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...

Sod the kids. I'm neglecting my clients
My clients will probably turn into hooded crack addicts.

I'm neglecting ds2 today. He's poorly and it's making him grumpy and awkward. He won't nap, he had a tantrum about the paints I'd lovingly set up for him, he won't sit still under a blanket and watch any of the 5000 SkyPlussed childrens' programmes.

What he is happy to do, however, is shout 'I've got SNOT!' every 3 minutes. Not so happy about having it wiped away.

So I've given up and taken root at the end of the sofa, tissue box to hand. Neglectful-like.

'I have to make a point of being careful to restrict online time to evenings when the children are asleep.'

Posted at 10:39AM

Shodan

Actually, DS sounds a bit like some of my clients.

DuplicitousBitch - that video is great :)

I didn't learn to ride abike until I was 23. My kids can, but two wheelers only since they were about 6 or so. They're at choir right now. Doing this is better for me than reading the Daily Mail.

What a bizarre article, why would someone take the time to right something like that. Yes I go on the internet and ignore my children to a certain extent but I also do the housework and ignore them. I do play with them lots periodically throughout the day, but they need to learn to play on their own and mummy needs some down time. What a load of rubbish!!

It's good for the kids to get neglected for a bit, after all they're only going to leave home and then where will you be without your amazing computer skills and --imaginary friends

AgeingGrace- bleugh. I hope they don't manufacture as much snot as ds2. Or mix it with the paint on their hands...

That Mummy Pig is to blame as well, neglecting Peppa & George while she "works"

I'm choosing to neglect the housework :)

Yeah we all know about Mummy Pig. Pretending to work while she plays 'Happy Chickens'.

Pah.

I don't remember my Mother playing much with me - she was hot on reading and writing and academic stuff (she was a teacher) but we were sent out to play/played on our own indoors with lego etc . There was no internet, no twitter, not even a landline until I was 8 or 9.

Kids need to learn to play on their own - stimulates their imagination if they have to think a bit for themselves!!

When mine were small I had no internet or mobile and did play with them to a certain extent. But I found it so utterly boring. Loved reading to them, singing, that kind of things, but craft, model making, "pretend games" left me very cold.

My mum worked full time, nan looked after me in the day but that didn't involve actually playing with me (can't speak for toddler years, this is my memories from around 5+). I remember just spending time playing with toys, or sitting on the railings outside the bookies, pretending I was riding a horse/motorbike!

Besides, all children need a Hardship to tell their children about- you know, 'When I was young my Mummy never played with me/let me have trendy clothes/let me stay up all night/gave me nice food' etc etc. Internet is just the latest Hardship.

Must admit I am addicted to MN at moment, can't stop looking, going back, checking etc. But.....the kids never see me on it. DH doesn't know about us.....

At least it don't cost anything eg online bingo

I thought it was a bit of a dad job to teach the bike thing?

TBH in t'olden days mums were far too busy around the house to grab 10 mins to themselves.

It doesn't matter what women do the Daily Mail will think it is wrong so stop reading the bloody thing.

I can multi task

I think it's true, a bit. I feel guilty about my online addiction. I play with DD throughtout the day, but not enough

Might start leaving the iPad upstairs during the day.

Although, my OH favourite comment at the moment is aibu to .......... I wonder if he reads mn. or more like me asking him things from a guys point of view.
By the way, DCs are doing homework at the mo.
& i'm ment to be washing up.

My DH is cooking a nutritious meal from scratch and talking bollocks to our DS to entertain him whilst I MN.

In my defence, DS has refused to sleep a wink all day and screamed to be picked up and then screamed to be put down then screamed to be picked up...(ad infinitum) for the hour before DH came home, so I've hardly neglected him.

Even really early bike riders can't ride until (say) 3.5/4, so you have to say what percentage of 2-5 yos are under 3.5, and then look again at the 20% figure. And as for the Govt initiative to get people to cuddle their children more (which I don't believe) - that'd be almost literally a nanny state.

Do you know what- when I moved into this house a year ago - I had no TV or internet (or land line phone) for a week.

Did I spend more time with my children playing with them???? Nope - I found other things to do while ignoring them

my DS's right now are

DS1 - feeding the cat and cooking dinner
DS2 - drawing at the table in the other room
DS3 - watching and "helping" DS1 feeding the cat and cooking dinner.

So do Dads not spend too much time on the internet/ x box/ playstation etc. ethen?

Just women?

Thought so.