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I'm at my wits end, advice needed please before I scream - Aaarrggghhhh

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interflora · 01/11/2008 18:34

I am not sure what to do in this situation.

My friend has recently started bringing her 11 year old son along with her to our house - he is the most spoiled, most ruined, most horrible, most everything-bad-you-can-think-of child I've ever come across.

My dh and I adore children, and have seven of our own, our children just cannot be in the same room as this child, even though they love to play with all other children when our other friends visit.

He walks around our house from one room to another, and is allowed to touch and play with anything he wants, he calls his own mother nasty names, and she just sits there not saying anything to him.

We were meant to go to a Halloween party last night when my friend and this 'horrid henry' of a son of hers, turned up, which meant that our children spent the evening upstairs in their bedrooms, all dressed up in their dress-up clothes, and had to stay in. He'd already been 'trick or treating' so he was fine, and if he was fine, tough, nobody else mattered.

He was rude to my husband, when my husband tried to stop him going to every room of our house, as we feared he'd go upstairs to our childrens' bedrooms.

Also, this horrible child, knows much, much, much more than most kids his age, and far too much for my liking, about sex - and when one of our children dared come downstairs to make a drink, he crept up behind her and ripped off the upper part of her halloween outfit.

DH and I don't know what to do, we're certain that if we mention it to her, it will just fall on deaf ears, as she's told us many times that she can't understand why her sister, sister in law, his grandmother etc don't like her perfect little sod son, he's even been suspended from primary school, and his mother still thinks the sun shines out of his rear end!

Please please can anyone help us, its a delicate situation obviously, we don't want to cause trouble or offend anyone, but feel that the situation cannot be allowed to continue.

TIA

OP posts:
interflora · 01/11/2008 19:49

what makes you think i'm a troll????? why? i don't understand why you'd think that?

every word i have typed is true every single word - why can't you believe that? is it because people do 'pretend' and 'make things up'? well, maybe they don't have better things to do than that, but I am not in that category.

OP posts:
dittany · 01/11/2008 19:49

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Message withdrawn at poster's request.

loobeylou · 01/11/2008 19:51

thank you interflora for a very entertaining evening

needsomeonetotalkto · 01/11/2008 19:57

Good luck, OP. Please don't be put off posting by people screaming troll.

interflora · 01/11/2008 19:57

dittany, yes I do find confrontations extremely difficult, i am kind hearted and far too soft for my own good, i hate offending/upsetting people.

What's worst is the fact that his mum has told me she's on anti-depressants 'due to problems in her life' but she hasn't pointed out exactly why.

She tells us that we are lucky to have 'great kids', which makes it all the more difficult to criticise her son!

Anyway, I have sent her an email now, saying as kindly as possible, that she is most welcome to visit on her own, and we hope that she will understand how we feel and will remain friends.

Its so difficult - I'm not sure how I'd react if someone said anything 'negative' about my dc.

My dh says i'm 'wrong' to blame the son as the fault lies with his parents. That is probably true, but who are we to tell other people how to raise their children?

OP posts:
pipintroll · 01/11/2008 19:59

OP why has she only recently started bringing him to your house with her? Is there a specific reason that you can think of for this?

Why would she start bringing him with her lately?

You don't say how long you have been friends.

needsomeonetotalkto · 01/11/2008 19:59

Just brace yourself for an end to the friendship. No one likes having their kids critized (sp), you have done right.

interflora · 01/11/2008 20:01

thanks needsomeonetotalkto, I won't be put off posting by those who shout troll.

loobeylou - if you think i'm a troll, you must be a very sad person to join in? why didn't you just ignore and not bother posting?

anyway, thanks to all who posted with helpful advice - I promise you that I am genuine and not making any of this up. I wouldn't waste precious time to do that.

Thankyou - I await for a reply from his mother now, omg I hate situations like this, I'm such a coward when it comes to confronting people despite knowing there's a problem.

