Checkmate For DD

[TheShellBeach]

Reminiscing...........,,,twenty years on:

I recall when DD was thirteen she told me once that she was ill, so I let her have the day off school. Despite having had a "terrible headache and awful period pains" she recovered remarkably quickly and I realised by mid-morning that she'd been having me on.

The next day she asked me for a note to give her teacher, so I wrote the following:

"Dear Mrs. X,

DD was absent from school yesterday because she was pretending to be ill. My investigations suggest that this was very likely because she had failed to do her homework the night before.

Yours sincerely,

The Shell Beach"

Mrs. X was delighted with this missive and apparently pinned it on to the wall in the staff room. DD was less delighted when she discovered what I'd written, but she never tried that one on again.

Very fair point!

Its baffling, really

You called her demented and creepy and other things, and you claim you weren't being abusive.

Now that's funny.

Oh I didn’t take it as abusive and I certainly didn’t report

i just took it as a poster either drunk and/or peculiar and oddly enough - it made me chuckle!

My God. Are you telling me the site is full of...different people? With...different opinions?

Are we ready for this?

It wouldn't be posted on a staff room wall today, assuming it was a written note! Glad you found an effective way to end lying.

More peculiar than asking intimate questions about kids 👀 aye ok laugh away 😂

My mother would have done this, good for her and good for OP.

I reported it, but it was gone before I finished. No wonder, it was plainly abusive.

No as often the opposing comments are from the same people!

Are they, indeed.

Well that is "stange".

Oh my god, am I still expected to chase them up about homework at 13!?

Couldn't agree more @Peashoots !

I read the first few replies to OP and thought, fuck! has Liz Truss taken over MN?? Bitter, twisted and humourless....

Great job mum.

Genuine post. So many do Gooders here

I can't help thinking that this thread is a bit of schadenfreude for the OP in terms of understanding what it feels like to be publicly shamed.

You think a few anonymous mumsnetters saying silly things is 'public shaming?' Lol.

Mumsnet kids rule , when we were kids we were also accountable for our actions certainly by senior school
It shows all around us in society now , the entitlement of everyone

You think a few anonymous mumsnetters saying silly things is 'public shaming?' Lol.

Well the OP fucked off pretty early, didn't she?

Or she's busy?

@WokingOrNot MH amongst children is huge so that blows that theory out the window?
One action alone often won't have an inpact so the whole if OP relationship with her dd will
I never checked if my dc did homework other than a have you done it ,if they hadn't they take the consequences , life is full of them

Ooh ,check you!

@Maireas yes sone schools had notes 20 years ago , even 8 years ago we had to call in and send a note
Different schools different rules

You have excellent mind reading skills. Care to tell me how you developed them?

Did a yoni steam in the wilderness using old modem parts that infused her with the ability to be omnipotent and all knowing. Obviously!

I do really worry about the future generations
You are aware your dc will have to face consequences in life ? That you can't wrap them in cotton wool for ever
I was brought up and surrounded by parents and people who parented like this
We are all fine , we are all pretty decent adults and we knew parents and school were a team
Our parents protected us when needed but pulled us up when we were wrong
I look at some of dc friends now and they have no clue about the real world