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?

Dear Green..., please, do not, for one minute, be mislead to believe that you or your opinion matters to me.
Your post was whingey and yes, you were unreasonable. The title of your thread is simply vile without an iota of wit or humor.

As you were.

I couldn't give a shit what you think of my opinion

in fact I was expecting you to pitch up and make a couple of pathetically transparent digs

and here you are

good grief
are people so lacking in humour that they really think the op meant the thread title....

Greensleeves hope today is better

thanks 2shoes

we had a little family conference this morning and everyone was feeling much better - apologies all round

they are playing in the garden now and ds1 has made me a beaturful picture entitled "Mummy's perfect dinner", it has goats cheese and olives and roast beef on it

love title, understand sentiment. Bad endings to good days are just rubbish.

aha family conference
and where did you get THAT marvellous idea from i wonder
[smug]

We do need a smug emoticon, with halo.

yes, yes, you are wonderful kooky one

Greensleeves glad to hear tha(I often want to throw dd out of the window)

ooh, and while I have you here

I am having a mini party tomorrow with my woodcraft group (they are all 2-5yos)as my b'day is Tuesday and my group is Monday evenings

have got food and balloons and party plates and stuff

am going to make them play keepy-uppy with the balloons (will be mayhem) and musical bumps, and will take big choc cake with candles and stuff for them to decorate it with

have mini pots of bubbles for them to take home

but need a couple more games (not too demanding)

they like dragon's keys, but we have done that lots of times

and would like to have a lucky dip but don't want to put plastic crap in it

did it last year and put in decorated stones/bits of polished glass from the beach

havce no ideas this year

I have reported your sick thread title.

I have reported your sick thread title.

twice?

er yeah me posting the second time by accident means i reported you twice

er yeah, my thread title means I am Myra Hindley

Oh dear. I may be juvenile, but some people are just too sad! How do people manage to get through life with so little sense of humour?

well lets hope mn have better things to do.
I am offended by the c word titles, I hide them
tis easy

Dear God, this really is a miserable place at the moment. What's the matter with you all, someone nick your sweets?

It's a nice day, a Sunday, take the pokers out of your arses and smile!

a certain amount of opportunistic sniping is inevitable though when someone posts about having a crap day

I expected a longer queue of people to say "you're sick" and "yes you're right, you re shit" tbh

but if we are taking things literally, does that mean Rollmops is actually a cold, boneless, slimy fish screwed up and dunked in vinegar?

GREENSLEEVES, if it's any consolation my children used to behave at their absolute worst when they'd had a great time for some reason!

I'll never forget when we took them to Legoland and stayed for a long weekend in the Legoland hotel together with other family. I was so looking forward to the trip and so were they, but they tantrummed and whined their way through most of it. They loved it all don't get me wrong, but I just think the excitement combined with just having broken up from school was too much!

It carried on when we got home, my mum was having a go at me over the next few days about how their behaviour had been MY fault and I wasn't firm enough, and my dh when I wanted to talk it all over was completely dismissive towards me and just said "Never again!"

The children carried on their ranting for a good few days afterwards and my dh was on at me, saying he hated coming home from work every day to chaos and I wasn't doing enough about it! I finished the end of that week with a migraine headache and exhausted, feeling totally unsupported

All I kept thinking about was all the ticket booking, the packing and organising (which I'd done all of) to come back and be hated by everybody. Luckily all our other holidays have been great and our kids manage excitement much better now, but that experience does stick in my mind. For a few years after that I'd sit dh down before a holiday and say if it all went wrong I expected some support, he didn't take that well but our holidays have run more smoothly since!

I hope your household is calmer now than it was last night, Greensleeves!

Greensleeves i sometimes feel like doing the same to my kids.Letting off steam about kids is totally necessary and i would never judge you on the "tongue in cheek post"[although you were probably deadly serious last night!}.I don't understand why some posters are being so sanctimonious and critical.We've all been there havn't we?

Yes, Google is your friend I see.
However, your thread title is still NOT funny the slightest. It's blatantly attention seeking in a stupid, stupid way.