OP posts:
paddingtonbear1 · 01/11/2008 20:16

is she a good friend? how long have you been friends for, how come her son's just coming round now?
you did what you had to do in emailing her, you could not allow it to continue. she may be having a hard time herself, god knows how I'd deal with dd if she was like that.. but that doesn't mean you have to tolerate it in your house! good luck.

loobeylou · 01/11/2008 20:18

"loobeylou - if you think i'm a troll, you must be a very sad person to join in? why didn't you just ignore and not bother posting?"

well, as I already said, I was finding it much more entertaining than the TV and wanted to avoid others expending lots of time and effort on a troll

and FTR, others thought you were a troll too!

I have also been having a good read of some of your other posts, very interesting how some of them appear to contradict each other....but I leave people to do their own research, or maybe i have just been reading too many detective stories

ah well, never mind , I'm sure you won't lose any sleep over it!

eekamoose · 01/11/2008 20:21

If no-one ever posted their suspicions about someone else (usually an op, funily enough) being a troll, then forums like this would be over-run with trolls.

I think it is fair enough for regular users to post suspicions about trollery, even if they are wrong.

It is usually possible for the suspected troll to prove their point.

I think you are suspected by some (perhaps far too cynical mnetters, myself included)because your story is so incredible. Literally incredible.

loobeylou · 01/11/2008 20:25

eekamoose, I was hoping there was a troll spotters badge I could be presented with and wear with pride

OldLadyKnowsNothing · 01/11/2008 20:29

At present these forums are over-run with people shouting "troll", and most of them are, imho wrong.

noonar · 01/11/2008 20:34

i can see why loobylou was suspicious. if you have sven children you must have developed some pretty good strategies for dealing with kids, yet your whole family were held to ransom by an 11 yo.

having said that, i have 2 good friends with dreadfully behaved children. i could never tell them what i really think...so i do understand that sometimes trying to preserve a friendship can make you bite your tongue, even in extreme circs.

pipintroll · 01/11/2008 20:46

Perhaps the OP will be back soon to tell us about her friend's reply to her email.

loobeylou · 01/11/2008 21:27

OMG !!

I have just realised that Interflora is an anagram for "a finer trol" (yes I know it's missing an l but still damn clever, poetic licence!)

NOW do you all believe me!!

If you are NOT a troll, that is a very hilarious coincidence, especially given the content of some of your other threads!!

Oh do tell me how long you have been playing us for fools.

PMSL

needsomeonetotalkto · 01/11/2008 21:32

loobeylou

Are you bored?

loobeylou · 01/11/2008 21:36

no, I'm not bored thanks, are you?

been away an hour doing other stuff but thought others might like to share the joke. Interflora must have been having a right old laugh for some time. Hats off to her!

needsomeonetotalkto · 01/11/2008 21:38

Yes, bored of you screaming troll and demonising OP.

llareggub · 01/11/2008 21:39

Bloody hell, I have never known so many troll-slaying on this board. Nearly ever bloody thread has got someone out with the pitchforks.

llareggub · 01/11/2008 21:42

Loobyloo, do you really think the OP would troll under her own regular MN name? She has posted quite a fair bit with this name.

loobeylou · 01/11/2008 21:54

Have you read her other threads though? she has done bloody well not to be spotted sooner IMO

maybe she is NOT a regular user, just a regular troll, stranger things have happened

if so I think it is hilarious!

needsomeonetotalkto- are you just mad at me cos you didn't spot it?

llareggub - how many people do you think have NOT spotted what YOUR name is an anagram of (and if it is your real name, you have cruel parents )

mabanana · 01/11/2008 21:56

Trolly troll troll

Quattrocento · 01/11/2008 21:57

llareggub is from Under Milk Wood - it is bugger all backwards. A fine choice of name. Wish I'd thought of it.

ScottishMummy · 01/11/2008 21:58

oh!thanks QC v clever

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