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?

Do you not understand difference between “I” and “adults”?

This.

So every child has an identical childhood to you?

My son doesn’t know what a hangover is.
A few weeks ago I went out with friends and stayed out til 3am. The kids didn’t know I got drunk or stayed out late because i didn’t take them with me.

How come you’re not horrified and do vomit emojis when I say I prefer women to men?

i have taken exception

because o. the one hand you accuse much of mumsnet of “hating little boys”

and then you go to start talking about how much nicer and kinder boys are

I have both. and i suppose a) i didn’t like the hypocrisy and b) the idea that you thought your son was “much kinder” and nicer than your daughter and that your daughter may be aware of this

Thankfully though you have confirmed you have concealed this view from her so we do t need to derail anymore

sorry op!

happy to do so now

🤢

It’s honestly so pathetic

Do people KNOW what a child caregiver actually is and does?

This thread is deeply embarrassing for so many posters.

Oh no, a random mumsnetter doesn’t agree with me, however will I cope

well i hope just fine as would be a bit weird if not

Whereas I think a child that must be about to go to secondary school should be able to safely boil a kettle.

It’s not the boiling, that’s not a problem, it’s the pouring into a mug part without someone there. Our kettle is heavy and awkward

off topic totally but are you a genuine phycologist?!! very cool if so

Many years ago I'd learned to cook a full English breakfast & make a cup of tea at the age of 10 - in the Brownies, although I'd still want to supervise my child at that age tbh

Was it not obvious from her post?! 🤭

Oh give over, bringing your mum a pack of biscuits and some squash as a one off does not make you a care giver. You have zero evidence that this is a regular occurrence in OP's house, basing it on assumptions.

Imagine the therapy session: 'once, when I was 7, mum didn't get out of bed to pander to my every need, so I took her biscuits and squash and watched TV in bed with her'.

Hate posters jumping on the OP like this. Living with someone with serious depression for decades must be so difficult and draining, and that will skew sense of things

You have my support OP

oh sorry wrong thread

Whe my child was a teenager and I was having a really crap time at work (I was not in trouble but there were some heavy duty things going on that were taking up a lot of my time and energy) I came home to find a Beenie Baby tiger toy on my bed with a note attached saying "I have come to be your friend" . Things continued to be a bit rough so this was followed up with a Simpson's mug with Homer declaring "Oh cruel fate, why do you mock me?"

@YaMuvva, if your kettle is too big and heavy for a ten or eleven year old, you have two options. One, and l think is the best choice, is to buy a cheap travel kettle. The other is to instruct them to only fill up the family kettle halfway. A child of this age should be able to boil a kettle to make tea and coffee - it’s an important life skill. When I was a brownie, back in the seventies, we learned how to make pots of tea from the ages of seven upwards - obviously with supervision first. In those days, kettles were much heavier and, although automatic switches had been invented, they were expensive, so we had to wait until the kettle was fully boiling before switching it off manually and pouring the water into a teapot. Automatic kettles were not a thing until the mid-eighties, when the jug design became a thing. As they tended to be made of plastic, l am imagining that the price came down, too. Teabags did not overtake the sales of loose leaf tea until the mid-seventies (again it was a matter of expense) so we had to measure out the tea leaves into the pot. To this day I prefer tea made in a pot and treat myself every so often to loose leaf tea. Children are capable of far more than many people nowadays think.

There is something disturbing about this that I can't quite put my finger on.i don't know a 7 year old knowing how to care for a hung over parent is a bit off.

Maybe it's the pint of squash to rehydrate that is the thing that's a little disturbing

Oh FGS the OP had a few drinks, she didn’t inject heroin into her eyeballs

This thread is actually hilarious. So many people jumping to conclusions so they can clutch their pearls in sanctimonious dismay.

Myself and DH once got nora virus at the same time and had to sit on the sofa, waiting for the sweet release of death, while our 18 month old DD trotted backwards and forwards between us, patting us gently. This must also make her a caregiver. And we wonder why kids have no emotional resilience when there are so many people lined up to tell them they are victims.

OP, your son sounds adorable. I hope you have had a lovely Sunday.

I'm assuming the son thinks that the mum is ill? It is irresponsible to drink so much when the other parent is out of action.