To think that this mom was Museuming all Wrong?

[ChaosTrulyReigns]

Was at a Science Museum this afternoon bored as feck, been there done that and was on the gift shop gritting my teeth and managing expectations when I observed a little tableau of another family's life and was pleasantly surprised to be able to knot my Judgy control pants .

A little girl pestered Mom for a completely inappropriate toy, Darling Ranunculus was probably 35 months. Mom immediately agreed and went to buy the meccano jeep.

Mom and happy child then proceeded to buy tickets for the museum.

AIBU to think all the seasoned parents know to visit the gift shop after the museum purely for purposes of behaviour management and persuasion?

Should I have given her the beenifts of my copious parenting experience? Aka been a meddling middle aged Harridan?

Please tell me the child wasn't called
Runoculous. .
Kind of cute though for a baby Dinosaur, of course

My mum once agreed to my both my children having a gift from the shop at a local non-NT (so stupidly priced) castle. they both picked expensive tin cars and mum came away having spent £30-odd instead of the tenner she thought she'd get rooked for.

They know Grandma can't say no of course. My five and two year old played her for all she was worth .

I agree with gift shop, ice cream, whatever first. It stuns DGDs into compliance for the rest of the day.

TinklyLittleLaugh I am so jealous of your Tolkein cushion, I only came away with cards and an advent calendar. Next time I visit I shall try to justify some home furnishings (as they are still in the shop).

I'm really strict on this - either adequate behaviour is observed by me and onlookers alike, or there will be no ice-cream or visit to the gift shop. I do not bend. DS has learned well and manages to even look enthusiastic in museums for a while anyway.

(Out of interest OP, are you the same Chaos who's been here for yonks? I get ridiculously excited when I see a name from my early days of MNing, although that's mainly as I don't have much of a life tbf)

It was probably the day the 35-month old had turned 36 months.

Chaos is that really you? You haven't been round these parts lately!! My you havebt changed at all except the old and wrinkly bits missed ya

These young 'uns eh? They'll learn parenting the hard way

I want beenifts! Buy me some from the gift shop or I shall squeem and squeem.

Next time, your wise beenifts might just make someone's day. But YANBU, gift shop is bribery all the way.

You had me at beenifits.

YANBU. Definitely gift shop last so you can use it for bribery and you don't have to lug the junk you've bought all the way round the museum. There's also the hope that the kids become more tired and less enthusiastic after an afternoon in the museum and are less likely to pester you for the biggest most annoying toy they can find.

It can't really be Chaos. There are no weird autocorrects or multiple postings of the same message. I think the record was seven?

We made the mistake of buying DD 10 months something very early on in a day at a theme park recently. We then obviously had to promise the same £ to DS 1 and 2. DS2 spent the rest of the day talking about what he would spend his money on from Amazon.
So from that pov I can see getting the gift shop out of the way

www.google.co.uk/search?q=tolkien+cushion+bodleian+exhibition&client=safari&hl=en-gb&prmd=isnv&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiM_sriwIfhAhXB1-AKHTRdA8EQ_AUoAXoECAwQAQ&biw=1024&bih=666#imgrc=KK_qKVAR92dk8M

To be fair Iwantacampervan I’d already left the gift shop and DH emerged with it for me. I knew there was a reason I put up with the old glimmer.

Ok pigsDOfly I didn’t realise it was old fashioned

It seems odd tho because it involves my brain doing maths to work out how old the child is and why would someone say 35m, it’s so precise. If my child was nearly 3 I’d just say nearly 3.

I thought it was used as a stealth boast that:
A) I know exactly how old little Delphinium is down to the second because I’m an alpha mama
B) I know my 12 times table (so does my 3 year old) and I’m going to see if you know yours
C) I’m elitist my child is not merely three, my child is 35 months how dare you lump him in with three. He has one month to go.

However I am extremely sour as have encountered some rather pretentious mamas on FB and the way they used to use it made it look pretentious especially when used over the age of three (have seen 48 months used)

Actually I take it back... Mushroom, beenifts... random capitalisations... Hi Chaos how the very devil are you m'dear?

My kids are currently obsessed with superzings. When we went to the British Museum recently I girded my loins for the gift shop experience but they asked if the shop sold superzings like Sainsburys. I said no and they asked if we could go there instead. So 80p times 3 was much better and less painful than the traditional £15 each on something wooden and worthy they would use as a cosh on each other then never touch again.

However, my Ranunculus (not dissimilar to her actual name) has really never heard of Elsa as my kids seem to hate Disney.

Five little words which every parent knows means an otherwise perfectly lovely outing is about to be spoilt:

EXIT THROUGH THE GIFT SHOP

Siameasy Ranunculus is a girls name .

Coincidentally we were at a museum today where a child with a very unusual choice of name (especially given the inappropriate ethnic origin of the child) was being given free reign in the gift shop before going in the museum.

Bloody hell - a super-expensive gift FIRST, before you've dragged them round the shit water-cycle exhibits, and loudly performance-parented around the recycling section?!! Shit no.. the correct way is to end the visit in the gift shop, head straight towards the the books section (the serious science-y ones that fit in with the school curriculum) and offer the choice of a particularly textbook-like specimen or (and this is to be hissed)..."we can save the cash and have Maccies on the way home instead?".

Empty calories and a lump of Minions-themed landfill in a garish box wins out every time, and frees up DP and I from cooking tea so we get to order in Chinese later when then kids are in bed.

^inappropriate in terms of the mismatch between name and ethnicity.

@TheNoodlesIncident yes! Really is me.

Just been caught up with RL and put off a bit by MN's SOHdectomy

Hope you're all grand?

@Amrapaali oi oi with the wrinkly, you cheeky doily! Tbff you're probably right though, yhe decade with a giant 5 in it is inching closer in a menacing fashion ffs.

How the divil are you?

@Siameasy or D) my child is my life my world my universe my solar system and my snowflake and knowing exactly how old age us in months shows how important she is to me. Which is why I never say no to my little dewdrop - couldn't near the teeniest hint of a big bottom lip