Honesty thread about grandchildren

He's a cancer - so only just twenty.

I expect it was three late nights and various kebabs/curries/pizzas that caused the brain fog

Thanks for the above messages. Still a way to go but she's getting there.

9 year old dgs has just discovered the art of sarcasm, he doesn't get that is just plain rude. 3 year old DGD should have been a boy. She farts and belches and thinks it's hilarious. It' not! 9 year old DGD thinks she's s princess and not always in a good way. Now that's honesty. Love 'em to bits.

My DGD is just perfect, never naughty or loud or disobedient lol and if anyone believes that they are dafter than me.

ps I am not a Pisces

excuse typos please!

I am sorry to hear about your DD merlotgran and hope she will be on the road to recovery after her next oepration
Perhaps DGS is feeling stressed about his mother, stress can make you forgetful and give youy a mental fog.

ps Is he a Pisces?

merlot so sorry about your DD. My 13 year old GS forgets everything, but then so did my DSs. What is funny is to hear his dad complaining about his son's memory and being able to say "You were just the same!"
I have no experience of girls so wonder is it usual for them to be sooo organising? My 3 year old GD thinks I need someone to keep me straight and she is the one to do it. She brushes my hair and puts clips in it, inspects my clothes and instructs me to make sure I have all my things when I leave their house. The thought of what she will be like when she is older terrifies me!

I'd box his ears if I could reach!!

He's been a great help to his mum so I'll forgive him.

twenty, in fact.

Hope your DD is quite better soon merlot.

Don't be too hard on the lad. Twenty one is still very young.

Oh good. A thread where I vent my frustration over the fact that even adult DGCs have their heads in the clouds and not just the Kevins.

DGS1, aged twenty, has been up for the weekend to stay with his cousin, DGS2 who is 18 and lives next door to us. They didn't stay here because there's another (in-law) cousin living in town - where all the action is so they both stayed there.

All fine and dandy BUT DD2 (his mother) has been ill for months and has just had a fourth operation. Complications set in and yesterday was a worrying day.

Things are looking better today thank goodness and she's on the road to recovery (we hope) although another operation will be necessary in six weeks time.

Soooooo, instead of sending yet more flowers I bought and gift wrapped some perfume, bath creme and moisturiser because No 1 grandson would be able to take them home with him wouldn't he??

I told him, I reminded him (twice) to call in and collect it when he set off for home this morning.

He has to practically drive by the door so did he???????

What do you think?

GAH

He's lovely really but right now I could throttle him.

Some posts remind me of the mother whose teenage DD was at school with my DD (in the UK). The mother used to say how well-behaved and respectful her DD was, how she never went out with too-short skirts, plunging necklines, too much makeup like some teenagers, she was practically perfect in every way.
DD laughed and said that this girl used to get changed on the train into the skimpiest outfits she had ever seen, and pile on the makeup, false lashes etc, all removed and back to demure before she went home again.

I've also got the impression that french children are well behaved and respectful in public. But whether that is because they're likely to get a smacked bottom or worse if they do show their parents up I don't know. I think parental chastisement is still allowed.
OTOH teenagers in schools can be just as badly behaved as UK teens, so I've read.
As for Jing's question, the 2 grandchildren I know best have both gone through very difficult phases. They're coming to stay with us on Wednesday so I hope they're in a phase of good behaviour . Teens now.

felice
Lose with grace is the best advice I can offer

Dharmacat
I must say that DS would not tolerate bad behaviour in public from the DGC. Not all British children are allowed to get away with it, but very small children are prone to tantrums as it is probably the only way they can express themselves when they are very young.

DD was in charge of a summer school one year in France and the behaviour of some of the students (French, Dutch, Swedish) when away from their parents was deplorable, although she coped remarkably well with them.
Perhaps some of the perfect French children mentioned in posts above were not so perfect when out of the sight of their parents.
I always thought that, if mine behaved well when they were away from home or at other people's houses, that was fine.

to. Not 'too'

Yep! You can't beat a Scout camp for kids.(elder DGS at nearly 15 is an Explorer Scout now, so he gets counted as a 'helper' ) Really good value for money too with all the activities they get up too. Far better deal than holidays like PGL which are so over-priced.

Scouting is the best.

jinglbellsfrocks. It wasn't Tolmers, (Potter's Bar?) we are at the opposite end of the country. They were up somewhere near the Scottish Borders. Edinburgh only an hour away. He and his sister did have a good time, anyway.
So did DD and D SonIL, worth every penny for them through the year to have time to themselves whilst their children are at camp, though that's not the sole motivation for encouraging the kids to attend.

Every French exchange we ever had when DD was at school was an uncommunicative nightmare, kitty. We only had one German student and she was an absolute darling - it was DD at that time who was a pain in the a**e!! I was tempted to send DD to Hamburg and keep her opposite number! I cried when she left.

Crazy Golf tomorrow, first time to the place for both of us, wish me luck please.

I'd just like to ask for a medal as we have had 5 totally uncommunicative French exchanges and 3 demanding German ones.

Of course my children and grandchildren are above reproach.

mcculloch29 thirteen year old boys do seem to have inordinately long arms!

(It wasn't the Tolmers camp your GS was at, was it? My elder GS has just had a great week there. )

My grandson is three and mad about Teenage Mutant Turtles. His mum saw a bin with this design on it, so she bought it for his room. He was disgusted and said "I don't want a bin, I want toys"!

So far, we have 1 budding Kevin: GS1, aged 9 As we look after him and his brother a lot, we have to try to deal with the moods. He can be really lovely and then something doesn't go his way and we have the marching out in a huff behaviour. He is really touchy and easily upset. Mind you, he has had a lot of family problems to put up with. Brother, aged 6 is much more laid back.

And 2 of the GCs in England are awful eaters. A nightmare to cater for.

My DGC are pretty good, thank goodness, my DS was difficult but got through school and in to work without too many major traumas. I brought DD and DS up on my own from the ages of 13 and 8.

This week DGC were visiting when DGS, 13, stretched his arms backwards whilst sat down, and swept a Whitefriars glass vase on the end of the mantlepiece behind him to the tiled fireplace surround.
It was one of the few things of my late mother's that I have.
I couldn't show any emotion at all as he was clearly upset, it was a total accident.

DD was clearly a bit annoyed from her facial expression, though she said nothing and I joked that was because that was part of her "inheritance" gone.

I was straight on to eBay when he had gone home, and I found another one, near identical, just slightly smaller.
It's now in roughly the same place, but moved down from where DGS normally sits!

I do still have a few items of my Mum's, and a few things that she gave me. One of those items is a little vase that I gave her, I have never seen another one like it. It would have been worse for me if that had gone, I think.

The Whitefriars vase was bought with Embassy coupons as was a matching ruby dish that I also have. There must be thousands of these on the sideboards, shelves and mantlepieces of now relatively elderly people all over the country.
Those who are still with us, that is, after smoking Embassy....!

The real motivation wasn't to replace the vase for me though, it was definitely to make him feel better. £23 well spent in that case. He isn't a thoughtless youngster normally and not a Kevin, well, not yet. He and his sister are Baden - Powell scouts and have spent this week at Scout Camp.