to think some people do not deserve to have kids? the mean bastards

[greenladybird]

cannot understand they way some people treat thier own kids.

makes me feel sick.

Quite a few of us used to have our period every week when it was swimming. The teacher said use tampons and we said 'Our parents won't let us'

Ha ha!

My darlings are amusing themselves whilst I mn. Oh dear.

Oh Kimi, I love the sound of your DS

Crocky, he's your for 50p and some clothes pegs

That is what I tell my children I will sell them for when they are playing up

Hang on is that evil

I'll swap him for a whingy, tired 4yo???

our dd1 was about ten minutes old when the delivering midwife (who knew a pair of clueless numpties when she saw them) said 'now she's very lovely but don't let her rule you'. That's sort of my mothering motto really. My children are wonderful and extraordinary - but I am the parent and I'm in charge!

Please can someone put me out of my misery and link to the offending PE thread.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/2724/557911 I think.

Greenladybird you have to be kidding!!!!! You'd really write the note even after she lost all those things????? So what happens next week another note because she as sure as eggs is eggs wouldn't bother looking for it if mummy bailed her out the previous week.

I'd be mighty pissed off if my 4 year olds lost all that and I'd expect them to find it too. My dtwins start school in Sep looking forward to many a frogmarch back to the cloakroom with one of them in particular. He'll be doing PE in his pants if needs be, I aint replacing PE kits on a regular basis.

Does that mean I'm in the "mean bastard" catagory of parent too then????

Crocky I see your 4 year old and raise you DS2

Thing is, if the OP did write the note she suggested, I don't think it would come as news to the PE teacher - after all she's presumably been teaching her since September - I suspect she already knows how disorganised she is.

glb are trying to tell me you have never shouted at your children?

we all lose the rag now and again, it's normal. we can't be perfect all the time with our kids, i'm being honest now and saying that on odd occasions I've lost it with DS (not hitting him, just shouting - which I am not proud of i hasten to add). don't be so judgemental towards other parents, most of us try our damned hardest to make our kids happy. It's not easy being a parent, it didn't come with a textbook. Good for you OP if you find it an absolute dawdle all of the time.
haven't seen the other thread, sorry so cant make a comment on that.

pmsl at lettuce leaves and rocket science
i was thinking about this last night - i want to wrap mt pfb in cotton wool and refuse to let him talk to anyone who hurts him. that's fine for now but i started to panic when i realised i can't do that for too many more years. then i thought the way to do that is to give him the skills and confidence to handle situations himself.

anyway, better go, speaking of wrapping in cotton wool i am bfing and mning and keep banging his head on the microwave

GREEN LADY BIRD - IF YOU WERE SO HAPPY WITH YOUR OWN PARENTING TECHNIQUE WHY TRY AND PULL DOWN OTHERS EXCEPT TO MAKE UR SELF FEEL "BETTER"? IF YOU WERE THAT HAPPY THEN WHY NOT JUST GET ON WITH IT? YES THERE ARE SOME PARENTS WHO SHOUT AT THEIR KIDS MORE THAN OTHERS - THATS A FACT, IT ALWAYS HAS BEEN!!

pinkyp shouted at me

Oh God, if its about the shouting, did you see me in Morrisons yesterday?

Some of my clients come from families where they have been over indulged and excuses made for them, and never been taught that there are consequences for all actions. They have been taught about rights, but not responsibilities.

Most of the rest of my clients come from the opposite end of parenting - the complete neglect and lack of any parenting. But also the knowledge of rights but not about consequences and responsibilities.

Good parenting is not about doing absoultely everything for your child all of the time. It is about teaching children about real life, and preparing them to live in the real life. Part of this is teaching them about responsibilities.

You do your child, especially older ones, no good if you over indulge.

I shout. Don't like it as I am naturally a quietly-spoken polite and self-effacing sort of person. But they drive me to it. My DCs have made me a mad-eyed, screaming harridan. Little buggers....

Thanks surprose for the link. It seems such an innocuous thread to have spawned this.

FWIW I kind of lost it the other day with DS aged 2 and called him a brat. He is just picking up some words at the minute so about 15 minutes later I could hear him mumbling to himself "me brat, brat" and praying that he would forget it before he went to the childminders the next day.

I told this story to my friend and she was saying that her daughter went to the nursery saying " I'm a little shit" which I was a bit shocked about in a very non empathetic way.

Have to go and shout at my children now...
GO TO BED YOU LITTLE SHITS.....

DISCLAIMER Sons of Kimi have been in bed since 8.30.....no yelling involved

show me someone who has never shouted at their kids and I'll show you a liar

greenladybird - re your second post - I shout constantly and I know it's not ideal but I'm pretty sure it doesn't put me in the category of 'people who shouldn't be allowed to have kids'. Your comments are offensive. I opened this thinking you were talking about people who let their children starve to death.
Just so you know I have given up or heavily modified every other aspect of my life to dedicate 99% of my waking hours to my DDs.
Yes, I shout, I also do lots of lovely crafts, bake, go to the park, read several books a day with them etc. etc.

I am glad you are not my mother, you sound rather dull.

I shout at my dd pretty much every day-in public sometimes! And I also curl up in bed with her to read stories, and play with her continuously, and make her the centre of my world from 7am until 9.30pm, every day, without another soul in the house. I have a short temper. I also am one of the most hands on parents I know-I'd rather play with her and shout occasionally because we've both had too much of each other than leave her in a corner to play while I have coffee with friends all day every day and not know her well enough to make me mad!