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

I gave DS the free reign of what he wanted to wear for WBD today. So he went as an astronaut and took a book on space with him.

Kim Kardasian was just pivotal in getting three women released from prison. www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-51744918

Mrs Hinch is contributing to allergies, smell sensitivity and making us all more prone to disease.

Before I signed up here I had never heard of Mrs Hinch before. I imagined someone that looked like and was a similar age to Mary Berry the way people were going on about her!

I don’t know whether to laugh or cry at Mrs Hinch being genuinely considered as a character from a book .
This is presumably what promoting literacy in schools was designed to avoid?
Some poor souls obviously fell through the net.

I'm so glad mine are too old for WBD now. When they were younger their school asked them to dress as a character from their favourite book. Homemade costumes/things they already had in their wardrobe were positively encouraged.
Ds1 went as the same character for about 3 years because it was the only book he would willingly read He wore jeans, t-shirt and trainers.
Ds2 went as Harry Potter one year. He had a black piece of fabric pinned round his shoulders over his usual uniform. His very lovely teacher agreed to draw a scar on his head with a lip liner pencil.

The male equivalent seems to be The Body Coach- which I think is equally rediculous.

DD's last two outfits have been Matilda (Roald Dahl) and Anne (Famous Five) - normal clothes she already owned or will wear again. There are so many children's books with characters wearing normal clothes!

The point of World Book Day is to encourage children to read. Not to dress as their mum's favourite influencer. Do these children not read/get read to at all?

It WBD, should be about books not dressing up

At my children’s school they took in the book that they were dressed as a character from, and parents/grandparents went in this afternoon to read those books with their children. Can just imagine seeing a parent and child sitting reading Mrs Hinch together.

Did they dress as hinch or the grinch? Hard to tell!

I think if my child or my child's teacher wanted to dress up as "mrs hinch" I would disown them. Totally misses the point of World BOOK day. It should be a character from your child's favourite book - even better if it started as an actual book and not a film made into a book. But that's a whole other story.
So many great books that you by hard working authors that actually write their own books. Not someone who has a book that was ghost written, a dot to Dot (not a book) and a blank notebook.

What a nasty bunch you can be, is she doing you any harm? Hurting you in anyway? Nope. Honestly i bet alot of you were posting "be kind" messages when caroline flack died.
Im guessing the girls dressed up didn't go kicking and screaming and yes girls because mrs hinch is female, my dd went as millionaire boy (never read the book) but he is a boy!
I am not a hincher before anyone starts, just no need for it

Nah, I can't stand the bollocks mentality of #bekind either.

A lot of influencers were badly misusing #bekind and Caroline Flack's death though - I actually saw one account use the hashtags on a vacuum cleaner advert!

I also don't think this thread is directed at Hinch - more her avid adult fans who have dictated their kids WBD costume choices to them?

I don’t think anyone had a go at Mrs Hinch in any context other than disputing she is either:

1. A “character” from a book.
2. A role model for anybody, not just young girls.

Hardly personal.

Mrs Hinch-as-literary-figure.

Good grief. It just makes me want to put my head in my hands and weep.

There is no justification for that.

None.

No #BeKind chez moi.

Hmm, let's see about harm. Well, a bunch of parents are undermining the whole concept of WBD (which is an event to promote reading to children) by dressing their kids up as a insta-influencer, for the sake of getting likes from Mrs Hinch on social media. That's shit for their children, who aren't being encouraged to celebrate reading on the day, and may have a knock on effect on the class's attitude towards reading as a whole. The object is to cultivate a positive atmosphere around reading, as opposed to a class where it's seen as cool to not read.

Do I feel any need to #BeKind? No. Zero. The parents need to buck their own ideas up, and I'd happily tell them that to their faces.

Mrs Hinch is a woman whose image is plastered across home bargains and promotes using Zoflora on absolutely everything, which is going to impact future health in terms of increased allergies and the environment, in terms of unnecessary cleaning chemicals going down the drain and increased use of single-use plastic packaging.

I feel no need to #BeKind about that, either.

Weird. These girls are 5/6, too young to have Instagram and absolutely won't have read her books. It's the parents projecting this onto the kids probably just to get likes on social media. And those saying it's an easy costume - there are parents who've had a costume made!

'What a nasty bunch you can be, is she doing you any harm? Hurting you in anyway?'

She's hurting the environment and encouraging others to do the same, as well as damaging her and other people's health with nasty chemical cleaners (which are also tested on animals). Not someone to be admired.

Obviously no-one is allowed to have an opinion unless it's a hashtag.

Should I be getting my hashtag ready for next year? #BeKindByNotCrappingOverSchoolsEffortsToEncourageReading

Too long?

Yes @PotholeParadise nailed it.

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