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To be annoyed with mum for letting DS watch TV at 7am?

108 replies

fay68 · 10/10/2007 09:51

However the unreasonable part of me is that we gave DS to her at 6am so that we could get some extra kip until 7.30. I have held my tongue, very noble of me, but I do feel a bit mean for feeling annoyed that she turned on tv for him after a while. I suppose she ran out of ways to keep him occupied and she does visit to stay every few weeks or so. But still, TV for a 16-month-old....
Should I say something or continue biting my tongue?

OP posts:
LIZS · 10/10/2007 11:51

When we stay with my mum she does this (she gets up early anyway) and lets us sleep in. Never done it consciously though. Would never have occurred to me to criticise what they were up to.

PoshCod · 10/10/2007 11:52

you are miserabearlne

ADragonIs4LifeNotJustHalloween · 10/10/2007 11:53

Even if TV is normally "forbidden" one hour on one morning in his life isn't going to turn him into a teletubby psychopath.

oliveoil · 10/10/2007 11:54

I am always lazy at 7am

compo · 10/10/2007 11:56

when we stay with my parents we get up with the kids and my mum gets up about half an hour later and looks after them so I can have a bth in peace.
My dad, on the other hand, gets up at 8.30am

GColdtimer · 10/10/2007 11:58

If your mum is kind enough to get up with him then I think she has every right to stick the telly on for a bit if that is what she wants. Standard practice in our house I am afraid - dd wakes up so blooming early a bit of TV in the morning is what keeps me sane. She is not sticking him front of it all day is she?

ADragonIs4LifeNotJustHalloween · 10/10/2007 11:58

I send BabyDragon (20mths) downstairs in the morning and tell her to turn the TV on and to shut the bedroom door on the way out. And she does.

GColdtimer · 10/10/2007 11:59

lol dragon, how well trained is she??

niceglasses · 10/10/2007 11:59

Sorry, echo what others have said, wouldn't make an issue out of it and probably wouldn't be too bothered either - as long as not stuck in front of it all day....

ADragonIs4LifeNotJustHalloween · 10/10/2007 12:04

She's a third-born child, twofalls. They learn fast

(in my defence, there is normally an older SmallDragon downstairs already and I make sure the kitchen door is shut before I go to bed )

GColdtimer · 10/10/2007 12:06

There you go then. I have a PFB so am a slave to her demands. I did hear that by no 3 they are well trained. My Osteopath's dd (no 5, 18 months) virtually gets herself up and makes her own breakfast!

milkshake · 10/10/2007 12:06

yes you are being unreasonable but also ungrateful.

HTH

essbeeavenue · 10/10/2007 12:15

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kindersurprise · 10/10/2007 12:20

YABU, but you have probably realised that by now. Is this going to be a thread with everyone in agreement? Surely not.

When I got up recently I could not find the DCs. They were downstairs, eating yogurt and watching Little Einsteins. No idea how long they were awake. They are 5 and 3 yo. DS could not find a spoon so just used the lid of his yogurt to scoop the yogurt up.

bigboydiditandranaway · 10/10/2007 12:23

What is a yabu, i get the general gist though...

Instead of your dd having telly on could you ask gp to teach her how to hoover or bang pans instead

zookeeper · 10/10/2007 12:29

lol at this thread - without Cbeebies I would have been sectioned long ago

ADragonIs4LifeNotJustHalloween · 10/10/2007 12:30

YABU = You Are Being Unreasonable

Anna8888 · 10/10/2007 12:34

YABU.

bigboydiditandranaway · 10/10/2007 12:34

Agree zookeeper, it gives me time to sort the tea out and have 5

LoRayningNewtsAndFrogs · 10/10/2007 12:51

My DS is watching TV as I type. I just said on another thread that I think that must be how he ahs learnt all his colours and how to count, I know I havent taught him them.

YABU

amidaiwish · 10/10/2007 13:36

if she let him watch a baby einstein DVD in french or italian, would that have been ok?

what's the problem here exactly?

YABU, and spoilt imho. grow up, thank your mum and make her a cup of tea. she's doing you a MASSIVE favour, she doesn't "owe" you a lie in you know.

Tutter · 10/10/2007 13:37

haven't read thread
but yabu

chipmonkeyPumpkinNorks · 10/10/2007 13:38

Dragon, I do that too! and I say to him
"Tell ds1 to get you some brekkie!"

AitchTwoOh · 10/10/2007 13:39

wow, yabru. that's what grandmas are for, to let children do what their parents don't. and if you were getting a lie-in...

Twinkie1 · 10/10/2007 13:46

YABU - he will have missed Thomas the Tank Engine because it starts at 6.30am, bad grandma!!

Can't wait until mine can get up and put the TV on themselves without getting electrocuted or killing each other so I can get 30 minutes more kip and even then I would still be up by 7!