Am I a horrible mum or is it my seasonal anxiety and depression?

[KhaleesiOfChaos]

I called my son a weirdo to his nursery worker yesterday and I can't stop thinking how horrible I am. What must they think of me?

Basically, the nursery was giving me DS handover details about his day as usual and she said he didn't want to wear his coat in the garden. I said "he likes being cold, the weirdo."

I said it jokingly but of course she didn't really respond to me and I felt bad for saying it immediately.

I get seasonal anxiety with depression and the signs are here. I just can't work out if I'm overthinking my comment due to anxiety kicking in, or if it was a nasty thing to say about my son.

I don't know whether to say something to the nursery worker to apologise and explain, or if she'll think I'm mad for even bringing it up again.

Your defo over thinking it, don’t worry about it! I call my kids weirdos, they always say I’d rather be a weirdo than boring! I’m with them on that

"he likes being cold, the weirdo."

That’s obviously a jokingly affectionate comment from a mother. Please don’t worry about it!

SAD it is then - I'm sitting here crying with relief due to your responses! Who's the weirdo now?!

Thank you.

Please don't worry! I've said exactly the same to my dd nursery! I called her a weirdo because she came running out to meet me and started running in circles laughing! I just looked at her key worker, at my dd then back to the key worker and said "weirdo!" It wouldn't have been taken any other way but an affectionate joke! They wouldn't have thought anything of it, I promise!

I wouldn't think anything of this had you have said that to me. As a PP said, that comes across as affectionately jovial.

I'm fairly surely I call my DD a weirdo at least once a day!

Hope you're OK

I've said worse 🙈 honestly don't worry about it. I always say my kids are weirdos.
All kids are weirdos 😂

Someone on here once called their son a tiny wanker rather than a whiney tinker at the doctors in front of a room full of people.

Don't worry at all, she'll know you said it affectionately