Random annoying things children do (lighthearted!).

[musixa]

I was having a lovely time today feeding some ducks that had come up onto the riverbank ... had brought wild bird food specially to do this ... then a small child ran up roaring 'shoo! shoo!' and waving her arms to frighten them off back onto the river . Every time they came near, this child shooed them away again.

What random annoying child-things things have you seen lately?

Honestly though, that isn’t a child thing. That’s a “naughty child and parents aren’t disciplining them properly” thing.

To be fair to the mum she was absorbed in trying to get her younger DC's (toddler) shoes back on as he kept kicking them off.

5 mentions of the 'c' word in the only childfree forum...🙄

on a forum called MUMSnet

This is the kind of thread that we have not yet encountered here before. I think the other threads were great as they centered around the people without children, not the children.

I joined a childfree group this week and it was all 'oh I'm so happy I don't have children because XYZ" followed by images of bedraggled mothers with their children. The tone was just so, wrong, and full of schadenfreude.

In contrast, here we have had threads on childfree ageing, wills, chat threads, etc. This thread reminds me to be more active here as I don't think such a positive vide regarding this topic exists anywhere else. It's all "ow look how annoying children are I'm so glad I don't have them".

Perhaps we should keep the vibe positive and adult-focused? (yes I did see it was meant to be lighthearted, but talking about these issues brings negativity imho).

I agree @FufferPish.

Me too, @FufferPish Let's be respectful of the forum we're on. Not that OP wasn't but just that this type of thread probably isn't going to go anywhere good.

We've had this argument. Over and over again.

@MrsDanversGlidesAgain I agree every other thread on this board seems to get derailed by statement like ITS MUMSNET !

@musixa , I would of been tempted to turn around to the darling DC and shout Shoo Shoo and wave my arms towards them , I wouldn't of done it but I would of wanted to