Minor Rant Thread part 3

[Alison]

Being full of cold with a temperature when I'm off work

[FionaH]

Work tomorrow and wednesday, there will be no customers but we still open

[bobleponge]

I'll fly over Fifi and buy something from your lovely shop.

Spending 5 days in this godforsaken hole with no means of speaking to the grandkids. Most tedious.

[FionaH]

I'll fly over Fifi and buy something from your lovely shop.

Spending 5 days in this godforsaken hole with no means of speaking to the grandkids. Most tedious.

Big hugs mate, you will be home soon.

Little rant: Cut with the FIFI! cos I have to have one or they get cross about chatting

[binley100]

Work and idiots who have tested my patience to the limit..........

[Suky]

Another one who's sick of being sick when I have the week off work DH & I were planning a little quality time together as he gets so little time off work and instead he has been looking after me. Bless him, he's done his best............cheese and crackers for dinner last night 'cos the chippy was shut

[Glutton4...]

Colds. I almost never get them.

So, I got one the day before I left home for Spain, and now I'm going home again, it has gone!

[DarkCrow]

Whilst the majority of nutters can't do with the shops being closed for 1 day (you know the type) They are the ones you see punching the living daylights out of each other over the last pint of UHT milk or the ones with a small dairys worth in several trolleys leaving none for anyone else...Ashford has a breed of of panic buyers all of it's own it would seem...not milk, eggs or bread but... GU10 halogen lightbulbs!! Iv'e just got back after an hour and a half of Waitrose, Sainsburys, OneStop shop (the name is false advertising!) The Co-op and finally Tesco who had packs of 3 and i wanted 4

[lizzylemon]

thoughtless mothers who reduce their 37 year old child to tears for wanting to put her own 3 yr old to bed before leaving said child over night for the vry 1st time.

I'm stopping now.

[Munch]

Gordon bloody Ramsay, my ham looks sod all like his

Cos you are not using a 1/2 mil pound oven!

thoughtless mothers who reduce their 37 year old child to tears for wanting to put her own 3 yr old to bed before leaving said child over night for the vry 1st time.

I'm stopping now.

Ouch hun xx

[OverWyreGrower]

I can't even put all the details on here, as I'm so mad...

Suffice it to say that my rant is about my SIL and how she brings up her children (or not).

After a visit to them on Christmas Eve to drop off presents, both Mr OWG and I came away and cried on the way back home about the whole situation.

The house was filthy (and I don't just mean untidy); the kids were in dirty clothes, and the first thing Mr OWG did was find a wet-wipe and wipe their hands and faces.

Both of the kids have got chest infections; but since my SIL, FIL and a couple of other people who see the kids regularly are heavy smokers; it's not a surprise.

My neice, who is not quite 3, has terrible behaviour, that no-one (but me and Mr OWG?!!) can seem to control - she has smashed a tv and pulled it off the wall, thrown a laptop at a window etc. However, I spent 15 mins playing silly games with both of them; and she was absolutely fine. When she did play up, I just used a couple of easy techniques and she snapped out of it.

It's like no-one seems to care about them enough to do anything. If we try and help; we are 'interfering' and should leave SIL to parent her own children - however, when your kids are in dirty clothes, coughing up phelgm cos of your smoking and are smashing up furniture - I can't see how that is parenting!

Of course, if you speak about it to the rest of the family, it's all about how difficult SIL finds it etc; e.g. she never has time to clean, or tidy etc, despite not working, being at home all day, and having FIL round at her house 3 days a week.

Phew - I feel a little better for getting that off my chest...

[lizzylemon]

Awful isnt word enough to describe how you must be feeling. My little'un has strops & tantrums & is nearly 3 but I can't imagine how unhappy your little niece must be to do that - she sounds seriously angry.

[Two_Sheds]

My neice, who is not quite 3, has terrible behaviour, ..she has smashed a tv and pulled it off the wall, thrown a laptop at a window

how unhappy your little niece must be to do that - she sounds seriously angry.

She's copying behaviour she's been shown at home, sadly.
Kids don't just do that sort of thing; they cry & scream yeah, but violence is learned behaviour

Oh, my rant.
People standing in shop doorways for a chat. People hanging onto tables in cafes when their cups are empty and nobody else can sit down
Children who WILL NOT listen or do as they're told. OHs who watch the darts while you're struggling to control children, run baths, cook dinner & do the laundry

[FionaH]

Feeling like a lousy mother

[binley100]

Feeling like a lousy mother

Get yourself over to the chat thread missus..........