AIBU to loathe this sort of article? (Warning: Daily Mail related!)

[oldgrandmama]

This woman has written about what she reckons is her young daughter's sweating problem.
www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2673233/I-make-seven-year-old-wear-deodorant-I-hate-daughter-smelly-child-school.html#comments

Now, I'm not arguing that maybe some kids do sweat and OK, maybe a deodorant is a good idea.

But WHY does a mother think it appropriate to write about it in a national newspaper? I dread to think what the little girl will go through at school now?

Of course the Mail Group has 'form' on this - the dire Shona Sibary has often written about her kids, especially her teenage daughter - totally invading all her kids' privacy.

Still, I expect the fat fee from the Mail more than makes up for it. Though the kids might have other ideas.

Poor kids.

How did you manage to read this article in the first place?

Why are you linking an article you 'loathe' ?
all you're doing is giving the story tons more exposure ( not that I'll be reading it, it looks well dull )

I do feel sorry for the children when it comes to articles like this. Imagine someone googling the child in 10 years' time and the first thing that comes up is an article in the DM about your mother making you wear deodorant.

It also amazes me that when her daughter started to use deodorant the mum thought "this would be a good story for the DM" and then the DM commissioning editor agreed with her. I know when you're a journalist, everything is copy, but there are limits...

TusconGirl, I'm an ex journalist (now retired) and I read everything, even the D.Wail, Wail on Sunday.

Why is it so bad that her DD wears deodorant? Surely if she's starting to sweat more then she needs to wear it and It's no big deal. She's obviously just going through puberty early.

But seriously what the hell was she thinking going to the DM about it. If anything her DD's going to get bullied more now when her friends find out that her mum went to the newspaper because she was sweaty.

Well, thats 2 minutes of my life I'm never getting back.

This must be a realllly Slow News Sunday.

I like the pix best. Josie holding an ecologically-sound roll-on that in no way looks like stubby penis and the helpful shot showing how to blast a hole in the ozone layer if you don't how to operate a button.

Why is the Mail?

Is that a deep philosophical question?

Why is the Mail here?
Why are we here? ..............Hmmm

And I feel sorry for the Mail's health editor.

I used to write a health page called Coping With... for a women's magazine featuring the case history of a sufferer.

By the time I came along they'd done all the biggies such as breast cancer and motor neurone disease and I was on a weekly quest to track down things we hadn't covered.

It was relentless. No sooner had I tracked down someone to talk about her tonsil stones, I had to find someone who experienced a bit of mild contact dermatitis when Persil changed its formula. There was no thanks from my superiors; no time to celebrate and bask in the admiration of my colleagues.

I'm going to recommend it as a punishment next time a Tory backbencher claims we're being soft on prisoners.

Anyway, desperation sometimes made me a bit too keen. My lowest point was badgering someone in the office to talk about the trauma of the wart on her left hand and her heartbreaking decision not to have a close-up of her husband putting the ring on her finger on their wedding day.

The deputy editor took me to one side and said though she admired my tenacity, it was never a good idea to make a colleague cry.

I immediately started thinking of a Coping With PTSD, because that's the kind of seeker-after-truth I am.

Nothing deep about it, shakethetree, I just wonder why that awful rag exists.

Ah well.

The Lord in His wisdom made the fly and then forgot to tell us why.

Lol limited
if it helps the ends of my fingers go numb in the cold and I get a tic in my right eye when very tired. It would be highly traumatic but I'd be willing to talk about both. I can provide my own props (was thinking fur lined gloves and an eye patch) and would be willing to bare my soul for an appropriate fee.

Sorry, we did Raynaud's stealthpolarbear.

The tic thing might work. It could be the symptom of a terminal neurological condition to something that was a bit of a pain when you were putting your make up on.

I'll put you in my database of sad twitchy faces, if that's okay.

Oh the trauma. I opened up about my highly embarrassing and worrying condition only to be told I'mnot actually that special :( :( :(

limited I wish I could show your colleague my left hand, which for many years had an unsightly awful wart. I've had it cut out and you can barely even see the scar.

As for the OP, I agree, poor kid. Now famous for being sweaty.

I remain mystified that Shona Sibary's children haven't been taken into care. Or indeed why they haven't run away.

icimoi Anne Atkins raped her life, including the running away from home of her child.

I am aware of the controversy of using the word 'rape' to describe this practice but I am thoroughly comfortable with it in this context.

It's common. Though I'd never describe someone who'd been subjected to what most of us would consider to be rape as complicit in her or his ordeal, I reserve a special circle of hell for media whores such as Atkins/Sibary/Beryl bel Mooney/Hopkins.

There are others whose names you don't remember. That's because papers chew them up and spit them out.

They should know this - and that's a conflict for me because I am normally against victim-blaming. But in some cases I've given it a lot of thought and have made an exception.