Are you aware of her work? She blogs on Facebook and Twitter about how crappy parenthood can be. Generally her posts are brutally honest and funny, but it's the sycophants that blow sunshine up her arse (but in an OTT stalkerish kind of way) and mostly the moms who wax lyrical (littered with SPAG errors) about how they're constantly covered in puke and shit from their kids, and other repulsiveness that make their lives as mums a constant round of disgusting situations.
I think for a new mother reading it, their stupid dramatic ramblings make it all sound more oppressive, terrifying and repugnant than it actually is. I am a mother of 2, and yes, sometimes IT CAN BE GROSS, but by no means is it gross every day. It's a shame, as the Unmumsy Mum's posts are helpful on the off days, so you don't feel like you're doing a shit job and not the only one that hates going to the park, but the divs that are only too keen to share their kids medical history in such a vulgar way have spoilt it for me... They're the same sort that cram Facebook with details of their poor kids ailments, as if we all really want to know (not to mention the lack of privacy for the poor kids) and how awful it is for the parents (but obvs the kids don't mind being poorly, and being slagged off by their parents to the whole world for creating extra washing and keeping them awake for a night or two).
RANT OVER.... Oh, I feel better getting that off my chest....
AIBU?
To unlike the Unmumsy Mum (FB related)
wibblypig1 · 04/05/2015 19:14
I like her posts. Ignore the idiots who can't spell or use the correct grammar. TBH some if you sound a bit jealous that you didn't think of it first! 
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As for "sounds like a twat". My DH could have written that comment. He would actually be right for once.
I'd not heard of her and just had a look and found the post where she writes "to" her boys about why she is blogging. It's quite nice. It's certainly honest. I can see how when it's just a long list every other day of things that are shite about parenting it can feel a bit OTT, but having just dipped in it made me chuckle. And I recognised most of it.
I do agree with her about there not always being a lot of 'honest' parenting blogs out there. There probably are now, but I can imagine a year or two back there weren't many. MN has always been incredibly honest but most of the parenting blogs I saw were much more baking, creative play and 6 hours kicking the sodding leaves at the park, which is not me at all.
But then I tend to think most parents are split into one of two camps. Either parenting young children is lovely, interesting fun interspersed with moments of frustration or panic - or its a stressful yet oddly boring slog interspersed with moments of utter joy and hilarity.
After having dealt with several threenager tantrums today followed by them laughing so hard at cats falling off shelves on You've Been Framed that they actually peed a little on my jeans, Unmumsy is talking my language at the minute
I don't think she is actually miserable, or pretending to be!
It is the type of humour that I find funny, there are lots of comedy moments even during the difficult days when you have young children.
Relating to, and being able to laugh about those moments, certainly doesn't mean "slagging off" one's children 
There was a post about the joy of soft-play that was entertaining.
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