to think that there is a larger than average number of perfect mothers with perfect children around on MN these days?

[emkana]

With children who will just admire the view in the car, and who will appreciate the delights of historic sites without the added attraction of a playground, and who can be taken along to dinner where they will join in with adult conversation...

Who has these children? Are they like the wierd ones from that film where they take over the village?

Wasn't "Children of the Corn" a documentary, then?

ha ha you need to block some threads

yes, and they are all gifted and talented too

yes, and their children went to Macd's once and ate the apples but refuse to go again
they prefer to eat macrobiotic raw bean sprouts
well, don't we all

except my little adorable horrors

Mine do look out the window (or else they may vomit!) but listen to Harry Potter.

They do talk to us in public, but only if bribed!

Mine watch Stupid too. And know rude words. And have a fat WOHM mother. And will ALWAYS try and eat with their fingers at home until we read them a boring Riot Act about behaving as though they were at school or out in company...
It really is a mystery to me why they are so cheerful, sociable and healthy.
PMSL at cornsilk and the Mumsnet Cuckoos...

Emkana if you like you can have my 2 unperfect ones

DS is yer average stroppy 4 year old,4 going on 13

DD is delightful but I am getting a little tired of her constantly
Clinging to door handles swinging off them shreiking with delight
Turning on taps obsessively in the bath
Waving and bouncing at her reflection
Managing to kick me with her splints,when I change her nappy (God that hurts)
Turning my washing machine on and off
Ditto the Tv.

I do tell her no regarding some of this and she will listen occasionally but she is so into pressing buttons etc that at the end of the day I am so tired that my energy level is depleted and I let it go (bad mother emoticon)

No, it's always like this on MN - it's vomit-inducing.

marina, I refuse to believe you are fat

I picture you like this:

marina

Hair is not dissimilar and sadly that is where the resemblance ends HC
But I am working on it...

Mine try to eat with their fingers even when in company. I think they have a caveman gene.

Ah well, it's easy to be perfect when you are typing a chosen reality. I aspire to lots of these things of course....

Well I am not:-

My dd's love the playground and ignore the castle!

We go to Mcd every now and again

I ignore them at times to be on MN

They sometimes eat what I give them but occasionally refuse all my offerings

They have DVD players in the car (but only for long journeys)

They can sit in a restuarant but will need occupying whilst waiting for food (normally involving stickers!!)

They probably do watch a bit more cbeebies than they should

They have lots of toys that dont get played with (but a few faithfuls that get played with every day)

I probably spoil them a bit

DH is useless not very good carrying through his warnings and panders to them (his excuse tha he doesnt see them all week as he is at work)

DD1 should now more 'things' like alphabet etc liuke her friends but she honestly doesnt seem bothered and I know she'll pick it up in time

Oooooh theres loads more but on the whole we are all happy, they know we love them more than words can say and we have our health so thats whats important

cornsilk, believe me, it is actually more infuriating when they behave like Little Lord Fauntleroy and Violet Elizabeth Bott in public, and go all feral at home. No-one believes you

Er, I think you've missed the point. It's not that we have perfect children who do these things willingly given a free choice, more that we make them lump it from time to time in the interests of showing them that there is a world outside kiddieland, and that Lumbridge isn't a real place . I have to admit that my children dominate adult conversation given half a chance, and that historic sites have not always altogether appreciated them... but I try

Get thee to some other parenting site with tickers, turkey twizzlers and text speak...perfect mummies only allowed here

which mummies/threads are you refering to ?

Oh yes, the joint is full of perfect mummies, with darling children, and dont whatever you do mention, sausage rolls or fruit shoots, cause thats not cool,you will be virtually shot, also dont mention ff (on a bf thread, although can be fun!!), or the daily mail, or that you believe in smacking, or you will be reported, and thrust out by the mn police!!

Yes.

Mine sit with their hands in their laps and never get their pinafores dirty.

My children are not perfect. They are all boys for a start and we all know they are imperfect. Can't bring them on holiday in case they get the girls dirty!
Mine are allowed sweets on Fridays and Sundays. So they sneak to the shop after school on Mondays when they think I'm not going to find out.
And if ds3 is refused a biscuit he cries and says "Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeease!" until I lose the will to live and his feckless father caves and gets him the fecking biscuit. He is going to grow up and make some poor woman's life hell.

YANBU, the perfect mothers are definitely on the increase.

Pity me, I LIVE next door to one!

i don't know i'm too up to my -arse-- elbows in chaos, frantically wondering where little hands has placed the sky card this time

Some posts giving "advice" are thinly disguised veils for gloeating and general smiggery especially when talking about dps "I don't know why you put up with it my dh/dp would never do ex reminds me of how LUCKY I am etc. etc." Some people just can't ressist the opportunity to shove their perfect life down your throat (Victoria Beckham syndrome)

Of course my dd 19m plays quietly with her educational toys (demolishing remote/mobile by engaging in the fascinating activity of gleefully watching the back burst off and batteries scatter all over the floor, even more amusing when Mummy has to grovel under sofa to find them!) for hours whilst I soak my organic beans (shove fish fingers under grill, baked beans in pan, biscuit whilst she waits) for our perfect well mannered meal (eating beans with fingers, making "artistic" patterns with them).

Obviously I'm perfect Mummy aren't we all