This has made me so angry..working mums, we are the devils work

[sh1t]

I read this, and wish I hadn't

paid strangers to look after our kids

I sort of get the sentiment behind it, but the tone of smuggery just irks me, and the post is so skewed to mums, what about dads. The author claims she is a feminist, but I can't see it.

us schemies need to stick thegether!

aye!want to meet ma man,he's a dentist

why you no at hame then?

I is minted and largin it in the clansman
a wee hauf n hauf

thought so, that's where aw the tickets hing oot

lol,I'm a fair ticket it's well fired rolls makes me pure mad mental

anyway am off tae ma kip, he'll be in soon lookin fur his nat king, better be asleep or ah'll get nae peace

next time you see fur cut nae knickers munching a roll might be me

thanks fur the warnin

hehe degrees of separation
whit if we ken each other in rl

well if ah see a wee wummin wi a roll in her gub ah'll no its you

well fired roll and mug o royal game soup bound to be me

YANBU but I do wonder where Nick Clegg thinks he's magically going to get those extra 65,000 childcare workers from, considering it's one of the worst-paid industries around. Getting good long term quality work means paying quality wages. When it is a career of last resort for those unfit to do anything else, you have problems. This will generally not be a problem for those who can afford to pay for better care but for those who feel that they have to work, regardless of their inclination.

Mimishimi - Working in a nursery the LA has rang around and asked if nurseries are willing to expand they are working on it right now and have until next Sept.

They will definitely find the workers we recieve around 30 CVs a month, a decent proportion graduates. Its an xciting time for nursery nurses.

Sorry about typos breastfeeding at sam time and my e doesnt work properly on netbook!

Even if the nurseries can expand, where will all the jobs come from the stay at home mothers that have to find work? There are not many jobs with part time hours around where I live.

I did laugh at the comment further up that the author can't be poor as she is a stay at home mother. It wasn't that long ago that I was a stay at home mother and my husband was earning the minimum wage. Tax credts took it up to a higher amount but we still had to live on a low amount. A fair amount of the women that I knew that said they had to work had husbands on double or triple what we had coming in money wise.

I don't profess to know what their outgoings were exactly but in a good number of cases they had similar mortgages and the same council tax rates as us.

We are extremely frugal over some things which allows us to be more flexible about other things - but my children don't do without and have never done. We have cut our cloth accordingly.

I am not suggesting that this is the case for everyone and I know that many would not want to live on the amount we did or scrimp and save, but please don't assume that all stay at home mothers are well off because many aren't!