[freedumb2003]

With small children, a "huge mortgage" and a nanny to pay for

In other words as a selfish self-absorbed person who has kids as social tools who is living beyond her means in a Mcmansion of some sort and now trying to buy the affection she from her kids because will not bestow it directly, she is willing to take a chance that her kids life will get worse down the road when the piper comes to call for his payment.

[riri]

who has kids as social tools

I love that statement. Never heard it but it so aptly applies to so many I know.

[Heatseeker]

You hit it right on the head. She should take a lower paying job if she has to, to get the hours to fit in with being a real mother. After dropping the nanny she might well come out ahead anyway.

But the important thing is that, years from now, this woman's children will not remember or care what she made and the toys she bought them - they'll remember whether she was being a real mom.

[ShadowDancer]

What sort of ridiculous assumption are you basing that on? Seriously. How in the hell do you presume she is selfish? On top of that, where is she bitching? You seem to be the only one doing that.