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?!

Errrr Amazon???

My 15 year old wanted to watch Five Nights at Freddy's 2 with me.

Not even the marginally less awful original film. Five Nights at Freddy's TWO.

I watched it.

My youngest is 17 and absolutely loves going to gigs, often needs to stay over so I go with him (dont sit with him and his mates on train) and then get them checked into a hotel as they need an over 18. Have travelled between 80 and 250 miles to do this.

Also if they are coming back the same night it is ridiculously tight (mostly impossible) to get the last train to our local station so have driven an hour+ to pick them up at 1am from the closest place they can get to.

One of them is older and likes going to the bubble tea shop. The other one is younger and loves bubble tea too and wants to be the same as her sister. But I don't want her to have the caffeine, as at the one near us they they only make flavours with real tea.

So I walk with older one, buy her a bubble tea, buy an extra cup and some boba or pearls, then walk the other way to the nearest corner shop, get a flat soft drink like capri sun, pour and reseal it in the bubble tea cup.

Then younger DD can be happy she's had a real bubble tea and me and her older sister don't tell her.

This is such a sad childhood 🤗

Yeah….not great.

Love this! I would do the same.

Also agree that being a person your kids know will go the extra mile for you, be silly with you and always have your back, makes them into adults who are more willing to push themselves because they have a loving, secure base in you. That's what quite a few child development books say anyway.

I made 3 breakfasts today so my child would eat one. They are very small and a bit underweight in my defence, so the picky eating is a bit stressful (and I did eat the leftovers!)

When they come home I love to provide a full turn down service like you get in good hotels. So, their beds are always freshly made up. I turn their duvets down slightly. and put their bedside lamps on, so it looks welcoming and cosy. Usually light a scented candle in their room, too. I love to cosset them when they're home and they like being spoilt.

I did this a couple of years ago for my two youngest.....they came across pajanimals on YouTube and they suddenly wanted all the plushies of them. I scoured eBay for them all and got them.now they don't like them and donated them all to the charity collection bags

Yep I'm imagining in a year they'll be gathering dust but for now she's very happy 😂

I am clearly not an indulgent mum! Mine are all grown now but I used to sit on the toilet seat to warm it for my eldest when he was two and toilet training. The youngest one liked warm trousers and I was known on occasion to blow the hair dryer down the legs so he would put them on! I think the middle one must have been very self contained!

I think that's really lovely.

Things I remember my parents did - as a teen DF once dropped me at the station and I decided I was wearing the 'wrong jeans'. I'd hesitated as the others were a bit damp but he went back and got them for me on my request.

DM made me a dress out of purple velvet for the school prom when I was 12, it was absolutely perfect. Also made beauty and the beast outfits on holiday as DB and I decided we wanted to participate in the fancy dress competition. 👗

You can get liquid paracetamol or Ibuprofen for adults ☺️

Yes sounds very unnecessary … just run home, it’s only water!
Blanket could have been ordered online!

Get up at 3am to drive son (19) to work (not everyday!). He could walk but I wake up anyway and can’t go back to sleep until I know he’s arrived safely!

I gave my 5 year old an 'Arm day' party when his cast came off his broken arm. He had been planing it for weeks and insisted on a cake, presents, and party food. To be fair it was during covid so there wasn't much else to do!

I’d have been mortified at 13 to find my mum waiting at the bus stop with a rain hood!

When I was living at home in my 20s I had an accident on black ice and wrote off the car. After that day and every day in winter for 3 months, my dad would drive with me to the main road that was gritted and walk home 4 miles to make sure I was safely on the main road. So not something I did but was on the receiving end of. We live where we get lots of snow. He will be forever be my hero, in all the selfless things he does for everyone.

I didn’t really explain very well.
She was down visiting me and going to a festival. Realised about 2 hours before festival had parked car in place where she might have been ticketed. Was not planning to go back till next day, by which time car could have been lifted for not acting on ticket, possibly.
So she didn’t have to go back, or worry about tickets and fines etc, I went to Aberdeen and moved her car for her.
As it turned out, when I got there it hadn’t got a ticket, so apart from train fare, as mentioned, all was well!

I take my childs crocs to the school bus (she's autistic, hates wearing shoes, her transport assistant cannot make her) so that she can have something on her feet to walk up the drive to home.

Got a train up to Camden one evening after work and waited for over an hour outside the Electric Ballroom in the dark while she was at a Billie Eilish gig with her friend, so they wouldn't have to travel back on the train alone late at night.

On the flip side, I remember when I was around 20, I went to a New Year's Eve party and told my parents I would get a cab home. However, it snowed really heavily and it lay thick on the ground, and no cabs to be had anywhere, so I ended up calling my parents from a phone box (early 80's so no mobile phones in those days) and spent about 45 minutes on my own in a phone box at 3am waiting for my beloved dad to come and fetch me. He had to dig the car out of the snow first - what a hero!

I have looked high and low for those noodles as I feel the same way about them

Not sure if this counts, but when my DS was ill and scared and very upset in the run-up to his GCSEs, a late-night conversation about what would happen if his lucky socks wore out led to me promising that I would get the design tattooed on my ankle if he passed them all - and yes, he did hold me to it!