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Tell me if I'm being precious over this

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Dancergirl · 01/04/2011 09:43

My dds have been learning a Mothers Day song at school. Dd2 sang it to me in the car yesterday and it contains this line:

'Sometimes she gets stressy'

I'm a bit of a stickler for spelling/punctuation/general good grammar and I object to the non-word 'stressy'. How can we expect our children to speak well and properly if they're learning things like this....?

Would this annoy you?

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Themumsnot · 01/04/2011 10:45

So to paraphrase: My mum is an uneducated grumpy old cowbag but she is really good at housework. Nice.

StickyProblem · 01/04/2011 10:46

I wish I hadn't read that song. Glad I judged it correctly on the basis of one word!!
Let's equal it out. Here is my Father's Day song!

I love my daddy
He doesn't have emotions
He's such a hypochondriac
He's always taking potions

He loves to play golf
He loves to go on stag dos
For three days at the weekend
He likes to have a booze

I never see him in the week
Cos he's always at work
He manages a budget of a million pounds
But Gran thinks he's a berk.

(c) Sticky Sexist Lyrics Ltd.

BluddyMoFo · 01/04/2011 10:47

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Dancergirl · 01/04/2011 10:49

So to paraphrase: My mum is an uneducated grumpy old cowbag but she is really good at housework. Nice.

No. You are reading too much into it.

I take it that all well-educated, intelligent female graduates never get cross/shout at their children then?

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Themumsnot · 01/04/2011 10:53

I never, never shout at my children, Dancergirl. Grin
And I am really crap at housework.
Disclaimer: One of the above statements may not be true.

MardyBra · 01/04/2011 10:55

I have a Masters Degree and am crap at housework. Does that mean I don't qualify as a good mum according to the song?

I am also quite Mardy.

habbibu · 01/04/2011 11:01

God, if children value housework so much as to sing about it, I'm screwed.

TotemPole · 01/04/2011 11:08

Who wrote the song? They need dealing with.

All aboard.

nethunsreject · 01/04/2011 11:13

Dear God, that song is fucking awful.

Loving the made-up mn ones on this thread though.

piprabbit · 01/04/2011 11:14

Hang on - I'll just grab my pitchfork.

octopusinabox · 01/04/2011 11:17

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MardyBra · 01/04/2011 11:21

My mum's a sassy lady
She keeps chickens and they lay eggs.
She does all her shopping at Waitrose
and never feeds me Greggs.

Takver · 01/04/2011 11:23

PMSL at the alternative songs.

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Dancergirl · 01/04/2011 11:24

The bit about not having a degree did touch a raw nerve with me - I worked bloody hard for mine and am feeling like it's been wasted as all I do these days is cook, clean and wipe bums.

But it's not wasted. The things you do when your children are small is really only a v small part of your working life. Women are working into their 70s and beyond these days....why on earth is it such a bad thing to take time out of your career to look after your children?

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Takver · 01/04/2011 11:25

My mum's got a degree
Cos she was young when they were free
The Tories'll have me back chained to the sink
Making sure I don't have the education to think

Chorus. . .
I'll be a wonderful mother
Coffee, kitchen and cake for me
Oh I'll be a wonderful mother
With no daft plans to be free

TheCrackFox · 01/04/2011 11:26

As if it isn't bad enough being made to endure breakfast in bed I might have the possibility of the DCs singing a really crap song?

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Dancergirl · 01/04/2011 11:31

Oh, and having a degree is not as wonderful as some of you are making out. I've got a degree, a good one, but it doesn't make me a better person than Mrs Jones down the road who's uneducated and spends all her time cooking and cleaning.

If feminism is about showing off your education/career and turning your nose up at domestic duties, child-rearing, bottom-wiping and cooking, then it sucks.

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ChristinedePizan · 01/04/2011 11:37

No it doesn't make you any better at all Dancergirl. It's also got fuck all relevance to being a decent mother, much like most of that stupid song.

I would be furious if my DS were taught that, regardless of the stressy bit.

Flowerpotmummy · 01/04/2011 11:40

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MardyBra · 01/04/2011 11:41

It's not about whether a mum has a degree or not.
What annoys me about the song is that it even mentions qualifications and assumes that mums are generally a bit thick.

AKissIsNotAContract · 01/04/2011 11:43

I was going to say YABU as I like a bit of Edward Lear poetry so don't mind a few made up words. After reading the whole song though I'm quite disgusted with myself for comparing it with Edward Lear. What a complete load of bollocks. It's actually worse than 'there's no one quite like grandma' and that takes some beating.

orangeeyebrows · 01/04/2011 11:43

lol any idiot can get a degree (yes i have one too ;) )

you have to do minimal work to scrape through and you dont even have to be that bright.

orangeeyebrows · 01/04/2011 11:44

you have to do minimal work to scrape through and you dont even have to be that bright.

bit like being a mum really on reflection lol

MardyBra · 01/04/2011 11:44

Actually I've just reread it and it says "My mum?s ever so clever", so I'm talking out of my own arse really.

But I still maintain that intelligence has nothing to do with good parenting and it shouldn't have been brought into the equation.