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to ask what bizarre cruelty your dc have accused you of?

159 replies

Dohee · 20/02/2019 07:42

I've just been reading threads and was reminded of one thing my dd said to me very earnestly one day.

'I remember you putting me to bed in the middle of the day'.

Now, either she can recall being a baby being put down for a nap, or she recalls being put to bed at her usual bed-time during the summer when it was still bright outside. Either way, she was never put to bed at 3pm for the rest of the day and night.

It's funny what they remember and what they interpret.

Have you been accused of any cruelty?

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Dohee · 20/02/2019 08:17

I wouldn't mind but Granny wouldn't have thought twice about cracking us across the knuckles as children! Dc however?

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KipperTheFrog · 20/02/2019 08:18

I get accused of abuse daily by 4 year old DD1. All because I ask her to stop hitting/pulling/squashing 2 year old DD2. She doesn't mean to hurt DD2, but doesn't get that DD2 is very small and easily hurt.

Darkestnight · 20/02/2019 08:18

By giving a camel the hump Grin

Mildmanneredmum · 20/02/2019 08:19

When DD was at pre-school playgroup, she told the staff that mummy wouldn't get out of bed to make her breakfast. Not at 3.00am I didn't....

Mummyoflittledragon · 20/02/2019 08:22

Dd accuses me of perceived injustices almost daily. As I was typing on another thread, she just tried to swipe my iPad because she wanted to put her music on it and record herself on another device. She was holding my phone in her other hand to do the recording.

When I refused she indignantly said “stop stealing everything”. She has her own phone and iPad, just couldn’t be bothered to go upstairs and get her them but thought it fine to deprive me of my stuff. How does that even work?

Anyway she’s stomped upstairs to her bedroom with her friend in disgust. Probably slagging me off as I type. 😂. And don’t let me get started on the Spanish Inquisition if I dare google a recipe or something on her iPad because it’s closer.... Hmm

BertrandRussell · 20/02/2019 08:24

“Dd told nursery that I pulled her hair an hit her (brushed her hair, tapped her hand for being naughty)”

You did hit her though, didn’t you?

Yabbers · 20/02/2019 08:24

I kicked her off the chair.

Of course, I tripped over the chair leg and she lost her balance and fell off the chair.

I got off more lightly than the nursery nurse who broke her leg. Poor lady who discovered her broken leg to this day is accused of actually breaking it. And worse, DD said so to the folk who investigated the incident at nursery. (It apparently didn’t even happen at nursery!)

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Dohee · 20/02/2019 08:26

PMSL It's great that they live in an age where they can talk about their perceived slights, but God does it come from left field when they construe abuse from something totally benign and you're left trying to defend yourself. The innocence. And an indulgent Grandmother who loves nothing more than to hear how wicked I am so that dd will run to her for comforting (and Coke, sweets and Ice cream and anything else the Wicked Witch has banned).

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SummerHouse · 20/02/2019 08:30

I made DS drink my blood and he ended up in hospital.

He wrote this in a school book!! Oh the horror when I was flicking through and found this disturbing life event.

It was actually early days breast feeder and I didn't know my nipples were bleeding and he was admitted for voming blood.

Still I haven't learned to keep that story to myself it seems... Blush

GypsyRoseTea · 20/02/2019 08:32

Hmm Bertrand! That’s a big leap!

User12879923378 · 20/02/2019 08:35

I'm amazed any lighthearted conversation gets off the ground here these days

Wherearemyminions · 20/02/2019 08:35

We had a rabbit (RIP Snowy) and when he died I buried him in the garden. Eldest DS told the younger 2 that I had served him up in a pie Shock

To this day I think they are still not sure, eldest DS now being mid 20s. I have refuted it so many times but it's stuck in their minds as something that definitely happened, and they've repeated it as a fact to so many people over the years!

MrsJane · 20/02/2019 08:37

Classics from my dc over the past couple of years:

"Mummy made the cakes too chocolatey and now I feel sick!"

"Mummy made my ice cream too cold and now I have a headache!"

Ds4 told my mil that DH had drove really fast and crashed the car into the house!
He's reversed slowly onto to the drive and accidentally scuffed the bumper on the wall. Hmm

Fiveredbricks · 20/02/2019 08:40

20m old was very upset at me that there wasn't a Dinosaur for him to brush at the petting zoo last week.

Seline · 20/02/2019 08:42

My eldest son used to scream HELP ME NOOOO when me and my husband would pick him up and put him in the pram in public.

It used to upset my husband more than me because my husband isn't white but our sons are white passing, so he used to think people would think he was kidnapping a child when he was out alone lol.

Fiveredbricks · 20/02/2019 08:42

He told DH "Mama no dinosaurs!! Mama hid dinosaurs!!"

Calibri12 · 20/02/2019 08:43

Yes! My twins threatened to call childline once for making them ski on a skiing holiday! They were about 8 I think.

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Dohee · 20/02/2019 08:43

20m old was very upset at me that there wasn't a Dinosaur for him to brush at the petting zoo last week

You do know that you were being abusive there? Just wait until Granny finds out. Or woe betide you when he tells Nursery. You're screwed.

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Seline · 20/02/2019 08:47

Same DS also threw a strop about a sandwich but he has delayed speech so all he kept doing was pointing at it and shouting. Taking it away made it worse, giving it to him made it worse.

Turns out we had done the heinous crime of cutting it up and he wanted us to glue it together...

Theyhaveallbeenused2 · 20/02/2019 08:47

I said a bad word..NO when he wanted a biscuit when I was making dinner.

crispsahoy · 20/02/2019 08:47

@BertrandRussell no I tapped her hand I did not hit her across her forehead like she said!

Grumblepants · 20/02/2019 08:51

Ds hit me this morning because I tried to get him to brush his teeth! (He's 2)
He also had a massive tantrum when I turned around and caught him putting a metal spoon in the microwave and I took the spoon away (luckily he hadn't actually figured out how to turn microwave on, but it stays unplugged now just in case).
I wouldn't allow him to have chocolate for breakfast. That one ended up in hitting screaming and throwing himself on the floor in hysterics.
I'm obviously an evil cow!

BalloonSlayer · 20/02/2019 08:53

DNephew complained "I have to do everything round here!" when he was reminded to brush his teeth, aged about 10.

DS1, similar age, on his birthday, had the treat he wanted, favourite food, loads of friends round running around madly, masses of presents - declared it the "worst day of his life." Why? Because we said that after all that running around he must have a shower.

Rufusthebewilderedreindeer · 20/02/2019 08:54

Its constant with my dd

The thing she found most unfair was not letting her audition for the Harry Potter films

She is also very annoyed that she isn't actually at hogwarts , she waited for her letter all through school and is now at college

SHE IS 17 PEOPLE...17!!!

She wasnt even born when the auditions were on

And the child can really hold a grudge!!

Rufusthebewilderedreindeer · 20/02/2019 08:56

Ds2 did tell his keyworker at playschool that i hit them on the bottom with a wooden spoon

IT WAS A JOKE

And if you looked at his 'what i did at the weekend' story book in infants all he did was play on the computer

They were allowed on for 30 minutes A DAY!!!