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To want just one day where I don't get upset by my ndds behaviour

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paranoidanxiety2018 · 30/05/2018 09:26

So today is my birthday, and as we don't have much money I saved the little we do have for my dds birthday (which is Tuesday), and made myself a cake. The sponge cam out beautifully and is probably my best yet. I left it on the side to cool over night ready to decorate. I was woken by my ndd (5 on Tues) at 7am wishing me a happy birthday with a cuddle and a card she made, only to walk in to the kitchen and find she'd taken a spoon and destroyed my cake!!
Why my stuff?? It was going to be a thing of beauty with vanilla buttercream icing and half strawberries all over .
In the last 2 weeks she has broken or almost about 4 items that mean alot to me or things that I desperately needed. Like the whole brand new box of plasters, may seem stupid, but I split the crease of my toe right open (she knew about) and needed those plasters to keep the split clean, dry and fixed to prevent it splitting more, I had no money to buy more. My hobby involving 3 weeks of hard work she came into my bedroom and drew all over it in the early hours.
She doesn't do this to her own things and is in fact the most careful child I have ever met when it comes to her things... so why mine??
Aibu to have wanted just my birthday to be a day where I don't cry, don't feel like she hates me, and don't just want to be mean??
I really really wanted to say something to her, anything to get my hurt and frustration out but i managed to stop myself, realising tht it would solve nothing and only make her as upset as me, so just said "Go to ur room, please"

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ShawshanksRedemption · 31/05/2018 11:25

@paranoidanxiety2018

Posters can only go on what you put here. Many have expressed concern and worry over that. I re-read your first post and still feel that; maybe you didn't mean it the way it came across? Maybe it was just a rant you needed to get off your chest, but posting in AIBU is going to get all kind of responses rather than on one of the support boards.

I'm glad you got to enjoy the new cake with DD and hope you enjoyed your birthday. Cake

Shadow666 · 31/05/2018 12:35

Oh, gosh. I think this is one of these posts where the OP would have been better posting on NetMums. You just want to rant and get a few sympathetic nods and maybe some friendly, helpful advice.

On AIBU, things get so melodramatic. It was a minor incident. The OP was a bit pissed off. It happens. There's really no need for anyone to call social services or anything.

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