to hoick the bogeys out of dd's nose before entering a cute baby competition?

[mrsgordonfreeman]

She hates having her nose cleaned but I'm sure she won't win with an enormous stalagmite hanging from each nostril.

how delightful.

YANBU
but the winners of those things are always the people with most contacts locally & persuades everyone 2 vote, its not on looks, thats how come the winners are always related and not necessarily good looking
(well in my home town anyway)
but still clean her nose

I dont like to see a kid with boogers even when they arent in a competition!?!

YABU, on so many levels ...

i entered my first baby comp when i was just 9 days old. my mum hated them but every time we went on holiday my nan insisted all the grandkids be entered.

i never won...not that i'm jealous of my cousin who won every year or anything

but yes if your going to enter her she needs to be bogey free.

YANBU. But Firawla is right - the winners have contacts. Even if your DD is so beautiful people have to put on sunglasses to look at her, she won't win unless you know people, and/or she is wearing the local team's football shirt and their colour ribbons in her hair (this was a winning strategy last year near me).

Dd1 didn't know anyone and I don't have many contacts in this town, nor do I have a very large family, but she still came third when my mum entered her in one . Does this mean I have a super model for a child? .

Boasting aside , yes bogey free would be good and first and second place babies both knew people who worked in the newspaper office, funny that eh?

YABU to put her in a cute baby competition full stop - its all subjective - I hate everything about jugding a human being at the start of their life or at any time on the way they look - yuck yuck yuck.

I should have put her in her Arsenal kit (note, I didn't buy it for her, I have no idea about football).

Well, anyway, it was free to enter at the local shopping centre and her grandmother would never have forgiven me if we hadn't entered.

I didn't manage to get the bogies. She's a bit too fast for me.

YABVU to enter her. FFS they are babies. Not something to pretty up and pass around for grading.

Cute baby competition? Aaaargh!!!

YABU for posting something this gross!

Not to mention entering your daughter in a baby competition...

Double yuck!!

DH's mum entered him for a baby contest when he was 8 months old. It is not an exaggeration to say that when he won this was the proudest moment of her life. She won a washing machine.

She has therefore been harping on about entering since the contest was featured in the local paper.

Anyway, come on, it's not like I dolled her up in heels, mascara and a frightwig.

so why did you think you were being unreasonable OP? What was the point of this exactly?

The snot.

I think both you and your DHs mum need to get a grip, tbh.