going to be a 'bad' mummy later.........

[QueenOfQuotes]

have to take DS1 to his induction afternoon (2nd one - hoping he doesn't throw up like he did last week LOL) at his new school.........thing is DS2 has his sleep at 1pm-3pm - and the induction afternoon starts at 1.30

So I'm going to put DS2 down for his sleep as usual, at 1.30 on the dot grab the monitor, lock the front door and whizz round to the school to drop DS1 off - then whizz back again

Saw a snippet of something last night which was bemoaning what has become of Britain in the psorting world: where are all our world champions etc.

I commented to dh (who agreed) that part of the probelm is that our Anglophone society (and for that, read UK and UK - Oz and NZ seem to be better insulated from this) is so f$@&ing paranoid that we are stifling our children and not allowing them the independence and trust that gives them the confidence to go out and be world beaters.

OH PLEASE NOT THIS TEDSIOUS THREAD

What you on about Cod? It's the best thread on Mumsnet!

We've had everything on this thread: controversy, trolls, bust-ups, make-ups, group hugs, morphing, guest appearances from Julie Burchill and Tony Parsons.... we've got it all!

i dont 'get' this thread either

although the julie birchill one was quite funny

we've also discussed time taken to do a cr*p

My neighbour (in her sixties, very middle class and respectable) told me a funny story about when her children were very young. She took them out and went to the bank, leaving the baby in the pram outside which EVERYONE did at the time. This is in Central London, btw. Marylebone Road. Her husband saunters past, thinks, "Oh that's my baby! How nice. I wil take her for a little stroll" and makes off with pram and baby. Neighbour emerges, sees baby gone, nearly has heart attack, then spots husband wandering back with baby. Everybody laughs (except neighbour who nearly murders husband). End of story. No question of bad mummydom at all.
now, I would NEVER in a million years leave dd in her pram outside the Abbey in Peckham, and actually I don't really think it was a good thing then, but everyone did it. Times have really changed, and you can be a bad mother a lot more easily nowadays.

I think it was round about the 80's that people stopped leaving babies in prams outside supermarkets.

When I was a kid (in the seventies), you used to see a little row of pushchairs with babies and toddlers in them outside Sainsbury's in Peckham. No dogs tied up though - obviously, the dogs would go into the supermarket in those days.

........meteorites, aliens.......

.............lightening

On hols in France last year and people sat their dogs in supermarket trollies where the kids normally go.

... rugrats toddling along pavements in the rain in the early morning.....

.....wolves......

bears or lions (depending on where you are in the world )

4x4s

.... sensible HVs !

poos

my great aunt used to leave the pram, 40+ years ago, outside the village PO. her son wasn't very old when she left him outside, went to the PO, came out and went home forgetting she had a ds at the postie!!

Well when Mammy was little her sisters (who were about 8/9 at the time) used to take her out in her huge pram by themselves so they could go scrumping and the pram was a great place to hide the booty. Mammy used to ride home on a huge pile of apples.

Also saw lots of kids outside shops in their buggies when I was at home last week. Seems to be common practice as many of the shops in the town are too small for the buggies to get into. Mind you we are talking about a small town in Ireland (tho it expanding by the second)

Oh please you lot........she's lying. Either that or a criminally neglectful, and stupid woman. But I'm guessing just a liar.

PMSL

Who is Cook? Julie Burchill?

Cook who and what are you taking about please??

You may well P yourself but you're still a liar!! Sad really!