I’ve done something really stupid

[Pashpash24]

I’m sure everyone has done something really stupid before as a parent, but I think this has to be the stupidest thing I’ve ever done. My DS came skipping out of school yesterday telling me how he wanted to make some tickets for the show was doing with his friend at playtime.

He said it was going to be a pretend wrestling show (alarm bell did not ring at wrestling show) and him and his friend had done a script and they.
He had his first drama lesson the other day so I thought he must be wanting to put a show on. He started making some tickets after school yesterday but said he’d not made enough.
So I offered to help him and we made some tickets and printed them off to hand out. He said he wanted to call it the (name) & (name) fight show.

Why oh why did that not ring a bell in my head I’ll never know. So I have proceeded to print off “fight show” tickets for my 8yr old to take to school to hand out to his little friends because he couldn’t wait to do his “show”.

I get a call at 11am from the School safeguarding officer telling me we cannot promote violence in school and she has personally had to go round the whole school collecting the tickets back from the pupils.

Like I completely get it and I genuinely cannot believe that my stupid brain allowed me to send my son into school with tickets saying that. I feel like the worst mum ever 😩 I nearly started a royal rumble in my son’s playground. Anyway. Just thought I’d share my stupidity on this Friday afternoon. Hope you all have a lovely weekend. From the stupidest mum of the day x

This is fantastic. You have a budding entrepreneur on your hands.

Mine did something similar in year 4. He ended up with a ridiculous amount of Halloween sweets and his school were running a food bank collection centre from harvest to Chirstmas. (Year 6 project) I suggested he take them in and donate a large portion.

He decided that what would be better would be to raffle off the sweets and use the money to give to the food bank. I don't know why or where he got this bright one from.

He made tickets but didn't properly know what he was doing. Anyway, cue school yard bun fight, pocket money, and IOUs.

In the end, the sweets were confiscated, the money returned (he wrote names on the back of the tickets thankfully), and a call home. I was left gasping like a fish trying to explain why I thought sending in huge bag of sweets was a good idea. Felt like we were both in detention. Had those lovely words of no further action this time, but in the future, think of the position you've put your child in 😳

On the plus side all of the kids will be secretly wishing their mum was as cool as you!
It will be something they all remember in the future.

You are not stupid. Just very supportive. Both you and ds sound very sweet.

The tickets look absolutely amazing. I hope you can find some other use for them. You could change the image of the two wrestlers to two bunnies in a meadow or something...

Cannot believe they phoned you and talked about fight club. Don’t they know the first rule?!?…

This reminds of the time I came home from work and found that my then 7-year old had established a 'poker club' with a load of children in the neighbourhood, who were placing bets at my kitchen table.

She is now a successful adult and I agree it shows strong entrepreneurial spirit!

I don't think you did anything stupid at all. How is it 'violence' anyway if it is a legal sport which you can watch on TV? Surely there is a lot more violence in Shakespeare or Italian opera: would they ban that???!?

I love this - you did a fun thing.

I stupidly told the head teacher that my son (age 5 or 6) was a bit fascinated with swearing and had asked me if he could say the f word once. She got in the school child psychologist 😂
He'd heard it at school, lots.

Oh OP, this did make me giggle! I can just imagine you and your DS, sat merrily cutting out front row tickets for a primary school smack down 😂

I’m sorry, I really shouldn’t be laughing so much.
You’re far from the worst parent, don’t beat yourself up.

Reading some of the posts reminded me of my brother, aged about 8. Brought some friends home to play and my mother shoved them all in a room to get on with it ( hated visitors, didn’t like children) She did realise it was rather quiet and found several quite drunk kids as my brother had handed around sherry and god knows what else from parents drinks trolley.

I know you feel silly right now, but I think many of us would have done the same (or not been as supportive in helping with the tickets) and as people have said honestly, you can laugh about it now.

It doesn't sound like your DS is the sort of kid to have a reputation for violence at school so I'm sure this will all be forgotten about soon.

😂😂😂 that's. Good story for when you don't feel so mortified 😂

Oh, a royal rumble! I love it!!! you'll forever be the champion in your son's eyes (he's probably all annoyed at the school leaders for squashing his path to glory).

Maybe convince him he and friends can sell lemonade wearing WWW costumes? Compromise?

Tickets 😂 Brilliant!! 👍

Oh OP. You’ve literally made me laugh outloud 🤣 Honestly this could totally happen to me too but is a really funny story that I hope you’ll tell at your sons wedding 🤣 the tickets are HILARIOUS too 🤡💀

Oh my days, I love this! Definitely get those tickets framed 😂

You really can’t see any issue with a school allowing boys to fight/appear to fight in the school playground for entertainment? No risk of injury? No chance a child stops “pretending” or the “pretend” wrestling move actually hurts someone? No chance that a bunch of the spectator’s parents complain?

I really don’t like actual wrestling and the values it promotes but at least that’s trained, using proper mats etc. This would just be kids badly copying stuff from TV and someone would inevitably get hurt, uniform damaged etc and a load of staff time then gets wasted sorting it out.

I’m not condemning the OP or her kid, it was a misjudgment and it’s quite funny, but the school would be crazy to allow this to go ahead.

OMG @Pashpash24 thanks for the laugh, this is brilliant!

During lockdown 4.3 or whichever hell it was, we moved back in with my parents so I could keep working. My 2 year old was upset that everyone was drinking a glass of wine and she didn't have one, my mum gave her her very own little wine glass with fizzy water in it so now she had "fizzy wine", she then had this most nights, something very cute about a 2 year old asking for fizzy wine...when she finally went back to nursery she told them she didn't drink water or milk anymore, only fizzy wine!! Can imagine that conversation at pick up!

She still calls it fizzy wine, got a call from my babysitter the other week asking if she could really have prosecco (male neighbour babysitting, he didn't see why this would be an issue, lol)

Hah I bet the staff were both scared and laughing at the same time! If it helps you feel better, I once kindly printed out some lyrics for my then 6 year old to learn a song for the school talent show. Of course I didn't look at them properly, felt pretty sure there were no explicit lyrics. Imagine my surprise when I got a formal letter from the school explaining that they had to stop the performance half way due to the frequent drug references. Funny now but couldn't look at the teacher for a while.

Love you OP!
Mine have had a few moments of note, one was when my 7 year old was asked to put a drink from the fridge into his lunch bag. School rang me after he opened a can of Stella in the dining hall.
Then there was the time that their father sent several packs of energy sweets to be shared out on a school coach trip to Austria. What was he thinking? 50 hyper kids.

Echo other PPs, OP. First rule is nobody talks about Fight Club. It will be something to laugh about in years ahead. Your son will love you for it.

That made me laugh so hard 🤣

I wonder if the teachers were imagining a kids’ version of choreographed WWF wrestling, complete with them pretending to bash each other over the head with plastic chairs and one of them grandly referring to himself in the third person?

I just woke my lo up laughing at this 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Surely it was clear it was just a game and no violence was planned.

If I had been the teacher involved I would have called you but said that I know it seems OTT and it's just in order to stick by safeguarding rules, I wouldn't have let you hang up feeling like a failure.

This is fantastic. Especially the boobs like spaniel ears. We have a spaniel and until now I’d not noticed the similarity with my menopausal boobs