The Beta mums' backlash against Alpha women
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/femail/article.html?in_article_id=458563&in_page_id=1879&in_page_id=1879
This is such a middle class, privileged article it makes my hair stand on end, not all parents have the luxury of not worrying “about their [child’s] future career prospects.”
Many of us mothers know to well what it means to not have choices in education and so not have choices later on in life. We don’t all live in places were the state provides education options, we can’t all move to France either! Working for so many mothers is not a nicety but a necessity.
Often a life dogged with guilt always trying to catch with one deadline or the other,
Fortunately I have bright kids who love me just the way I am. Our life is fast we, are on the move most weekends and during the weeks I get home as soon as I can to make sure we eat and get time with together before bed.
My children read at four, I was happy to encourage this, as it added to their sense of the world it didn’t take anything away. Children are bombarded with information as soon as they start school/nursery. I was not content to just leave it to “the World” to educate them. They now have my love of reading and it has increased their thirst for more, they have incredible imaginations. They make mud pies, get messy and get told off when they paint on the furniture!
I have great expectations for my child, not for me, but for them to have the chance to make their dreams come true, good education opens doors to possibility, so many state schools bullied by government deadlines don’t provide children with opportunities they just make them jump hoops. I don’t want that for my girls and so I will carry several Blackberrys if that is what it takes, to give my kids opportunities to have the education that would be denied them if they went to the local com. These labels are not useful and have a feeling they are invented by journalists who have gone through good schools and have no idea of what is happening in the real world.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/femail/article.html?in_article_id=458563&in_page_id=1879&in_page_id=1879
This is such a middle class, privileged article it makes my hair stand on end, not all parents have the luxury of not worrying “about their [child’s] future career prospects.”
Many of us mothers know to well what it means to not have choices in education and so not have choices later on in life. We don’t all live in places were the state provides education options, we can’t all move to France either! Working for so many mothers is not a nicety but a necessity.
Often a life dogged with guilt always trying to catch with one deadline or the other,
Fortunately I have bright kids who love me just the way I am. Our life is fast we, are on the move most weekends and during the weeks I get home as soon as I can to make sure we eat and get time with together before bed.
My children read at four, I was happy to encourage this, as it added to their sense of the world it didn’t take anything away. Children are bombarded with information as soon as they start school/nursery. I was not content to just leave it to “the World” to educate them. They now have my love of reading and it has increased their thirst for more, they have incredible imaginations. They make mud pies, get messy and get told off when they paint on the furniture!
I have great expectations for my child, not for me, but for them to have the chance to make their dreams come true, good education opens doors to possibility, so many state schools bullied by government deadlines don’t provide children with opportunities they just make them jump hoops. I don’t want that for my girls and so I will carry several Blackberrys if that is what it takes, to give my kids opportunities to have the education that would be denied them if they went to the local com. These labels are not useful and have a feeling they are invented by journalists who have gone through good schools and have no idea of what is happening in the real world.
posted by Facety at 2:14 pm
1 Comments:
I must be an Omega mum because those two types are social ephemera, reactions to the equally superficial notion of government and society.
I am one of those who know it takes a village...community as all further levels or scales are inappropriate scales of 'enforcement'.
Ta Da!!
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