"It's almost like your family isn't complete unless you have more that one..." Imogen Edwards-Jones comments in the ES

[CrushWithEyeliner]

She goes on to say; "You're playing at being Mummy you've dipped your toe in the water but haven't really plunged in and embraced the total chaos of parenthood".

I just find comments like this attribute the the negative assumptions associated with and broadcast about one child families. Her quote really sums up every myth and stereotype about Parents who have one child. It makes me so that she infers that we are not Mothers in the true sense somehow, or that we haven't "embraced chaos" - er she should have led my life for the last 2 yrs .

By all means if you desire another go for it but please don't put your negative shi* on me, I don't feel it - I am so happy with my life and Family and feel utterly complete thank you.

rant over!

She doesn't even sound like she likes the one she has got.
Hope it all works out for her.
Pfffft.

I really didn't read it like the OP did .. I also read it as her expression (maybe badly phrased) of her own feelings. And plenty of people feel incomplete without a child, or two, or three, or ten, whatever. It doesn't mean they are judging those who are happy with their status quo.

Sensitive, much?

Soup - that's what I think/said

"I E-J is immensely tiresome... I was at University at the same time as her and she was already intensely self-obsessed and totally unaware of anyone else... "

she's not an only child, is she?

She has a sister who followed her to the same university... I don't know about any more siblings!

I've just realised whe she is, doesn't she write that chick-lit-tripe, Babylon bollocks stuff

oh, so you can be self-obsessed and NOT be an only, amazing that

i think its a bit insensitive, esp her comment about only children being spoilt and precocious [yawn]

its lazy and not particularly insightful writing

i AM , however, particularly impressed that she managed to get pg "on her own". Now that would have made a much more interesting article

LOL Kristina
And Yappy you are indeedy right - Babylon Bollocks is by her own fair hand

While it might be her own opinion it is such trite bland assumptive stuff that tars us all with her own feathery brush....

She needs a slap. How dare she suggest that you have not experienced mothrehood until you have more than one!