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Does anyone else know one of 'those' successful type families?

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BananasinOodies · 03/09/2023 13:10

Does anyone else know one of those family's where they're sorted and successful and good looking?! I have two on my radar through school. Parents good looking and good jobs, house gorgeous, kids brainy and always doing wholesome stuff like climbing hills, surfing and so on. Parents choosing various activities and so on very wisely so their kids get the scholarship, place on elite team, job in parliament, Oxbridge etc. Both families have parents who are always taking on huge challenges (climbing Everest in a day type things). I feel so inadequate! (And yes I am jealous, where do they get their energy from, I'm EXHAUSTED from working and housework).
Am I alone in being decidedly boring, at best average and well, just knackered?!

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TaraRhu · 03/09/2023 21:35

Fatpigsinblankets · 03/09/2023 13:28

Money is what I think most of it boils down to. If you’re rich you can afford to do all those things - I’d love to do more ‘challenges’ (like the climbing thing you mention) and pay for surfing lessons etc for the kids but I can’t afford it. Elite sports for kids are expensive (swimming once you get competitive, riding, tennis, rowing etc) too. Kids can go on expensive school trips to Vietnam etc and go cycling by in the Himalayas etc You can also pay for schooling or tutoring to help make average kids cleverer. And also buy nice clothes / posh highlights/ expensive gyms etc so you look better.
its all to do with money!

This ^^ I'd e much fitter and better looking if I had time and with time comes energy! I have inadequate childcare.

Mummy08m · 03/09/2023 21:41

I genuinely would not want half those things on op's list.

Sure I'd like to be wealthy and good looking - I mean we are comfortably off and I definitely rate dh's looks otherwise wouldn't have married him, but it'd be great to be richer and better looking, sure.

But a job in Parliament? Climbing Everest? Ugh no thanks they both sound exhausting and pretentious in different ways.

The families I envy are like this...

I worked with a mum of 5 boys (I taught at least two of them) who all got on well, were sporty, popular and polite to their mum. Their mum jokingly complained that one of her sons invited his football team back to her place after team practice and they ate everything in her kitchen, right down to the frozen pizzas and oldish oranges. The mum herself was beautiful, relaxed, charming, looked exactly like Stacey from Gavin and Stacey.

I want to have a family/household like that. Busy, popular, chilled out, hospitable.

I'm stopping at two kids for health reasons... my house is always a tip so I'm embarrassed to have people round spontaneously... but I want to be more like that mum.

toomanyleggings · 03/09/2023 21:41

Yes I know a few of these. Money and plenty of ‘help’ from extended families seem to be a theme.

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nobodysdaughternow · 03/09/2023 21:54

I think my family may have looked that way while I was growing up.

My parents used a facade of perfection to hide the hell. My Mum displays psychopathic behaviours and my Dad was an alcoholic.

NewName122 · 03/09/2023 22:18

I thought I knew one of these families. Then the dad left, mum had a breakdown and the daughter was hospitalised for an eating disorder. You never know what's really going on behind closed doors.

dottydodah · 08/04/2024 16:26

Our NDN are like this !Beautiful wife, handsome hubby ,both girls very sporty and clever .House beautifully decorated and restored .

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