To think I’m sat on a train opposite the twattist mum ever!!!

[Pumkinfailure]

Child is 3
Mum very loudly asking her to explain the elements that make up nitrous oxide. Child looks blank. ‘Come along darling, you know your elements. Ox.......ox....y......gen! Well done darling.’ 3 year old still hasn’t spoken.
Now darling let’s do some reading, shall we read lord of the rlord nhs, you do love that don’t you’
Would you like a coconut and peanut raw ball, we don’t want to eat too much because remember darling bed time is 6.30 after cuddles.
We are now doing maths, 44-13? Loudly.
I’ve been on this train 7 minutes. God help me!!!?

Oh god that sounds delicious!

Aren't coconut and peanut raw balls meant for garden birds?

Well i've been totally hoodwinked by a stranger, reading over my shoulder, enticing me with his raw balls - sadly all that meant was he'd just had a wax. No peanut butter anywhere.

When dd was that age she knew all the lyrics to Anything Goes and would happily sing loudly about gigolos, usually in a packed train. It's sad that this little one didn't seem to be saying anything.

I've seen kids not much older who have 11+ tuition...totally different thread there...but same principle.

Just asked DC what elements make up nitrous oxide and they looked at me like frets about their GCSE Chemistry results next year

My friend is French but hasn't ever bothered getting her DCs to be bi-lingual because "It's just too much 'assle cherie, no?" Bloody love her

@PenelopeShitStop then more fool her - her children will later have to put in effort learning a language that they could have learned to speak perfectly naturally. Bilingualism is not performance parenting when the natural conditions already exist at home. Sad really that she is forcing monolingualism on her children when she has the choice not to - and effectively limiting their prospects in the process when already so many British children are monolingual and this would be such an easy way to make them stand out.

"Forced monolinguism"? Only on Mumsnet

No I agree, if the parents speak two different languages then the children should learn both, when they are young and it's easier.

Angelil have you brought up bilingual kids? It ain't a walk in the park!

Forcing monolinguism Ffs there are no limits to the made up twattery on here sometimes

Really sad if a parent won’t teach their children their native language. Mine speak 3! And snippets of a forth that their grandparent speaks.

Yeah I'm sure that the Chinese and Indian children are watching TV and eating fattening carbs and refined sugar. Your kids competitors and replacements at The top of the food chain are studying the periodic table and doing math at 3. Your presumption of white supremacy in your intelligence isn't going to hold Water in the 21st century. FYI

Ouch bashun

But there is truth in that !

Performance Parenting is not positive engagement. It's using the child as a prop in a narcissistic display.

This nails it for me. Poor kid.

I've been pondering the comments about bilingualism with increasing annoyance over the past day or two. 'Forced monolingualism' is what Welsh and Breton kids endured in the early 20thc, being beaten by teachers for speaking their native tongue in the playground. It is pretty offensive, frankly, to refer to not speaking your native tongue with your child in the same terms. Besides which, people have all sorts of good reasons for not going down the bilingual route, from a desire for integration in a host community, to a negative association with their own mother tongue, to not wanting the altered family dynamics that come from OPOL (if you don't know what that is you DEFINITELY don't have the right to make any comment on bilingualism). Seeing languages just as some feather in your kids caps is hugely reductive and naive.

I recommend you read any of the books in Alexander McCall Smith's 44 Scotland Street series, where you will meet this ghastly woman and her poor son Bertie, and her down-trodden husband...did you not wonder what he was like? It'll give you a laugh!

If you don't believe the OP, report to MNHQ. But I don't see why you wouldn't believe her.

Poor kid. I hate people who talk AT and drill their dc in front of people. It must cause them some anxiety surley.