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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[tiggsybabes.livejournal.com]

My daughter's best friend has 2 working parents & used to go to an all day nursery & now goe sto breakfast club & an after school club. It is besides the point that her mother does all the school runs & takes her to activities & is on the PTFA committee & he dad takes no part in any of this, even though both parents work the same house.

Part of my point is that this child eats better & healthier than Kate, which I think is down to being presented with meals in nursery which she ate or went without. Kate has the opportunity to eat better than she does, but doesn't take it. I hope it's a phase & she'll grow out of it :(