More mummy knocking

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Did you read the India Knight article in the Sunday Times (not my paper - was reading parents in law's paper!)

Apparently it is totally indefensible to place your child in a Day Nursery (or with a nanny / childminder) when they are a baby. The magic age that it becomes acceptable according to the law unto Ms Knight, is 12 months old. Any mum farming out their children before that age is simply unfit to be a mother and shouldn't have procreated.

Also, since according to Ms Knight day care costs £60 per day (really ? - mine doesn't), any woman who can afford those sort of child care costs can afford to take a year's unpaid leave from work.

I spent about 2 minutes being upset and annoyed after reading this article, and then tried to dismiss it from my mind (not altogether successfully). I suppose there is an anti mum article (either knocking SAHMs or working mums) every week at the moment, because the media have got it into their heads that parenting is a very vogue and fashionable subject. Its getting mighty boring now though...

Isnt she divorced?

Also (and another thing!!!) she has a totally gratuitous go at Heather Mills for having an early c-section, saying it was probably for the sake of her 'figure'. Er, didn't she read the news that it was an 'emergency' c-section precisely because she had gone into labour and due to the extensive repair work Ms Mills had after her car crash, including putting metal plates in her pelvis, it was dangerous for her to give birth naturally. So in fact the baby wasn't early - it was absolutely term (and as ready to come out as it would ever be) and that c-section in her case was a vital life saver. And speaking as someone who had a vital, lifesaving c-section at 37 weeks, I would like to point out that my figure was comprehensively ruined (though of course, I will never be as hideous as Ms 'Bearded Lady' Knight, who knows everything.

read the article

and she smokes when pg! silly cow.

what is it with bloody Cath Kidston on this site?!!

The only good thing about India Knight is that as long as you don't agree with anything she says you can be pretty sure you're still in touch with the real world. She is the smug, self-centred relative that nobody wants to sit next to at weddings. I never read her anymore.

and very porcine

What a silly cow. She just hasn't a clue - I mean, I would love to stay home and play house and look after my baby and bake scones but I simply can't afford to. Anyway, someone who is happy to smoke when pregnant and tell everyone about it too is obviously a grade A nobhead. By the way Dadslib, where do you live? I am in Sth Manchester too.

AAargh, I'm so furious.... Childcare costs £60 a day so these women are hardly on the breadline, but, you dozy cow, the £60 is out of their WAGES -you know, the stuff they earn AT WORK. It's not just money they have drifting down from the money tree in the garden of their rambling Gloucestershire farmhouse, where they stay when they aren't in their 6 bedroomed London home (a la moneybags Knight). And the rest of the money they earn AT WORK goes to pay the mortgage and the food bills. Because if they didn't go to work they might well be unable to pay for any of it. Is that really so hard for anyone to understand. Even someone that dim?

I too read her book and it made me laugh like a drain...because the heroine was so clearly how she sees herself, as a voluptous, gorgeous, sophisticated vamp, who can cop off with a ballet dancer. The scenes in which she puts on a Ghost dress and high heels and no man can take her eyes of her just made me titter. And believe me, heterosexual male ballet dancers are the worst body fascists there are - they always date and marry other ballet dancers. They would not be very interested in her.

I've just managed to read the article and it's the sort of poorly reasoned, badly written cr*p that I'd be ashamed if my 16 y.o. dd wrote in an essay at school. I'm just glad I didn't actually pay money to buy the Sunday Times.

KS - - that was was meant to be the big grin but I always get those wrong

Dahlia I have been trying to find out what happened to you about tesco

STOP READING THE SUNDAY PAPERS! They are all evil.

Sorry, had to get that off my chest

I used to be friends with India Knight at university She was thin then and nearly couldn't graduate as she owed money all over town.

Enid,

What did you think of her then as a person?

She was nice actually. She was very sweet, kind and friendly - believe it or not. She was also very glamorous and rather cool.

I just loved that review in the Observer - so clearly written by someone who also thinks she's an idiot! I mean, to suggest you go read the best bits of her book (even giving you the page numbers!) in Waterstones it a bit of a classic in a review...

I love this thread and all the bitchiness
I read the article yesterday and thought 'there's gonna be a nice thread on MN tomorrow' haha I am psychic!! Was also a SAHM until recently (working part-time now), and really can't see why 'journalists' keep writing this rubbish trying to antagonise SAHMs and working mums. I know, they're only trying to sell papers, but they really must think we're stupid. as far as I can see, most 'real' mums accept that we're all free to decide what's best for us and our family as regards working, and understand that some mums want to work, others don't want to but have to, and others would rather stay at home. Doh....

Oh, I don't mind, I don't see her these days anyway. Anyway, she's not daft and I am sure she knows that these articles will polarise people, so fair play to her critics. I have to say though I quite enjoyed her first book. Haven't bothered with any of her others though

And anyone who writes for the Sunday Times is fair game in my book

No, she writes YummyMummyLit featuring glamorous and chaotic heroines negotiating the travails of life, hilarity of playgroups where it's suggested other children might be black or have special needs, being fancied by unsuitable blokes, etc etc...

motherinferior lol

If we were to take her argument to its logical conclusion and have all mothers take their kids out of nursery and stay at home, probably struggling desparately for cash, she'd be working overtime with her bleedin' handin' out of lipsticks to mothers pusing prams - cos I for one don't have the time nor the money for expenisive lip plumping products. Like someone said before, the woman, quite simply is an arse...................

I think India Knight should send her child to nursery straight away. Imagine the horror of being stuck in the house with India all day.....No, the poor child needs to get out!