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to tell this mother that her angelic DS is not so angelic afterall!

104 replies

JollyJanet · 08/07/2010 18:41

Please bear with me, I'm rather new.

My son has a friend, a 7 year old boy. His mother thinks he's an angel, I know otherwise but I'm not sure how to broach the subject with his mother.

He plays round our house often, we have a lovely John Lewis toy kitchen, I don't really like the kiddies to touch it but I let them today. When I went down to the play room this little boy was 'cooking' my daughters, darling toy cat, I said no and removed the cat. I left and pottered around for a while then brought them both a snack, this little 'bleep' had started 'cooking' the cat again!! Once again I said no and removed it, anyway cutting a long story short, he did this no less than 5 times in the end!

How do I tell his mother and if I do, what on Earth would I say? My husband told me not to worry, but quite frankly his behaviour shocked and disturbed me.

OP posts:
secunda · 08/07/2010 18:44

what's a toy kitchen? I don't get it - does the cooker actually work? If it's a toy why don't you like the kids to play with it?

sounds like you're overreacting tbh

IDoAllMyOwnStunts · 08/07/2010 18:45

Good one

CoupleofKooks · 08/07/2010 18:46

yes good try but you lost me at the toy kitchen you won't let the children play with

3andahalfmonkeys · 08/07/2010 18:47

You don't let the kids play with a toy kitchen?

funkychunkymunky · 08/07/2010 18:47

Ok, so you have a toy kitchen for kids to play with but you don't like the kids to play with it?

It sounds to me like he was just playing, which kids what kids do.

Are you basing the fact that you think he isn't an angel on just this incident or are there other things?

I'm sure his mother knows he isn't always perfect.

AmazingBouncingFerret · 08/07/2010 18:49

Oh I know how you feel OP I spend so much money on big expensive toys for my DS and he actually has the audacity to play with them. The ruddy cheek of it...

Cretaceous · 08/07/2010 18:49

I once had the 6yo child from hell round. He opened up DS's jigsaws and threw them around the room... They were 250-500-piece jigsaws. I'd take the "cooked darling toy cat" anytime... Never told the mum - tbh she was the guest from hell, too.

Is this a genuine post????

JollyJanet · 08/07/2010 18:51

the kitchen is more for high days and holidays I suppose. The pans are made from real metal.

OP posts:
secunda · 08/07/2010 18:51

why did you just take the toy cat away? This has got to be one of the most boring trolls ever

AgentZigzag · 08/07/2010 18:52
Grin
itsatiggerday · 08/07/2010 18:53

Is a toy cat a breed of real cat? Or a stuffed toy? If the former fine, if the latter then eh?? if the alternatives were plastic food then I'd be impressed at his desire for a bit more reality and wonder if he was part chinese

wishingchair · 08/07/2010 18:53

Ikea sell pans made from real metal. Dirt cheap and lovely.

Why have toys they can't play with??

Don't get it

qwertpoiuy · 08/07/2010 18:54

What a dreadful boy, cooking a toy cat on a plastic cooker - how dare he!

It reminds me of the mother who didn't believe in different toys for different sexes, she got her son a doll for Christmas - then watched in horror as her angel ripped the head off poor dolly!

Cretaceous · 08/07/2010 18:55

Do you know, the boy with the jigsaw fetish - he did that, too. No really - I ain't no troll

JollyJanet · 08/07/2010 18:56

well Cretaceous my daughter was playing with puss and she didn't want me to remove it.

OP posts:
nickschick · 08/07/2010 18:57

omg kids wanting to play with toys???

What do you expect??

As for cooking the cat at the nursery lots of children put the baby in the oven.

Its that thing called .....play.

Dont invite the child to play if you dont like him.

JollyJanet · 08/07/2010 18:58

I did like him! Beofre this.

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Ripeberry · 08/07/2010 18:58

You'd have a heart attack in my house then! We regularly tip baby birds out of their nest and let the monsters eat them up, then our darling girls cook the monsters on their pretend BBQ

ROLFL at this thread!

AgentZigzag · 08/07/2010 18:58

Do you feel he'll appreciate the toys if he can only play on them on 'high days' (whatever they are) and holidays?

Can't understand why you wouldn't let your DS play with a toy, unless he'd been naughty.

scurryfunge · 08/07/2010 18:59

Are you serious?

MmeLindt · 08/07/2010 19:00

Why not let them play with the kitchen all the time?

Would the cat be damaged by the cooking?

piscesmoon · 08/07/2010 19:02

I would just shut away any toys that you don't want him to touch before he comes. I can't really see why you told him so many times, when you could just have removed it.

kreecherlivesupstairs · 08/07/2010 19:03

I suspect it wasn't a cat, more like a billy goat gruff trip trapping over the bridge.
OP, are yo the woman who caught her 15 year old DD masturbating by any chance?

2shoes · 08/07/2010 19:04

hope the little boy cooks it in the toy kitchen

AgentZigzag · 08/07/2010 19:04

To answer your OP, yeeeah, you could tell his mum what he's been up to, and then let us know how long she laughs for what she says.