AIBU for blowing out my nephew’s birthday candles as a joke

[AliceNotInChains]

My nephews 6th birthday party yesterday. He was struggling to blow all the candles out so I jokingly blew the remaining ones out for him. My sister went on a full on strop over it saying I ruined his moment. AIBU to think she’s completely over reacting?? She ended up relighting the candles for him to “have another go” making it a much bigger deal than it needed to be.

Whats the toilet thread? How can I find it?

I usually roll my eyes at precious parents but even I think that was a fucking awful thing to do.

Were you not getting enough attention or something? Because if he was quite happy blowing them out, your actions scream main character syndrome

Toilet thread.

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/5509502-aibu-to-use-main-bathroom-on-holiday-despite-en-suite?page=1

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It was a shitty thing to do, but so was insisting you had your own toilet that even your DH couldn’t use but you expected to use everyone’s else’s toilets.

You don't seem to like anyone who calls you out on unacceptable behaviour.

I think you need to consider what it is about you that you feel the need to be competitive with a 6 year old.

What you did is so far off kilter it raises serious questions about your own psyche, imo.

Suprised at these strong reactions! He was struggling so you helped him....he had already blown some out and wasn't bothered about you helping with the last few...not sure what the big deal is.

Clearly I clicked the wrong link, the one I clicked was the biscuit thread.

Toilet thread

www.mumsnet.com/talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/5509502-aibu-to-use-main-bathroom-on-holiday-despite-en-suite?page=1

So you are not going to his next birthday party. That's terrific, I'm sure your sister will be celebrating that fact and hope you stay away from other events too

I know, I posted the wrong link!!!!! 😂 Changed it now. 😘

It’s not something that someone ‘needs help with’ though, is it? It’s blowing out birthday candles FFS!

🤣🤣. I thought I was losing my mind for a second there.

Not to mention holidays, going by the toilet thread

I'm imagining the sister like this on hearing she's not going to the next one 😁

And only 6 candles too. My gran (when she was 80) had a huge cake with 80 candles on, and she was a tiny frail little lady who struggled to blow out even a quarter of them! So we all helped her! No 6 year old needs help blowing out 6 candles FFS! 😆

The big deal is children can go a long way to hide their true emotions from someone they either love a lot or fear.,

How unbothered would most 6 year olds be, being shown up by an adult as being incompetent at blowing out birthday candles?

Having his birthday wish spoiled, if they do that game, by someone else blowing out the candles.

It's a shit thing to have done, imo.

😆

Love your username @SugarPuffSandwiches

Red Dwarf?

I was answering this thread; I have no idea who the poster is.
I do know the pile-on in this thread is pathetic .... I haven't seen anything like this since primary school.
The mean girls must be very bored today.🙄

Why the fucking hell did you blow out a 6-year old’s candles for him? Who does that?! Big clap for you. You have better lung capacity and aim than a literal child. Where do we send the prize?

Your misogynist language isn't very civil, though. Same goes for the other bro who tried it:

Augarden · Today 13:36
Most responses here are frankly hysterical. It's not that big a deal. The child was happy, what's the problem?

Is r/AITA automatically redirecting, or something?

He’s 6, he’s more than capable of blowing out some candles.

There is no way you would have done this for positive reasons.

Hopefully your sister won’t invite you again.

He blew out 4 candles fine, I’m sure he could have managed to blow out the other 2.

You absolutely do not allow your child to blow out someone else’s candles and you obviously don’t blow them out yourself either.

If his parents felt he needed help then they would have helped him.

It only happens once a year and it’s one of the most exciting parts of the day.

You made this up. Nobody is gonna do that to a six year old (except maybe 5 year old)

Another AIBU where the OP is told in no uncertain terms that they ARE being unreasonable but refuse to accept it. And the second one you've had like this OP.

Maybe time to start listening to the general consensus and not your own inflated ego

OK....so why does this matter so much then?