To laugh secretly inside my head about my nephews awful teeth???

[Twinkie1]

Beacuse after 3 years of being told by my BIL & SIL that I am a bad mum for giving my kids very dilute sugar free juice and I should be feeding them pure juice sraight out a carton I have 2 kids with lovely white straight decay free teeth and her son has just been written off by the dentist in regards to his milk teeth!

I love it when their overly obsessive parenting techniques come along and bite their arses!

Hmmm...thing is, Prufrock, I would never had laughed secretly inside my head at all.

what a nasty thread title.
did you stop to think that it may have nothing to do with juice? My friend's DD, who drinks only water, has a similar problem.

nasty nasty nasty

Oh god I don't expect everyone to agree with me I just don't expect all the people sitting on mumsnet on a sunny saturday afternoon to just have no sense of humour!

I know it isn't funny that he has bad teeth - it is funny though that his parents are having to swallow their words and admit that they are not so bloody perfect when it comes to parenting!

So because you find your BIL intimidating, you secretly get pleasure from their child needing dental treatment? Very strange.

ERR - SWEETENERS ARE BAD FOR YOU!!!!
Id rather my children had bad teeth than cancer causing sweeteners (aspartame, saccharin)

What horrid things to say. I hope nothing ever happens to your dc, and THEY laugh at YOUR children?!

What goes around comes around.

My son (4) has had 2 holes in his teeth, the dentist said that he had weak baby teeth. he doesn't drink juice (milk or water) and doesn't eat sweets, I was so upset as I have always looked after my DS's teeth.
If someone laughed at me about it, I'd probably smack them tbh.
I do understand that you don't like your IL's, and they prob aren't very nice, but it's not nice to revel in a child's misfortune!!

God no - do you not get it - I get pleasure from them having to eat their words - he is a little shit of the highest degree but I don't want him to be in pain - would rather his fathers teeth were bad and were having to be treated!

Ta Prufrock - that is the kind of response I expected not people making me out to be some sort of evil cow who pokes little kids with bad teeth for the fun of it.

Am really off now!

My children have awful problems with their milk teeth. It has nothing to do with what I feed them or what they drink. I am mega-careful and always brush their teeth because I know they are born with weak milk teeth. My DD had first filling at the age of 3 Sometimes these things are genetic.

I generally try to not be a judgey perosn on mn but on this occasion it's impossible. You do actually sound fairly unpleasant. As others have pointed out it's not particularly likely that juice has caused these problems, lots of milk-teeth isues are down to genetics/luck etc. It's not a lack of humour, it's the presence of compassion which has caused all mners so far to say that you are sounding like a bitch.

By all means hate your BIL and SIL and rejoice in their misfortune. However this schadenfreude leaves a nasty taste in my mouth.

'He is a little shit of the highest degree ...'

Would you say the same if he was your blood relative, I wonder?

Looks like I misread the op, but I didn't see Twinkie1 laughing at the boy; I saw her laughing at the parents who have been hoist on their own petard, as it were, though sadly at their own son's expense.

Anyway, I'm not so brave as Twinkie so I'm off.

Look, twinkie, it's not the nicest thing in the world, but I understand what you're saying.
And I think infact you are gloating and laughing, not at your nephew, but at your BIL and SIL and their crap parenting, or whatever.

IT's just come out as you laughing at your nephew.

And even if it weren't the case, it probably wasn't wise to post this on here, as some people haven't ever had a bitchy thought in their lives!

BTW, you can be cocky all you like, but two of the sweeteners cause bladder cancer in lab animals, and there was also a rise in brain tu ours after aspartame was introduced. One of them might even cause changes in genes!! fgs
Its nothing to be cocky about, and certainly nothing I would put down my childrens throat!
Sugar is natural, your body knows what to do with it. Sweeteners are not.

"Elegantly revelling" eh? There's no such thing.

I think ur justified in a quiet smirk & a private evil laugh with ur dh, Twinkie1.
Gloating on the Internet might be overkill, though.

Wish people would get the point, Twinkie1 isnt gloating about the tooth decay, she's gloating about snobby inlaws getting come-uppance.

still.....its a stupid thing to post about. She expected us to find it funny !

I don't like to give my dc's artificial sweetener at all, but the OP was talking about fruit juice which most people know should be diluted and given in moderation because it does cause tooth decay.

As does sugar, which is why, although much better fo rthe dc's, it should be limited and diluted and given with the meal to limit the damage to the teeth.

Getting comeuppance at what? At the expense of a little boy?

Jeez.

The problem with laughing at someone else's crap parenting is that the people who suffer are the children, not the parents.

That's the point.

I would have a v different reaction to this thread had it been the vile BIL whose teeth were beyond the help of the dentist.

'Wish people would get the point, Twinkie1 isnt gloating about the tooth decay, she's gloating about snobby inlaws getting come-uppance'

Maybe so, but she believes the juice caused the decay and it ain't necessarily so, so her gloating is unfounded.

Hopefully the nephews adult teeth will be ok when they come through and the BIL and SIL can learn from their mistakes.

Wow, haven't read all of this, but YAB a bit smug and a bit

My daughter has lovely straight white teeth now, but I don't know what they'll be like after 7 yrs old.

It's out of our control. Good teeth is largely good genes.

What physical shortcomings might your children have that others might laugh at?!

you need something to occupy yourself - spite/malice breeds with inactivity