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is this normal?

39 replies

Bronte · 18/08/2011 18:44

DP has just thrown all his evening meal in bin cos DD 6 years coughed over it without covering her mouth. She's now upset and i can't face eating anything.

OP posts:

Jellykat · 18/08/2011 21:29

Your DP sounds like a right drama queen!
My 13 yr old DS2 occasionally has strops like that, when he's tired or hormonal, at least he has a bit of an excuse

CURLYMAMMA · 18/08/2011 21:34

OTT. Thats a crap thing to do to a child. A cough, big deal. How does he survive in the real world.

Animation · 19/08/2011 10:16

Whoa - no way!!

I'd have packed his bag.

pictish · 19/08/2011 10:22

That's not normal, no.

It IS however precious, peevish, wasteful and childish.

And quite quite horrid to your 6 year old. Fucking hell!

perfumedlife · 19/08/2011 10:46

You can't pack someone's bag because they throw their dinner in the bin, surely?

I realise his dramatic flourish was uncalled for, very petty and hurtful to the dd. But we are human, we have crap days at work, get tired, get 'scunnered' (good Scottish word that) and do things we are not proud of.

Unless it's part of a pattern of dramatic, cofrontational behaviour, surely it is what it is, a man having a moment? I think sometimes too much analysing goes on here, when there is not the corresponding amount of info from op to justify or back that up.

Animation · 19/08/2011 11:00

Don't let anyone hurt your babies!

What a horrible thing to do to your kid.

I'd tell him to buggar off for the night.

No, not necessarily DIVORCE yet.

HairyGrotter · 19/08/2011 11:02

I agree with perfumedlife, we all get a little dramatic from time to time. His reaction was OTT, but I react OTT when tired and pissed off.

Your 6 yo DD should know better, simple manners, but your H's reaction was over the top but combined with a shit day, I guess it's understandable.

OneMoreChap · 19/08/2011 23:55

"pack his bags"
"buggar(sic) off for the night"

not think you're being just as over the top as the OP's DH was?

nakedandangry · 20/08/2011 00:11

Can imagine DP doing this.

I also agree with what Pictish said.

HerHissyness · 20/08/2011 15:10

I think what he did was outrageously bad manners himself. If DD was constantly doing things like this, then fine, but it's such a totally twattish thing to do to a 6yo.

BertieBotts · 20/08/2011 15:13

Why could you not face eating anything? Did he create that much of an atmosphere/make you that nervous?

sincitylover · 20/08/2011 22:23

my ds2 had an ice cream the other day, couldn't eat it all and I then had some of it - similar thing to OP really - the people we were with thought that was disgusting but tbh I hadn't thought anything of it. He's my son fgs.

I think OPs DP is being a bit of a twat tbh

ChazsBrilliantAttitude · 20/08/2011 22:29

Remind him not to kiss your DD or shake hands with her as he will probably pick up more germs from her that way than from a cough in the vague direction of his plate.

ChumleeIsMyHomeboy · 20/08/2011 22:35

He sounds like a complete arse and a precious princessy one at that. And what a horrid way to treat a child. I just couldn't be around someone with issues that override kindness to our DC.

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