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sick of crappy articles about parenting? READ THIS

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thewomanwhosnotmeanttobehere · 05/04/2006 09:10

\link{http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,,1746868,00.html\read this it's beautiful} ok, so she's still in the initial throes, but I think's it's a lovely piece.

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hoxtonchick · 05/04/2006 09:11

made me weep :o. i liked her songs too!

ToujoursMarine · 05/04/2006 09:13

And she certainly has a point about that loon Lionel Shriver :)
Thanks for link thewoman!

ToujoursMarine · 05/04/2006 09:14

Me too Hoxty, really pleased for her :)

OliveOilsLegalTeam · 05/04/2006 09:14

hmmph, tell her to do an update when she has no.2

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thewomanwhosnotmeanttobehere · 05/04/2006 09:14

little tearettes crept into the corner of my eyes too Wink

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morningpaper · 05/04/2006 09:15

I thought it was an ANNOYING article

am I bitter and twisted?

ToujoursMarine · 05/04/2006 09:17

OO and MP, you miseries Grin
Do you honestly prefer Rachel Cusk whingeing on and on?

morningpaper · 05/04/2006 09:19

I quite like Rachel Cusk but she's not very funny

If she was funny I would like her more

willow2 · 05/04/2006 09:19

She's a far better writer than she was a singer. Very good, IMO.

ToujoursMarine · 05/04/2006 09:20

I don't really mind witty moaning about motherhood either but you just want to bang Anna Pasternak and RC's heads together Wink

oliveoil · 05/04/2006 09:20

Never heard of RC.

I was fine with 1, loved it, all went downhil with number 2. I think I had too small an age gap (22 months) and would definitely have delayed if I had known how shite it could be.

Sigh.

ToujoursMarine · 05/04/2006 09:20

willow how is your mum?

Feistybird · 05/04/2006 09:20

I liked it. Touching and articulate.

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thewomanwhosnotmeanttobehere · 05/04/2006 09:21

I agree oliveoil - also when they get to school and you've been "at it" for 5 or more years; when you have to pay for them to go on an aeroplane; when you realise that the drop in childcare costs is either not going to materialise or is going to be off-set against huge stress, ad-hocery, and dirty looks from your colleagues; when you have to admit that they're not as cute as they used to be; when the reality sinks in that you're probably not going to take them round the world, cos they'd loose their school place and probably whinge at least half the way round anyway; when they don't need you whilst you're at home and you find yourself lost - something you swore would never happen; when you go out for dinner with dh and you can only talk about the kids, something else you swore would never happen. But when you're there (ie where I am!) you need a boot up the arse like this to remember how lucky you are and how precious they are.

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Feistybird · 05/04/2006 09:22

I found first time round was like an explosion. I was shell-shicked for months. Loved it loved it second time round (and I had a < 2yr age gap).

crunchie · 05/04/2006 09:22

I read this and that GET TEH WOMAN ON MN !!! :) she will see we don't ALL whine about being mums ALL the time.

Yes it was soppy, but I agree with her. It has become fashionable to say how awful motherhood is (and i know it can be for some). TBH my veiw is that it is the best and worst of times. It ruins and makes your life complete.

Now where's my commission for an article, or is balanced journalism untrendy these days :)

Feistybird · 05/04/2006 09:23

shell-shicked?

shell shocked !

acnebride · 05/04/2006 09:23

This article annoyed the pants off me! glad I can rant here and not please the newspaper by writing to them... i'm just so fed up with huge articles saying i love being a mum/i hate being a mum/childbirth was much better/worse than i expected and always NOBODY TOLD ME any of this, i.e. I didn't listen to anybody else or read a book for 35 years and anyway it's impossible to really 'feel' somebody else's life experience. Aarrrgh!

Great pictures though. And of course I read the darn article all the way through - curses!

willow2 · 05/04/2006 09:24

Hi TM, and thanks for asking - she's on the mend still. She had an allergic reaction last week to either antibiotics or the dye they gave her before a CAT scan - so felt foul and wasn't best pleased about that, but is now getting over that too. If 10 was how she rated just before she got ill she rates herself at 2 at the moment - like having bad bronchitis - but she is managing to do more and more each day, which is why (IMO) she isn't yet feeling any more energetic. So all going in the right direction, thank God.

ToujoursMarine · 05/04/2006 09:26

Great news that she is on the mend willow :)+

morningpaper · 05/04/2006 09:26

lol @ moaning half the way around the world

very true

I thought I would be Kate Winslet in Morroco with my lovely girls

but they would only moan, the feckers

ToujoursMarine · 05/04/2006 09:28

ROFL at whining on trip of lifetime, these days that's actually more likely to be me and dh than the dcs though Wink

Caligula · 05/04/2006 09:31

LOL how true Acnebride - "nobody told me this" actually means "I never bloody listened".

Anything which isn't Lionel Shriver has got to better than Lionel Shriver, hasn't it?

Hausfrau · 05/04/2006 09:32

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FairyMum · 05/04/2006 09:34

The truth is being a parent is a bit of both. Rachel Cusk is too depressing and Gwyneth-type role models set all mothers up for depression if you start comparing yourself. I don't know why these articles are always so polarised.