Ridiculously indulgent things you have recently done for your children that you would only do for them?

[Elsiebelsie]

Stood at bus stop for 40 mins in rain and howling wind to wait for DD 13 to get off bus as she had forgotten to take her hood attachment to school. The bus stop is maybe 200 metres from our front door.

Arrived at B&Q at 7am in order to get a heated blanket for DS 16, a journey of 8 miles out of my way to work because he casually remarked that he occasionally felt chilly in his bedroom at night and it was going to be the only opportunity of getting to buy before work.

What have you done recently that you accept it indulgent and would only ever do for your children?!

Not me but DH:

Teenage DD and her friends were home from Uni and decided they wanted to go to a club in our nearest city (we are in a relatively rural small town). Knowing that public transport options are limited, DH offered to arrange to collect them at the end of the night but DD told him in no uncertain terms that they were all ADULTS who do this sort of thing ALL THE TIME. They would get the last train home or call an Uber and absolutely did not want Daddy coming out to pick them up like toddlers. They had everything organised and we should just KEEP OUT OF IT. Rather predictably, they had not check the train times so were unaware that they last train on a Saturday we before 11pm, and hadn't realised that Uber drivers would not want to drive to the middle of nowhere in the early hours of the morning. DH did not say 'I told you so' when she called for help, but just directed them to the nearest 24 hour McDonalds where they could wait until he arrived. He didn't bat an eyelid when one of them needed to stop at the side of the road 'for some air' (= to vomit) and has never mentioned to any of them the content of the discussions in the back seat when they were seemingly all too pissed to remember that he was a parent and not a taxi driver.

I used to work in a school. My daughters were both at university an hours drive away, if they wanted to come home for the weekend or whatever I used to go and fetch them. A somewhat snotty head of year decided to tell me I mustn’t do that , they were quite capable of getting a train. To which I replied that as the nearest station was a good 40 minutes away and I’d have to pick them up from there as there were no buses - live rurally- it was really not much difference. Plus I was desperate to see them , and we’d have lovely chats on the way home.

Fabulous ❤️❤️

DD (21) is doing day one of work experience today, all day outside in the pouring rain with a 7.30am start.

I have bought her a gingerbread biscuit for when she gets home.

I got a Fischer seal on my tooth to show my then 8 year old daughter it wasn’t painful as she had a phobia. She’s now 25 and dentist said how well I’d looked after it until a few years ago 🤣

Mine are all grown up now, but I indulge them when I can!

I used to grind up paracetamol for the youngest and stir it in a dollop of honey for her to take when she was in her teens and we were past the calpol stage, as she struggled to take a pill.

Last weekend I got out of bed at 9.30pm to drive my teenager son to Sainsburys, because the Tesco that's within walking distance didn't have the ice cream he was craving (he'd walked there; it was sold out)

I often pick my teenagers up in the wee hours after they've been at parties/pub/night clubs.

Things my parents certainly wouldn't have done for me or my siblings, but I'm not aspiring to parent like it's 1982.

Genius idea. I might suggest this to my pill-reluctant teen

Actually the top one would be sitting through hours and hours of other people's children doing beginner ballet and interpretative dance in order to see my son do his 2 minute dance within a 3 hour show....

Oh yes my son has hundreds of hot wheels cars that was one of the things .

Be nice to hear the other side ig what have kids done for you.

I'm 55 and very occasionally go day drinking with a friend. My lovely 80 year old dad collects us and drops her home before dropping me home. He won't take payment so we treat him to a few cans of beer so he can't refuse.

Loads, I adore my kids and would do all (and have done some) of the things mentioned in this thread. Except the hood one in the OP. That's just ridiculous for a 200m walk, and also teaches a life lesson.

I don’t have children but I now look back fondly at things my parents and grandparents did for me when I was younger, that are in this camp. I used to stay at my grandmas for some school days as parents did shift work. She didn’t have central heating so used to get up early and put my vest, tights and knickers in the tumble dryer. I adore her for it now. As a teenager, I forgot my drink with my lunch at work. She got a bus into the town centre to bring it to me.
I never lost respect for her or thought her to be a ‘martyr’. I am also a capable and well balanced adult.

Dropped off packed lunches almost daily to my 15year old when she forgot hers..her teachers actually started joking that her mum should bring their lunches too. They'd greet me every time with "where's my dinner" 🤣🤣

Used to get up at 5.30am to run my youngest to work when I didn’t start work til 9pm. I’d still do it now even though he’s late 20s and moved out 😂😂

Just lent my 26 year old son 900 for a return trip to Oz as he's just broken up with his long term gf and he wants to do something wild. He'll pay it back over 3 months.

Filled the little stocking my daughter had made and hung up for her favourite teddy 🙂

🤣🤣🤣

Mine will only eat veg if it’s not mixed in with sauces and stuff but I refuse to cook things like bolognese and chilli without onions so I painstakingly pick the individual onion bits out of hers.
I make my 11 year old dd bed even though she is capable of doing it herself- she says I do it better.
Last week I ran down to the school with her musical instrument (I don’t drive) because she forgot it and despite being told many times if she can’t be organised with her school stuff she’ll have to bear the natural consequences. In my hurry I managed to fall on the ice.
She doesn’t particularly like sandwiches in her school lunch she prefers bread rolls. But I find if you buy a six pack or whatever they are dry in days. So I freeze them. And every day I have to defrost one roll wrapped in foil the night before so she has a fresh one each day.
The things we do.

I have been scouring the internet for some very specific little toys my 6 year old has started collecting which were popular about 3/4 years ago in an attempt to get the full set she really wants. Far too many hours spent 😂

When DD started nursery she was very anxious, I eased her anxiety by telling her I’d get her a present while I was at work… only this was 4 years ago and it has stuck. Currently on the bus home to my year 2 child with a toy Dalmatian on my lap. It’s usually a small present (tub of slime kind of thing) but it’s the January sales so…

DD needed a stone for school. I went to the beach and painstakingly searched for the perfect round pebble.

Went round charity shops looking for just the right blouse and skirt for a show she was in and she didn't like the costume she'd been given.

Picked her up from anywhere, at any time. And always will.

My older teen sometimes has to leave for work at 4.30am. He has stomach problems and really struggles to eat in the mornings, but the one thing bland enough (and comforting enough) is fresh warm pancakes, so I make the batter the night before and get up at 4am to make them and take them up for him to eat in bed, so he has something warm in his tummy when he leaves. He's nearly 19 and I know I'm being soft, but it's only a couple of times a month and it makes such a difference to his mornings.

Also done this - spent hours and many unsuccessful orders and wasted money trying to find tiny Elsa dolls to fit into an Elsa castle she’d had a few years prior that was since discontinued