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

She doesn't care about Mums, DontGoToSleep. She only cares about column inches and internet notoriety. Each night, she googles herself and quietly masturbates to the number of internet hits she generates. It's a sad life, really.

I am the 'don't give a shit what Katie rent a gob Hopkins' has to say or think.

She is a professional troll.

I really hate it when someone tries to close a debate , usually one they are losing by saying "well you're not [insert whatever I'm not] you can't possibly understand the situation.

That type of article however only works if it's written with a large dose of self-deprecating self-awareness and good humour. If it had been written by a parent, grandparent or nanny who actually has had to deal with school holidays it would have been a lot more effective.

Lol - is our dear Katie Hopkins being deliberately provocative to keep herself in the media spotlight again?? - there's a surprise! :).

Crumbs, it really is derivative crap, isn't it?

I agree that this kind of analysis could be amusing if there was anything original in it; we all have to do things that others would find funny, to get through life. But Hatie is so unimaginative!

anyway, I am a working mum is is quite lazy but I do have a Cath Kidston cool bag. I also have a spreadsheet which tells me which days I am working and where my DC are, I've vaguely googled free places to go when I'm not working so the DC can chat about them in advance, and I'm saving up to we if we can get a last minute deal on an all-inclusive. I think I tick every box!

I have a planner with all the local free activities on it...but that's because I like being organised, hate spending a fortune on days out and soft play and don't want bored whiny children for 6 weeks!

I don't however own any Cath Kidston, have never fed my children a fruit skewer in my life and I'll also be juggling work and childcare

(PotNoodle ask at your current childcare provider if they will look after older dcs - dd1 is spending a day at her old nursery where dd2 still goes over the summer. You'll also probably make friends with other working mums once your dc starts school to share childcare with)

She forget herself.... Big mouth self opinionated Mum who has no friends....

I'm a Mumsnet Mum - and I am guilty of having produced a timetable for the summer hols.

So far they only things on it though are a week in Cornwall and a theatre trip to London with some other MN friends.

Nothing organized for DD at all yet. I did make a shortlist of stuff that's on at the local leisure centres but she won't go to anything on her own so it's back to the drawing board.

In my defence I have to be a bit organized about it as DH & I are both term time only (although I work one day a week in the hols and will be doing some extra) so it's our holiday too.

God forbid anyone plans anything for the holidays!

I am not on holiday until the end of the month but I am starting to plan. Because if I don't plan when I am going to see my friends who all have jobs and all have slightly different holidays and are all going away at different times (as am I) them before we know it the holiday will be over and we won't have seen each other.

The only timetable I have though is the timetable printed in a local magazine for our local National Trust place. I love them. They do a great summer timetable so I need only take children and watch.

I always take fruit and stuff out with me. Not made of money you see so can't just buy lunch everywhere we go. Often take half a picnic (fruit, veg, drinks bottles) and buy a few sausage rolls or something.

I don't own Cath Kidston anything apart from a pit of oilcloth my mum gave me for a table cloth which makes me want to vomit though I do admit it is rather practical

I really don't understand why anyone tales any notice of her. She talks crap!

For ex: ''I don't like children being named after countries"

...but my daughter is called India

why are we even discussing her - she should be way off our radar

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

I've never understood why mn folk get so riled by her. Some of the stuff is funny.
But then lots of things seem to 'rile' MN'rs:-

Katie Hopkins
Daily Mail
The Wright Stuff
The F word. (fat not fuck)
The D word.
To name a few.

Tis a mystery to me for sure

Haha! She's by no means my favourite person, but I'm always amused by the frothing on MN whenever she breathes.

I do a bit of doggy daycare. One of my little holiday dogs has a Cath Kidson blanket. Looked it up online and it costs £80! Totally missing point of thread.

I actually know of two mothers that make fruit kebabs for their kids lunchboxes.

(at least its not as bad as doing sandwich art I suppose) Then you know you have WAY too much time on your hands.

She neglects to mention what type she is. All of "types" describe fairly practical and effective strategies for getting through the holidays. So the joke is... what, exactly?

She's moved on from mum's to slagging off the 16 year old with two kids

I was recently at a work away day and we were served fruit kebabs

Why does anyone care what she thinks? She's a caricature. And very dull & predictable.

DId anyone find out what were the animal things?

Why, do you want to make them?!

Oh no I'm just intrigued as to what they are lol

That particular article has more than a grain of truth in it, whether we like her or not.
I am Lazy Mum. Except I'm worse even than that - I don't even go to soft play, I just stay in and boot the kids out into the garden.