To think my little boy is an absolute sweetheart?

[Maythefoursbewithyou]

I don't drink often, almost never because I'm terrible at it. Anyway, a series of strange events yesterday meant that I ended up very much on the sauce and quite pickled when I went to bed at around 3am.
Husband is very asleep and I woke up about an hour ago feeling bloody rotten. My 7 year old came into my bed with a tin of biscuits and a pint of squash and had put ' call the midwife' on my work computer which doubles as the TV for my bedroom. I just couldn't love this kid any more right now. What a little legend he is. I don't deserve him. Currently smashing my way through some custard creams and watching my favourite show with the cutey next to me and feeling so bloody lucky. Lazy day incoming. Anyone else just get blown away sometimes by how nice their kids are and Wonder where it came from?

Oh please. Some of the hysteronics on this thread.

I left DH in bed this morning and 7yo downstairs with breakfast and kids YouTube and went food shopping.

It's fine. He is perfectly safe in his own home, knows to wake his dad for anything he needs and is a sensible little chap.

dear god people on here will just jump on and make up anything to give someone a kicking rather than ask questions first and then judge.

Yep I'm sure OP was downing tinnies while her child swam around alone 🙄
Or perhaps he was at the pool with grandparents or friends who were looking after him while mum had a rare night out. Perhaps his dad was there, doing back to back shifts doesn't mean he hadn't finished work by 9.30.
Or she didn't start drinking until they got back from the pool
or given that most pools in the uk aren't open at 9.30 she actually means a paddling pool or similar.

If people actually think a seven year old shouldn't be allowed to go downstairs to pour some squash on their own, that is far worse parenting in my view, over-cossetting your poor darlings to an extreme.

It's a cute story OP, and I'm sure if you told anyone normal in real life they'd agree your ds is very sweet.

Did you post this on Facebook too?

probably with photos and comment #blessed#

plenty of huns in the mix too

@1offnamechange i will take a punt you don’t have children

#making memories#

Agree. My kids often got up on their own. No harm done. They don’t have to be supervised 24/7.

Uh oh OP, this thread is not going to go the way you thought it would.

Well that depends entirely on how the OP thought it would go.

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Were you drinking Stella and lambrini till 3 am or chardonnay and port ?This puts different spin on the cuteness of your kid peeling you out of bed when your hungover

#mamaslilprince
#makingmemories
#blessed

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Poor kid.

Wow, I didn't mean this to turn into anything quite so serious and aggressive 😂 like there are people actually condemning our parenting and suggesting my son's neglected 😂 he's an absolutely smashing kid, gentle, caring, affectionate and sweet natured. The other day he spent about 2 hrs just lugging bits of tree about for our gardener because he wanted to help him. He's also a pretty amazing little chef too, but I suppose there'll be people panicking in here saying that he's too young to boil pasta or chop onions. I don't know, I think he's amazing and very sweet and he's also very well provided for too. Perhaps I am a terrible parent for waking up a bit rough after a night out, most people in my profession do it a lot and are often out late, for me it's a couple of times a year and usually involves ordering a huge takeaway and watching a lot of movies and shite on TV. He'll live I'm sure.

He’s not too young to boil pasta or chop onions - if he is supervised. Same with being ‘in the pool’.

Im not sure what you expected from this post really?

Bacardi coctails 😂 never again. It must be 5/6 years since I drank rum and I remember why now 😂
I guess that's kind of mid range on the chavometer 😄

Er, he sounds great but yours and your DH behaviour... Not so much.

FFS folks . That is what Fruit Shoots , Pom Bears and Nickelodeon are for . 😁

This website is genuinely insane 😂 someone’s child is nice to them and people fall over themselves to shit on op and ‘feel sorry for’ her son. Crazy behaviour

I’m no saint but sounds like your child is too familiar with parental hangovers. Not something I’d be bragging about.

This thread should be saved and pinned as a prime example to study of the (very true) stereotype that MN is full of sanctimonious arseholes

He didn't HAVE to step in did he?

Agree - if the bar is that a child can "cope" then it's a low bar. Getting to 10am and not have a parent moving about the house is not nice, different if parents are working shifts and need sleep and have told the child.

My mum tells an adorable (to her) story about the fact that when I was a kid if if was sick in the middle of the night (vomiting I mean).I'd just sort myself out and then go back to bed. Evidence of how grown up and independent I was. Or how I was petrified of disturbing her and my dad or going in the room in case they were having sex or a violent argument. This feels a bit like that.

The issue is it does ring bells for those who were parentified as children therefore if you make a post about isnt it great my child looked after me when I drank too much you can’t be surprised when you get flak.As I said not something to brag about. Probably in this case it’s a one off but people can’t act all surprised at the reaction by many.

Can he swim ? I'd be more concerned he was left unattended near a pool if so ?