Katie Hopkins on Mum to avoids

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Is this really what we do?

*A stay-at-home mum, this one's been planning the school holidays with precision.

Having researched all free events within 20 miles, Mumsnet Mum has created a schedule of science museums, finger-painting and butterfly hatching.

She can then brag about it all online later and make other mums feel bad.

She goes nowhere without a packed lunch of fruit kebabs and vegetable animals in matching Cath Kidston picnic boxes.*

AIBU to found this funny? Sometimes she has a pinch of sense in her rants.. I can safely say I don't own anything Cath Kidston and what the hell is a vegetable animal or fruit kebab

Nasty little article.
And I swear in that gurning photo she looks a bit like Michael Gove.

Meanwhile the kids of working mums are off to mrs hannigans for the summer
To eat stale sandwiches,be ignored by feral teens and learn bad language

That is cool!!

Oh dear potnoodle you have some fun ahead! (What were you actually hoping would happen?)

potnoodle - did you not think of this before you had DC?

Aibu to love Katie hopkins? A lot of what she says has truth in it, she knows full well she's pissing everyone off because she's doing it on purpose and she's the only person on twitter who had an 'appropriate' reaction (in my opinion anyway) to the death of peaches geldof.

She must be on here, you know that don't you?

I aspire to be mumsnet mum, but am in fact lazy mum with some fruit thrown in for good measure. She forgot annoying mum who tells everyone else how to parent, forgetting to actually do any parenting herself

Mrs Not the only one. I love her attitude to the amount of hate she gets on twitter. I do follow her

However the name episode on This Morning made me laugh!

couldn't give a tiny rats wank if she was Mrsleo she's a twat who can't write - that article is lazy and predictable and she's as thick as mince - hth

Hopkins raison d'être is to be a rabble rouser,professional mixer.thats her media persona
She's made Money and noteriety out of saying something inflammatory
On this sees funny and well observed.its her job to be poking people for a reaction

I thought the name thing was funny and she clearly revels in being a pantomime villain, I just don't get why people give her so much attention.

Dont panic potnoodle. Holiday clubs work very well for us. Just learn where they are and book early and you will be fine :-)

For a show or paper it's a dead cert she'll generate responses.thats why shes hired
And she wiped the floor with mn on TV about bf at Olympics.made mn look like giddy 6th former
She's employed specifically because of the reaction she provokes,gets tweets,calls

It's the daily mail, isn't it?

A newspaper that just looooves getting women to attack other women.

A bit like a newspaper version of all women, bikini clad mud wrestling.

I'm lazy mum. I see nothing wrong with this.

Veg animals?!

and i hate Cath Kidston

Pot noodle.wise decision to both work
Here how it goes
Book childcare well in advance,ask other parents for recommendations .ask about locally
You get summer club etc once they're school age
Before school it easier,ft nursery.most nursery open 50week year

I don't have much money. If I don't take a pack lunch how do I feed my kids after entrance fees. I'm an MN mum too. I've got lists of local free or nominal entrance which is also being updated. Great. Take the piss. Whatever. It's funny to think in stereotypes but actually I find there are more like me on here than there are like her. Thank heavens for that.

Fruit travels well for tiny hands on sticks. It ain't as dumb as you think on a train.

I am LoFi mum.
I don't have a stack of cupcakes that I've just whipped up.
I don't micro plan.
Family days out bring me out in hives.
Cath Kidston stuff is a lot of unoriginal wank.
My face is not rosy cheeked.
I'm mostly short and arsey.

Well

I'd say that if that makes you feel bad Katie, then you need to have a good hard look at where your self esteem is right now. No-one can make you feel bad without your permission

'mkay?

Hopkins never fails to get some on mn in an incandescent defensive haze
She knows exactly what she is doing,what to say to get reaction
And on mn she gets it every time.folk harrumphing,desperately explaining themselves

pot agree with Scottish its fine, but you have to be organised.

Before school they go to nursery as normal over the summer (or use a nanny)

Once at school there are various options: school holiday clubs, leisure centre holiday clubs, private holiday ckubs etc. most working patents would prob take a week each A/L, a week to all go on holiday, leaves 3/4 weeks at holiday clubs. not the end of the world it is often made out to be.

the trick is to be organised and arrange in advance. I personally use a combination of the local leisure centre holiday club and the local tennis club holiday club so they don't get too bored. then a weeks family has holiday and days off here and there to go on days out etc.

downsides are the cost will pain you, esp if you have 2 or more kids. And they are often 9-5 which can be a pita with respect to getting to work on time.

Nursery all sorted,
Hadn't thought as far ahead as school
Phantom, as I'd been told I couldn't have kids, forgive me for having been preoccupied with the delight of actually having one!
Will figure it out when time comes!
Thanks, Scottish! I couldn't imagine not working, I've really missed it

Thanks Forago :) all sounds very feasible (and I like planning!)