Another woman who needs to parp herself is...........

[melissasmummy]

Lowri Turner

HERE

Another tirade from a working mum to SAHM. Why can't we all just accept that we are doing what we believe to be the best for our children? Why this copnstant need to put the other down?!!!!

what about sending them a link?

Most of the mothers I see at the playgroup are nice people and of course we discuss our children, we are collecting them in 5 mins and can hear them singing and see their artwork on the walls.

I see no shame in discussing your children, or watching daytime tv OR working fulltime with or without staff OR staying at home being bored/fullfilled.

IT'S NO-ONES DAMN BUSINESS BUT YOUR OWN.

But then all papers would be sold with blank sheeets in them if everyone felt the same and Ms Turner would be forced to be at home heh heh heh.

That sort of article is exactly the thing that gets working mothers saying that they,d feel guilty staying at home with the children.

Well i dont, i REFUSE to feel guilty for staying at home and being a full time mother, sounds like you could be a teeny weeny bit envious lowri?

The thing which makes me bristle the most is the fact that as a SAHM I am automatically branded dull but if I worked outside the home too I would automatically not be.

I don;t get that. I have the same interests now as I did before sahmdom.

"a better time at home thankyou"
what wiping shit and other bodily fluids
wow didnt know that was a great time

Lowri is a dull, uninspiring, boring twunt who is full of shite

Didn't she write something called Slummy Mummies recently?

This article is boring and predictable. And cheap and nasty at the same time tbh.

Not to mention lazy

You made me read the Daily Mail! My brain is poisoned. And turned to mush.

I think she's Projecting - writing about her own phobia of what she'd turn into if she didn't work.

I have the same phobia - I fear I would be an utter slob if I didn't have the kick up the bum discipline of a job. And (therefore) am totally in awe of energetic SAHMs.

Actually us SAHMS (of older children who are in school/nursery) have more time to read the paper, watch the news and keep up with current affairs, so we must be MORE interesting than boring people who drone on about their jobs all the time

Paaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppp

But not before I observe that if this is a sample of her 'work' I don't think Ms Turner really qualifies as a working mother. D minus - must try harder

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a porky dwarf at that

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is a brain of mush useful when you're magging Cod?

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at the other end of the spectrum - but similar, ahem, "quality" of writing - does anyone chance upon lucy cavendish in the evening standard? predictable, cliche ridden claptrap from newly-working-mother...yawnnnnnnnn

BITCH FIGHT!!!!!!

Yet more cr@p from the Daily Mail, it's only to be expected...!

Still annoying though.

aren't you all over-reacting a teensy weensy bit?

But as with all daft articles like this there is a nougat of truth in it. SAHM do tned to dominate the school just because they can as they are there and the SAHM do gravitate towards each other again just because they are there.

There does tend to be a tendency in SAHMs who have given up a career to become obsessive about their children I know because I am that way. I know that I miss the challenge of my career by being at home and all of my energy and drive that was once dircted into my career now goes into my parenting. I am also naturally competetive, this worked for me in my former career but now I am a SAHM I find that this competitive manifests itself in me having to be a supermum even though it knackers me. So dd does just about every activity we can squeeze in, she was reading and writing early, I would never dream of giving her jarred baby food, I could get a degree in things to do with glitter and PVA glue, every festival is marked with a party and a home made outfit, I knit, I sew, I bake...... Absolutley mad and it drives my partner bonkers and I wish I could stop it. But that need to achieve which drove me in my career is still there in my parenting. I don't think I am alone though .... although of course I could be an anally retentive dull as dishwater obsessive freak!

TSAP, I just love the yummy idea of a nougat of truth

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I notice as well that al the SAHMs and part time workers do collect their children 20 minutes early. If you turn up on time or even a few minutes early your child will be the last one there and you do feel like a bad mummy!