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

[Dohee]

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?

Mine is to cruelly and deliberately breed knowing I was passing on “short genes"

justilou I get that as well. I tell mine that this particular adaptation enables our family to survive economy class flights in relative comfort.

My young niece likes going barefoot in the garden at home. But when forcibly made to wear shoes, she protested vehemently "mummy's locked up my feet, I can't see my toes!!". Not only had nasty mummy made her wear shoes like these, but she'd securely buckled them on to her daughter's bare feet, so she couldn't kick them off.

DD threatened to call childline on me because I took her shopping for deodorant and shower gels and pretty body sprays then a few days later when she still hadn't taken the hint I explained to her as gently as I could that she's growing up and needs to start using the deodorant. Apparently that's emotional abuse. (in my defence, she has really bad BO and subtle was not working)

DS told his school that his favourite film was Chucky the scary doll and mummy said it was ok for him to watch in bed 🤨

Also told school, after suddenly coming over all upset, daddy had been giving him alcohol when mummy wasn’t around and mummy was watching him do it (that makes a whole load of sense 🤔)

Once he decided to put his hand on top of the electric cooker after it had just been turned off (I didn’t grab him in time AFTER I told him stay away and I was right next to it) he told the hospital and me that I had told him to touch it!

Ds is 7 and never did this, that I can remember. His great grandad in his 80's did though, rang my mil in a panic one night at about 2-3am, as he'd woken up to the sound of ds (then about 3) outside his living room window, banging, crying and begging to be let in, but when he went out, he was gone.
Mil then rang me, shouting that I had to go check that ds was in bed (he was). She kept asking was I sure he was okay, in the end I had to wake and put then dp on the phone, to calm her down, as I was (I think she was worried I hadn't actually bothered to check). Very odd, no hallucinations or anything like that from the man before since, very out of character for him. That must have been one hell of a vivid dream he had

It wasn't a vivid dream. It was one of the Lost Boys. GG had a lucky escape that he flew off to try and convince someone else to let him in

I refused to buy dd any more chocolate in Tesco's

Disability social worker came today, so dd told her that I refused to buy her any food. That I never buy food for anyone but myself.

Not quite right for the thread but.....My friend went to Canada for a week without her 2 children (don’t know why they didn’t go). People told her it’s child abuse and she should not leave them alone. Her DD is 11 DS 21

My son tried to ring child line because I offered him curry his sister had made and then I said if didn’t want it he could go hungry