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

[JollyJanet]

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.

YABU, He was a little boy just pretending to cook a toy cat.

riiight.

SO 7 yr old boy pretends to cook toy cat in pretend oven thing which you would rather he hadn't played with as it was neither a "high day nor holiday"

This has set off some reaction in you as your Mother killed your mouse by "warming it in the sun" during August at 11am.

Umm, you're kinda OCD, OP.

If said boy starts to take pleasure in torturing real small animals - cats, dogs, hamsters, etc - then there's potentially a serious problem with him.

At the moment, there's just a problem with you as you seem unable to allow a child to play with a toy in a way that the child sees fit.

Not what you wanted to hear on your first thread, hope you can create enough mental space to understand why you've had the reaction you've had. iyswim.

amistillsexy--I'm impressed that you took the effort to find cookers to link to. No cats though?

You could simply never invite normal children to play at your house and create a perfect little bubble around your family...

Maybe he was pretending that the oven was actually a time machine or something. Just because it's a kitchen doesn't mean that he saw it that way.

Well, you could have hidden the toy cat, taken the kitchen away (or give it away seeing as they aren't allowed to play with it).

Once he knew you didn't want him cooking the ty cat, he probably did it to piss you off.

I don't think this means he is mean...just a 7yr old!

Sorry to hijack OP, but my husband has just given our children a big bag of sand intending them to build sandcastles and play digging, but instead they have made mud and are smearing it all over themselves. This is NOT how we intended them to play with the sand. Can anyone advise?

Eh?

Also:
"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" is a revoltingly racist thing to say, itsatiggerday

going off topic slightly but i am deeply shocked and saddened that amazingbouncingferret has not one picture of a ferret in her photos

It has bounced so high it's gone out of the shot, that's why it's amazing.

Yuno I'd be worried... they are obviously performing some kind of obscure tribal ritual. The next step in the ritual is probably sacrificing a soft toy... be on your guard.

is it tortoise? sorry, I only meant it as an aside since I have met some Chinese who do consider cats to be animals for eating, much as we do cows, sheep and pigs. Haven't done exhaustive research on whether other nationailities have similar tastes but was flippantly suggesting the OP take a slightly more open minded view of the little boy's play. Either I've managed my goal of killing my PC antennae or I'm a bit off beam atm. Didn't get a flaming though so maybe the comment not so bad as you think...?

clearly, OP is having a high day.

This is a very disappointing thread. I thought things were going to get interesting with the fried hamster but bridge dwellers are clearly not what they used to be. Now if the cat had been a real goat...

Oh no Barbie is Naked in the toy oven. Perhaps DD is about to shortly strip me naked and shove me in the real one.

Did he sear the cat first on the hob, and then put it in the oven?

If he put the cat in the oven straight away, did he annoint it first with oil, herbs and seasoning? Or did it go in plain?

Maybe he's been to a cattery - the pods the cats go in look like ovens. IMO.

Oh my! I actually took this seriously at first - d'oh! I was going to comment properly but I can see it's really not worth it now...

Do people really have time to sit around thinking up this sort of stuff!?

you are not for real

itsatigger, "Chinese people eat cats and dogs" tends to be used as a racial slur - i.e., "and therefore you wouldn't want such barbarians living in our nice civilised society".

Oh, I obviously don't live in a civilised society - have never heard that . Sorry.

yes, you should absolutely tell the mother, so that she can stop her child going to a lunatic's house. The only thing 'shocking' and 'disturbing' about your story is your reaction to totally normal children's behaviour...calling him a little beep wtf???

pigletmania - I agree!!!! Troll!!!!!

OP- I suggest you go to your GP and ask for a referral as you obviously need some kind of counselling?

My DD has a toy kitchen (although we're poor so it's a 2nd hand one from ELC rather than a John Lewis!) and the kids love to play with it (isn't that what toys are for?) they have put all sorts in to the toy microwave, including stuffed toy cats/teddies etc, anything that will fit! Perfectly normal thing for children to do..

Your reaction though... ummm... totally not normal!

Is this thread still going? Hahahaha