How farkin busy are you really when you can't take your kids to be measured for shoes?

[OliveIsSoNotHereAndOnABreak]

link here for nursery that 'helps busy parents with all chores'

ffs

they take in your dry cleaning and have hairdressers etc

sort yourselves out people, how busy can you really be?????

I just like shopping!

I don't think it's about sahm vs wohm, not at all. I think it's about whether you think these are tasks that a mother (assume it's mothers who are being criticised here rather than fathers, as per usual) OUGHT to do or whether you think it's ok to farm out and pay for some of the bits of having children that YOU find boring.

Isn't it? And the ones criticising this service think it should be a parent doing it, I assume. So can I ask why? Why sohuld a parent do these things?

I just thibnk that you might be interested enough to know what size shoe your child takes (going back to my cousin)

Well, you will know, when they arrive home with their new shoes?

she probably wouldn't be arsed to look at the box

fark .. have just realised I'm going to have to drag DS, his friend and DD to shoe shop to get him measured for new trainers cos he's on sport day tomorrow

oh farkin' nora blinkin' bollocks .. hate shoe shops

[wonders if 60-odd yrs ago people had this debate re washing machines vs handwashing etc ]

Buying the shoes isn't the problem. But it would be a blessing to avoid the 20 minute wait in a crowded shoe shop at a weekend (if that is the only day to go) for measuring.

I think it's a great idea. Some people have plenty of money, but not enough time to do these time consuming chores. With their time freed up at the weekend, they can enjoy their children more.

okay, so I am in a minority of one then

well I think if you are a parent, you should do the fun things as well as the 'boring' things and not farm them out

what is rubbish to you is fun for children (supermarkets for one, far quicker on my own but my two love 'helping' so they come too)

This was one of my business ideas- mobile shoe fitting service- particularly for special schools (and old folks homes- nurseries would be good too though!). DS1's school has a hairdresser that goes in every 6 weeks- would love shoes to be done at school there as well. He has a lot of his medical apppointments there as well, and it makes life considerably easier.

Not busyness in our case but it does take 3 adults to get ds1's shoes fitted. 2 to take him to the fitting, 1 to look after ds2 and ds3.

It would be a fantastic service for SN kids, to be sure.

Aaaah, so it's about martydom is it then Olive?

Children don't much like shoe shopping either do they? Mine don't anmyway. I'd do all the boring things online if I could. As it is I do the following online:
tax my car
buy postage
buy books
buy groceries
found a school for ds (OK, we did look around but all research online)
find a nursery for dd (ditto)
find a job
find a house to rent
make friends and get parenting advice

lol MrsBadger

I even found a company who would come to my office, collect my car keys, take my car and MOT it and bring it back again when they'd finished. I all for cutting as many corners as possible and freeing up time to do nice things.

I think it sounds fab. Like having a nanny wothout being an employer. When I used a childminder the absolute worst part was packin gup the bag in the morning and unpacking it in the evening.

I have a nanny and I did send her off to get the school uniform. However, I said I would get the shoes because I'm finicky and I want to pick them.

A friend's sister (who owns a Clarke's shop) used to come to our house to fit ds1, but I began to feel guilty because she didn;t charge any extra for it, so now I book it in with one of my direct payments girls and we leave dh with ds2 and ds3 and take ds1 in together. It's still a nightmare though; last time he was grabbing the display stuff and pulling it off the shelf and he always tries to run into the stock room. Gives the other mothers something to gawp at, but I would pay to avoid it.

How farkin busy are you really when you can't bake your kid's birthday cake?

I consider it a pleasure to make and decorate my LO's birthday cakes, but other people find it a chore and very stressful.

Even I sank to the depths of indolent depravity and bought dd a ready-made cake for her last birthday because I was too busy with a new baby. She didn't mind!

I have bought cakes

and then dd1 said she wanted to make one for her 3rd

we made one, it looked like it had fallen from a high building and then been sat on

we went back to M&S next time

I usually don't have time to take dd to get shoes. Last time my parents took her. I work all day Saturdays, the only shoe shops open on Sundays near to me are rubbish. Besides, Sundays are for lazing around the house, playing in the garden, spending time with the children having fun, visiting family etc.

She gets her hair cut because my Dad takes her, I struggle to find time to get mine done.

The guests to my birthday parties would much rather eat a shop bought cake then being made to eat my attempt at a birthday cake

One of the women interviewed in the Times yesterday said it was good because she could post her letters there and meant they didn't sit at the bottom of her handbag.

Obviously the act of putting letters in a post box is just too much for her. Poor love.

oh yes Tooty, that mad me howl with laughter

ffs

I am going to do some work now, adios

x

i think its a great idea - not exactly my idea of fun - and if it frees up time for me to be with my child whats the problem. g reat business idea

i think something along the lines of someone who'll bring round to your house:

pullups
good quality takeaway food
heat magazine
bottle of cava
the two pints of organic milk you forgot to buy
nit treatment
tampons

(for a small premium)

would be a good business idea, and there'd be a deluge around 7.30pm in norf London (when the other half is out at the friggin opera and you can't leave the house cos the kids are in bed)