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

Summer holidays are easier than all the other random half terms/Easter hols/odd days off because you can usually find holiday clubs...I'm the working mum with a total lack of gp input :)

Pot noodle,it's about planning,not all schemes are 9-to 5 some do 8am start and 1830finish
Look into childcare vouchers at work,spread cost
Good,methodological planning,and accept you'll miss some school events

I'm going on a piss up Spa break with a friend and leaving the kids behind.
I will be taking a Cath Kidston bag though.

Well I imagine that most parents will be avoid la Hopkins so she won't find avoiding other parents too taxing.

Where the unholy fuck did this woman come from, she is vile. She must lead a sad existence if all she has to do with her time is go on ill informed rants at tired stereotypes....

So she's avoiding female parents then
I'm sure they won't mind at all

She clearly comes up with this sensationalist crap to provoke a reaction out of most of society.
She only gets columns and airspace because of the deliberatly obnoxious comments she makes.
Everyone who takes offence and gives her attention via social media is ensuring she continues to get columns and airtime.

Totally off subject but she must be boring as feck in real life or she'd be given columns based on her abilities and flare for writing / knowledge as opposed to because she is obnoxious.

Except me!
Fuck!
I don't fit into any of those categories. Perhaps I should try harder to just so I know she'll avoid me

Longer hours will definitely be needed (got a nursery that opens at 730!) and already sorted for childcare vouchers.
Plan, plan, plan!
Will start researching now :)

Good point Gen, I hadn't thought that the other hols would be more tricksy

She's a producer/editor dream,gets reaction every single time
We are talkin about her.we clicked the link.Kerching
I am fascinated mn folk have such a visceral reaction to her

Pot noodle it's not the planned holiday,you anticipate those
It's the half days for sports etc.but try negotiate work home,if possible
You also got to accept yiu won't go to every event

Will split attending events with husband, it seems the fairest thing to do :)

Planning and excel spreadsheet.
I've got summer club booked,paid in jan

Oh come on this is not nasty article for Katie's standards. The woman has said some pretty vile stuff before, this article seems so mild! Just an attempt to befunny.

Tbh i think most of us have met tbe people she describes.

Pucklerest#
it is not the taking packed lunch to save money, it is about those who choose carefully what to put in it if they are going with other parents. Or they say things like 'the cafe does chips and i wouldn't feed my dcs crap'.

She's not a troll.she just has an obvious modes operandi.but mn loves daily mail story

The summer holidays are the one time I wish I was a WOHM. Love them both to bits, but they hate each other and have completely different interests and needs and I can't safely take them out of the confines of the village, together, in case one kicks off or the other runs off. Or both.

They'd probably poke each other's eyes out with skewers.

Not at all,she's a predictable person who gets all the harrumph era going
Mn links Kate loads of times,and dearth of daily mail stories too
People obviously like it,like the how dare she say that. That's why it's retweeted and linked

I don't fit into any of them categories which means she might want to hang out with me

^runs off to buy cath kidston bag and fruit kebabs^

I am technically a working mum, definitely a lazy mum and not her definition of a mumsnet mum, but as a mum on Mumsnet, presumably a Mumsnet mum?

Okay, for us , we've just had the first week of the school holidays. As it's cheaper to go somewhere for this week, as the main hordes don't tend to break up until later, we've just come back from a week away.

DP and I have two additional weeks off, not at the same time, to space out our childcare to every alternate week, so the DCs will be spending plenty of time with my parents.

Otherwise, the only stuff I have pencilled in is some baking with the DCs and cooking, as they both want to learn.

The rest of the time I plan to CHILL.

If we do manage to get a day out here and there, I pack snacks and drinks as food at some places would eat my budget. Like it is for many other parents on this thread.

So Hopkins thinks she's being funny with this article, but what she's missing is that the things like planning days out/packing lunches, etc is simply to do with budgets, nothing about being a smug idiot bragging online. (Well, not for everyone, anyway.)

On the contrary there is an efficient precious moments mum,who will brag on mn

does anyone pay any attention to anything she says? and if so, why?