Well I am clearly a BAD MOTHER judging from Oliver James's new book "How Not to F*** Them UP"! (Article in The Times, 22/5/10) I had time out for my preschool children, the equivalent of the naughty step which is apparently one of the three big no nos. I also had a strict sleep routine, another way to F*** them up apparently. I didn't put them in nursery, except for one morning a week. Does that count? Am I let off? I guess pleading that I would've gone mad without time out and sleep is futile!!?? I need sleep in order to function!! and the time out was more for me than for them.
I despair that the backlash against mothers claiming their needs, claiming their lives, claiming equal parenting responsibilities is back with a vengeance. Please please tell anyone who reads Oliver James's new book to read The Silent Female Scream. This is not a plug for my book, more a scream in the dark that is frustrated that too much media attention, visibility and credentials are given to the voices that think that its okay to tell mothers that they are the primary nurturers and that they still should judge themselves again the "Good Mother" test. Have we gone back to the 1960's?
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