Alpha Moms?? No thank you!

[Earlybird]

I just read this article from an American magazine, and thought I'd share it with the board. It's appalling parenting IMO, and I'm astounded that they think it's something to boast about!

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She looks like Posh Beckham, luna. That same skeletal face that's absolutely shocking when it smiles.

I think you'll find that many Americans will think it's admirable that someone has figured out the "formula" for having it all. These sorts of people take themselves very seriously, and in my reading, are being held up as an example for other high achieving parents.

do the baby while she was at it???

something they dedicated time in their schedules for???

God, they are real heroes, aren't they - just the right kind of people to be parents. FFS.

Honestly, they ought to make Halloween costumes out of some of these gals faces! No wonder all those companies spend ages developing good slap - not that it would help these pitiful mugs.

is it ironic or up its own asre
if i had to guess i would say the latter

She was in my class in Uni.

I was accidentally placed in remedial English due to a bureaucratic error. (I was removed.) She was in remedial English FOR REAL which shows that you don't have to be particularly literate to be one of these high powered financial people on Wall Street who then go on to start TV networks. (Yeah, sour grapes.)

Very, very driven, fierce person. Incredibly, scarily energetic. Was a dancer back then, I think--danced in MTV videos.

Read that article when I was in NYC. Everyone was talking about it/puking. Bossykate's right: the tone of the article is pretty unforgiving. I agree with you, expatinscotland, but luckily I don't know anyone in Americabesides her and I don't really "know* herwho is into that alpha stuff. New York Magazine famously gets its readership by playing on insecurity; they just LOVE running articles like this that make the rest of us feel like we haven't achieved quite enough, etc. There's consensus among a lot of NYorkers that articles like these don't really represent reality.

yep expat she sure aint purdy......

Spot on, Early. I used to get into heaps of trouble for playing practical jokes on folks back there. I mean, days of effort planning these things. All for it to be wasted on po-faced saddos.

Tell me about it, expatkat! My former BIL married the daughter of a ChaseManhattan higher up. We got to meet all her 'friends' at a party. When it came to jobs, it was all who they knew, not their talent. And I tell ya, I don't think the ugly tree had any branches left on it once they all hit the ground .

PMSL @ EIS!

think often the highest earners arent the most academic
same in britain -on that national iq quiz the highest iq's were the lowest earners and thee lowest iq's the highest
made me feel better about being constantly skint!!

I must be pretty damned smart.

mmm me too being a slacker has to be the wisest career decision i ever made
cause i love being a sahm-compared to slackville its so stimulating lol

Have they heard of ADD, b/c Isabel sounds like she could use some Ritalin. Actually, a lot of Ritalin.

I went out w/a man like her. He was very 'driven' in the eyes of most Americans. To me he was bouncing off the walls and if I'd had a child like him I would despair of life.

He drove me round the twist w/his 'energy' and was very shocked when I left him b/c he was too hyper for me.

I thought about writing 'slacker' on my tax return the year I was made redundant and worked the swing shift at 7-11 on the corner of Pearl and 13th Street in Denver's Capitol Hill - which was, incidentally, the most exciting and entertaining job I ever had.

She's the self-actualised woman! She is!

Agree with whoever said that was a very sarcastic article.

Earlybird, do you really think people will look up to her? I mean, ordinary people, who aren't pathologically driven? - I don't really mind if the aggressive ambitious compulsive ones are given something else to stress about, but, you know, normal Americans?

Well perhaps they'll get their comeuppance when little Prince Ryland starts hanging out with the wrong crowd in his teens after all those years of overstimulation and ubercontrol from Mommy Dearest...

Binkie
No, I don't think many look up to her. For one, they'd turn to stone . But I was never a 'normal' American.

bk, I only skimmed page 1 and extracted that she was setting up Alpha mom tv, will read the rest now!

pmsl at her 'village'! Still reading...

i only got to the third page. how sad fir that poor little boy. the woman is a control freak, def not an alpha mum.

i only got to the third page. how sad fir that poor little boy. the woman is a control freak, def not an alpha mum.

and at "Vicky divulged that she and Isabel have even invented a term ?to refer to our eventual world dominance??AlphaMOMnimedia."!

'how sad fir that poor little boy.'

Indeed, Kelly. Imagine going through life with a name like 'Ryland'? Sounds too much like Rhineland and makes me think of Gewurtztraminer and Riesling .

I don't think she comes out of it well, either, no. It's hilarious stuff though.