What do you think about "not doing anything" when children are at school/nursery?

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My daughter's peers are starting nurseries ... and I'm finding myself really SHOCKED at the fact that my mummy-friends aren't doing anything with their time while their children are out of the home. I asked a friend last week what she did and she said "Oh I just get home, tidy up a bit, have a coffee - and then I have to pick him up again!"

As I work from home there is ALWAYS some work I can do. I also do voluntary work and could always do with more time to get stuff done.

I also don't understand why their partners are happy with them just taking 'mornings off' to themselves - aren't they a bit miffed?

I'm probably just jealous but I can't help but think that they are just plain lazy! What do other people feel about this?!

PF- I'll never be able to use my education to the full as I have a severely diasbled child. Holiday childcare is not available for children like him. I don't see caring for him (or my other 2 children) as wasting an education. As I already said people do a mix of what they want to do and what they have to do. Simple. And no one else's business.

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what's wrong with being barefoot?? (or pregnant come to that!)

I work hard. But in my free timeI like to be bare foot and pregnant in the kitchen.

Feminism ripped us all off anyway.

How so? I may be a wage slave. But at least the goddam money is my own, and I don't have to wheedle it out of a D (or not so D) H.

And an educated mum is the greatest boon to a childs education (saw it on BBC - it must be write). That is not a waste of an education.

You don't really think that do you PF, you're just all fired up.

ha ha, how educated am I !! degree and masters and can't spell write !!

It must be "write".

You beat me to it.

people who make money their god are usually missing the point

'our' money is 'ours' we both do equal, whether i am in paid employment or not. Its not a difficult concept to grasp

bloody hell
how did i miss this

Not that difficult to grasp Fio- how it works in this house as well. Is PollyFiller for real? Is she a journo (just going from earlier comments?)

too busy lounging around on the sofa no doubt popsycal, barefoot even but hopefully not pregnant

but so braindead I misread fio's post (I'm agreeing with her anyway)

I'm so lazy I don't even have to pick up my son from school- he gets delivered in a taxi. Got to go and stand in my front rooom now and look for him......

i would never live with a person who doled out money, anyway, male or female.

as it is i am the sole wage earner in our family, but it is entirely OUR money. goes into our joint account. DH has his own bankcard, credit cards, etc.

I need shoes though- have to open my front door to get him....

yes the escort isnt paid to bring them to the door

I know - appparently they did until last year, but I have to heave myself off the sofa now..... (no-one would be paid enough to tolerate ds1's coming in the door routine anyway- he has to sniff every car in the street)

Look, come on you lot, nobody could ever accuse the special needs mums of being in morningpaper's category of "just plain lazy".

So make way for some lazy old moos that I can wind up, please .

pmsl jimjams

Oh I dunno, I reckon SN mums are just as lazy. They just get less opportunity to be lazy.

I think PollyFilla's definition of feminism is precisely what made it seem so unattractive to the majority of women.

My definition of feminism is to give women equal respect as men. All women, wherever they work (or take their breaks).

I'm going to start a thread about how shocked I am at my Working Mother friends going out and not spending their time looking after the house and children. It's so selfish! They sometimes get to read the paper on the train and have a lunch break! How selfish can you get??!

But I won't for several reasons. Can you imagine the response? The "how dare you say I neglect my house and children blah de blah de blah". And besides, it's a load of b@ll*x.

Ans, MP, if you';d said 'Hello ladies, what do you do all day?' it may have been dull but at least it wouldn't have been so insulting, judgemental and downright rude.