Just watched her vlog. What a load of shite she's packed as snack bags. All sugar sugar sugar! No cereal bars, chopped apples or veggies. They're all heading for Type 2 and fillings, that's for sure.
And saying that the kids needs sweets as they're bereaved. What a way to start an unhealthy relationship with food; comfort eating.
not to babfend, - because i totally agree that teaching the kids to comfort themselves with food, and relying on sugary snacks to feel better, is a damaging coping mechanism, and definitely places them at risk of developing an unhealthy relationship with food - the reason she believes that a bereavement means the kids "need" sweets is because she is so emotionally stunted herself, that she relies on sugar, alcohol and the distractions of TV and tat buying to comfort herself when she's feeling "wobbly" or "anxious" or any other emotion that she finds uncomfortable. she has never learnt healthy ways of dealing with her emotions, thus she manages them by distracting herself - so she never has to actually deal with them - and shoves them down deep inside herself, buried underneath endless layers of sugar and alcohol and beige snacks, so that they are locked away and she doesn't have to process them. she seems perfectly capable of expressing her feelings of anger and frustration and rage - albeit not in a healthy way - yet any emotions that fall under her arching category of "wobbliness", she immediately resorts to her usual strategy of comfort foods and her tat spending addition, while seeking validation from her online "friends" with reahased pity posts.
i imagine she was SHOOKETH that she took the kids to disney and their grief wasn't immediately resolved and forgotten about due to the distraction, and the endless bags of sugary snacks she kept shoving in their hands. because for babs, that would have been the solution. if she even a scrap of empathy, she could have seen in her kids faces that they were not distracted or comforted by being dragged around the parks at disney, forced to pose for photos with teens in costumes and having sugar shoved in their hands every time they looked sad or attempted to express how they were feeling, because babs has the emotional capacity of a 🪜, thus she assumes that what works for HER works for everyone - failing to realise that her own unhealthy coping mechanisms aren't helping her at all, and are the last thing she needs to teach her children.
ultimately, she will never be able to help her kids learn how to cope with difficult emotions unless she develops healthy coping mechanisms of her own. probably work she should have considered addressing with her Groupon counsellor, instead of paying her to be her personal hype women and provide her with an hour a week validating her and reminding her that the "trolls" are just wildly jealous of her success and that she's a great mum.
. emojis that she will be screenshotting them immediately, gleefully saving to the album filled with other comments, like the generic copy/paste comment left by foot-fetish Colin that she relied on to boost her self-esteem for months, because she is trapped in a loveless marriage entirely devoid love affection/compliments/attention etc.
Her husband lost a relative and she still demanded they stomp off to DLP.
