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?

Don’t parentify your kid.

I bought me and my almost 5 year old son an ice cream each (£2.50 for a 99 now!) a couple of weeks ago. I dropped mine and he insisted, very loudly, that we share his. Of course I made sure to have a tiny bit but made out I had more to please him. This was so unexpected and beyond kind, for a child who would normally growl if you asked for a bloody crisp...

Bless him!

I think a lot of people are projecting their childhoods onto a nice comment. Mum went on a work night out. Son showed kindness as she looks a bit poorly. He’s not pouring her a morning vodka.

Yep.The fun sponges are all alive and kicking today!😅

A pool and a gardener,anything else you want to stealth boast about.

And YES he IS tok young to boil pasta at 7!!!

Oh give over.
🤣

It’s very likely.

This thread is either going to end in an undignified bunfight like most threads on here or it'll eventually be nominated for Classics.

Well,you can fall for it if you like,I'm out.

I'm a single parent, if I need to sleep in (due to hangover/illness/sheer exhaustion from life) then they'll all grab a fruit shoot and a chocolate waffle and sit on their tech til I get up. Probably once a fortnight and I don't care if people think it's poor parenting. I'm just surviving 🤣 TBF, I've trained mine now to sleep in on weekends so they don't usually get up until 10 themselves unless we're going out somewhere 🤦

I had an almighty hangover years ago and my then 5 year old thought I had a bug, he put his arm round me and said don't worry Mum we still love you and you are still part of this family 🤣🤣

He sounds adorable!

I have a teen so I have forgotten what that’s like.

Although they do sleep in all morning and so I don’t have to worry about getting up early on the weekends anymore but breakfast in bed would be nice!

Clearly too "stealth" since a lot of people seem to think the kid went to a public pool (or that OP is referring to a paddling pool 🤣🤣🤣)

Yet another hyperbolic, overwrought mumsnet thread.

The neglect and the suffering...and the SHAME.

heh

Nah that's shit.Train him to bring you up a bacon butty and a glass of red next time.

Sounds like it’s a regular occurrence or they wouldn’t know what to do

You lost me on separate bedrooms and a pool

Aaaaaw he sounds sweet OP.

I also have a lovely 7yo boy. I’m currently bedridden after surgery and he’s brought me food, drink, books etc and always checks I’m OK.

The other day he was going on a play date, the mum of his friend was picking him up. DH had nipped out so I said I’d stand with him outside the house to wait for her. it was raining and I had a brolly, he was wearing a rain jacket. He took his jacket off and tried to reach up to put it on me because he didn’t want me getting wet (even though I had a brolly 😂). It honestly was so so sweet.

I really struggle taking about my son on MN because there’s a large subsection of MNers who hate men (fine, many men are shits) but have extended this to hating little boys. And teenage boys on MN are basically the devil. I get so cross about it, IME of having a girl and a boy (and also seeing their friends, kids of friends and family etc), boys are way nicer in childhood than girls by a country mile

This really isn't the flex you think it is...

Enough bedrooms for parents to have one each, a gardener and a pool.

Tbh, the 7 year old did pretty well to find his way from his room, to the kitchen and then his mum's room without getting lost. 🤣

Surely kids just see “mum isn’t well”. My 7yo wouldn’t know what a hangover was but he knows what he can do to help when I am unwell

🤣🤣🤣

Jesus fucking Christ, this thread.

People really do fall over themselves to be cunts on here.

He sounds lovely, OP. My 8 year is similarly very thoughtful and capable.

I know, people replying with a yawn emoji etc. just WHY?! Do they really hate themselves? Hate that other people have lovely kids? Or just hate little boys?