...to absolutely disagree with most of the things written in this article about older mothers

[Polkadotfanatic]

grrrr - I dont know why I do it to myself, but I caught myself reading the fail mail online and this charming article popped up at me...

Perhaps I'm sensitive because I'm 31 and childless and don't actually regard myself as that ''old''...but please tell me that some of you also feel it's utter tripe...

:)

www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2181887/This-trend-older-parents-I-fear-creating-unhappy-stressed-spoiled-children.html

Interestingly enough there's a thread at the moment about the Daily Mail where we're discussing not clicking links to the rag to finance it.

Even if your link was clickable, I wouldn't click it and then moan about the story or the paper.

What's the point?

well said Worra

I don't need to read it to know it's bollocks This is the paper who at every opportunity tries to degrade women, with all their nasty stalking of pregnant celebs then poking fun when shock horror they haven't lost weight within a day of giving birth. One day they publish an article about women being too old to have babies, the next it will be if you're too young. Then of course you are a disgrace if you have a caesarean, or if you go back to work, or if you dont breastfeed. Yesterday wasnt the article about how much damage women do if they get stressed whilst pregnant? It's a scummy rag that clearly hates women, can you tell I fucking hate it?

well said, Ariel24!

you forgot to mention that if you stay at home with your children you're a bad role model

Worra - point taken, I naively didnt think that through.

Ariel - I know, I don't know why I do it to myself.... grrr :)

Think the article is largely bollocks - as an older mother happily typing while ignoring 5 year old and 11 month old trashing house around me

Wow I had to do it didn't I, just had to have a look at the shite they're spewing in general today (sorry Worra, I agree totally we shouldn't even look at it if it finances it but couldn't resist). It's an anti c-section article today. About how there's an increased risk of infection etc, and The Fail's obvious agenda is to bring up the NICE changes last year about allowing women to choose c/s. Totally belittling women who suffer from tokophobia as if a psychological reason isn't a valid medical reason.

Grrrr sorr to go off on a tangent, I just find how they try to demean women at every chance absolutely appalling. And I know, know, I don't have to read it. I'm not going to any more, for the sake of my blood pressure

In real life I know no-one who reads the Daily Mail. My parents like the crossword in the Express which is almost as bad. If Mum ever tries to tell me something she's read in the Express I gently remind her of that little chat we had about such 'news'papers.

What's my point? Ignore.

I don't have to read it to know that I don't want to bother!

Ignore a good 75% of the Daily Mail.

It's a nonsense article, full of silly over-generalisations - just because the writer knows some 'helicopter' parents who happened to be in their 30s when their kids were born, doesn't mean that all older parents are like that.

Ignore.

Although the other article about how there's going to be a baby boom because of 50 shades of grey made me laugh

What Ariel24 said. Next week it'll be single parents, then "career women". Then SAHMs. Then formula feeders. Then an article about breastfeeding women "flaunting". Then a scare story about nurseries.

yanbu

youngt parents tend to be feckless teenage chavs that raise a generation of asbo hoodies

so ner!!!!

Polka - don't worry & don't feel bad.

The Daily Mail does hate women.
As a woman you will never do right in their eyes.

I know acquaintances & colleagues who have had children (naturally or with IVF) in their mid-30s to mid-40s.

They are good mothers & their children are happy.

Ha ha, read a few paragraphs in order to come to the conclusion that, as usual, it's a piece of sloppily written rubbish cobbled together by a tired old hack whose research was conducted entirely inside her own head.

Oh I read this and my shit was momentarily gripped.

Until I realised she was plugging her DS's book about parenting...

The thing about the mail online is that they just take press releases and reformat them. Ignore ignore ignore!

Let me guess, let me guess a feature in the Daily Mail?????

Yep

Do you realise that Mumsnet is keeping the DM going by starting at least three threads a day about its articles? It's priceless publicity for them.

Just stop it

I do wish the DM would stick to the Kardashians (whoever they are)

I am 73 and pregnant for the 17th time.

well let the daily fail know then solesource!! I was 40 when i had my kids and so what. it was the right time for me and my DH. yes it was tougher at 40 than in my 30's when i had my first but there you go. i had less energy but more patience. why are you so sensitive about a crap newspaper article. is it subconsiously more of a worry than you want to admit?

I do know a lot of older parents that behave in the exact way described in the article but I also know a lot of younger ones as well!!! I can't stand it when people have their kids up till all hours and they generally rule to roost over most things (my SIL age 46 with a infant school child as well as a friend of 25 with same age kids are exactly like this) but I don't let it bother me as its their issues to deal with.

It has nothing whatsoever to do with age - just different parenting styles. I am not sure why anyone would be particularly bothered about this article TBH unless like mummy mentioned it is something you worry about.