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erm WHY OH WHY OH WHY do workign mums think htat

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cod · 21/02/2006 14:19

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nailpolish · 21/02/2006 15:07

dd gets very upset when i refuse to let her chop mushrooms with the enormous carving knife to add to the cake mixture

harpsichordcarrier · 21/02/2006 15:09

I don't mind the baking
I find crayoning quite relaxing
when dd1 asks to paint I try and persuade to wait till we get to my friend's house
my mate must think it's very strange that the minute she answers the door dd1 asks to do painting

Marina · 21/02/2006 15:11

I thought I had the only small mushroom fetishist in Britain np. If dd did all the cooking we'd have pastas! with bacons! and mushrooms! every night...does yours even want mushrooms on her icecream by any chance...

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Bugsy2 · 21/02/2006 15:13

Thanks Wordsmith! Was thinking the very same thing.

nailpolish · 21/02/2006 15:15

i think it all began when she was very small - mushrooms were the only thing she could really chop on her own with a small blunt plastic knife - so when i am doing something dodgy (like raw chicken or whatever) and she asks to help and i say its not a good idea - she wails "but i can do the mushrooms!"

her idea of heaven is mushroom soup and the enormous bags she gets to chop. she will sit and pick all the bits of mud off for hours on end

Cappucino · 21/02/2006 15:18

harpsichordcarrier pmsl
perhaps it's just me trying to be too neat that makes it such a trial for us... one day a couple of years ago I answered the phone while painting and while I wasn't looking she put her blue paintbrush into the yellow paint and discovered it made green... if I had been looking I'd have said 'stop getting all the paints mixed up and messy' and denied her that wonderful learning opportunity....

Flamesparrow · 21/02/2006 15:24

DD has only made cakes about 3 times, but she makes me look soooo much better - she has little shape sorting egg things, and she keeps cracking them into a pot and mixing lots telling people she is baking cakes... makes it look like we spend all our time baking

I like the mushroom plan... she always wants to "help yooooooooooooooooooooou" but never can - mushrooms she can do.

Kif · 21/02/2006 15:38

I love cooking with my Dd...

the imaginative paprika and curry fairy cakes..

.. the revolutionary 'no cook' pancakes that she spreads over the worksurface.

... crunchy eggshell omelettes

... one spoon for the tummy one spoon for the cake school of ingredients.

She loves it, of course... I just like to have a sandwich first, so that I 'manage my expectations' of eating anything ant the end of the process.

foxinsocks · 21/02/2006 16:21

aha, craft I don't do with them, cooking I love

they too are mushroom fanatics (I think, like np, because I let them cut them up!) but would rather cook cakes and biscuits

Beetroot · 21/02/2006 16:23

oh it is so wonderful that they are all at schol and I don't have to pretend toenjoy crafty thibgs.

still have to watch made oup plays though which is often a chore

Mascaraohara · 21/02/2006 16:26

erm might already have been said but not all of us working mums think that. When I was on mat leave all I did was socialise - generally involving lunches/brunches/cream cakes and coffee. Oh and a lot of shopping.

I thought that's what all SAHMs did.. or at least did before they found MN.

bourneville · 21/02/2006 16:30

Socialise? How do you manage to socialise when everyone else is at work? (oh unless your friends are all SAHMs too of course).
we socialise with my nanny friend but most of the time is spent telling the kids off!

fwiw i feel bad all the time cos dd doesn't have enough crafts in her life. I think cos my mum always gives the impression she did tons of stuff like that with us at home, I'm sure it's a lie.

me and dd spend most of our 1-1 time reading books & doing jigsaw puzzles. Much less stressful!

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cod · 21/02/2006 18:05

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bourneville · 21/02/2006 18:21

There's plenty of opportunities for your kids to get crafty, I take dd to a library stay & play session where they make things, and there's play doh at the parents & toddlers group.
We do do painting at home sometimes though, when she insists!

iota · 21/02/2006 18:24

runi be a SAHM and send the kids to nursery to do craft - -thats what i do

iota · 21/02/2006 18:24

runi? Pruni

Tortington · 21/02/2006 18:29

i employ someone to do that kind of thing for me. a 'craft' nanny.. you mean you havent?

iota · 21/02/2006 18:30

is she 'live-in' custardo?

Tortington · 21/02/2006 18:32

of course - who wouldn't have a live in one? for god sake children need access to crafts more often than poor parents give them credit for.

Blackduck · 21/02/2006 18:32

I'm a working parent and I don't think SAH parents do crafts all the time (if at all....)- don't think they do coffee mornings all the time either...
Bit of a generalisation really don't you think

iota · 21/02/2006 18:33

I am an inadequate mother - I can only afford 2 days a week at nursery for ds2 to do craft

fruitful · 21/02/2006 18:46

Well, dd (3.5) does craft and playdoh all the time, but I don't do it with her. She does "cutting and sticking" every other day at least. My involvement is to pour some pva glue in the glue bowl and get the scissors down. And sweep up later, although dd does most of that too.

And playdoh - I open the tubs. She likes colouring and stickers and chalking too - more non-mummy things.

DH on the other hand, does crafts. We have some v strange robot-monsters made out of plastic milk bottles and pipecleaners, gracing the top of our tv at the moment. (and he did let dd help)

Tortington · 21/02/2006 18:55

sahp have nowt else to do have they ? why cant you make soem play doh or ake a cake for gods sake stop complaining.

PeachyClair · 21/02/2006 18:55

And why do all the sahm think I am an evil lave-my-kids woman coz I am a Student (like, 12 hours a week, the rest I do after bedtime) but the WOHM think I am a lazy bovine saham (quoting from a thread obv! SAHM are kiddy slaves ime of doing it).

No group will accept me

So I just sit here and do crafts instead, purely to annoy Cod you understand (Haven't seen you on the crafts bit for a while Cod, going cold turkey are we? hence the denial I guess ).