Ten kids and counting !

[LilyLoo]

Is this madness ?

Have you changed your name again bmwb ? That must have been terrible to watch yesterday hope we haven't said anything to offend you on this thread x

I don't really think the issue of older siblings parenting is an issue, I was the eldest of three & did a fair share of parenting!

There's a big difference looking after 12 siblings rather than just two.

wopps I know soooooooo many people on here and I didn't want people feeling sorry for me so I changed my name, but my DC were asking me for this and asking me for that I forgot to change it, oh well, kids "gota love em" LOL!

BTW you cant offend me as long as you dont feel sorry for her or me, LOL!

She lied she doesn't want anymore she just say's that to make for self look good or something(I dont know what gooes on in that head of her's), the only reason why she has so many is the fact she wanted a girl now she has that she doesn't care!

LOL lonelyone/ bmwb ! Guess the only thing that can positively come out of it is that it will make you be determined to be a great mum to your dc's

My DC want for nothing and I'm always there for them when ever they need me. I'm 20 week PG and everyone keeps asking are you going to be be like your mum really makes me cross, DH and I only want 3 and only can support 3 so thats all we are having end of .

I think the worrying thing about some of these parents (not all) is that their aim seems to be to repeat the baby/toddler experience, forgetting that this means that you also end up with 10 young adults/teenagers.

lonelyone, that poem was lovely. I thought so when it was read on the programme, and wondered where it had come from. You clearly have a gift for such things. I wrote a rather lovely (so I'm told, and I was quite pleased with the outcome) poem for my Aunt's funeral, but yours trumped mine!!

Also lonelyone, have to admit, when your Mum kept saying "oh I'd have another 10 if I could" I was thinking . I mean, seriously, who would want 20 children? It's madness. She isn't young enough for starters. Even some of the other parents on the prog wouldn't go that far!

Thanks MadamePlatypus the peom is really long that was just 4 or 5 lines but means so much to me, and my mother just to take a claim on it hurts but as long as she know deep down that none of the words are from her or even to her that enough for me Really I do mean it she doesnt want any more and if she falls PG it isn't/wasn't planned I can asure you, she use to cry for days when she had a boy, and she just use to ay I'll have better luck next time!

I know that it was not my family on this programme but i have to say i am finding it wuite hard not to take a few of these comments as affensive.

I know you are discussing the people shown in this programme but still!

Me personaly, I'm only discussing MY family and putting the lies stright!

Lonelyone, were you not approached by the film-makers at all? You would have thought they would perhaps want to tell the story from the side of the children, or I suppose your mum would have stopped it.

I don't want to pry but do you have any relationship with your siblings who are still at home? I am an only child, I spent my childhood aching for a sibling (just the one mind!) The relations between siblings has always been of curiousity for me and I like to think that you would all get on but know from experience of dh and friends that is not always the case.

I would love a large family but for me that means 4. But as we are not on benefits we can't afford that just now!

At the moment I dont have a relationship with my sibling my mother wont let me see them, my gran gets my sister which she bring to see me sometimes but thats it for the moment. My older brothers have moved from derby, I told my mother some home truth's last year and since then they dont talk to me as "I upset mother and no one does that" IYSWIM! What can I do?

no i hadn't meant you LOnelyone.

just some of the comments about large families being selfish and the children obviously not being cared for etc