This is bonkers mummy behaviour

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At the pool. Waiting on kids in swim lesson.

There is a mummy walking/following her 2 year old around..
Both soaked from swimming,
are you choosing a cubicle? Which one do you want? Joe mummy wants to go home...I know you want to stay....why are you walking around the changing room, no treat now, come on go in there, let's go let's go....he's now wailing while mummy is narrating the whole thing while following him around the communal room.

Ffs pick him up and take him into a cubicle...aibu?

We are now on you are tired after your swimming lesson, I know, let's get changed now....still carrying the swim bags around the room 🫣

My brother was like this with my nephew. I’d have all 3 under 5s in the car toileted and strapped in while db was negotiating with his son to stop playing please… fuck that. Tickle under the arms, up and out into the car we go before my three stop being angels and all kick off that their cousin is playing while they wait in the car getting bored. Nephew is now 12 and a total brat. I walk away and leave db to it. The irony is db was the most highly strung person I know pre dc.

Yes! I imagine Dereks mum would be exactly the same in the pool changing rooms 😂

Some people need to get a grip - they’re the grown ups so they should act like it grrrr.
If my kids said ‘Why’ when I told them to do something I said ‘because I say so’ . Even now they send me jokey reels about what my face looked like when I was taking no messing…. Usually a ‘look’ was enough. But then I worked full time in a stressful job - there often wasn’t time for negotiations.
They went away to uni but have chosen to come back and live around the corner and we see each other almost daily - so I couldn’t have been that bad !
ps swimming lessons were my worse nightmare - think Motherland.

I met one of those parents walking around John Lewis, her child was having a tantrum and she was saying 'ow darling are you having big feelings?' I couldn't help but snigger. I assumed this was a middle class thing. Never heard that kind of talk in our playground, it's normally 'stop being a squinny'.

Are you having “big feelings” wtaf 😱

what a stupid and weird thing to say!!! I’d have laughed loudly

love this happened in John Lewis not primark 🤣
more of a “Kylie get her now otherwise we’re not going to macdonalds” 🤣