Mangohood - 10 / 10 thread

[FrannyandZooey]

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100 i think he is 8
i said very similar to that when the trees happened
"i am quite upset about this. i don't want this to happen again - i think i would phone the police if someone kept doing things like this"
he looked at me completely clear eyed!. not a flicker and helped ds to put the trees back which i thought was almost perverse
but i know full well it was him
and the acting out was in retrospect LOL

the gun thing, i was feeding ds2, but i kept staring hard, and he smiled and waved and pretended he wasn;t doing it - until i looked away again
he is rather shameless i think!

about ds playing with him
they often play outside in a group - it would mean ds missed out quite a lot - and obviously the social side is v important for him
maybe i could say "don't play with L on his own"

dp says he is probably cross with his mother (has step dad) and taking it out on me and other apparently nice caring mothers and stable families
is that a bit pat?

No, not pat. He likes the attention probably, and is just naughty and a bit fearless. I'd have it out, and yes, group playing important, but let him know you won't take any shit. He's only young Fra.

"Oh maybe just come out with it, and say you think it was him and you don't want any more of that, and you will be keeping an eye on him, and ds likes playing with him, and he is welcome to come round but he has to behave himself and not cause trouble"

yes i think that might be better
i dislike very much being taken for a fool with this tree thing, but you can't judge children the same way as adults can you
i mean it feels very nasty and personal and sly but it is just a daft young lad pratting about really isn;t it?

Yes, pratting about but also being sly, and thinking it a right laugh and yes, taking you for a fool with your home improving sticks in pots, but also not really thinking all that through clearly because he's only little, and probably doesn't know what he's doing half the time.

State your case, be firm and clear and let him know you have his number, but still like him.

i;ve been anned

Can we have lemonhood? It sounds nice.

Invigorating isn't it!

It's an experience isn't it? lolol

I had this with a boy who comes round for ds1, he's 14, and he's nice but at a totally different stage to ds1 but they do like each other and he likes being here. And I hemmed the whole issue, because I didn't want to shame ds1, but then I thought fuck it, and I Anned this boy and said 'you're v. welcome, we like you being here, but stop saying you and ds1 are going into town or down to the car park, because you are not because he's 10, so that's that, do you understand?' and he looked me straight in the eye and said 'yes, okay, I understand' and since then it's all been board games and stuff, and no more loafing about and talking about hanging out in the car park.

So. His mother says she thinks he likes coming here to be 11 again. Which is rather nice really.

That is nice 100.

You do talk sense.

Fran, I think I'd be like you, but I think you should be like 100.

"down to the car park"? LOL what for?

100 you have been incessantly and tirelessly helpful to me this week
every time i email you or ask something on here you have replied immediately and lengthily

you are meant to be writing book 2 aren't you?

I think we should call 100 AhundredAnnes

LOL i nearly put "tiresomely helpful"
anyway i recognise these tactics when i see them

ooh titles
hmm

erm

um

nothing about starfruit i beg you

Erm yes, that's right Fra. Yes, I am. Every time my email box pings, i JUMP ON IT because I want the distraction to be helpful.

"aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah LEEK OUT! le leek, c'est chic"

That'll do very nicely, I like it.

i'm channeling cod tonight
cos i miss her so

It's Anne. She's put the wind up your skirts, made you all decisive and gavel-bearing.

so
what is the next one about
is it a bit fluffier than p 203? you lulled me into thinking it was all going to be terribly amusing and witty comedy of manners
then aargh oh dear blimey

'you're v. welcome, we like you being here, but stop saying you and ds1 are going into town or down to the car park, because you are not because he's 10, so that's that, do you understand?'

Oh 100 I love that, just fantastic. Have yet to experience all this and the politics of playing out but it sounds like a pita Franny. I think he is young enough to take notice of you though.

that is the nearest i can get to a coherent review atm btw
shall i put it on amazon? "aargh oh dear blimey"

100 as we seem to have your undivided attention let's have an author q and a session
so what made you write about THAT for the love of god? have you been interested in it for years?

hmmph
she's hopped it
probably looking up words in her thesaurus

In what - sewing up someone's skin do you mean? That's quite a mad question Franny. And oddly, as you've started to ask questions, I now have to go and put dc to bed. And then I have to FOCUS.