Exactly! Set an alarm on your phone and then tell your kids to get up when you get out of bed. It’s like she’s lives her life via a book of cliches…. Toddler mum- forced to get up at crack of Dawn alone and in the dark- tick. Next chapter…. Teenager (two years too early but she loves to live life either years into the future or decades in the past)- can’t rise them from their pits for love nor money- tick. She’s so bleeping basic.
two years too early - but not by babs' calculations, as her grasp of age and basic mathematics means that erin is "almost" 14 - clarifying that to babs, the term "almost" refers to
years, just as "a handful" refers to
hundreds!
as for the alarm clock bullshit, which is at the vert least painfully over dramatic and exaggerated - but likely a total fabrication - i swear she is simply asking people for "tween" tips as an excuse to go out and buy more crap - as though her daily tat haul is no longer sufficient to satisfy her urge to spend. she's now bought an alarm clock - and bragged that it cost £8, just like the specific school purse she bough for erin - a bin and a washing basket. the way she has described the alarm clock, with the kids rushing out of their bedrooms in distress and shouting "mummy" - it sounds as though the clock is left in the hall. just adjust the
bleeping volume and put it next to erin's bed, whether she wants it set to the radio or a standard alarm is her choice, and allow her to get the
duck on with it. overlooking the fact that it's all babsshit that she has INVENTED for content, it's entirely unrelatable, as any other eleven year old is perfectly capable of hitting the snooze button on a clock and getting themselves ready for school - and the last thing erin needs is further ammunition for school bullies, mocking her for crying and calling for her mummy because she was scared of her alarm.
buying an alarm clock was totally unnecessary and wasteful, as we know erin has a mobile phone and could simply use the alarm on that. plus she didn't buy her a clock to encourage erin to become more independent - it was simply because lugging herself out of bed to wake erin up an hour earlier than their previous routine is too much effort for lazy babs, despite being awake since 5.30am,because she wants to focus all her attention on filming gurning stories for SM. the way she is fabricating content out of this whole alarm clock thing is only resulting in making her children out to be total idiots.
and as for buying a bin for erin's room - for a start, we have seen babs bash her way into erin's room on multiple occasions, and i have never spotted food wrappers or apple cores. or any type of rubbish strewn across the floor. equally, it was only last week she was debating banning the kids from being allowed to take drinks upstairs because they weren't returning the cups back downstairs - hardly surprising when they're not even expected to take responsibility for hanging their own coats or trusted to getting a clean pair of socks out in the morning - so i doubt the toddlers are permitted to eat snacks in their bedrooms, as presumably there would be yoghurty handprints smeared all over the walls and crumbs all over the carpet. she is simply jumping on any possible stereotypical teen behaviour she can think of, to correlate with erin staring "big school" as though doing to has turned her into a typical teen overnight, and she is now refusing to get up/leaving her bedroom mess etc etc. just wait - in a few days, she'll will be talking about how erin is moody, challenging the rules, slammigg doors, backchatting, playing loud music etc etc - every stereotypical teen behaviour that babs will be mentioning and ticking off her list. so
bleeping predictable.
