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AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

Not sure u lot are clever enuff to answer this...

192 replies

AlphaMummyVoiceOfReason · 13/09/2007 15:00

My white, Crocs and Boden wearing, home educated daughter (who was delivered by elective CS so as to avoid pushing and include tummy tuck) was brought up on Formula milk laced with fruit shoots and Greggs' sausage rolls, after starting on puree at 14 weeks, which did her no harm. She certainly filled her disposable nappies!

She is so Gifted and Talented that my highly presentable size 8 nanny has to park her 4x4 in the disabled bay, and when she walks my dog next to the children's play area of the local and inferior state school (I'm no racist but it is full of immigrants), she is so busy listening to dd's insightful and well-informed explanation of exactly what happened to Madeleine McCann that she has no time to scoop the poop, thus necessitating the use of organic hemp dog nappies.

We feel that a light smack with the Daily Mail is the best (and kindest) way to limit the questions, or , if she has a modelling assignment coming up, it's easier to send her straight to bed - of course she cries, but will settle herself after a few hours. She can always watch the TV in her bedroom or play computer games if she can't sleep.

My question is: As the nanny at our country house is about to be deported back to Ruritania, should I send DD to boarding school now, or wait until she is seven? And should I allow her to walk there by herself?

Any advice - from longterm MN regulars only - welcomed. No arguments on my thread, you can leave if you don't like it. My views may be controversial but I'm still right.

OP posts:
Hurlyburly · 13/09/2007 15:24

Oh you are all being SO CLIQUEY.

JocastasMater1974 · 13/09/2007 15:25

pmsl hurlyburly

Meeely2 · 13/09/2007 15:31

round of applause........

CatIsSleepy · 13/09/2007 15:33

HB
there are loads of no cliques on MN! for shame!

Caroline1852 · 13/09/2007 15:35

I think it is best to send her boarding as soon as. You are not best equipped to deal with her looming eating disorder. Boarding schools take their in loco parentis mantra seriously and have a school nurse on standby 24/7, not to mention lots of loos. The other girls will be understanding about the smell of vomit. Plus self-harming, if you are lucky enough to catch it early, is best dealt with as a boarder. All this bonding will help her to settle in and feel like she belongs.
PS What did you call her in the end?

fireflyfairy2 · 13/09/2007 15:35

LOL!

First time I've laughed all day

lornaloo · 13/09/2007 15:36

ROLF at this thread. Has had me in stitches...

LowFat · 13/09/2007 15:38

I am in awe of you and am reporting myself to social services for bad parenting after reading all the wonderful things you do for your DD.

Obviously trying to get my DD to partake in cooking a nutritios meal which she will go on to eat is cruelty and nothing short of child slave labour.

ROFL at this one!

lucyellensmum · 13/09/2007 15:38

what? am i so insignificant that no one can be bothered to flame me even LEM goes off into attention seeking sulk

RedBundle · 13/09/2007 15:39


REGISTERING MY DIGEST

NineUnlikelyTales · 13/09/2007 15:39

YANBU

Once she is out of the house you can clear it of all toys and plastic tat, and have all the seating for adults only.

Hurlyburly · 13/09/2007 15:39

at Lucyellensmum

lucyellensmum · 13/09/2007 15:41

but HB i was hoping to join your Clique

Peachy · 13/09/2007 15:42

Surely it's

Registering my indigestion

With all thsoe greggs sausage rolls?

(lucy you can't get flamed! I swore as blatantly as I could at someone earlier- nada, zilch )

Goblinmate · 13/09/2007 15:42

Ker-ching!

**
CASH REGISTER
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LowFat · 13/09/2007 15:43

I thought it was roasted.......

No wait that's what footballers do, not MNetters

AeFondKiss · 13/09/2007 15:44

nineunlikely tales - surely such a gifted and talented child has no need for toys?

and they would organic heuristic....

LowFat · 13/09/2007 15:45

Oh bugger I've gone and killed the thread....
better get on with some work then!

LowFat · 13/09/2007 15:45

phew

OrmIrian · 13/09/2007 15:51

Sweety! You'll get lines if you worry so much. Please don't give it another thought. I'm sure there's a childhood organiser you could outsource your child too. Let's face it you can afford it and you are worth it.

Emzy5 · 13/09/2007 15:52

OMG... lol

elesbells · 13/09/2007 15:54

this thread is fucking funny

Hurlyburly · 13/09/2007 15:56

Is it time for AlphaMummyVoiceofReason to unveil herself and take a bow?

Peachy · 13/09/2007 15:57

Oh dahlink- forgot to congratulate you on your totally original spelling in the op... wunderbar! I do hope you blessed your daughter with a similarly imaginatively spelled name!

Now gals, methinks its time to lobby those at MN HQ (towers being rather expansive for their pitiful share of greenfields real estate) for a few pretty flashy icon thingamebobs, which would accentuate this wonderful thread perrfectly

Anyone?

OrmIrian · 13/09/2007 15:58

lem - Gregg's sausage rolls are lovely and you can buy 4 big ones (ooh err missus) for £1.75. Bargain if anyone's language....