working mums, what sort of shitty comments have people have made to you, about the fact you work

[roboass]

as i just had, abit of a run in with someone that made me feel like im a partime mum and not there for my baby.how do you cope with the variuos comments made to you.
i was also told by someone i work with, i don't know why people have kids if they don't want to bring them up.
and as my job isn't that great and its someone i work with i couldn't even give it all the bravado of oh well i enjoy my job blah blah,because none of us that work at my place like it or love it.

do you think,to others [that you do not work with]its best to put on a confident front?

lol

like your approach Jane68

When I was pregnant, just before I went on maternity leave, I was briefing a team of women in their fifties. They'd all returned to work after their children had grown up and had been telling how difficult it had been to get a job.

They then spent 10 minutes discussing how it was a real shame that I was planning to return to work full-time and how they'd loved being at home with their little ones.

None of them saw the irony. The way I dealt with was to be incredulous at the question and saw something like "of course, yes, I am coming back to work! Doesn't everybody?"