Mumsnet users share the parenting moments where they've wondered "Is it alright if…?" with O2

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Parenting isn’t easy. The pressures of daily life make it even trickier, never mind the ages of your children, or whether you're a stay-at-home mum or a working one. Anyone who's been stuck with a teen on a bad day or a toddler … on any day, will know that sometimes you just need to do whatever it takes to get by so you can hold onto your sanity for another day. Even if that means flexing your parenting methods from time to time.

Here’s what O2 has to say:
"#IsItAlright to let them use a tablet at breakfast? We hear you. Parenting is full of #IsItAlright questions, challenges and dilemmas. That’s why we’ve launched O2 Family, to bring advice, safety tools and kid-friendly offers to parents across the UK. We don’t pretend to have all the answers. But hopefully we make it a little easier to navigate the everyday messy magic of family life."

So what does it take to break you and make you question your parenting prowess? Do you tell your children carrots are good for night vision so they eat their veggies? Always carry a packet of sweets to use as a bargaining chip when you’re out and about? Or do you volunteer to be seeker so you can sit on the sofa, eating crisps and shouting "I'm coming to get you!" every three minutes…?

Share the moments you've wondered #isitalright if …? and what drove you to it with O2 to be in with the chance to win a £300 voucher for the store of your choice (from a list).

Thanks and good luck!

MNHQ

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One of our #isitalright moments have been when we were on an isolated beach a long way from toilets. One of our young boys had annouonced that they needed a poo! Now!! Something we wouldn't normally do but we let him do it in a hole we dug in the wet sand and then buried it deep. It was winter so we thought that it was alright. But not entirely comfortable with it. Desperate moments!

Is it alright to have left my mewing m, naked DS aged 3 with a bag of clothes at the Childminder’s as he was being a cat that day and I didn’t want to battle him into clothes

#isitalright that I expect my children (15 & 11) to participate in household chores without paying or bribing them??

A number of people have told me I should be giving my children money when I ask them to help around the house, basic things like emptying the dishwasher or bring laundry downstairs and starting the washing machine. They use the dishes and wear the clothes so I think they should be doing their bit to help sort them without expecting to be rewarded. Yet I’ve been told by not giving them money for doing those things I am using them as unpaid workers!

At what age is it alright to let them walk to school on their own?

Should i let them walk to school without me yet? Go to the shop? Its these kinds of issues that make me lose sleep, not a job for the faint hearted, parenting !

Is it alright if... I just let my DD have whatever she wants for dinner because quite frankly, I CBA to argue anymore!!

#isitalrightif I leave DS3 home alone overnight? He's nearly 17 and the most sensible teenager I've ever met! It still worried me though when I had to do this recently.

Is it alright if at times I bribe them with sweets so we don't have a public melt down. Or let the iPads babysit so I can have some me time xx

Is it alright to let my ten year old play out with his until dusk?

Is it alright to let my ten year old play out with his friends until dusk?

Is it right that I put off baking with my DS because of the mess and clean up afterwards.

Is it right that I sometimes us the TV as a baby sitter whilst I go to the loo.

Is it right that I bribe my DS with pocket money to use his 60 second countdown toothbrush at morning and night - he would not be as co-operative otherwise.

Is it alright if I let my DS eat his tea in front of the television, as I know (although slowly) he will eat it all up - and saves a tantrum and very little tea eaten at the table.

Is it alright to give her curry when she is 8 months old? It was and she still loves it now!!

Is it alright if I leave my DC watching the TV on his own so I can get some chores done.

#isitalright if they walk to school unsupervised.

Is it alright if I spend five minutes longer at work just to enjoy the peace before going home?
(That’s really bad isn’t it!)

is it ok if my child ways my expensive lipstick lol

Is it alright that my dd cooks on a wed, ds cooks on thurs and then takeaway on Friday so I get 3 nights off

#IsItAlright to let DS colour in our dog with crayons and chalk? The dog doesn't seem to mind, but the neighbours are gossiping about it.

#isitalright to suggest a game of hide and seek, then take ages to find them...?

"#IsItAlright to tell my DS that granddad is that shiny star in the sky, to spare the actual truth of coffins and the funeral ?

Is it alright ... to threaten no pudding if they don't eat their vegetables!

#isitalright to take a feast of foods (a variety of healthy/non healthy) into the front room to keep my DS from knocking on the kitchen door every 5 minutes so I can have a coffee and read a magazine in peace, then maybe do the cleaning I told him I was doing?