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?

Is it any bloody wonder why us women get called hysterical with most of the replies on pretty much every thread going on here lately 🤨 I expect I will get quoted because I'm obviously a pisshead mother who neglects her kid and thinks what the OP did was fine lol. I don't remember reading that her son came upstairs all concerned and knew it was a hangover and the poor neglected little boy had to tend to his mum and the fact that he knew he had to do that means it's a regular occurrence and this is a sad story and not a sweet one. Some right arseholes on here who are being deliberately obtuse and making shit up and running with it

this is really nice to read because I always cringe at the thought of children having to deal with parents affected by alcohol. I was an alcoholic and my poor son suffered. I am the daughter of an alcoholic too.
I think lots of people have suffered somehow with alcohol abuse around them which is why a post like this will bring negative responses more than just admiration for the little boy.
parents need to be in control and doing the parenting.
but I appreciate it may not be as dark as I’m thinking

I have a seven year old boy and I always get up with him even if ill/hungover. (Not often just to clarify!)
Admittedly I might just supervise him having breakfast and cleaning his teeth, and then go and have a lie down while he goes on the PlayStation but I would always get up initially.

Also not sure I'd let him watch call the midwife??, some of the childbirth scenes are a bit scary for me as a 30 year old woman.

Or maybe they just see “mum isn’t well” and then go to help without further probing?

I have had an open surgery hysterectomy, a few weeks ago, still recovering, we explained it in kids terms what that means and even my DD the other day asked “what’s wrong with you again” 😆

This is not a thread to be proud of OP

My uterus has tried to kill me and so it’s been taken out. My son (and to a lesser extent my daughter even though she’s older) has been running around bringing me food, drink, snacks, my iPad, books, loads of stuff as I’ve been ill. Just like the OP’s son. I take exception that that isn’t something to be proud of.

Knowing what to do = squash and biscuits?

He was hardly doing CPR, ringing an ambulance and turning OP on her side, bloody hell

I have a seven year old boy and I always get up with him even if ill/hungover. (Not often just to clarify!)

Im hungover once in a flood but bollocks to that I stay in bed. Same with any illness. He can get on with life and won’t need therapy from me not getting up all day every day.

perhaos because she needed food and drink and not CPR?

the irony of saying how many on mumsnet “hate” “little boys” (one for hyperbole aren’t you?!) and that in “my” experience boys are much “nicer” than girls in children and you have a daughter is…. well sad.

perhaos because she needed food and drink and not CPR?

I think you misunderstood. My point is he's not doimg anything traumatic by being kind to his mum. And he has no idea she's having a hangover.

Getting drunk once does not an alcoholic make

I say this as the daughter of an alcoholic father who died eventually due to his drink intake. The hangover was by far the least scary part. OP doesn’t say she was drunk in front of her son, just that she got drunk and stayed out til 3am. Her son was presumably asleep and not affected

You still haven’t answered why it’s sad.
That IS my experience. I don’t voice it to my DD but I do think boys to be much kinder than girls.
Again - you’re proving my point. Would you say it was ‘sad’ if I said “girls are nicer than boys”

I don’t drink, never have. Sometimes I refuse to get up at 5am with my 7 year old because I need to sleep and he’s more than happy to watch tv in the living room with a waffle until I surface.

If he gets bored, feels lonely or neglected then he can come back to bed until a more reasonable hour.

OPs son just took some biscuits and snuggled in. Hardly neglect. If anything it’s fostering independence.

Both parents hungover and asleep at 10.30am, child left for fend to himself.

You’re not covering yourself in glory here, OP.

Well maybe it's to do with having an only child and not wanting him to be on his own all morning. I'd feel guilty if I didn't say good morning and get him sorted first before going back to bed for a snooze🤷‍♀️

Possibly wouldn't feel the same way if I had multiple children who could entertain each other in the morning.

ironic that you proclaim so much of mumsnet of haters as little boys

and then a comment that in your experience your son is “much nicer” than your daughter

would you tell them that? i think it’s sad to have concluded that about our daughter

Got badly scalded making my parents tea in bed by reaching across a boiling kettle {the sort that plumes steam} at age 8.

At least squash is ''safe'' . He sounds a sweet boy.

but I do think boys to be much kinder than girls.

oh you didn’t…. 😆

precisely what you accuse much of mumsnet of “hating little boys”

is pretty much precisely what you have done about girls on this thread

Both parents weren’t hungover.

I do find it frustrating when posters add incorrect details to threads.

He is. I’m not going to pretend he isn’t kinder. I’m not deluded. They both “much” <insert quality> than the other. I don’t pretend they’re the same; that’s weird.

no I don’t voice this to them, as I’ve already said.

My DD made me a cuppa the other day, she’s 10 nearly 11 and I had to say it’s very kind of her but DONT use the kettle unattended again please, pop is fine to bring me

Evidently I did.

A planned operation and subsequent recovery is not the same as both parents out for the count due to exhaustion and/or alcohol

Where have I hated little girls?
Because I don’t think they’re nicer than little boys? That’s not hateful, it’s sharing my experience.

To the child it’s no different - it’s mummy being ill and wanting to look after her. It’s a lovely quality to have to want to care for a parent feeling unwell. OP has said her son doesn’t understand what a hangover is.