How much do you 'ignore' your children?

[Gameboy]

Have just been out with two families - friends of ours- who have kids about the same age, and I have to confess, I am amzed by the extent to which they actively 'ignore' their children trhoughout the whole afternoon.

By this I mean they seem to 'zone out' from all the various requests/ questions/ constant 'to-ing and fro-ing' that seems typical of under- 6s??

As a result they actively seem to enjoy themselves more, manage to have 'adult' conversations (which I gave up years ago )and it seems that their kids eventually give up and go and sort out themselves whatever it is they want....( which seems like a good thing I suppose)

I can't decide whether I'm just a mug with my kids and let them dominate my life too much... but I simply CAN'T ignore them - it seems really rude and uncaring somehow??

but that;s irrelevant as to whether this is fantasy or not. You said that Karl is only friends with disabled children- and then listed 7 children with disabilities that he is friends with. Your son's school only has 4 statemented children- which means they must all be in Karl's class. As pointed out by soapbox last night.

Some children with disabilities are not statemented- but if they do not have that level of need then it seems strange to single them out as "disabled" they should just be children (as should many children with statements) first, the disability should be irrelevent.

It doesn't ring true.

sorry the irrlevent bit was in reply to vaunda's ;last post- not staceys

s'all right jimjams im irrelevant most the time lol!

O M G !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I start a perfectly innocent little thread, go away over the weekend in an attempt not to ignore my children, and now I come back to find this.....

Do I get a prize for such a long thread...... I really feel part of the clique now.... I've arrived..... 800 + posts... WOW!

Lol at gameboy, its quite entertaining acctually! give an award to that lady!

arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh will you all just stop

I cant keep up

now iv done it again, i talk everyone runs away! (am i that scary)

Lavenderrr/ La Vaunda has a girl (and a boy I think)

I think Vaunda is Vaunda

she should hook up with lavenderrr then.

right new here, who is lavenderrr?????

Ive been in since 8 and its taken me till now to catch up with this. Am amazed that my posts the other nigth were actually coherent and reasonable . Fantastic thread GB. Been crying with laughter at points of it. Right better get a bit of work done now as am off at 11 to go home and ignore dd for the afternoon lol. What a life eh.

I don't think Vaunda would be keen on shooting pigeons in her back garden...

2 are in karls class, 1 is in yr1, 1 is in yr2.

whoamitosay.... is there a law about selling items which were given to me then?

you KNOW which children have statements? That sort of information is usually confidential.

Jimjams, I have one child a 7 yr old boy. No girls here yet

and even the "mental" ones can be difficult to spot.

Batters..... my name is Vaunda, has been since i was born will always be. I never use any alias as my name is uncommon enough that i don't have to. I am not lavender just Me

Zippi, that would be because i don't have a garden

jimjams yes i do know which have been staemented... I am freinds with a lot of the parents and as i say 2 of the children statemented are in my sons class.

Is that because you like helping the mental ones?

i do not use the term mental thanks. not my style, yours maybe but don't tar me with the same brush thanks.