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AIBU?

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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?

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FunkyGlassSlipupandyouredead · 23/10/2007 18:12

YABU - You got a lie in, your mother entertained DC for a while. Then a bit of tv - so what if it wasnt a toy giving a selected sensory experience. The changing images of news24 for 10 mins will not affect your LO.

snooks · 23/10/2007 18:20

Hey, last couple of posters, cut Fay some slack - I think she explained how she felt about this thread earlier at 13.51. She's probably very aware that the general feeling was YABU...

Fay I have done you the honour of posting here because no doubt I will kill this thread stone dead - I seem to be good at this on MN

FunkyGlassSlipupandyouredead · 23/10/2007 18:21

Only read the OP. Didnt see her most recent comments. Stand by what I said but sorry you've got a hard time.

snooks · 23/10/2007 18:22

ok funky

macdoodle · 23/10/2007 20:57

Gosh you feel hard done by sorry stick by earlier bashing not only are YABU you are being extremely ungrateful....if you don't like the way she looks after him at 6 bloody am then get your self out of bed and do it yourself!

amytheearwaxbanisher · 23/10/2007 21:15

yabu but if you cant bu on mn where can you

welliemum · 23/10/2007 21:58

Fay, don't be upset, we all have unreasonable moments and if you know you're being unreasonable, and keep it out of RL by venting on MN, you're doing better than most!

People always pile in on these threads when the answer is clearly YABU or YANBU.

When it's a tricky issue, finely balanced, lots of valid points of view, answers requiring careful thought - all these strident posters vanish like the morning mist.

fay68 · 24/10/2007 09:30

Thanks all undertanding MN'ers.
It was, like, a 5 second narky feeling I had and it was so blatantly bad that I posted it here because people can come to be very bad and get over it. I believe MN actually helped prevent me having full-blown PND.at 38yo of age with a ds and dd and a military hubbie as well as work surely I can be allowed to be totally and utterly unbalanced with PND'ish unreasonable and demonic thoughts. Actually, even being a mum is excuse enough. I was actually being sarcastic to myself in my post - of course I wasn't effing noble!
I never ever voice them to anyone though and in RL am the most amiable and soft-spoken person ever and I think AIBU helps everyone with being able to think before you speak.
FGS, looking at all the titles of the threads here, hasn't anyone had a totally ungrateful thought and then gone "well, that was shitty" to themselves?
I was only upset with all these scenarios and words I never wrote being used. You expect being hit on the head on MN when you're shitty but you don't expect it to become like chinese whispers where your post gets embellished until it looks like you've become a serial mum murderer!
Anyway, I would like to say sorry on my part. I've been really touched by how the majority of MN rallies round immediately. You wouldn't get that in RL.

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