Another Radford

[triedandtestedteacher]

Is it me or are the Radfords a bit selfish? Loads of people congratulating them on social media about the new baby. I'm crippled with morning sickness at the moment and I know I'm not giving my dd 100 percent on this homeschooling as a result. How are they all getting homeschooled? How can they possibly attend to all the emotional, mental, physical and educational needs of those children? I caught one episode of their programme that showed her in hospital unable to attend her own son's birthday party because she was having yet another child. I know they say they're self sufficient with the bakery etc but they still use NHS and education resources. Her having that baby at this time is adding to the strain of the NHS. I just don't get how people can congratulate them

It was Chloe, who came back from uni after Sue had a high risk pregnancy following a miscarriage and haemorrhage.

Poor kid probably thought it was her fault because she had left them.

Poor kid probably thought it was her fault because she had left them.

She probably faced a lot of pressure to come back and it wouldn't suprise me if she did feel some guilt over what happened like she was in some way to blame. I think she came home and then started working in the pie shop.

For anyone with more knowledge other than Chris who I think is their eldest do any of the others appear to have broken away to create their own lives?

The show showed Chloe going off to uni, and Sue saying something like "She won't have time to party because she'll be too busy phoning her mummy!". They didn't seem to be particularly encouraging her to go off and build a life for herself. It didn't seem surprising that she came back after a term, and it certainly seemed to have more to do with feeling obliged than because she was missing her family.

The same show also showed Chloe "handing over" to the next sister, explaining what the sister would now have to do around the house (lots, basically, including managing the younger kids).

Yes you could tell Chloe was so anxious about the pregnancy and felt really responsible to be there on standby. It seems she has moved out of the family home recently, it must be great for her, although she probably feels obliged to still look after her siblings.

@paininthepoinsettia no Chloe still lives at home.. this is their plan for if one gets the virus:

"But we said if someone does get it then they will isolate themselves in the basement.
“It’s self-contained and has a bathroom and two bedrooms.
“Millie, Jack and Daniel are down there at the moment and they would come up and share with the other boys. Millie could go in with Chloe, who has a room of her own.
“Then we could leave food out, and I have paracetamol ready.”

no Chloe still lives at home

So it's only Chris who has eacaped the home and the pie shop?

we said if someone does get it then they will isolate themselves in the basement

Lets hope its not one of the tinies, although even the smallest Radford would probably be glad of the peace and quiet.

And Sophie I think she's got 3 kids herself

Millie could go in with Chloe, who has a room of her own.

The sleeping arrangements are odd. I don't quite understand why Chloe has her own room, but Katie, 17, Ellie, 14, Aimee, 13, and Tillie, 9, have to share

www.thesun.co.uk/news/8982706/britains-biggest-family-radfords-house-morecambe/

I watched the documentary and it was telling that Chloe picked a uni so far away from home.
I noticed a lot of their fans on SM are the type who support why they are doing as they think the white people are endangered.

I'm surprised Sue has time tk go out for a daily exercise and it must their food shopping must be taking them longer to get done right now.

How can they say that every child is equal
And has their needs fully met?
Just reading that Sun article and the room allocations makes it glaring obvious that this isn’t true
Chloe has a massive bedroom PLUS another room that she has as a ‘make up’ room while 4 girls all have to share.
Jack again has a massive room yet 2 other boys have to share the tiniest room in the house.
2 of the smallest girls have a bedroom with NO window, complete fire hazard and is on top floor. That is petrifying to me.

There’s 12 seats around the dining table, even accounting for babies in high chairs the whole family can’t sit and eat a meal together.

I highly doubt all those children are doing extra curricular activities, none of their talents will be being nurtured.

The thing that struck me most about that video linked above of the house tour other than the lack of personal possession was how chloe not only had a huge room to herself but that the pretty big room downstairs in the basement was also just for her even though some of the kids were literally squashed in 4 to a room or in rooms with no windows where here they probably couldn't even stand up properly.

She has five grandchildren and another one on the way. You’d think once she became a Grandma she’d focus her energy into being a committed Granny as well as a Mother to her existing DC of course but no, she just keeps on procreating! It’s so baffling to me, can you even imagine your Mother being pregnant at the same time as you?

Chloe has a massive bedroom PLUS another room that she has as a ‘make up’ room while 4 girls all have to share.

I guarantee you this was the bribe to get her to come back from university and work in the pie shop without taking much of a wage.

You’d think once she became a Grandma she’d focus her energy into being a committed Granny as well as a Mother to her existing DC

She’s not even a committed mother, why would she be a committed grandmother? She has no interest in actually playing with, caring for, cuddling, forming a bond with any children.

I think it's a terribly sad situation. All those children growing up in such a chaotic household. Regardless of what people claim, there is no way that each of the children can have their needs catered for. The likelihood is that their children will also push out as many as possible because it's all they've known. I wonder how the father would feel about a 17/18 year old getting his daughter pregnant at that age. It wouldn't surprise me if her behaviour becomes more erratic as she gets closer to the menopause. She obviously sees herself as competition with her older daughters.

As for them adopting, no agency would ever allow that to happen plus I don't think either parent would be up for it as she seems to be addicted to being pregnant, she doesn't really care for the child after the fact.

So it's only Chris who has eacaped the home and the pie shop?

Escaped the pie shop, my God it's like Sweeney Todd

Escaped the pie shop, my God it's like Sweeney Todd

I did think that when typing it and well you know business was never better for mrs moony...

The ones who have jobs and can pay premium rents have their own rooms. Millie only moved into the basement when she started working, that's why the bedrooms are not fairly allocated.

Maybe she will get her own place when the baby comes

Sweeney Todd 😂😂 I'm crying!

The ones who have jobs and can pay premium rents have their own rooms.

So they hold rooms to ransom.

Everyone else has to squash in together, but those who can pay are able to buy their own rooms. It's not a hotel, it's supposed to be a family home.

Doesnt that basically mean the parents get paid twice?

Once when they get the profits from the bakery and then they get the wages they paid out back off the kids

So they hold rooms to ransom.

Everyone else has to squash in together, but those who can pay are able to buy their own rooms. It's not a hotel, it's supposed to be a family home.

Agreed what a truly shit way to show your kids they are nothing more the £ signs to you.

@SarahTancredi
Doesnt that basically mean the parents get paid twice?

Once when they get the profits from the bakery and then they get the wages they paid out back off the kids

This just gave me a shiver. That’s like owing the company store or being a sharecropper. They’re engaging in wage slavery. How horrible.

The likelihood is that their children will also push out as many as possible because it's all they've known.

It hasn’t happened so far. The eldest has two children and the second eldest has three, the latter has said she won’t have anymore and I think the youngest is primary school she already so could be true. They also have a grandchild on the way, their 18 year old is pregnant but there’s three older than her who don’t have children.

It’s entirely possible many of them will choose to have no children at all or at least very few children. My DGM was one of nine children and all of her siblings stopped at two.