Posted on 07/26/2006 7:17:10 AM PDT by carlo3b
Sorry, but my children bore me to death!
by HELEN KIRWAN-TAYLOLR, Daily Mail 08:00am 26th July 2006It's the start of the summer holidays, when millions of mothers despair at how to entertain their children for the next six weeks. What none of them dare say is that they would rather their children were still at school or, frankly, anywhere else. Helen Kirwan-Taylor, a 42-year-old writer, lives in Notting Hill, West London, with her businessman husband Charles and their sons Constantin, 12, and Ivan, ten. Here, she argues provocatively that modern women must not be enslaved by their children.
The lies started when my eldest son was less than ten months old.
Invitations to attend a child's birthday party or, worse, a singalong session were met with the same refrain: 'I would love to but I just can't spare the time.'
The nanny was dispatched in my place, and almost always returned complaining that my son had been singled out for pitiful stares by the other mothers.
(snip) Kids are supposed to be fulfilling, life-changing, life-enhancing fun: why was my attitude towards them so different?While all my girlfriends were dropping important careers and occupying their afternoons with cake baking, I was begging the nanny to stay on, at least until she had read my two a bedtime story. What kind of mother hates reading bedtime stories? A bad mother, that's who, and a mother who is bored rigid by her children.
(snip) Am I a lazy, superficial person because I don't enjoy packing up their sports kit, or making their lunch, or sitting through coffee mornings with other mothers discussing how Mr Science (I can't remember most of the teachers' names) said such and such to Little Johnny and should we all complain to the headmaster.
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And cooking for one can be uneconomical. Now, if she shares a house with some like-minded girls, it could work. But I think freshmen and maybe sophomores are required to live on campus.
I feel sorry for them. They don't know what they're missing. There is no greater reward than to raise children.
Her kids probably adore her (/sarcasm).
She has no love for her children, it is obvious. How can you not enjoy reading to your kids? Things like that are what make life worth living!
What is she doing instead that's so important?
Well, I hope she doesn't replace that nanny because that's their real mother.
Poor children.. I wonder if she tells them how she really feels about them. One day they'll read what she wrote.
I added a comment to the article.
We have those books too.
Did you read the article? What a crazy, selfish, narcissistic woman.
They need to sew up her love canal so that nothing can be produced there ever again.
She is also a Brit, and more British parents than you would care to believe think as she thinks.
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