to want to bag up my children and dump them in the river?

[Greensleeves]

they have had a lovely day today - a friend over all day, a water fight with water bombs and water pistols followed by fluffy dressing gowns and hot pizza, played on the Wii with their friend, then watched the world cup and had treats (choc chip muffins and pringles ) to munch during the game

for some reason they have behaved atrociously for the past hour and a half

ds1 was so rude and disrespectful we told him he needed to be quiet so we could watch the football, or take himself off to bed - several warnings

he snarled "Oh FINE I'm off to bed then" to which we replied "Night then, don't forget to brush your teeth"

when he realised we weren't going to invite him back down again he threw an enormous screaming tantrum and unrolled all the toilet rolls down the stairs

ds2 then went to bed and jumped on the top bunk (which he has been warned about endlessly) and has broken it, so he is sleeping on the floor

they are both crying and wailing and ds1 is still being rude as well

ds2 is supposed to be going on a jud course tomorrow morning, neither of us want to bloody well get up early and take him now

I am upset and furious

and dh is ashen and silent again, I know he feels rotten because he lost it and screamed at them when he saw the toilet rolls

we are shit parents, aren;t we?

PMSL
you are disgusting
i saw what you said about anal itching the other day
you deserve to have bog roll thrown at you

rofl, there was nothing controversial about my DAI (deep anal itch) remark

we've all done it

Mumsnet has got too PC...a few years ago I think the response would have been

If its a degradable river life friendly carrier bag, then YANBU

Anal itching?

how dare you say we have all done it
i have NEVER sniffed your finger
everyone else may have done but i have standards

There there, tomorrow is another day.

It's one of the terrible rules in life that so frequently when you want to be extra nice to them and give them special one-off treats they transform into ghastly screaming entitled brats INSTANTLY.

I looooove your thread title

and your dcs will doubtless forever remember this as a Golden Day

unfortunately they will not remember the Good Bits- they will recount with glee chucking the bog roll down the stairs

(that's pretty good- hope my kids never think of it tho )

you did sniff my finger, remember, just before you maliciously pushed my ds1 into that lake

Sheesh...where did everyone's sense of humour go?? Did Greeny throw it in the river along with her dc's?? After a particularly bad day I can be heard telling the dc's that if they push me much further I may be pushed into throwing them in the bin...Even the dc's don't take that seriously, they didn't have a sense of humour bypass at birth...But, truly, surely everyone has days like that with their dc's?? Or is everyone else's dc's perfect angels? I DO have quite a strict routine for my dc's, but it doesn't stop them from being little toerags occasionally, to the point where I may be considering chucking them in the 'spider cupboard' under the stairs/disembowelling them/ripping their arms off and beating them over the head with them, the difference is, that I would never actually do it.

if only there were a mother in law day then we all could send a hollowed out head vase

I have sunk a lot lower than this in my shitey parenting, trust me

once I threatened them with a bin bag if they failed to remove the carpet of toys from the living room floor

they thought the whoile idea was hilarious and it descended into a pantomime

I ended up singing a song about it, which i reprised later whenever I got to the end of my tether with their bloody mess

Bob the binbag
Can we fill it
Bob the binbag
Yes, we can!

ds1 and ds2, and all their toys
We know what happens to lazy boys
Tractors and digger, and play food too
Into the binbag with all of you

Bob the binbag....etc

my dd asked me to beat her bum until it bled t'other day whilst grinning and waggling it naked (again) at me

must stop these endless idle threats to her before she is carted off to a safe house

Ronald she got that from you?! ThAt IS odd IMO

Greensleeves
I uused to have days when i felt exactly like you do about your ds's. They can push you to the limit. And they were probably upset about the football score (or was that just DH??)

I found a large glass of wine often helped.

And surely no one took the thread title seriously......

Can't count the number of times I told mine they would be put in the wheelie bin on bin day....

His you lot have horrible threats. I don't think I use threats!! Other than " if you leave a towel on the floor dot will smell " that ain't even one is it?!

threats are only effective if there is some intention to carry them out and if the other party has some inkling to the dire punishment coming their way

my lot have never had a skelping of any sort in their life as I am a very wanky explain and commiserate sort
so far, so effective but there is yet time.....

I often threaten mine with the wheelie bin, or the upstairs window.

"If you don't behave, it will be out of the window, with you!!" Dd2 was telling her doll it would go out the window yesterday

Other popular, meaningless threats include...

"One of these days, me and the dog are leaving you all. You can all live here with your mess and we (me and the dog) will have a nice clean house."

"If you don't start eating your meals, I will never cook for you again, and since you are not allowed to use the oven because you are too little you will starve." - dd1 retorted that she is allowed to use the phone and go to the shop, so she will just order take aways and buy chocolate

My dad used to threaten to rip our arms off and hit us over the head with the soggy end.

I do like the idea of the vases.

For what it is worth, I also think that the children were just plain old overtired after a brilliant day!

Are you drunk Greeny?

You wanted to watch football rather than putting your kids to bed.

You could not be bothered to put your kids to sleep, so you kept them up late.

Shit parents?

With such a heading? Do you need to ask?

ooooh thats harsh QS!!!

Greeny - I acknowledge your sentiment entirely. Clearly it is not meant to be taken literally, so posters being really dour about it, do give it a rest!

Oh shucks to all the stuffies!
You are annoyed because you treated them to a nice day and a football match with some junk food and they are now being naughty.
YANBU.
If you did this every day they'd have something to tell you off about, this was a treat. So their behavior is a side effect of junk food, that doesn't mean as a parent you can't still be upset.
I don't think there is anything wrong with variable bedtimes and a bit of fun now and again. Kids hav enough rule and boundaries when they grow up. My children know exactly where their boundaries are without a strict routine and boring old rules!
And I for one love the title. If you could stuff my neighbours cat in the bag when you throw it, i'd be grateful, it keeps shitting in my garden!

I can only imagine that the people complaining about the thread title are the same that complained about that girl on "one born every minute" referring to her daughter as a "little bitch" in the middle of a contraction. Humourless and smug

I do have a sense of humour but obviously not quite up to scratch. Actually when I read thread title I thought a troll had come on to get us all roiled up.

But it has to be said that we do threaten to throw our son on the compost heap (but he's 10 months and doesn't understand).

Horrible thread title.

I don't get that sort of sick humour. I also assumed it was a troll. If it had been anyone less well known on mumsnet, they would not have had such a sympathetic reponse.