to be incensed by dd1s questions about Emmeline Pankhurst, and to think i must be going wrong somewhere?!

[MrDobalina]

7 yo dd1 is doing homework on 'heros'. She has to interview me about my hero and write about it

I got very excited about imparting information about Emmeline Pankhurst and Suffrage

DD1 looking not so excited, in fact positively disinterested; kept saying she just needed short sentences to answer her questions

she asked when she was born-'1858 in Manchester' I replied

dd1- 'MANCHESTER? MANCHESTER?! do you know what mum?! if she was alive NOW, she could go to the X Factor auditions couldn't she?!?!'

WTF?????

At least you didn't spell her mmlin

mrsterry i did try showing her pictures...she didn't want any of the pictures of her speaking or being arrested..but has a nice portrait of her when she was young and pretty which she is currently tracing!

Going to attempt Rosa Parks tomorrow....wish me luck!

mrsterry

that reminds me of a joke....

why has Edward Woodward got so many 'd's in his name?

because, otherwise he would be called Ewar Woowar!

Sure she'll of seen this on HH - you can also get it with the lyrics - proud alert my dd was born on Feb 6th, the day they got the vote in 1918!

I can't think of anyone who I think of as a hero, or even did as a child. There are people who I think did heroic or special things, but not who I think is a hero. Is that wierd?

thank you goldlady

that will get her attention, i reckon

Show her the sketch and tell her it's real; if she doesn't get irritated, you've got a problem.

There's a good display on the suffragettes at the Museum of London, OP, if you and DD are in the area.

no vj32 i'm the same really

there are people who i admire, but i was only thinking in terms of 'hero' for the purpose of dds homework

i think by 'hero' they mean...significant people/ people who have changed the world?

Oh god. Womens History. I was in a Womens History degree class, with several young people in about 1997. Told them how it really was, as I felt qualified as my GGM was the first qualified (married) midwife in the East End of London, my GGF was friends with George Lansbury, (he used to come round for dinner at their house) my GM was a long lived member of the Labour Womens Movement, opposed by my GF who was a dyed in the wool Tory, and my DM was a single mother in 1967. My female cousin was one of the first women computer scientists in the '50's and '60's.

I told them the reality. As told to me directly by familiy. And the lecturer hated me.

Sylvia Pankhurst is your woman, not Emmeline.

modre you probably came across as a bit of a gob-shite did you not?

somebloke

phiney we arent in london, but might make a trip for that, thanks

your daughter has clearly not watched enough horrible histories - mine knows all the songs (including the suffragette one).