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Gwyneth Paltrow gives us some precious advice - thanks a million!

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language · 02/02/2012 10:30

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/9055909/Gwyneth-Paltrow-women-who-want-children-should-be-stay-at-home-mothers.html

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RabidEchidna · 02/02/2012 10:44

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/9055909/Gwyneth-Paltrow-women-who-want-children-should-be-stay-at-home-mothers.html

Puts on French maids outfit and starts on the roast goose

scaryteacher · 02/02/2012 11:52

When she's been married as long as I have then she can dish out the advice.

Animation · 02/02/2012 12:00

The way I read it - she was advising an actress friend to compromise a bit, rather than pursue the big career and new partner.

sue52 · 02/02/2012 12:12

Isn't she kind to share her wisdom with us unworthy peasants that we are?

language · 02/02/2012 12:17

sue52: yes, I think she's being exceptionally nice! Although I have just realised how lucky I am: my husband is very communicative about my housekeeping, parenting skills, my parents etc. At least one advantage compared to G. Paltrow!

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spottyscarf · 02/02/2012 12:19

She baths her children and cooks dinner? Groundbreaking. Somebody give her an oscar. Oh, wait...

spottyscarf · 02/02/2012 12:19

She baths her children and cooks dinner? Groundbreaking. Somebody give her an oscar. Oh, wait...

Animation · 02/02/2012 12:42

"She baths her children"

No, not baths - bathes her children. Smile

Animation · 02/02/2012 12:45

B-a-t-h-e-s Grin

limitedperiodonly · 02/02/2012 12:59

The person who said: 'women who want children should be stay at home mothers' is not Gwyneth Paltrow but the Telegraph's sub who is either making mischief or can't do his or her job properly and read the story. IME either or both could be true.

Gwyneth Paltrow described a day in the life of a mother who's working at home while her children are in school. It doesn't sound like hard labour but it does sound remarkably like many other women's lives, mine included.

She likes to give her children a bath and make something for them and her husband to eat. Weirdo. Call social services.

She gave her friend sensible advice on maintaining a happy family.

She explained that experience had taught her to expect a marriage to have ups and downs but that she was optimistic.

She added that infidelity might not be the dealbreaker she thought it once was.

My husband is British and communicative. I can't comment on American men but I have met other British men who weren't very communicative. So Gwyneth's not wrong there either.

connect4 · 03/02/2012 22:02

Well done for bathing your kids Confused. She is one boring and dull person, even her films are shite.

limitedperiodonly · 03/02/2012 23:28

I thought this was the In The News section where people commented on news and facts and shit like that.

I didn't realise I'd stumbled into the Let's Make Up Nasty Things About Women We Don't Like For No Reason Apart From Them Being Blonde And Rich section.

cornforth · 04/02/2012 17:32

It is not because she is blonde and rich, but because she is unbearably smug and dispenses advice as if she were a normal mother holding down a job and struggling to run a home and family without an army of staff (most of whom are better paid than the average person her "advice" is aimed at). But thanks all the same Gwyneth.

limitedperiodonly · 04/02/2012 22:02

cornforth did you read what she said?

She wasn't dispensing advice to women in general. She was asked about her family affairs and she answered.

She is married, she has children, she loves her family and she has a job. What's abnormal about that? What the hell do you want her to say?

She might have an 'army' of staff but I'd guess she'd be more likely to have a cleaner, part-time secretary and probably a nanny to pick the kids up from school or take them to things.

But hey, perhaps she and her husband, being lucky enough not to have 9-5 jobs like most of us, perhaps like to drop them off and pick them up themselves because, even rich people love their children too.

Or are you suggesting that if you do pick your kids up, bathe them and cook them dinner it's only because you can't afford to pay someone else to do it?

You're just irrationally angry about her and people like her which reflects more badly on you than it does on them.

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