....to be absolutrely APOPLECTIC with rage at my bitchy neighbour?

[SheikYerbouti]

I was just in a the garden getting in my washing and I heard one of my neighbours talking to another. This neighbour in question is a childminder and is always very friendly.

Anyway, as I was getting in my washing, I heard her say "Oh, I'd never touch Sheiky's kids. They are really bloody naughty, they never behave themselves and they fidget and fight constantly. They are out of control." I also heard he say "AND she takes the pushchair through the house" LIKE IT'S A FUCKING CRIME.

I just coughed a bit to let them know I could hear every fucking bitchy word she was saying. I really wanted to kick off, but my kids were there. I wanted to grab the bitch by the throat and call her a fucking wart ridden harridan, but then I'd be accused of being unhinged as well.

Folk can say what thery fuck they like about me, but NOT MY KIDS. How fucking dare she? Yes, my children are a gbit feral sometimes, byt they are normal boys of 23 months and 3.7. They are not out of control. Show me a child of that age who never plays up, and I will run to Basingstoke with njo clothes on.

I'M FUCKING LIVID.

LOL

God, I'm going to get dressed before it gets worse...

rofl, lth

I am much the same with mine, tbh.Sometimes there's no other way to be

Do you expect people outside your family to talk about your children with understanding, affection and tolerance? Why?

My kids (3 and 4) shout at each other, squabble and get up to mischief all day day, hurling themselves naked around the garden, squirting the dog/my washing/my neighbor's washing with the hose, having compost fights. They're completely normal, fun loving little children, but if I was a childminder living next door to me, I'd quake in my boots at the thought of looking after them.

The stuff about the pushchair is a bit bonkers though. She's probably the sort of woman who keeps a pair of surgical gloves in her bedside drawer so when she tosses her dh off she doesn't get her hands mucky.

Also a bit mad to bad mouth your neighbor's children while standing within earshot. Do you think it was accidental? When I slag my neighbor off I do it indoors. And I whisper.

Why would anyone need to talk about Sheiky's family at all, TBB? That's the question.

And certainly not right under her nose like that.

ah well, you wouldn't want an uptight anal control freak like her to look after your kids, would you? She might tie them to chairs and insist on complete silence through the day to "tame" them