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?

I had a really horrible illness recently and my 4 year old would come into bed and pat me and say in a reassuring voice "there there my dear mummy, I know, I know, it's ok my dear mummy". So wonderful, as awful as I felt it's a genuinely beautiful memory - and did make me feel better!

And to clarify, he does NOT normally call me "my dear mummy", I think he was trying to be all grown up and responsible.

How thick are some of you.

A child can see his mother isn't feeling well without knowing it's because she got absolutely fucked on lambrini's and babycham the night before.

And a nice child might want to make his mother feel better, rather than some posters on here who, to paraphrase another poster, are just falling over themselves to be cunts today.

Well done OP on having a lovely little boy. I've got three myself, and they'd all look after me like this.

But how did her DS know that dehydration was part of a hangover?

This thread and the need to post it to share, is depressing.

Perhaps he was just bringing her a drink?! When I offer people drinks I am rarely doing it for medical reasons.

I think he sounds fab OP. I see nothing wrong with kids getting up, getting breakfast and watching breakfast while parents have a lie in.
They are safe happy and know where we are.
pearlclutchers!

Omg this is SO bloody dramatic!!!!! I can’t believe some of these posts 😂 hilarious

It isn't that deep.
The child doesn't need to follow any specific purpose to bring mum squash and biscuits.

Maybe the squash is just a common part of their breakfast and the easiest drink to make? Maybe the child was ill some day and remember receiving squash and something small to eat?

I posted earlier an example when 5yo delivered his mum the same thing his favourite cartoon character received when being ill.

good practice for his national citizen service conscription in a few years.

I remember my dad being in bed for ages when I was little so I made him a green tea and put milk in it. He was disgusted by the milk. Looking back he was definitely hungover. None of it is an issue now, I haven’t had counselling for it and we laugh about the green tea with milk.

Nice going trying to hijack an otherwise lovely thread.

I didn’t realise dehydration was only EVER the symptom of a hangover and no other illness ever

I thought this too.

Lambrini, Stella = low life alcoholic scum, you should not have been allowed to have kids.

"Vino", Prosecco = mummy needs wine, aww you go mama, #thismumcan

All these dramatic and sanctimonious comments have livened up a rainy Sunday afternoon 😅

This thread is completely insane. I don’t think I ever saw my parents drunk (maybe my dad one time when I was in my early 20s!) so no one can accuse me of thinking it’s normal but there is surely no way any reasonable person can read this and think “you could have KILLED YOUR CHILD IN THE POOL!!! Your child is EXPERIENCING TRAUMA and ACEs!!!” Like please visit the real world. If you think this is traumatic then you are highly sheltered - and no, your experience with alcoholic parents is clearly not what OP is describing.

My eldest when she was a toddler I had surgery and she was so calm and gentle why I recovered its like she knew. She was very sweet.

Oh get a grip. Sheltered to the max and trying to pretend it's normal.

He sounds like a total sweetheart! Is imagine the right process with the drink wasn't "mums hungover and dehydrated" but more along the lines of "mum usually has a drink when she wakes up. I'll make one."

My niece told me once that she likes to phone me on a Sunday morning because "Daddy is always outside doing stuff to the car/motorbike and Mummy is always drunk". She's 8. It's probably not true.

Sorry are you telling me to get a grip? I feel like this, as a one off, is a total non event. Repeatedly hungover and your child having to look after you is completely different, but there is no reason to assume this is what OP is describing.

As someone who is disabled, this is a horrible thread to read. My children have to support me massively in the mornings because sometimes I'm in vast amounts of pain and even getting to the loo is a huge challenge. They will do things like find the hairbrush and hair tie so I can tie the younger DC's hair up and then help with walking her to school. Sometimes they assist each other and all of them assist themselves, including grabbing breakfast (toast or cereal) and dressing themselves. I had no idea I was setting them up for a lifetime of therapy and pain because they see me very much worse-for-wear very often.

When we had Covid, my then 8 year old was responsible for breakfast and lunch for himself and his younger siblings (we ordered in for dinners) for 4 days. We had no other choice/support and both DH and I were horribly unwell.

I have always been proud of how they manage themselves, particularly in the mornings, grateful that if I was in serious trouble they wouldn't be flapped and would simply get on with what was needed in life.

I see from this thread that my lovely, sensitive and caring children are actually being completely destroyed by the fact they have a disabled mother and that their status as Young Carers is going to cause lifelong pain and hardship in future.

Thanks for that.

Don't you have carers

my then 8 year old was responsible for breakfast and lunch for himself and his younger siblings (we ordered in for dinners) for 4 days.

where was your 13 year old? (according to your other thread you have an almost 18 year old)

and where’s your husband?

@steamedisbest maybe the dh is at work, 18 year old work/college so has to leave the house earlier? Same with the 13 year old, being at high school they probably have to leave the house earlier?

It’s really, really weird to do an advanced search on a poster to try to catch them out. Unless you’ve remembered their username from a previous thread, this just seems really strange behaviour.