Oh dear just had a paddy and chucked ds's dinner in the bin [blush]

[FrannyandZooey]

Feel free to remind me of this next time I talk about punishments being counter productive and letting them regulate their own food intake

LOL everyone has assumed he was refusing to eat it

he wasn't, he was just whispering to dp "this is poo food" and I lost the plot at the end of a long day

Magrat I don't find behaving in a shite way generally helps teach my children NOT to behave in a shite way

Cod that is so unlike you! A chair! The wall! My god I feel quite reasonable now

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I'd have thought that meat was the most difficult thing to chew ..

kids are just weird

heh I couldn't face making my kids any dinner at all tonight .. maybe I shouldn't even be on this thread

LOL Greeny I can't resist a chance to hop up on the old soapbox

It really was pathetic though, not being able to ignore a 4 year old whispering about poo is a sad thing don't you think

god I HATE the ends of days when you have had enough

you can muddle through all day being just about reasonable and then blow it so badly at the end

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oh dear cod hope you get over whatever it is without getting properly ill

do you take elderberry extract, it is fabulous for when you feel things starting?

yes I know at heart he will probably be on a shorter lead for the next few days now because he will remember this

not my preferred style of getting good behaviour though

I'm not having a go Franny I just think that sometimes behaving irrationally allows your children to realise you are not super-human but are just a human being doing the best you can and sometimes they can push you beyond your limits and that they shouldn't

in the environment of a loving and supportive relationship a wig-out or two doesn't do any damage ..

oh I have a shitty temper you see cod

I think if it is very out of character they will realise that too and not take it to heart

but when you have to apologise most days for losing your rag at some point, it isn't great

oh I have a shitty temper you see cod

I think if it is very out of character they will realise that too and not take it to heart

but when you have to apologise most days for losing your rag at some point, it isn't great

no, I agree Magrat, about the odd freak out

but as a general method of controlling your children is awful and short sighted

of course .. throwing a child's dinner in the bin every night will result in very very thin kids

LOL and a fat bin

I have just realised

I didn't compost it, it has gone to landfill

am I wrong to be sniggering slightly at 'this is poo food' whispered under breath .. such a typical 4 year old behaviour

yes you fucker

i will throw all your dinners in the bin and see how you like it then

Me too, Magrat.

Sorry F&Z.

Seriously though F. You are too hard on yourself you know.

You are ALLOWED to be human.

Ds1 told me he wanted a poo sandwich tonight. I almost made him one.

cooking is often quite likely to push me over the edge and with a few children there will always be one who does ot approve

Ds1 told me he wanted a poo sandwich tonight. I almost made him one.

LOL at poo sandwich

no i am not too hard on myself

if had been perfect all week and then done this at the end, I wouldn't actually care

however has not been my finest hour from start to finish

can you blame it on the pregnancy hormones?

My ds told mil on Friday that her dinner was yucky That he didn't like the white things [onions] & that her carrots were 'gusting.

I was affronted