WhatMummyMakes #9 I would drive 500 miles & I would drive 500 more, just to be a mum who’s child saw downtown abbey age 4

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That snapshot of Nina pouring water and her lack of interest at the chopsticks is much more of an insight into how the dynamic probably is most of the time…. Imagine her thinking her daughter’s age appropriate interest in pouring/water might just be her being annoying 🙄 Maybe take her to the Science Museum where she could play with such things is a good idea.

It’s blatantly Adele as you have all said. Whenever I have been to concerts in Hyde Park I have always found the huge groups of ridiculously pissed people quite annoying, and that’s from someone who is usually also pissed. Would def not take my 4 year old. No way will she maintain interest for a whole concert!
 
I can’t believe they went to the national portrait gallery and then a restaurant that is Becky’s fave - it’s all about her isn’t it? Where are the things for Nina?? I love a gallery but of all the things to take a 4 year old to in London not sure that would be top of my list! Poor Nina. Why does she insist on taking her to things she is too young at the moment for?
I agree. She couldn’t give a tit about the chopsticks in that video, and probably doesn’t give a tit about most of what bex tries to force her to do and like.
 
Ok, so i thread watch & dont normally write, i have a 2 yo and first child so dont really know what to expect at what age etc BUT…
The pouring water, totally normal for a kid right!? My 2yo is obsessed!
Why do these trips feel like i wanted to go to National Museum so Nina did conviniently too 🤷‍♀️
we go places and do things we as adults dont want to, example booked a tots week at butlins totally all for my daughter this 1!!
Tho i do see her a selfish and show off-y this is ultimately a sign Nina being a child annoys her, pouring water comment 🙄 and fact Nina does this at 4 nearly 5 shows she does have a interest in these more toddler like things & prob does find museums dead boring!
i think shes also awful at pushing her food obsession onto her kid 🙄 your not supposed to make a big deal of any food (i thought) good or bad, not any chocolates bad or isnt this unhealthy bacon swich amazing etc and film her 😬 i always attempt to make no comment on my daughters eating as i do not want it where she is emotionally linked to food 😬 just saying tho. Shes supposed to be the nutritional guru and expert tho 🤷‍♀️🤣
 
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Lilykins said:
I can’t believe they went to the national portrait gallery and then a restaurant that is Becky’s fave - it’s all about her isn’t it? Where are the things for Nina?? I love a gallery but of all the things to take a 4 year old to in London not sure that would be top of my list! Poor Nina. Why does she insist on taking her to things she is too young at the moment for?
I agree. She couldn’t give a tit about the chopsticks in that video, and probably doesn’t give a tit about most of what bex tries to force her to do and like.
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My 7 year old has asked to go to the National Portrait Gallery when I take her to London in the summer, but there's no way she'd have asked when she was 4.
 
I'm just repeating what you've all said but why not take her to some kiddy activities? My little one is a few months younger than my Nini and I would hate to take her to something like Adele at Hyde Park. She'd be so bored and fed up. We're just coming back from a break on the Isle of Wight - we've been swimming, to the beach, the arcades, the zoo and pretty much every playground we've come across 😂 They're not little for long so why the rush to do grown-up things? Plenty of time for that when they're older.
 
foreverfeds said:
Maybe it’s the psychologist in me but I don’t particularly find Nina annoying because at her age she has no way of knowing that her behaviour is inappropriate.
She will do something fairly innocent like sing too loud in a shop and her mother, instead of saying ‘please be more considerate’ whips her phone out and says ‘do it again Nina’ and then films and laughs. She is meant to be Nina’s principal guide, teaching her what is right and wrong, but isn’t. So it’s no wonder that Nina then does more of it, because she’s being encouraged, praised and given attention for it. Bex is really setting her up to fail and she will be so confused when she’s told off at school for the same behaviours that are praised at home.

