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

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Well I work every day but pick up every day . No one will know what to say to me. What do they judge me for? poor judgies will be confused. "Does she neglect her children badly enough or is she setting them up for a life of dependency" they'll be muttering.

missmarjorie they hate it don't they?
My DD used to cry when I went to pick her up at hometime because she had been so negected all day.. She was so confused, the poor lamb, that she would shout 'no mummy' when I arrived.
The tears were out of sheer relief to be finally coming home.

Do you know him annie?

borntobe
Hmph another one trying to be happy and make choices, it will come to a bitter end, I tell you

Orm, you poor naive thing, I am him.

Oooooooorrrrrrm, I aaaaaam your faaaaather.

Anyway, I can win the competitive crap mother award no problem, and this is actually true!!

DD2 has been in a baby farm since 18 months. I know, she should have been there months earlier. But anyway. She starts school next year so she's started going to pre-school baby farm with CM wraparound twice a week. And when I collect her from pre-school on a Friday afternoon, she crumples in a heap and howls, "I don't want Mummy, I want CM to take me hooooooome!"

So, in actual RL, I have screwed up my child so badly she wishes the SM was her mother.

Beat that, you amateurs!!

I can beat that.

From about a year my DS called me "Laptop" or "gacgop".

I was not a mother. I was just a machine.

DS BTW went to the CM at 6 mos and then babyfarm at 14.

I also overcompensate on business trips with material goods. Hear that Unicef. I am the mother that you are warning everyone else about!!

Ah yes, bringing back presents from conferences. I do that too! At least then they're happy to see me!!

Kitty - mine shows how dreadfully he misses me by taking one look at my approaching form and running away to hide in 'book corner'. Where he studiously looks at 'The Gruffalo' and tries to ignore me, probably because I neglect him so.

Oh and I do pta stuff even though I work, which is out of order and wrong. My children even tell me they love me more than anyone. Poor screwed up souls.

DD is still happy to see me. DS just wants to know what I've got for him.

You do PTA?

I got called a Part Time Parent last time I went into the playground. I just laughed and said that I would think of them tomorrow, sat in my warm dry office with a while they stood in the rain.

Gay -

Oooh love this thread

My son likes pigeons better than his own mother

MissMajoribanks. I'm a public sector manager as well. Yes! I too abandon my children to sit on my arse all day.

I cringe when I think of the effect I'm having on her. It's a shame she's a happy, stable, well mannered child that wants for very little. Maybe when she's older, she'll have the same expectations of life and relationships.
The horror.

I can beat all of you for terrible parenting. I forgot to pick my son up from after school club once, and afterschool club was in a "temporary" classroom in the playground of the school I worked in at the time.

I once put DS in an afternoon activity to improve his poor strength and co-ordination and went for a coffee. Please don't judge me. I know it was wrong, wrong I say, wrong.

Not sure whether I dare speak on this thread but it's a point of detail.

It wasn't SAHMs or WOHMs who caused the riots. It was the increase in tuition fees.

Harriet Harman said so, so it must be so.

Now back to ROTFL at this entire thread . . .

My children are begging me to go back to work so they can go to after-school club every single day, but I am not going to because I am selfish and lazy.

I was the neglected child! My horrible career-oriented mother must have damaged me terribly, as she never helicoptered but only supported me in making my own decisions.
Nobody was waiting for me with home-baked cookes and nobody was packing my schoolbag and lunchbox at the age of 15, like in a normal family, as I just read in another thread.

This affected me terribly. I never got into any trouble, was a straight-A student and now have a master's degree and 6-figure salary. And a great marriage. See how damaged I am!! Oh and I also have a great relationship with the named horrible mother, who still very much enjoys her job. The horror..

As a woman and a mother, you're the devil's spawn whatever you do in my experience.

Other women are the ones who point that out on a regular basis.

It's true, no woman with children ever worked outside the home until the Daily Mail started publishing...it's true, all that stuff about women servants and women working in cotton mills and factories, they were all virgins or menopausal.