backstage contributions

But really, how delightful of them to pour stuff into the bath and dance in it!

oops, that's another pseudonym gone for a Burton

We;re going through a phase at the moment of trying to tell the boys off about stuff and one or other of us (or both) stifling giggles....

Unfortunately the boys have cottoned on, and smirk, which maddens me iykwim but just makes us giggle all the more.

sorry but my sympathies are with him..... how v undermining and unsupportive of you (or has he already told you that??)

the 'something strange' and 'very serious' would have done it for me - followed by threats of violence against bed-duck and minty!

Something strange? Didn't he recognise his own shampoo? What on earth did he think they had spilt?

Blu, you have set me giggling again now

lol I would have been giggling too

this made me laugh...
is it happy ending?
..did bed-duck and minty stay safe in the paws of the boys?

Fond LOL at Bed-duck and Minty

And no, not unreasonable at all

Yup, Bed-duck and Minty are still in their respective boys' arms

bed-duck? does he have ducks for all occasions? well, i suppose there's toilet duck. efficient but not what you'd call cuddly.

You are very reasonable.
And this has made me laugh as I struggle with some tedious work. Especially the 1950s schoolmaster act ("Which boy...") applied to two no doubt uncomprehending little ones.

'something strange' started me lol-ing!!!

I can just imagine Bed-duck and Minty in orange boiler suits, shackled and being carried on stretchers out of the room.....

did they dance in it?

No, they're not at all uncomprehending, they know exactly what the're doing and they are deliciously mischievous, I heard more suppressed giggling after dh had left them

I remember being in a lesson (as a student teacher) where the teacher had to tell two boys off for flushing their socks down the toilet. Their OWN socks.

LOL Hunker

I remember one of my primary teachers going completely ape-shit because some of the boys had been getting together at playtime to piss in each other's shoes

Oh I do love threads like this - cackles at every post

And I've done it myself and they have smirked and I have got madder. It's a thankless job being a snotty parent.

My friend's brother mooned at the teacher, then the school sent a letter home to his folks. When his mum confronted him about it she was shaking, I tell you, shaking, and had to walk out of the room so that she could laugh without him knowing - but bless him, he got the wrong idea and thought he'd made her so angry that she couldn't bear to look at him!

I have a 4 month old who I tell sternly not to bite me during bfing...when I do, he laughs! Is this normal?!! Or is he a psycho...mwahahahaharrr (actually he's lovely)xx

I found myself shouting at a boy in class just before the holidays as he keeps farting deliberatly and as I heard myself bellowing at him across the room to stop "farting with intent" I just thought I sounded so ridiculous that I started to giggle and I couldn't stop and before I knew it I had peed my knickers meaning that I had to change my lesson as if I could not leave my seat as I could feel a little puddle on my seat!