to think that age 9 is too young to go the cinema in the evening without an adult ....?

[dicksbird]

Just collected DD from a sleepover. She is 9 but friend she stayed with is 10 and another girl also sleeping over is just 10. They are all in year 5.

I knew there was some mention that a cinema trip may be involved but I wasnt specifically told beforehand.

Now I find out they were dropped outside the cinema at 6.30pm amd picked up at 8.30 from outside. None of them had a mobile phone !!

Mumsney jury what do you think ??? Am i just being silly ???

seeker as i state a fact childs freedom for yours this is the last i say on the matter

Hayley you obviously missed the Health and Safety programme tonight which reiterated all our concerns about the way you are parenting.

Another big up to the scouts from me. DS1 (age 8) smelt gas in our house the week after he got his Home Safety Badge. Advised me to phone Transco, told me the number.

Turned out I had just forgotten to light the oven.....

yes dear i think you are wrong just as you think i am

Hayley - I don't understand - please explain before you go.

yeh good one so i get deleted and your still innocent

Huh???

I think she should have been using the tinfoil, Seeker. Alien deathrays have interfered with her brain activity.

exactly, well played i give you this one

lol

I don't understand either hayley. It is actually harder work for the parent to prepare their DC for the world-it isn't the easy option. Your DC will soon be a teenager. You get to the point where they will be out at night and you will be lying in bed waiting to hear them come in (the thing I find the hardest). You have to do this hayley-you can't wait until they get to 18 and suddenly have to give them freedom. At 18, if he has the money, he can get a plane to Thailand and you can't stop him. It is your job to make sure he can handle it, or at least live independently.

sorry did i say i would stop him, if i did please repeat as i dont remember

I think the point Piscesmoon is trying to make is that as in a few short years your DS will be able to do anything he likes and go anywhere he likes, it is your job to prepare to be able to do that by gradually allowing him more independence. A 12 year old who is not even allowed to walk home from the bus stop by himself is going to be very ill-equipped to face the wide world alone at 18.

Yes go on, Hayley, off you trot with your textspeak back to Netmums, there's a love. Holding your children tightly by the hand as you go, in case there's a paedophile lurking on the corner en route.

Mine spent a lovely day splashing in the river today. Came home hot, muddy, wet and tired, having had a brilliant time. Without me hovering next to them, telling them to watch out for deep water, strange sheep and shifty looking cows.

are assuming things and carry on i will not be biting back how ever hard you try. simply making out u dont know what i mean sure u have been on mn long enough to know how to word things

PMSL at 'shifty looking cows!'

Yep. Bored with your illiterate posts and off to bed. Have a nice safe life.

Are you offended that I am laughing MrsSchad?

yes mrsschblah blah me and my children had a lovely day at alton towers and you got rid of yours how responsable u are in the pub

Yep me too Take care Hayley, do you want my black cat, he is very lucky so your ds could take him back packing

karma

I'd rather eat my minge than go to Alton Towers. Weren't you frightened that they might fall off the rides or have a nasty accident?

Nowhere near the pub, lovey, in a field - you know, the country, that green stuff that you get outside towns.

PMSL @ Hayley! Lots of people on here have several children who are still young, so still supervise and educate them. I question your ability to educate yours because you seem ill educated yourself.

My 17yr old is now working, driving a car and has a girlfriend-it seems a very short blink from being 12! The time goes quickly-I don't see how they get the experience they need if they have to phone when they get to school-especially since you saw them onto the bus in the first place! Where else would they be?

bunch of BITCHES or dear i said it going to get booted off what ever will i do big behind a p.c