Woman in the paper who leaves her 4 young kids all week

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while she works away from home. And normally I'd think fair enough, role reversal, etc - no reason why hubby can't look after them. But her hubby is the other side of the world working.

So she writes this article going on about her style of "parenting" is the way forward. She has triplets who are 23months and a toddler - leaves them with a nanny and sees them on a Sunday and Monday.

She does say that they don't seem to regard her as their mother, but think the nanny is their mum instead. No shit! Must admit I was a bit

I just couldn't do it, sorry. No job is that important. What are those poor kids going to think when they grow up?

Am I very old fashioned?

I find it strange that you would choose to have children and then both of you are quite happy to go off and leave them for the most of the time.

I didn't like her comment about not being a "chavvy" family who go off and leave their kids whilst they are on holiday. I felt she was saying it's fine to judge someone who is living in a council house but you can't judge me because I'm middle class and live in a leafy north london avenue.

Agree nogoes. It's like when the politician go on about single parent families without remembering some of them have created single parent families through adultery!

Agree re. the chavvy comment, nogoes.

My sister used to nanny four children, including twins and one with SN, for an air hostess who was a single mother. Obv. with that kind of job, she was away a lot so my sister would be there day and night for several days on the trot. Always thought it was odd, tbh, but woudn't have judged as such. Until the day air hostess came back from a transatlantic flight and my sister asked her 'so, what did you get for xx's birthday tomorrow?' Turned out she had completely forgotten her own little boy's birthday - and he was old enough to notice! No party, no present...

i would forgive her though if she was my mum. i can only imagine how run of her feet she must have been. poor woman