It’s a conversation I’m having with my four year old a lot at the moment - that certain behaviours are not unkind but they are inconsiderate. For example, shouting in the garden isn’t unkind per se, but it’s not nice for our neighbours and therefore isn’t ok. It’s something he’s starting to understand but obviously wouldn’t have thought about without us teaching him.
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100% this. I do find nina irritating but I only blame her mother for enabling the behaviour that I find annoying and I would call out my own kids for doing.
 
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Just one angle of last night's adele crowd 🧐 If she sticks a 4 year old in this!! How awful!
 
SO SO SO many child friendly activities & parks Nina would love in and around the area her hotel is, poor Nina being dragged around art galleries and Chinese restaurants, it's lovely she took her to Matilda and frozen but these are all high end activities for Rebecca really dressed up to look like evenings out for Nina aren't they?
 
The thing that strikes me is that it’s always to excess. A trip to London is a treat it itself - maybe with one special activity or visit. But trips to London for Nina always include about ten different things including shows, fancy meals out etc. She just be in a semi-permanent state of stimulation and exhausted by the barrage of sensory input she constantly receives.
 
foreverfeds said:
The thing that strikes me is that it’s always to excess. A trip to London is a treat it itself - maybe with one special activity or visit. But trips to London for Nina always include about ten different things including shows, fancy meals out etc. She just be in a semi-permanent state of stimulation and exhausted by the barrage of sensory input she constantly receives.
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Exactly her trips are very rinse and repeat always doing the same things in London and her hotels are always in a very small radius (as recognised by landmarks in all her shots around the hotels). Not very exciting for Nina her little accessorie
 
foreverfeds said:
The thing that strikes me is that it’s always to excess. A trip to London is a treat it itself - maybe with one special activity or visit. But trips to London for Nina always include about ten different things including shows, fancy meals out etc. She just be in a semi-permanent state of stimulation and exhausted by the barrage of sensory input she constantly receives.
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Not to mention the expense...what normal family can afford multiple trips down to London with numerous activities and restaurants each time right now?
 
Hippo1958 said:
100% this. I do find nina irritating but I only blame her mother for enabling the behaviour that I find annoying and I would call out my own kids for doing.
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100% this by saying I find her annoying because she’s over exposed it’s definitely because Becky with the bad hair likes to expose her doing lots of things that are inconsiderate. Normal for a 4 year old but things she could channel into what she enjoys like signing her up for a dance class or even theatre (there’s one in Carlisle that accepts 4 year olds Bec!!!!!)
It’s not that my Nini is a particularly annoying kid really
 
My recent trips to London with my 7 year old (or things we have booked over summer) have been - natural history museum (dinosaurs), parks to run around, horrible histories boat tour, science museum, kidzania, London zoo & to eat we tend to go to places that are a bit different but ultimately have things like burgers, pizza (bit of sushi maybe - and this one is a “good” eater, could take him where ever but if it’s a trip for him I’d prefer to take him somewhere he’d enjoy).

We haven’t gone to any shows yet as I’m not sure if he’s too young but we have The Lion King booked. I would never consider taking a FOUR year old to the national bloody portrait gallery, a show for older kids / adults and to my favourite bloody noodle restaurant.
 
sunnysmiles said:
My recent trips to London with my 7 year old (or things we have booked over summer) have been - natural history museum (dinosaurs), parks to run around, horrible histories boat tour, science museum, kidzania, London zoo & to eat we tend to go to places that are a bit different but ultimately have things like burgers, pizza (bit of sushi maybe - and this one is a “good” eater, could take him where ever but if it’s a trip for him I’d prefer to take him somewhere he’d enjoy).

We haven’t gone to any shows yet as I’m not sure if he’s too young but we have The Lion King booked. I would never consider taking a FOUR year old to the national bloody portrait gallery, a show for older kids / adults and to my favourite bloody noodle restaurant.
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Yup. My 4 year old went on his first trip to London in May. He went on the train, Clipper boats and Emirates cable car. Had lunch at a burger place near a park. That was it. He was knackered and asleep by 6.00pm! 😂
 
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