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to think local working mums give me a bad name?

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cubmum · 19/05/2015 21:17

On my local fb mums group there are working mums moaning how tiring it is. Recommending work from home (which I loathe if my team at work request this sort of thing) Maybe I'm very lazy (I do let laundry pile up etc) but I think working is in a way easier cos I do F all at home and my lovely nanny does the hard work in a share. I come home, play, do bath and story and bedtime and cuddles, think how cute my kid is as the nanny is complaining about my infant Terrible, do some light tidying up if i feel like it, make myself a quick dinner (or grab a sarnie on the way home) and dh if I feel like it. I don't know how women run households or what cleaning standards they have but I honestly find it easy on the physical aspect (ignore the guilt or emotional dilemma or work stress they were moaning about physical exhaustion) and find it annoying to hear this sort of moaning. Also i find it insulting that it is a wife's implicit responsibility to cook for dh it's a choice surely.

It was similar when i was on mat leave and my nct group moaned how hard motherhood is. I always had to nod and agree when i just LOVE IT. It is a blessing. but maybe I just don't understand women being a woman myself. I work 5 days full time and dh very long hours. Maybe I should move, I'm also sick to hear about mums who have nannies + sitters + night nannies in my area too. I think we are a much luckier generation than previous ones.

OP posts:
BigRedBall · 19/05/2015 22:29

"....complaining about my infant Terrible..."

Why would you name your child "Terrible"? Poor kid.

rockybalboa · 19/05/2015 22:29

So basically you are moaning about other mothers moaning?! Perhaps you need a hobby to occupy all your non-tired spare time.

YetAnotherHelenMumsnet · 19/05/2015 22:30

Hi all,
Some reports about this one but we're inclined to think that the OP is trying to be amusing? So let's keep it civil, yars?

PeachyPants · 19/05/2015 22:35

Well if it's a joke it's too subtle or oblique for me to understand, but then I've been frinking all evening.

PattiODoors · 19/05/2015 22:35

Oh I SEEEEEEEE

That OP, she's too funny. Tres amusant.

Etc.

fadingfast · 19/05/2015 22:40

What I really want to know is how on earth someone who appears unable to construct a coherent sentence (or thought process for that matter) can possibly earn enough money to pay a nanny.

WorraLiberty · 19/05/2015 22:41

Blimey, I thought Helen called the OP a cock head then.

Twice! Grin

MagicMojito · 19/05/2015 22:42

WTAF? ConfusedConfusedConfusedConfusedConfused

I've read the OP twice and I still don't get it.

Go to bed OP.

PacificDogwood · 19/05/2015 22:42

Funny?
Nope.
Still don't get it.

I better stop frinking and go to bed. As I am tired.
But at least I don't moan about it.

Lj8893 · 19/05/2015 22:42

Haven't read the full thread.

I'm a working mum, but no nanny. I do the bulk of the childcare!! Dp works full time, 8am-5pm. He comes home and then I go out to work till 10pm after looking after did Al day.

So yeah a lot of the time I am fucking tired.

Mrsjayy · 19/05/2015 22:43

helenmumsnet said cock Grin

EatShitDerek · 19/05/2015 22:44

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PacificDogwood · 19/05/2015 22:44

Is it not the same as 'bell end'? Grin

EatShitDerek · 19/05/2015 22:45

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PoppyFleur · 19/05/2015 22:45

I am still trying to assess what professional job the OP is gainfully employed in that requires so little verbal reasoning. Journalist for the Daily Mail maybe?

Welshmaenad · 19/05/2015 22:47

worra, one of my cats smells of onions. Has done all day. Hasn't faded since this morning. It's confusing the shit out of me.

WorraLiberty · 19/05/2015 22:48

Yes Pacific. I'm going to assume Helen forgot an apostrophe Grin

ginslinger · 19/05/2015 22:48

I don't get it?

WankerDeAsalWipe · 19/05/2015 22:48

I also hate it when people complain about their ironing pile, it much easier to have the butler do it while I have a few gins with colleagues after work. honestly it gives working mothers a bad name.

MrsBigginsPieShop · 19/05/2015 22:49

Cocks more. titter

WorraLiberty · 19/05/2015 22:49

Oh that's a nice homely smell Welshmaenad

I can't offer a solution unless you have a plug-in air freshener under your dining table that smells of onions? Grin

MoominKoalaAndMiniMoom · 19/05/2015 22:49

'kay, so....

You are moaning about other mums moaning, and you hate hearing them talk about their nanny, however you have a nanny, and because you don't feel tired out because you have a nanny , you don't think any other mother should complain about feeling tired, and you're basically just having a whinge about how much you love parenting?

... and it's apparently amusing?

eurochick · 19/05/2015 22:51

I have a professional job and a nanny, and I am fucking knackered all the time!

I still have no idea what this thread is about.

HemanOrSheRa · 19/05/2015 22:52

I thought Helen was calling us cock heads. And then something about more cock. Anyway, I still don't get it.

PacificDogwood · 19/05/2015 22:53

Onion plug-in air freshener - yes, that'll really work! Grin

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