The childminder took *Moondog's* children to Macdonalds today......

[moondog]

so,question is,am I being unreasonable by terminating her contracy forthwith??

lol BS

whats the problem

Would it be worse to admitting to McDonalds or toy-stealing, I wonder?

My dh loved this thread. He couldn't tell if it was a joke or serious. Some of the comments have made his day. He really doesn't get Mumsnet which makes things like this even more of a hoot.

LOVE the fact that Broccolispears would rather admit that she's a thief than a McDonalds customer! HYSTERICAL!!! And then we wonder why our society is skewed and crime ridden!

Let them eat nuggets...that's my theory to world crime!

Damnit I missed this thread. I genuinely did a double take when I saw the title .

I hate McDonalds...would never go through choice...if im going to eat something thats hideously bad for me then I would rather it was something that TASTED wonderful and not like a mixture of cardboard & salt. On the very rare occasions I go there I tell the children it tastes horrible and look at how un-environmentally the packaging is but honestly I do think you are over reacting. WHATEVER you are totally against will be what appeals to your children the MOST.

If it was a one off personally if she were a great childminder otherwise I would just let it go with instructions to never do it again!!!

There was a report in the papers at the weekend that DH read to me about kids who are stopped from eating things then binging on them when they have their own funds - so to find Moondogs DCs outside their nearest McDonalds praying under the golden arches we need to wait how many years?

My parents have always been healthy eaters we never had "nice" biscuits or cakes in the house...as soon as I got my first job I used to buy a box of Jaffa Cakes on my way home and eat the WHOLE BOX on the 10 minute walk home. I still have no control if I have cake in the house

I am not planning to ban my children from eating anything, just educate them regarding what is healthy and what is not.

lol this is ver funny

Moondog I would have reacted in exactly the same way. Thankfully DS is still a McD and KFC virgin. Long may it last.

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Ah Locksikas. After I'd referred to my dictionary and actually understood what you were writing about I laughed like a drain.

Very funny.....

And please, don't come to dinner at ours any time soon...especially as I'm planning on doing Maccie D's on takeout tonight Our conversation will undoubtedly cover E numbers and will be accompanied by lashings and lashings of Fruit Shoot.

Ah, the joi de vivre!!!

Nothing wrong with Mcdonalds.

It is indubitably apparant that this is of course so long as one takes ones own plates and cutlery.

Good God! I thought this had happened again but it is just the same thread!

My heart! Moondog would not be able to cope!

We took the DCs to McDonalds when we were On A Long Journey once. DD was two and DS was four at the time. The following conversation occurred as they eagerly unwrapped their (un)Happy Meals
DS What's this?
DH Its a chicken Nugget.
DS(in ridiculously loud pantomine dame style exclaimation) A Chicken Mugget!! Whatever is a chicken Mugget?
DD Its a biscuit.
DS(In said same voice) A biscuit? Do I have to eat a biscuit with these thin chips?
ME Its a chicken nugget, just eat it.
DS(On noticing 'toy') what's this? Do I have to eat it?

Cue funny looks from table next door and Little Brown Mouse family hastily eating thin chips, biscuit but not toy and scuttling out quickly!