...if think this woman should spend more time with her children!

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www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2393742/No-job--time-nanny-children-But-dont-try-telling-Alex-shes-bad-mum.html

This woman thinks women don't like the fact she has full time help and a nanny even though she doesn't work... I would say it is more to do with the fact she doesn't spend a lot of time with her children in the week even though she doesn't work! She doesn't do a lot with them if the nanny is there five days a week until 6pm does she?!

That's true, UnknownGnome - she needs to plug herself into AIBU of a morning - that'll sort her out.

leobear - didn't realise that kids spending time with their grandparents was akin to (fucking) slavery. (That 'fucking' there was just for your benefit.)

They both sound pretty dreadful, youvegotmail, but at least he isn't broadcasting his life around like it's news.

Well, I for one am a bit envious of her being able to afford help. I would love some paid help so that i could be more rested and patient with my three children. But I disliked her for her smugness, not her help.

Appletarts your problem with her seems to be that she could be at home with her children but chooses to be elsewhere .

As a working mother I choose to go to work, we don't need my wages anymore. My wages go on skin care , clothes , handbags and my horses .

Surely I am as bad as her.

Did anyone else notice how miserable and pissed off the nanny looked in the first photo? I wonder if thats because of the job or being in the daily mail?

If I had the money I still wouldn't have a nanny, I would have a cleaning lady though, I hate housework.

I suspect the DM could make most of us appear smug.

This article is typical daily mail wind up tosh. First, this nanny is not really a nanny but a home help. Second, writing freelance articles is working, so the author is not really a SAHM with no job.

Had she admitted to sticking her children in nursery for 10 hours a day it would be very different. She is basically using a home help to do the boring donkey work and baby-sitting while she swans around. She is still there for her kids for a large part of the day.

I suspect that the ruder points about other mothers were demanded by the DM to increase the controversy value. I also suspect that she is calling her home help a nanny due to snob value and also maybe she doesn't want to be seen as cheap (although revealing the "nanny"'s salary knocks that on the head.)

I wonder how soon how the "nanny" will take to resign when she reads the comments and learns how she could be earning more and working less. That is the shocker - middle class couple boast about exploiting worker to get cheap ironing.

do as a mum with no help from gps and family for years and a husband often away, do i get to judge many other mums with family help and a husband who is home every night - bollocks!

and for actually believing the mails take on anything - bwahaha!

The writer is extremely smug, and i'd be envious as hell if a friend could not work AND employ full time help.

Bit if they can afford if it why the hell not? Like she says its an investment in the marriage and removes household stress.

I would rather have more domestic help than child care, so I'd outsource 100% house work and probably have a nanny three days a week. If I was mega stinking rich. That would be a nice.