To refuse to send my child to a pirate party

[Mashbocking1]

A nursery friend of my 4 yo DS is having a pirate themed birthday party. I’m planning to decline the invite as I don’t think it’s appropriate for little children, or anyone for that matter, to dress up as a pirate - it’s glorifying and sentimentalising criminal men who raped, robbed and murdered.

FFS, piracy used to carry the death penalty until recently! You wouldn’t let your child go to a Nazi themed party - I can’t see much difference!

Ffs. Your poor child having to go through life with a batshit crazy mother. Grow up it’s a child’s party!

Jesus Christ.

I love it when my husband dresses up as a pirate, ties me up with rope, steals my money we earn at work and flogs me. He loves it when I yell, "Yarrrrrrrrr! Harder me Daddy!" I especially love it when he dresses up as the Hunch Back of Notre Dame, "My balls! My balls!".

I feel, you're the type of person who gives one cube of meat per curry, counts out sugar free sweets to their partner and child, bans all colourful clothing because khaki is the new black, and goes to church every single day, because if pirate costumes turns us all into criminals, not going to church will surely mean you'll burn in Hell. Right? It must be true?

If this is a journalist - Would you like a picture of hubby and I playing poke the pirate pot? ;)

In all seriousness; These are children dressing up as the pirates we see in high fantasy films, where they search the high seas for treasure etc. Not Somali pirates looking to poison the goody bags. I really think you need to lighten up and get a grip, before your child resents and hates you, because talking from experience as 'That kid with -that- type of Mother' many years ago....he/she will really grow to feel bitter about the woman who prevented them from enjoying normal social events with the rest of their friends.

This isn't about your opinion and how you see things in life, this is no longer about you. This is about allowing your child to have a life. At this point however, I wonder if you have any parent friends and if they talk about/ridicule you? I know I would - I just did.

Hmmm - you are being a bit unreasonable. They are only small children and the "pirates" they will be dressing up as bear no relation to the real pirates that you are thinking of. It's just fantasy and play and harmless Let your son have fun with the other kids or you will just be thought of as a bit strange.

I think you're all being horrible and the OP is definitely NBU.

This sort of silly role play can have knock on effects.

I had to reprimand my 5 year old DS only yesterday.

"Adolf" I said "will you STOP making little Torquemada play 'Walking the Plank'!
It makes him very soggy and you'll never get him properly alight!".

Kids have to understand Consequences.

And that's a dodgy game too

This is my first ever post & it’s an eloquent start to my MN world....

FFS ..

How asinine & precious you sound !! PC at its very, very worst !!

Jesus H Corbett.

See.

Send him as a ballet dancer?

Are you fit to be a parent?
As my name suggests I am BLIND and so, therefore, I must use assistive technology in order to use the computer.
Have you ever heard of HALLOWEEN where children dress as witches? Will you try banning your child from that because witchcraft was illegal at one time? Instead of writing rubbish about Pirates why don't you stop being an attention-seeking idiot?
Oh listening to your post the Acronym (WTF) is not appropriate when eluding to ANYTHING concerned with children!

WhatchaMaCalllit

Send him as a ballet dancer? winkwink

Excellent!

What do you do at Halloween? If your kids dress up as witches or zombies maybe you'd better worry about that too. And come to that, a lot of nursery rhymes were originally political jokes. Attitudes change!

Ps Because it's like a sport, right?

Is it me, or does Prince Philip look like he just came off a pirate flag?

Arrgh Jim boy.

A pirate walks into the doctors with a broken arm.
They told him to sling his hook.

Sorry, I'm easily annoyed by pirate jokes.
I've got Irritable Vowel Syndrome.

Omg. You serious?

Ha ha.
Good luck with schooling!

What's a pirates favourite band?

Arrrrrr-haaaaaaaarrr

Or these guys

Take her to the party or don't. She is your child. You can choose. You can not take her to a party for any reason you like, no matter how ridiculous.

Omg I love mumsnet for the crazies! My sons school has pirate day every year in year 1! If you think about it most things aimed at boys, once older than 3yo are violent. Superheroes, power rangers, even mario is killing. Get over yourself OP. Please dont be that parent.

We had a rather risqué French pirate board book for toddlers. One illustration showed pirates at play, one was pissing a beautiful arc into the harbour, most were drinking beer, and one was offering a gold piece to a lady clearly of ill repute.

DS always urinates in the correct appropriate receptacles, but he does have a habit of lobbing coins down the cleavage of any well-endowed lady, so perhaps the book was ill-advised. Beach holidays are a nightmare.

I wanted to be a pirate, or a gypsy who danced the tarantella or a cowgirl when I was young. Favourite idea was being a horse. Children fantasise and are creative. It doesn’t mean they are actually going to go out and become these things. Regret not pursuing the cowgirl idea though.

I do sort of get where you are coming from, as I hate Halloween because it glorifies evil. However, if you read more into the history of the glorious age of piracy, they weren't all so bad, or at least as bad as the authorities. Some pirates attacked slave trading ships and set the slaves free. Other pirates were just business men hag may not have paid thrift taxes to the king, but followed a strict code. Piracy could be quite liberating for women as well.
The fun part of pirates for small children is simply the adventurous side, reading maps and discovering hidden treasure. No need to delve in thr darker side of piracy at such a young age. But in truth pirates are not usually portrayed as 'good' in literature. So the kids know these and like to play the 'baddie' fof fun on occasion.

I think your off your face or mental. YABU lighten up.

im guessing this is either A: A joke post or B: A snowflake post?

Am I the only one who thinks op has a point?
In theory...

Well. Thank you OP.

Now I can say I’ve literally heard it all.

Parenthood is going to be a minefield of worries for you I fear.