Working Mothers

[ailbhe]

Those researchers, who said that the children of mothers who work outside the home (that is, most mothers) do less exercise, watch more telly, and eat more junk food than the children of un-paid mothers?

They were SO not in my house today. I outslobbed any nanny-using filofax-waving checkout-clerking mother reliant on paid childcare (availability currently under threat in the UK, by the way) and did almost nothing from The Big Book Of Halcyon 'Fifties Mothering.

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[sidheag.livejournal.com]

Lol - whereas my kid cycles 6 miles every day (plus school games plus playing at the playground after school almost every day), we don't have a telly, and. Err. Well, OK, we did have Chinese takeaway last night and we will go out for pizza tomorrow. Two out of three isn't bad surely :-)

Frustratingly, I have no difficulty in believing that what they found is true on average, as claimed (we're very lucky in the kind of full-time work we both have) but I have great difficulty in working out what could systematically be done about it. I'm running on empty, despite having this nice flexible job and a fantastic DH also with a nice flexible job and enough money and only one kid and... Yet I can't find time and more importantly energy to cook from scratch every day, for example. So it's hardly surprising that many mothers with more difficult situations can't.