To find this supermum list boring sexist twaddle

[Justmeagain78]

Apparently there are 40 signs of a supermum www.mirror.co.uk/lifestyle/family/secrets-super-mums-revealed-how-7693441

Aibu to wonder whether there are 40 signs of a super dad or as usual it's only mums who have to read this crap?!! Maybe I'm just peeved because I could tick off about ten!

[Justmeagain78]

www.mirror.co.uk/lifestyle/family/secrets-super-mums-revealed-how-7693441

[EverySongbirdSays]

I hate this, and I hate that posting achievements on Facebook is listed. It's this kind of bragging culture that makes a lot of women feel like they are inadequate when they are perfectly good mums.

No-one does all this shit every day, no-one.

[chanice]

Some of them are the same. Bakes and cooks.
Cooks from scratch
Has uniform ready
Always irons uniform
They are the same thing, I think they ran out and just kept adding

[Crabbitface]

For actual fuck's sake.

[GraysAnalogy]

I hate terms like 'supermum'. Is being a good mum not enough.

[TheDowagerCuntess]

The entire thing is rendered laughable by the 'brags on FB' requirement?! 😂

I hope nobody is taking this even a small bit seriously.

[kickassangel]

I refuse to open the link but I'm pretty sure that it's possible to be a crap mum who irons, and a great mum who doesn't.

I grew up before the age of FB. Does that mean that every person of my age or older had crappy mums?

[loosechange]

Load of shite. I do all of these except set the breakfast table the night before, look glamorous on the school run and post bragging pics on Facebook. I am sure as he'll no one would class me as perfect.

I could make a Versace outfit look second hand, and came off Facebook because it bored me.

I would class myself more as slightly (understatement) overorganised, and prefer sniggering about minor cock ups than boasting about the fact I have checked my children for headlice to prevent delousing them nightly when the buggers appear.

This is a list of "How to be an insufferably smug mother " if you do all this and make sure everyone knows it, and who gives a stuff?

Where is the perfect dad list. "How to be a perfect dad - relax you are male, ergo you are already perfect."

[loosechange]

It reminds me of this advert someone linked to on a previous thread.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=hv3qPM8BLdE

[KondoLisaNice]

"Lays the breakfast table, the night before" .... Fuck right off ...

[BarbaraofSeville]

If I laid the breakfast table the night before, I would wake up to find one of the cats asleep in the cereal bowls well that's my excuse anyway.

[ChopsticksandChilliCrab]

I managed 5. I'm glad I haven't spent my time baking or ironing. What a load of unambitious twaddle.

[nooka]

Stupid list, plus people who brag about any accomplishments are really quite insufferable (except for things like running marathons and other cool stuff). I don't do most of that list, partly because my children are teenagers and if they want to do craft they definitely don't want to involve me! Plus they can organise their own social lives. Clearly supermums only have young children!

[Pandora2016]

The biggest and most depressing thing about that list is it basically implies that she doesn't have a job. Nobody can do all of that and work - I bloody couldn't.

Only stay-at-home mothers need apply.

[acasualobserver]

A spokesperson for Whaoo! chocolate filled crepes, which commissioned the survey ...

[AristotlesTrousers]

Fuck that shit.

It just perpetuates the myth that women are supposed to be able to multitask and do everything (usually all the menial, crap stuff that means you can't have a life outside it all), which is bollocks, and often backed up with the pseudo-science that our brains are wired differently or something. I'm glad I don't adhere to it.

[NellyTimes]

They say supermum, I say smug cunt with nothing else in their life of any interest.

[Mousefinkle]

So basically you're only a supermum if you're a stepford wife then .

[rahhhhhhhhhhh]

i tick about 2 off the list, as previously mentioned only stay at home mothers need apply! however i would love to be more organised but for me i'd need to cut down my working hours, i am lucky my mum ticks most of these boxes and helps with my two however she does make me feel slightly inadequate.

[AuldYow]

What a load of shite!

I'm such a 'super mum' I've brought my 11 & 9 year old to most of those things for themselves

It's up to them to remember when PE day is, put clean uniforms out etc so I must be a super duper Mum

[redshoeblueshoe]

acasual - oh yes how ironic
My only surprise I thought it would be the Daily Fail

[Birdsgottafly]

I did most on the list, because I was Widowed.

That's what I find depressing, that once again, certain aspects, are seen as part of Mothering, rather than part of parenting.

My DH worked away from home and enjoyed reading and watching films with our children, when home (as well as all the other stuff).

There's times I'll have my GD overnight and will read to her, instead of my DD (and her DP).

Once again, a unrealistic, unfair (for both parents),list has been put together, to tell us that we're still not getting right.

They dress it up by throwing in a statement that 'Mothers should support each other more'.

That list has no credence in the UK in 2016.

[BitOutOfPractice]

"Always have craft materials to hand". Really?

[bushtailadventures]

I don't really get it, most of the things on the list are things like trying to ensure they have reasonable manners/behave in public/actually eat food rather than dust...nothing supermum about it, just being a parent.

I did make birthday cakes from scratch, but my dc are all adults now, and you couldn't buy much beyond the caterpillar cake in the shops when they actually had birthday cakes, dgd will be eating a lot more shop bought stuff, can't be arsed anymore.

[greenfolder]

Not read the the list, just the thread. What is " a breakfast table"? Is there more to breakfast than doling out cereal and then some twunt of a teenager leaving weetabix to harden in the bowl until 6 in the evening? If so, I'm out and I accept the title of shit parent.