Next Door Over-Reacting

[Moshi]

My DS had a littl argument with the girl next door and during the conversation he's supposed to have said "I'm going to cut you up, eat you and then poo you all over the table". The next door dad heard and came knocking on the door saying DS was disgusting and I ought to have better control. I think he's over-reacting, it was a daft kids argument.
Who's right?

drop dead fred video sat here next to me ..its a 15, but TBH i wouldnt have a prob with dd (5) watching it, ts one of my fave films and is very 'child like' ie imamture in its theme anyway

It's just tit for tat kiddy stuff.

I have to agree with kittywise on theinsider's attitude

LOL at "DS was disgusting and I ought to have better control."

You should have said that his dd started it ner ner ner ner ner

It's normal 7 yr old boy behaviour. I know, 'cos I have one! Obviously I'd talk to him and make sure he understood it was unacceptable to talk to people like that, but the neighbour was over reacting. However, I would probably just suck it up, apologise to the neighbour and tell him I'd have serious words with my son. Thankfully mine has only ever said things like that to his sister.

ta bumdiddley

I'd say it's probably normal child behaviour rather then making assumptions on how unpleasant the child is, or on how much control the parent has over their child.

Of course it's an unpleasant, horrible thing to say, and needs to be dealt with, (and I would probably think more about which films my child watchs), but the next door neighbour is over reacting.

sounds like six of one and half a dozen of the other. And very normal for children of that age. Your neighbour is taking it far too seriously.

Bumdiddley, are you and Kittywise chums now after the thread you started because she was rude about your name? That's really nice, I like it when people make up.

I don't think it is that bad, in fact I laughed as I read it.

thisismynewname arguments are not usually carried over from thread to thread

Yes, I have decided to follow kittywise round MN agreeing with her

Thisismynewname - I'm not entirely sure if you're being sarcastic??

It is just kid talk, your neighbour over reacted.

Ds (almost 4) was really cross with me the other day and he said "I'm going to cut you up into little pieces and bake you in a pie and then you will be sorry that you didn't buy me a cornetto." .

Ah...but did he threaten to poo you all over the table? see that's the difference!

i think they are overreacting,hes funny.

I have no opinion on OP but am highly amused at the idea of BumDiddley stalking Kitty to agree with her

My 4 year old twin boys are ALWAYS talking like this. Twin 1 is forever saying to their 3 year old sister that he's going to make her in to a pie. Yesterday we got details- "your legs are going to be sticking out"

Read this and laughed at first. I don't think you've anything to worry about. I have 2 boys (age 6 years and 19 months).

I know girls who behave and say nasty things to boys (a couple of older girls have behaved nasty to my son) and then winge when a boy says things back.

Just forget about it. As long as you know your boy was only messing around and sticking up for himself

My 7 year old would be in deep doo-doo if he ever said that to a girl. I'm being sexist here, but boys generally laugh at that kind of talk whereas Dd would have been upset over it.
But I think the neighbour was a teeny bit ott in stomping round to your house over it.

sorry i laughed too..

reminded me of saying that went around when i was about 8...if someone annoyed us we'd tekll them that we would rip off the head and s* down their neck.

disgusting, offensive...and childish...

kids are all about the one upmanship, luckily most of us grow out of it.

the dad was a bit upset cos his precious baby girl was verbally abused, it'll do her good, toughen her up a bit.#

and yes im an appalling mother.