Kids dressing as Mrs Hinch for world book day

[PoliticalBiscuit]

I really like Mrs Hinch, I love how she has built her brand, capitalised on it, I think she works very hard. I am not slating her at all , I think there is housework to be done, and she does it with humour and I'm pleased how well it's working for her.

But damn it's depressing seeing all the young girls surrounded by dusters and hoovers and cleaning products for World Book Day on her stories

It’s like a fucking cult all this, and people need to get a life that doesn’t involve such a non-entity. Weirdos.

I had a quick flick through Hinches 'book' the other day.
It is a follow on book for Take A Break readers.

Can't stand anything Mrs Hinch. I get that cleaning sucks and she's trying to make it fun but it's just too much and not healthy.

A lot of what she uses for cleaning is over the top and laden with chemicals which have been proven to be bad for kids and pets. No thanks.

I really doubt the kids have ever read her book

Yanbu. But the whole women cleaning as a hobby fad depresses me anyway

Agree. Horrendous. But would imagine that the books are written with words suitable to the average primary school reading level.

WHAT?

What little girl/boy is going to want to go as a cleaner? Come on.

Most girls I've seen today are Alice (in wonderland) or Hermione.

@Straycatstrut my DD went as Voldemort 🤦🏽‍♀️

Yea that is really really horrible. Wrong on so many levels. I think it’s time to re think the whole dressing up for WBD.

She’s not even a author, it was all ghost written. YANBU - anyone who dresses their kids after a Instagram influencer clearly has never picked up a “proper” book in their life.

Parents are proud to claim that their kids are already reading whatever Mrs Hinch has written?

nothing wrong with cleaning as a hobby (even if she is doing it as a business herself...), some people like gardening or cooking, or whatever. Just not really a natural interest for a child!

Still better than the idiot who dressed a small child as a character from 50 shades. Either he hasn't read it (let's all pray!), and that was obviously stupid, or the kid has read it, and what are social services doing about it!

I really wished we celebrated WBD here. What a fantastic thing to celebrate. One of my closest friends that live in Norfolk sent her daughter as Trixie Belden.

I was just saying the same thing this morning. It's fucking depressing. All the millions of children's book characters and you send your child dressed up as a cleaner that's not even a character. She's technically an author in the loosest sense of the term.
It's all for Instagram 'fame' 🙄

100% it's the mums doing it so Mrs hinch will repost them. What a kick in the teeth to all the fantastic third and their characters!

The Hinch phenomenon represents everything that is wrong with the UK.

Surprised she isn't being sponsored by a brand of hand gel this week

As others have said it's all for instagram. They hope she will repost them and they will get likes and comments, they are craving validation from complete strangers. It's pretty sad when you think about it especially as they are using their children to do it.

George Eliot, the Brontes - and Mrs Hinch? Would books even be allowed to sully that grey and sterile home? Linen fresh to springtime bloom ... the romantic language of Zoflora, discuss!
Perhaps they could come as a Flylady e-mail too? (Yes, I've been around the block with all of them and still live in CHAOS.)

Most of her products are tested on animals ! Not a fan

Would you think it depressing if it had been boys who were showing a love of cleaning?

But if you check her tagged photos on Instagram, there aren't any boys dressed as an instagram cleaning influencer! Just the daughters of women who are fans of the book, and have dressed their kids up and encouraged their followers to tag Hinch so she can repost their pictures on her stories.

As someone who adored reading as a kid and still does now, I find this depressing and not what WBD should be about?

I won't even begin to comment on the teachers who have dressed up as her.. surely there are better role models for young girls out there?

I'm with you. I get it's an easy one as you have the stuff lying around but yes, it is ALL girls no boys.
Here's another WBD idea for girls, and boys, 'Adventurer'. Dead easy to do, with plastic binoculars or toy compass or whatever.

I think she is absolutely terrible and her methods are unhealthy. I need to be careful here as I had a post deleted on here for using avery well known phrase that involved no swearing or serious offence, that could not and should not be taken at face value. I was staggered and assume some crazy algorithm that the usual abuse on mn misses. On the World Book Day theme, it should promote reading, not dressing up

This has gone downhill like everything else.
When ours were at school you could just about get away with where's wally, but it was frowned upon as not a reading book. Even the poorest managed a story book character from children's literature.
Nothing wrong with Mrs Hinch, unlikely to encourage a love of reading though.

I'd love to have a child obsessed with cleaning. It's an essential life skill. I was delighted when DS developed a liking for using the litter-picker-up and would happily potter round the garden for 20 mins picking up all the rubbish that blew in
iirc Mrs Hinch's 'fondness' for cleaning started as a way to help with her depression so I'm always a bit uncomfortable when people are vicious about her.
obviously it's not a serious book but WBD long ago descended into 'funny' choices for insta parents

A literary nadir. How depressing. I don't see much I admire about Mrs Hinch and I wouldn't want young girls thinking that they have to aspire to the bimbo look she espouses and it's attractive or even acceptable to look like that.

YANBU I can’t stand Mrs Hinch, she is credit where credits due, a talented and incredibly successful sales person, who has Curated this ditzy woman next door who is just like you persona to shill cheap shit on eBay and expensive hoovers on finance to (generally) low income women.
What a fucking role model.

Funny how no boys need a quick easy costume. Just girls...

It's utterly awful for a whole list of reasons.