to want to vomit when I see a thread titled "Help-traveling with a 2year old! "Help 8 month old cant speak German!"

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This sort of stuff winds me up...its sort of look at me... I have a baby... I can t cope.. or I am attention seeking!

YABU - Sometimes a long trip can be daunting when you have a baby or toddler to amuse at the same time, i don't think its attention seeking at all.

But if I replied to you wouldn't I be pandering to your attention-seeking?

What you mean in the same way a complaining thread about nothing is attention seeking?

If that seriously winds you up enough to post this I think you need to worry more about yourself and less about everyone else

so everyone asking for help is attention seeking

If people don't ask questions then what is the point of mumsnet as an advice site.

What is your problem?

I was being very impressed that an 8 month old might be able to speak English, but not surprised he hadn't mastered German yet . Punctuation really does help OP.

You loon.

I despise travelling with my 2yo, it is a right bloody palaver, so if I ever ask on here, it is for genuine tips that have worked from people who have been in that position. Not for attention seeking.

Its the drama and hysteria of it all...all the exclamation marks..."Help..blah blah..I am doing something really normal and over reacting"..all looks a bit flaky to me

And wanting to vomit when you see certain thread titles is not over-reacting?

Get over yourself Op.

whereas messages 'making you want to vomit' is measured and not hysterical not flaky?

I'm not sure being concerned about travelling with a 2yo is quite the same as being worried that an 8 month old can't speak German though, which is a ridiculous example.

You need to chill, just be happy that you can look down on the rest of us from your position of calm superiority.

Well, I have never taken a baby on a plane, so that would worry me tbh. Especially as mine are now 5 and 3, so I would have to borrow a baby to do so.

Am often out of my comfort zone, what one person finds normal and mundane, leaves another quaking with fear.

YABVU and very unsympathetic

yabu, myself and dd's wouldn't have survived some journeys without advice from on here. When you have 1 child you don't know those tricks that other people spent years honing, so coming on here and stelaing them is all you can do.

Am curious, what should we post about? Just so I know what threads not to expoect you on?

it's not so much that YABU, it's that you're being unpleasant. wtf, if it makes you vomit, don't read them!

It makes me vomit when people who are clearly perfect parents complain about those who do not come up to their exacting standards.

You are being quite unpleasant.
I asmit myself that sometimes I do think "get a grip FGS", but more when it's a quite normal situation.
When someone says "aaarghh DH is going out for 2 minutes, how will I cope alone", major exageration but you get the drift.

I think I can be quite harsh though as I'm a single parent and have done it all myself and I forget what's normal in a relationship and I don't know what sharing parenting is like as I've never done it.
(I also took a one year old on a long haul flight out of choice)

Still though, you are being nasty.

Well in that case, maybe you should go onto the pregnancy and childbirth threads and tell them all to stop over-reacting? I mean, that's completely normal and natural, what are they all panicking about!
Attention seekers.

Its not the advice or help sought...we all need that...its just the approach...the drama and anxiety about simple things which make me think "lightweight - get a grip"

If we talk about really normal and mundane things are we overreacting?

gosh my friends and I always talk about normal stuff.. I never realised we were a bunch of hysterical loons

Oh, you mean the 'I am going to make this sound funny/desperate so more people answer my thread' type posting?
YAstillBU.

Its not the content...its the "Help..!"