to hate the cliche "busy mum"?

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where are all the women who describe themselves as "bone idle sods who happen to have some kids in a cupboard somewhere"?

There's a cereal advert that makes my blood boil at the moment. Dh is in charge of breakfast - I don't give a shit as long as there's enough soya milk in the house to pour on top.

Oh aye, the advert start with "Mum's know ..." or some such shit.

Are busy mums the ones wot go to Iceland?

It seems Dads don't go to Iceland to stock up on prawn rings and the buffet of beige.

Or maybe they are the ones which are sponsored by P&G

Or the ones who buy Philadelphia as she has 3 "kids" to cater for (2+DH)

Gah.

its a glib cliche.
and doenst suggest dads should be sodding busy too

No, dads aren't busy!
They are buffoons who don't know how the household works, don't do the cooking, washing or shopping, and fall into an exhausted heap after looking after their own children.

Tbh the stereotypes in either direction are equally offensive.

OMG there is a whole website

If DH went to Iceland I dread to think what he would arrive home with.

I want advertisers to look at the waffle on the loo thread from yesterday and the one about Hs being away and REASsES how idle most of us are

MrsDV I think you'll find that it's: Denise (34) is the busy mum of a toddler. Let's not forget her age, that's important just like her busyness. Or even blonde Denise (34).

I'm rarely busy

Do you mean "busy mums" who "run around after their toddler all day". Such a terrible slavish image.

That's how they keep 'trim' goinn.

I sat on the sofa mostly when mine were toddlers

i was quite trim then- didnt drink much either.
was like a cave dweller for 7 years

YABU
I bloody hate that phrase. I hate all the 'thanks mum' adverts, all the ones that suggest its only the female of the house that cleans, cooks, looks after the children.

And what was that one with the tag line 'so simple even a man can do it' it was for a cleaning thing?

DH won't buy muller little stars yogurts for the DC because their advert was so bloody sexist.

Denise (34) is the busy mum of a toddler. She spoke to us in the kitchen of their £80,000 house in Leeds .... where she had just bleached the surfaces as someone had shopped at aldi

Loving tip one here

I'm a lazy mum. It's the teaching that keeps me busy.

Busy working mum sometimes too.
I am very busy, mostly cos I am disorganised and incompetent.

I'm loving the hire a nanny tip