Silly Silly Daddies!!!

mrcow

He probably thought he was being kitch.

Encourage your daughter to have a better sense of humour and not throw a strop about the little things.

She sounds well cared for. Perhaps at 14, it's easy to forget how lucky you actually are.

Acc72

krlyr wrote: »

Do people really need to be so harsh about OP calling her 14 year old her baby?

My mum still calls me her baby (to my face) and I'm 26, with my own house! I think I'll always be her little girl

I think that the comments about the OP referring to her daughter as a baby are in context to this actual thread.

i.e. the OP appears to be criticizing her ex for buying a baby-ish Christmas card (which she thinks is wrong) yet finds it ok to call her daughter a baby.

krlyr

Acc72 wrote: »

I think that the comments about the OP referring to her daughter as a baby are in context to this actual thread.

i.e. the OP appears to be criticizing her ex for buying a baby-ish Christmas card (which she thinks is wrong) yet finds it ok to call her daughter a baby.

But do we know she calls her daughter a baby to her face? She's commented on her daughter reaching that hormonal stage - so maybe she's a bit more careful about what she says to her daughter in regards to her maturity than dad.

paulineb_2

The original post looks like a 14 year old could have written it, am sure theres much more to this, the fact that the parents dont speak means that next years effort could be pinky and perky.

Id say, better to be in her shoes than the shoes of kids who will get nil this year. Of course she has a right to be upset but am assuming the kids talk to their dad, a comment such as, i grew out of peppa five years ago dad might suffice.

Rebecca01

Baby is a termm of endearment.
Oh calls me it sometimes. Bork lol

I dont watch Peppa Pig though , that is for children. Actually I have watched it with my daughter. Peppa can be a right little madam! Lol

LannieDuck

I think a pepper pig card is a good idea for a teen goth. I know some goths, and it's the sort of thing I might send them. Maybe she's in a 'serious goth' phase rather than an 'ironic goth' phase.

FatVonD

Was thinking about this while I was having a wash I remember a couple of months ago my stepdaughter had been to Asda with her best friend and BF's mum and she said that herself and BF both wanted a Peppa Pig T-shirt from there. They both have very different styles, DSD dresses like an extra from Towie while her BF is all about coloured hair, Ramones T-shirts and Converse (we think they were switched at birth :rotfl: ) but there did seem to be some crossover re Peppa Pig so it could be that the OP's DD's dad is more in tune with teenage girl's fashion sense than he's being given credit for.

I really don't think he has been thoughless, those cards don't come cheap, he must have chosen it, it's not like he just sent the last one left in the box.

OP, I think you could enlist the help of your 17 year old to say 'Cool, Peppa Pig, can I colour it in? Muuuum, have we got colouring pencils?'

Btw, I got from the first post and the plural in daddies that the girls have different dads and it wasn't that she was left out but rather that the other dads were quicker off the mark in posting.

Spendless

Tiddlywinks wrote: »

You still call your children 'monsters' - even your adult child who has flown the nest?

You refer to a 14 yo as your 'baby'?

You call your ex 'silly, silly daddy'?

Your whole post made me feel slightly nauseous - get some perspective!

'Silly, silly Daddy' is a reference to what the narrator says about stuff the Dad character does on the Peppa Pig cartoons.

You can't be into the show, if you hadn't realised - so maybe you wouldn't appreciate a card with Peppa on?

paulineb_2

Or he could have posted them on different days, or the post could just have been slow, who knows.

Tbh, Id be more interested in what he got her, not because I think its important that teens be lavished with goods, but a card is usually an extra from someone. I dont send cards as I said on another thread, apart from to my mum and brother, but if I do give a card its to accompany a present.

I really think how the adult deals with it is what matters and I do appreciate some mums and dads dont talk to one another, but if you dont talk its harder to actually say, wait a minute, shes 14, shes not into peppa pig.

And surely if your daughter does talk to her dad she can phone or email him and say, why did you get me a kids card.

Its possible that hes just a thoughtless idiot, but theres so many worse things that could have happened than being sent a ridiculously childish card. If shes upset, she needs to tell him.

HPoirot

I for one when I clicked on the opening post last night thought I was reading about a 4 year old's dad. That the "child" in question is 14 and upset over a card is totally ridiculous. The OP should teach her a sense of humour instead of being upset over everything and nothing. Oh, and the OP should lighten up too, what "babies" is she talking about, she has grown children.