I used to be such a laid back kind of girl but now FFS is at the tip of my tongue almost constantly

[sandyballs]

Everything seems to stress me out.

Just me then!

I'll join you but in my case it's the menopause!

My daughter who has an 11 week old baby says I am psychically sending these wonderful emotions her way and causing her to join you in that internal dialogue

I had to grovel to DP after yesterday's outburst and was forced to retreat to the garden in sub-zero temperatures in order to work off my frustrations!!

me three - have you got a 3 year old by any chance? Mine is going to be repeating FFS soon if i'm not careful....

Menopause Old age here in my case too!

Frankly darlings, I'm 50 in a few days time and I officially No Longer Give A Fuck About Anything.

Except all those things I mutter FFS about. Which is just about everything these days. Politics, DH, teenage DS, University course, perpetual irritants the lot of 'em.

YANBU. You are a woman, therefore YANBU about ANYTHING, EVER!

No 3 year olds just two 9 year old girls and a perplexed hubbie

i do V signs behind the dcs' backs - i know it's really immature but it does make me feel a bit better for some reason

Uh oh. This is me. My dd has repeated it having heard me and dh mutter it. Mines 26 months but when told not to put her hands in the fish tank, not to tip milk in her dinner, not to run through the poo she'd done on the carpet we've muttered those dreaded words.

What's worse is my dd poo'd on the carpet again and declared FFS a poo! The one time she overheard it and it's stuck. The shame when she declared it at MIL. Ouch.

If I'm half the mother Marge Simpson is I'll be happy. Serious. DS is 2 1/2 and has just discovered running away in shops and sitting on the cat ('I riding on cat mummy!').

Ooh yes to the Vs. Not static though, got to be moving up and down.

DD (2):

Mummy

Mummy

Mummy

Mummy

Mummy

Mummy

Mummy

Mummy

Mummy

Mummy

Mummy

Mummy

Mummy

Mummy

Me:

DD:

For fuck's sake.

Mummy

Mummy

Mummy

Mummy

Mummy

Mummy

Mummy

Mummy

Mummy

(ad infinitum)

Oh yes, I recognise this.

Unfortunately so does my (then) 3 year old dd. After I remonstrated with her for snatching a toy from a friend who was over on a playdate, she screamed (in front of the other parents) 'Oh For F**ks Sake!!!' at me, and then took off across the living room, heading upstairs as she knew she was in trouble. I managed to grab her to stop her, whereupon she shouted 'Let go of my arm, I am NOT putting up with this rubbish ANYMORE.'

Thought it was just me, so glad it's not just me. Have a 7 yr old who knows everything and a 3 yr old who thinks she's 7!

This thread is brilliant! So glad to know it's not just me!

baskingseal, you had me pmsl, so much so that DH asked why I was laughing. When I told him, he cracked up too!

tethers I'm pmsl at yours. That is so much like our house I'm crying with laughter. I find that initially I'm nice to the calling mummy mummy mummy, yes darling? Mummy mummy etc I soon bellow " whaaaaaat? What do you want child?"

She never wants anything.

I can't remember the last time someone used my name. Even family refer to me through her as mummy.

notyummy :o

I am zero-tolerance these days too.

i think its abusive to stick V signs up

{wink}

i was VERY cross with dh yesterday and even dd told me off for my language