To think that working mums are the devil's spawn?

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Blackducks kids clubs . D,ya not just kick them out on't street at 7.30?
Your making a rod for your own back i tell you.

at kids club.

I wish we could all live like the women in the Amazonian forest.

Oh yes, and do you remember that we're also responsible for the rise in house prices? I think the argument went that dual-income couples fuelled the housing boom by spending their ill-gotten gains on inside toilets and other such modern rubbish. Then everyone started wanting them, and even more women worked just to pay the mortgages. I expect we did global warming and terrorism as well, but I'm too busy Having It All to remember exactly how.

Franca, what, you mean sharing childcare around the extended family and teaching children to be independent as soon as possible?

But mrspoyser, if they had you they wouldn't need 'family' or outside influences. You could keep them inside forever and this will also stop you exposing your ankles to men. I assume you're a whore too.

I've said it before and I'm happy to admit it again. I have gone back to work with the sole purpose of fucking up my children. I wanted to see how much I could ruin their lives from the start.

The plan is that they will turn their feelings of abandonment into practical action and become evil megalomaniacs seeking to rule the world in order to finally gain my love and approval.

I've always wanted to live on a private volcanic island with an evil army at my disposal, so I think of it as forward planning.

Seems to me we can't win no matter what we do. Why don't we just give up and leave it all to the men?!

Well, obviously I'm a whore too. It's not as if a woman could support a family just by using her brain, now is it?

Secrecy, we can't leave it to the men because there's something on the Y chromosome that means they can't cook, clean or raise children. Honestly, have you never met one? If they learn to use a washing machine, their balls drop off, and you wouldn't want to be responsible for the end of the human species, would you dear?

MrsPoyser, I hope you're not taking men out to dinner next week. You know where that leads. You'll be having an Emotional Affair before you know it, as everyone knows that talking to men who are not your husband can Only Lead To One Thing. You really should be at home, Working On Your Marriage and of course making sure your poor, poor DH doesn't have to bother with housework.

Men definitely can't multitask. Especially the sort of clever men who can hold down a significantly responsible job. Everyone knows that. I read an article about it.

Well thanks a lot.

If only I had sent the DSs to a childminder, they could have been trained to do the housework by now.

The worst thing is that dh knows I'm taking men out to dinner and the poor deluded man doesn't mind. Even though it will almost certainly mean I can't Skype the kids at bedtime and he will be there, trying to convince them that Mummy loves them really even though she's too busy earning money to pay school fees to give them the time of day. And I must have been gas-lighting dh for years - he thinks he's better at housework than I am. I know, one day he'll find a Real Woman who makes cupcakes and then I'll be sorry.

Yes, you see day orphanages have to train the children to do all the things their evil working mothers can't be bothered with. They have two-year-olds knitting doilies and making bunting. The mothers pretend it's arts and crafts and messy play but the truth is they might as well be down the mines.

Do you know, I'm going to do some work now. So I look busy when dh gets back.

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I read an article about it.

You means a nice man explained it to you slowly with small words?

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MrsPoyser - I'll take the chance!

You are absolutely right. I often think of quitting my job to be with DS an extra hour a day (he's at school now) and letting your taxes benefits pay for me. It would benefit the country, me and DS.

I'm sure we're responsible for the London riots as well...deep down, you know they were looting JD Sports because their mothers went out to work.

I have to say I feel more shame should be coming my way, for I am the offspring of a single, working mother, and now (although somehow have a man indoors, must've been something to do with the RSPCA?) am planning the same for when bump comes to fruition in two months' time.

Perhaps I should go and bring my mother's attention to this thread, so that she too can take some of the necessary blame?

Does it make me an even worse single-working-mother-social-pariah-blot-on-the-landscape-of-all-that's-holy-guacamole if I make my poor daily-orphaned, fairy-cake-deprived, emotionally-damaged, force-fed Waitrose Essentials pasties rather than Greggs because I'm not a savage... DS cook a meal or vacuum a carpet as well?

Would it be quicker to put the money aside that I would have only blown on glossy magazines and put them into a fund to pay for therapists' appointments instead?

Cogito, you'll destroy his masculinity. Which, as we all know, shall be, is now, and ever has been, a matter of wearing a suit, being out of the house 22 hours a day, organising all that money stuff with which we mustn't trouble our pretty little heads and under no circumstances being allowed near a domestic appliance. It's funny how the dear things can do engineering but not work the washing machine. Must be too simple for their great minds.

Off to do some token Sunday-evening parenting before I fuck off to Heathrow at the crack of dawn for my own selfish, money-grubbing purposes.

You have illuminated yet another reason NorthernChinchilla why the OP is NBU..... We can continue our devil spawn works well into the future as we become working MILs - scootching our, by then, ample yet cold bosoms further up to our epiglottis as we remind our poor DILs that we can't possibly babysit as we're busy and we managed to hold down a full time job and a few babies with only the services of an overnight nursery drop-off/postal service to fall back on ...so think on and look sharp!!

I was a single mum with a child in daycare while I studied to be able to better our lives. The nerve of it. I should have stayed with my abuser and accepted that all that degree stuff with writing and numbers is far too clever for me. And YOU paid for it too!

Damn you DrCoconut..... you .... you..... intellectual you. GAH!!!!

You're right Cogito- I think we'd best returning to the far more balanced approach of the 70s and earlier, where if you got married and/or pregnant, you gave up work!
Simple way of ensuring that there was non of this passing on of bad habits, and of course all women could be full-time parents.

Perhaps we should start a petition on the No.10 website, get a debate going in Parliament- male MPs only, of course, the women shouldn't be there in the first place and can't possibly be allowed to discuss something as important as this.

Lol lol at being responsible for the increase in house prises!

I think you are all an absolute disgrace.
I am literally shaking with sadness for all of those day orphans.
This business of earning money is a pitiful excuse for dumping your DC in these hell holes.
And as for all of those lazy women who don't go to work, shame on you sponging off your poor husbands, wasting your day and their money on cake.

Women really should l

My day is spent hand rearing my DC, giving them every single bit, 100% of myself, we do absolutely everything together- my DH goes to work in the day and when dinner is over and the DC are in bed, my paid work begins... I am out ALL night earning my share.