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Fairy Non Bio is sponsoring the Mumsnet Talk App, and, in light of this, they’d like you to talk about the moments you’ve realised that you’re a softy. Do sentimental moments on TV make you weep? Perhaps all it takes for you to forget an entire morning of screaming and hair-pulling is a sweet little apology from your DC?

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So, alongside the Fairy Non Bio sponsorship of the Mumsnet Talk App, they’d like you to talk about the moments you realise you’re a softy. If you avidly check out Mumsnet's talk boards, you should download the app for yourself. It's free, and allows you to be part of the conversation wherever you are!

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My daughter is 18 and recently finished her last dance show with the dance school she's attended since age 3. She'll be doing her A Levels soon and hopefully flying the nest to uni in the Autumn. During the last dance show my heart sang when DD did a difficult acrobatic move and got loud applause, then when she was part of a small troupe of ballet dancers doing a rendition of the piece of Swan Lake that we all love I felt a bit weepy. All the irritations of 15 years of Saturdays being 'interrupted', not being able to get parked at the class, some of the silly other Mums wittering on about not being able to do french plaits and the consequential Mum factions (not quite as bad as Dance Moms though) all melted away. I'd love to see more of these dance shows with my own little starlet but it's probably not to be. That really made me feel soft and gooey. It's all gone so quick and I can't believe she's 'done' dancing and is coming out the other end. For Mums enduring/enjoying their kids' pastimes and activities and who are a few years behind me please treasure the moments. In the blink of an eye it all finishes!

The moment my son was born!

When I burst into tears when a team won £90,000 on The Chase 😆 To be fair, I was pregnant!

Watching sentimental films with my children- believe it or not its always Lassie that gets me the most! That's when I realise that,really , I am a big softie! Very emotional!

I am a complete and utter, unadulterated wimp! Really.

I suffer from fibromyalgia, i currently have a prolapsed disc in my spine, i have had endless back/neck issues and for the most part i can put up with that crap (kinda) but if i start to feel nostalgic- yes simply nostalgic- i cry! My daughter asks me what's wrong and i have no clue how to answer because i don't even know so i pass it off as something in my eye! Why does feeling nostalgic make me soppy!?

I cry watching adverts, i cried watching Star Wars Ep III- it was that nostalgia feeling again! I cried watching Batman V Superman- yeah i don't know why! I cry when i hear a song that makes me feel sad, i cry reading books- i cry reading synopsis's! Why? I don't have the foggiest. I feel like i cry more now as an adult than i did as a child. I'm a total push over when my daughter gives me her big bambi eyes, thankfully she hasn't cottoned on to that yet!

I deep down,
most people seem to be,
soft & squidgy like marshmallows,
and that does include me!
I used to be the strict parent,
when I was on my own ,
I was playing Mum AND Dad,
so I would nag my boys and moan!
And then I met my husband
who is soft as soft can be,
and the brilliant thing about that is,
it rubbed off on me!
I do their washing at 1am,
make them cheese on toast for brekkie!
I bring their cups and plates downstairs,
(although I might want to wring their neckie!)
I tidy their rooms when it gets too much,
and give them my last quid,
I love to do these things for them because
these four are my gorgeous kids!
I am now much more laid back,
and my kids would agree,
cos when it comes to a Softy Mum,
you won't find softer than me! ;-) x

I fell to absolute pieces reading Tabby McTat to DS. I read it through wracking sobs, whilst DH looked at me like I was a loon. I cry at the slightest thing since becoming a mum.

I cry at school plays especially the nativity ....but once was practically sobbing at the most sweetest primary 1 dancing snowflakes even though I didn't even know the children! They just get me every time!

Trying not to make eye contact with my 8 week old at 4am when he won't go back to sleep... Then he flashes me his gorgeous toothless grin! That's when I know I'll be up for another 1/2 hour at least as I have to talk to him and give him lots of big cuddles and kisses. Massive softy!

Oh goodness - that John Lewis penguin advert. I was heavily pregnant when that was out and I cried every time I saw it.

I've always known I'm a huge softy as I cry at anything, sad, happy, if I'm angry etc. But I welled up when my ds who just turned 3 told me I was his sunshine. There used to an advert for pedigree chum, I think, with a puppy and an older dog. The puppy ran down the steps of the house and the old dog limped after it. To advertise different products for different ages. I was really hormonal and went to pieces feeling sorry for the old dog.

When it comes to the animals (sorry DD) I'm the biggest softy ever. I once missed half our holiday to look after our sick kitten, including staying up all night to give him sips of diarolyte! Sucker that I am.

My cat gives me the big eyes then I give in and give him whatever he wants.

when my son was 2 and he had to have an operation on his heart to correct an abnormality in his heart. I did not sleep properly for weeks before, and when they took him into surgery I was heart broken. The operation was a complete success and he is a healthy 6 year old now, but when I see the scar on his little body when he is swimming with his sister my still heart breaks. But it is the reason he is still with me :)

I think it might have been when I lay on the floor next to my grandaughter who was trying to learn how to roll over. I demonstrated and we played 'babies'. I guess that is pretty soft!

I still sleep with a soft toy...

I don't cry when angry and rarely when upset but frequently well up at emotional moments on TV, in books, films etc. And always at school concerts, especially when they were leaving primary school. There's one song that was traditional at my DCs primary school for the year sixes to sing on their last day- I'm welling up now just thinking of it!!

I know I am a big softy because I cried during a children's film. Bambi always gets me

I know when I am a softy when DD just changes her voice tone, cuddles me and asks very politely 'May I have... They learn very quickly! :)

I consider myself very tough and I don't cry easily. The past few years i've found myself sobbing when watching some kids films, it makes me feel like a right idiot sometimes! haha

When I start crying at children's animated films.

When in the newsagents I told my DD she could have either a magazine or sweets - not both. But when she chose the magazine I was chuffed so bought the sweets anyway!!

I seem to be emotionally unable to cope in school assemblies. It doesn't even have to be my child who is getting an award or is singing or doing something. I quite often get a little tear that I have to discretely wipe away! Also cannot cope when the whole school is singing a song - it can be anything, so it isn't the content that does it!

I realise I'm a softy as although dh drives me round the bend sometimes I always end up trying to make it up to him!

I know I'm a big softy when it comes to animals. I wept unconsolably the other night while watching The Secret Life of the Zoo when they had to put one of the Tapirs to sleep. I used to go to Chester Zoo & the Tapirs were my favourite animals as they're just so affectionate