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Would you smash up your kids ipads like Luisa has here?

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mumofoneAloneandwell · 23/08/2025 15:14

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/luisa-zissman-admits-harsh-parenting-35781185.amp

I quite like her, liked her on The Apprentice. Disagree with her on this though.

Yabu - its fine
Yanbu - not for it

Manifesting enough money to even have this be an option though 🙏🙏

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mumofoneAloneandwell · 23/08/2025 17:50

AnAlpacaForChristmasPleaseSanta · 23/08/2025 16:33

Join the Conor & Charlotte thread! Although celebs is stretching it a bit 🤣.

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/5396824-to-think-she-owes-him-a-public-apology?page=5&reply=146621256

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😄😅 i'm already there girl!

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TheNightingalesStarling · 23/08/2025 17:55

If she wasn't a celebrity that sort of parenting would be getting a safeguarding report if they told someone about it.

Put them in a draw, sell them, give them away to charity... lots of options that don't involve violence

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mumofoneAloneandwell · 23/08/2025 17:56

Catsandcannedbeans · 23/08/2025 16:37

I still remember my mum throwing my brothers X box out the window when he had been really rude to her and also refused to get out his room. I think she just snapped to be honest. I thought it was the funniest thing in the world at the time, and I don’t think she’s a bad parent for doing it I think she just lost her shit (freshly divorced, 5 of us living at home).

She isn’t right for doing it and I think she should say sorry - but I’m sure the kids will get a replacement.

This is where I can see a situation like this being understandable

Teenagers can be shits 😭 completely oblivious to their parents lives

It doesn't sound like luisa has any excuse to justify this

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mumofoneAloneandwell · 23/08/2025 17:59

Didn't know kirsty allsop did that but it sounds up her street tbh

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WhereIsMyJumper · 23/08/2025 18:42

I don’t know who she is but she sounds like a knob

Glitchymn1 · 23/08/2025 18:45

No. I’d confiscate it for a time but not smash it up. We just have designated screen times, a bit longer allowed on weekends.

Theimpossiblegirl · 23/08/2025 19:27

Catsandcannedbeans · 23/08/2025 16:37

I still remember my mum throwing my brothers X box out the window when he had been really rude to her and also refused to get out his room. I think she just snapped to be honest. I thought it was the funniest thing in the world at the time, and I don’t think she’s a bad parent for doing it I think she just lost her shit (freshly divorced, 5 of us living at home).

She isn’t right for doing it and I think she should say sorry - but I’m sure the kids will get a replacement.

I think your mum was a Mumsnetter at the time! I remember someone posted about doing this years ago. She was upset and I think the final straw was being sworn at.

Catsandcannedbeans · 23/08/2025 20:15

Theimpossiblegirl · 23/08/2025 19:27

I think your mum was a Mumsnetter at the time! I remember someone posted about doing this years ago. She was upset and I think the final straw was being sworn at.

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It was in 2007 around January my mum actually showed me mumsnet so could be her

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mumofoneAloneandwell · 23/08/2025 20:19

Catsandcannedbeans · 23/08/2025 20:15

It was in 2007 around January my mum actually showed me mumsnet so could be her

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@Theimpossiblegirl this is so crazy to me 😄😄

Has this happened before, someone's dd growing up to be able to tell their side of a post?!

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Theimpossiblegirl · 23/08/2025 20:53

I love the direction this thread has taken. It must have been her.
My daughters will be on Mumsnet when the time comes. Second generation. 💜

QuickFawn · 23/08/2025 21:13

mumofoneAloneandwell · 23/08/2025 16:22

I have an unhealthy interest in celebs 🙈

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Sorry I meant that they posted about it, not you - it was clearly for attention and not to share their top parenting tips

i love celebrity gossip too 😂

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mumofoneAloneandwell · 23/08/2025 21:22

QuickFawn · 23/08/2025 21:13

Sorry I meant that they posted about it, not you - it was clearly for attention and not to share their top parenting tips

i love celebrity gossip too 😂

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Oh okay, probably tbh

You're a woman after my own heart 😄🥰

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mumofoneAloneandwell · 24/08/2025 12:36

Theimpossiblegirl · 23/08/2025 20:53

I love the direction this thread has taken. It must have been her.
My daughters will be on Mumsnet when the time comes. Second generation. 💜

Me too!!

Mumsnet has really helped me so far with parenting my dd, so if in 25 years its still around, I'd avise mine to use it, although to be thick skinned when it comes to aibu 😭

Also there's so many threads I'd love the kids perspective on 👀👀

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