Mums neglecting their children by spending too much time on the internet

[EdieSedgwick]

Sorry for the Daily Mail link....

www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1355346/Twitter-mothers-spend-hours-blogging-neglect-children.html

Now stop reading this and neglecting that child of yours...

DuplicitousBitch that link is brilliant.

LOL, Donkey! My dh does exactly that!

how many 2 years should be able to ride a bike? Most of them can't run without falling over so I think that making them ride a bike is pushing it a bit!

talk about picking your stats groups to back up your claim...twats.

I have a better idea - all mothers should stop reading the Daily Mail. That would create valuable time for their children, cut down on paper wasted and stop the disemination of large amounts of crap. Win, win really.

Agree very strongly with Goosey

I agree with Goosey :o

The Daily Mail will not be happy unless it's found another stick to beat women with. And if you're a literate, opinionated woman then it has to be a bloody great big stick.

I'm sure I used to have some children around somewhere once. I wonder where they are?

As the OP I too agree with Goosey too. I swear I was looking for something for university about cosmetic surgery

I'm not neglecting dc4. I'm making the most of the time while he neglects me as he sits and watches tv.

(disclaimer- he's ill and doesn't want to play)

'With recent reports claiming that 70 per cent of two to five-year-olds can use a computer while only 20 per cent can ride a bike, and a Government-backed report proposing a national scheme to encourage parents to cuddle their children more'

the remaining 10% weren't included as their mums had ignored the question

poppycock.

i'm a really old person and we didn't even have a phone in the house until after i could ride a bike

*Glynis wonders if the two incidences were linked at all

Things were obviously so much better when women weren't able to read an write and realised their role was one of servitude. There are no criminals, ill or stupid people over the age of 60, which indicates we should definitely adopt a social model of the pre-1950s era.

Or, erm, not.

I dunno, I hate the DM but I do wonder how particularly prolific posters (not just here, but elsewhere too) manage to fit in everything else around the time they spend online. I'm not just pointing my finger, I'm liable to be sucked in too and now I have to make a point of being careful to restrict online time to evenings when the children are asleep.

or now, when one is napping and the other is at playgroup! erk.

It's the same as 'sleeping when they sleep' when they are babies. If they are happily engaged in something then why can't we be too?

So long as stuff you need to do still gets done and everyone is happy, I can't see the problem.

I am 32 and can't ride a bike.

What is so good about bike riding?

I don't know. Makes it damn hard to balance a laptop and post nonsense on t'internet though.

We didn't have internet when mine was little, I didn't become addicted to mumsnet until she was about 12 and even then the PC was at the back of the room so only on when there was nothing else to do.

Now we have a laptop that is on as soon as we come home and we are taking it in turns to look at fb, mumsnet etc whilst also watching tv and ocassionally talking to each other. Tis the way of the modern world. I think if I had little ones now I might self impose a rule about switching the laptop on all day.

It is a bit true though, isn't it? Not just about the internet, but all technology. People are getting more and more stuck in their own little world, created by technology, whether it's Twittering, blogging, forums or SkySports. It now seems to be socially acceptable to stop a conversation to send a non-essential text message. Our brains crave cheap stimulation, which means that we often don't have headspace for more complicated and creative things. That's what I find in my own life, anyway.

Oh I agree. Its absolutley shocking the way some Mums behave.

Fathers would never spend too much time on the internet, on the XBox, or at work, or playing golf, or down the pub, or at football matches....

"how many 2 years should be able to ride a bike? Most of them can't run without falling over so I think that making them ride a bike is pushing it a bit!"

Well you see that's where we've been going wrong. If we taught them to ride a bike at 2yrs old then they wouldn' keep falling over while running

My parents used to ignore me while reading. WEll my mum did - my dad used to ignore us by locking himself in our (only) bathroom to develop rolls and rolls of film

The Daily Mail. Say no more.

sounds about right. Sure many of us spend too much time on the internet and on here if we were being honest.

I always remember that mum from wifeswap.

My sun is asleep at the moment, normally he's crawling round my legs playing with everything in sight, he seems perfectly happy to me.

What would the Daily Fail like me to do instead? the washing up perhaps?, sorry no can do he gets upset and screams if I leave the room.

I'm sure they wouldn't want me working, mothers who work are evil and damaging their kids who will turn into hoodies when they get older.

All men however can do what they like as they don't matter, unless they are strange men like them foreign types, muslims and gays then thats probably the mothers fault they turned out like that in the first place, as all men should be well rounded bigoted narrow minded bitter braindead morons just like Littlejohn.

I try and check my e-mails while my girls are at school (12 and 15yrs) because everytime l try when they are around they need the pc for HOMEWORK usually facebook.

Another one is a couple of their friends think we are odd because we eat as a family and talk at the dining table. One thought you only got carrots out of a tin when they discovered me peeling them !!