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

Mrs Beeton's book was basically an indexed list of household items/chores and how to proceed with cleaning them. Very useful for the times but so is the Dummy's Huide to Microsoft 10.

Neither is literature for children. At the point your primary-aged daughter can be found reading the silver-cleaning advice, she's making a mute appeal for you to change her library books.

Source: I was that child, having read the backs of all the cornflake packets.

Nah, I think the #bekind thing was fucking bollox too.

I haven't see it on the Facebook profile of anyone other than twats. It's almost a useful twat identifier.

How many of you posted on the Caroline Flack threads I wonder saying #BeKind.

I suspect there is very little overlap, as #BeKind is for people who thought ethics for an English county. I do not particularly need reality TV fans (who were probably school bullies) who have only just found out about the concept of suicide to develop a moral code for me.

Wonder if Hinch's dot to dot and 575 Zoflora tips will still be published in a couple of hundred of years ... hmmm.

Enough already with the #bekind bollocks.

Is she a cleaner though? She only seems to clean things that are already clean...a sparkling sink, a bleachy white toilet. I'd like to see her tackle a really dirty house Kim and Aggie style.

In a couple of hundred years, people will just check their cybernetic neuroimplant for instructions on how to clean silver plate.

Urgh, no. YANBU. That is awful. I strongly disagree with the 'its fine, it's an easy costume' answers. There are loads and loads of characters in children's novels who just wear regular clothes that a child can go as. There is zero excuse.

I think we should just stop making it a dressing up day and concentrate on the reading tbh. I'd probably have fallen into the "but dressing up is fun" camp a few years ago but I'm getting grumpier. It's an issue for the environment, it's an issue for the poor, it's an issue for competitive parenting, it causes children and parents anxiety (and teachers I'm sure) and I honestly don't think anybody has done or thought about reading much at all. Just seems like more trouble than it's worth (the dressing up).

When my children were in Primary WBD was a £1 book token given out.