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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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letsgomaths · 20/02/2019 09:02

I know a 6yo boy who told me and anyone who would listen that on his birthday, his mum covered his eyes so he couldn't see, and this was wrong and unfair!

All she had done was blindfold him to pin the tail on the donkey; he thought that as the birthday boy, he didn't have to be blindfolded like everyone else.

ratherbeshowjumping · 20/02/2019 09:03

Some of these are hilarious.

My DNephew cried because I wouldn't let him sleep in the stable with the horse.... Grin I'm an awful aunty.

OhWhatFuckeryIsThisNow · 20/02/2019 09:03

Not me, but my ds used to babysit for my bfs spawn of the devil. Unreasonably he told him to get off his PlayStation and go to bed (it was only 10, fgs), Sotd ran out of the house up the street screaming that ds was a stranger and he'd kidnapped him. Cue ds running up the road in bare feet to catch him. Luckily all tge neighbours knew him from old.
My asd ds1, when he found out I was receiving DLA for him, demanded it all, and said I was stealing it. He was 12, and it would have gone on sweets and games.

ShadowHuntress · 20/02/2019 09:03

My 4 year old ds called my mum crying - he knows how to dial her as I have her pic on my phone - to tell her I was kicking him. What I’d actually done is lie to him and told him dd was at school when it was a sat and she was going to the trampoline park with her friend. I knew he’d kick up a huge fuss if he knew she was going without him. He overheard me asking dh what time she was coming back and was screaming ‘you tricked me’. He was crying/screaming so much that my mum thought he was saying mummy kicked me! He went into nursery the following mon and told them whole story too!

goingtotown · 20/02/2019 09:09

DD informed her friends mum that I treated her like Cinderella. This was because I asked to tidy her room. She was 8.

diplodocusinermine · 20/02/2019 09:14

Seline, have you ever seen the 'Cutted up pear' thread - I think it's in Classics. You will relate Grin.

supersop60 · 20/02/2019 09:17

My DD used to scream her head off when I changed her nappy (she was about 2 and wanted to continue playing). "Mummy NO, mummy, please don't" God knows what the neighbours thought.
My niece accused my sister of lying to her for years (Father Christmas)

Tunnocks34 · 20/02/2019 09:19

My eldest told his pre school teacher at 3, that ‘my daddy made me very sad last night because he put his finger up my bum’

He had, he had to have medication in the form of a suppository. We had to take the medication in to plead our case!

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justilou1 · 20/02/2019 09:22

Mine is to cruelly and deliberately breed knowing I was passing on “short genes.” Never mind the complete lack of supermodels in my husband’s family, too. (In fact, at 5ft2 - almost... I am statuesque compared to most women on both sides!)

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Dixywitch19 · 20/02/2019 09:22

When DS was 2 he told nursery mummy had got him stabbed... we'd been for blood tests that morning and he still had the plaster on 😂

He also told my DM that my partner puts him in the bin when he's naughty.

user1483390742 · 20/02/2019 09:25

My 9 year old told me he was going to ring Childline when i turned the Wifi off.. I told him not until after i had rung Mumline! Grin

BlooperReel · 20/02/2019 09:25

My four year old accused me of 'starving her to hell' because she was not allowed a chocolate muffin after lunch (that she hadn't even finished).

drspouse · 20/02/2019 09:31

My DD is 4 and still not fully continent. The absolute worst thing ever is if we tell her she has to go to the toilet and get changed if she's soiled her pants.
I would just leave her to be uncomfortable given the screams, but the smell isn't nice...

chilledteacher · 20/02/2019 09:48

My DSis was taking my DS for a week which involved a train journey from our house to Cornwall. DS fell asleep for a few hours and must have done that thing where you wake up and don't know where you are. He started panicking and screaming at the top of his voice that he was being kidnapped and he wanted to go back to his Mummy. Worried passengers alerted the guard and at the next stop the transport police were waiting for my DSis who had to explain she really was his Aunty and she really was just taking him on holiday for a week. They only believed her after they phoned me to check.
She takes the car now when picking the kids up...

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Dohee · 20/02/2019 09:48

Typical scenario

Protagonist: DD. A soliloquy Shakespeare might well have been proud of.

Enter from left scene: DGM 'Oh darling, what has she been doing to you?' With all the drama of a best supporting actress.

Exit right of scene: Me.

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MamaBear2181 · 20/02/2019 09:51

Back in the 80s My brother was asked in nursery once what his daddy did for a job, and he told his teacher that he all he knew about his dad was that he was always in the bookies, the pub or jail!

Dads best mate worked in a bookies so he went there sometimes but as for the other two he rarely went out drinking and had never once been in trouble with the law 😂 As for his job, he was a carpenter lol!

BettyWoo · 20/02/2019 09:54

Many years ago my eldest ds threatened to call Childlike because the internet wasn't working!

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Dohee · 20/02/2019 09:54

Honestly, I can't be dealing with my DM and DD especially. It's like she's the fair haired child, proof that I'm incapable of being a mother and there is nothing to be done but feed her icecream. In fairness, she must be going through trauma at the hands of my good self. Or so the pair would have you believe!
I think it's because she's the first grandchild.

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Dohee · 20/02/2019 09:57

@Bettywoo, I'm so dependent on internet, I'd be calling 999. Grin

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caringiscreepy · 20/02/2019 10:31

My dcs 4 and 5 have started telling people that the last time we went on holiday we locked them in a room and wouldn't let them out even though they were screaming. This never happened and I've no idea where they got it from

LadyBunker · 20/02/2019 10:35

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formerbabe · 20/02/2019 10:35

My ds asked for some tic tacs when we were shopping and loudly proclaimed that he needed them because he had nothing to eat that day. He'd had breakfast, a snack and a big lunch just an hour earlier Confused

Limensoda · 20/02/2019 10:37

My daughter used to have a long list of abuses. Oddly, she forgets all the good things. It must have been hell for her...

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