moaning blardy parents read this

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www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/education/article3734696.ece

My children are astonishingly fluent and plausible liars (including the 4yo). I have learnt this the hard way.

Tis a sign of intelligence though, surely?

Yes darling Frog, if that makes you feel better!

How dreadful that people giving up their free time should have been hastled by that father! Quite shocking!

jeezy peeps, if my brother had told my dad he'd been caught knicking stuff, a telling off from another mother would have been the least of his worries!

i go to parents evening and say 'tell me the bad stuff'

I (heart) parents like you paula.

in general parents who say things like that tend to have kids that are just fine.

These parents are seriously deluded.Do they actually think they are helping their children?
DD1(now 18) very bright girl but went through a spell of truanting when she was 15. We decided in conjunction with the school to put her on report,and had to sign in and out of every lesson. Needless to say she found this highly embarrasing,especially in top set.
I asked that it continue until the end of that school year (about 5 months) long after the truanting had stopped(she only missed a cuople of days).
Served the silly girl right.

thankyou MB!

We never take our offspring with us either. I want the truth and the whole truth and if my dc is there i feel it takes the edge off!

my sister has tow kdsi
one very clever one having difficualties

she siad to me" i used to love going to parents eve with ds1 and i thought it was a reflection of what a great parent i was, now wiht dc2 i just worry"

so sad

Sometimes schools do right for a kid inspite of their parents' behaviour.

Father spent 30 mins arguing with my HoD over a 30 min detention.

Then spends 10 mins lecturing a Deputy Head re the same.

Deputy Head, bless her cotton socks, told him:

Listen, I see nothing wrong with what the teacher expects from your son. Those are the rules here. You signed up to them. If you don't like them, find your son another school.

Father shuts up.

Child's behaviour and work have been excellent since.

Depends on the 'fit' between the school and the child as well though. I used to hate going to parents evenings in dd1's primary days, now she's at secondary I come over all teary cos the teachers all think she's great.

[soppy emoticon]

last parents evenng I went to for ds his very, very nice teacher said, 'Somethings he doesn't want to do XYZ'

To which I said, 'Don't give him an option, I wouldn't!'

Very Nice Teacher looked at me as if I Horrid Mummy personified

i do have friends ( one in particular) who spends her entire life at flute/football/dance/fundraisers for world challenge/doing art projects etc for her dc's

Hours of homework per night ( the mother does helping the dcs)

I am sure the children would be fine without the mothers input

Would the mother be fine?

I sometimes wonder what some of my friends will do when their dcs leave home - probably turn up on campus every second saturday with job application forms and downloaded theses!!

How would you your kids never lied?

maybe they're just very good.

That's the point of lying isn't it?

the ultimate case?

Ohh but I did snigger when the judge ordered in the school's favour and got the father to pay the costs.

the boy had almost 400 cases of rule breaking and the father thought he was just 'misunderstood'

Yeh, right!

How would you know yuor kids nevere lied?

I give up.

Should proof read.But can't be arsed.

my dd1 never lies as she has a mild form of aspergers and nf1, she's very literal, and tells me everything. dd2 could lie for britain so i'm not some deluded parent.

OK.

But generally when people do tell lies it is with the intention of people thinking it's true which in the main unless caught out they proably do.

So to say 'they nver lie' is a quite ludicrous thing to say.

Maybe they are just the best liers in the world!

Mb, we have this with ds's lovely cello teacher -- sometimes she spends half the lesson playing tunes for him so that he can decide which one he wants to choose to learn next.

I've had to spell out very firmly that I'm not necessarily that bothered about him loving every single tune that he has to learn.

[evil cow mother emoticon]

Not doubting you for a moment Coco, as you know your dd.

I have had one student with a diagnosis of aspergers who could spin the most whopping stories! Which surprised me as I would have thought that with the 'theory of mind stuff' it wouldn't happen. But it did on a fairly regular basis (student was an older teen so may have picked up that particular social skill)

All the others fitted the more usual pattern of honest to the point of brutality

The hair on that lad speaks volumes for him, don't you think, MB?

dd once came to me, very distraught, and told me she'd touched the nail clippers 15 days before and she couldn't keep it too herself any longer . We keep telling her she doesn't have to tell us every little thing.

aww, bless her! [cooing face emoticon needed]

She must have been stressed out to 'hold it in' for that long.

let's just say she's very highly strung. god help her boyfriend when she's older!

my dd is NT but very highly strung. Dh and I often say , 'She is going to make some man very happy, and very stressed!'