Enjoying Being Emma #3 Always moaning about James and John. Everyday something's wrong

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I never get her posts, she either writes a huge essay or posts a picture of a plate of food and writes absolutely nothing. I guess she did no housework yesterday so had nothing to write about
She thinks it makes her look arty but she's just a massive dick
 
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Imagine moaning about costs, then booking extra days in nursery so you can clean your house…

Oh and energy drinks before 8:30am- wrong on so many levels!
 
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And then moaning your son will get too much chocolate for Easter! Fuck me, 2 tubes of chocolate left from Christmas while she shovels expensive shite in her gob at any moment!!! Unreal
He still has 2 tubes left probably because he's allowed 1 chocolate button a week.

Moaning about money though and wouldn't spend £30 on road pieces for James... But will spend £24 on 2 wooden doll things for Hattie's nursery. Which I imagine she won't be allowed to touch as she stated "For Hattie's nursery"
 
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This makes me so so sad, so what if he gets chocolate eater eggs buy him one too! Heck I’ll even buy him one- what’s a 99p bloody egg

What child has 2 tubes of milky bar buttons left after 4 months?! Seriously she’s passing on some weird habits to her children.

She really is vile at times.
 

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It’s horrid isn’t it. To be fair, we still have stacks of Christmas chocolate from selection boxes etc. My daughter knows they’re there, she just doesn’t often ask for them but I let her make her own choices (she’s asked for pepper slices as a snack this morning rather than something from the chocolate box. Weird in my opinion but there you go ) but I will still be getting her an Easter egg and doing an egg hunt for her for Sunday! If she doesn’t eat it all, I will help her I’d much rather her not be limited and be able to make her own choices (within reason) around what she eats than have an unhealthy relationship with chocolate and “treats”, consider them the holy grail and then binge on them when she’s older and in charge of her own money. That’s what I did as we were strictly limited on things like that as a child and I now have terrible habits around food and the binge and then restrict issues that Emma has.
 
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Same! I feel so sad for them both. She is actively passing on her on her awful relationship with food to her children. Chocolate at Easter or anytime will do them no harm. There is no such thing as "bad" food and its so harmful to demonise food in this way especially in front of her children.

I really worry about the impact of her dodgy food rules on those children
 
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They could end up with terrible disordered eating like their mother. When I was younger I was lucky enough to always have biscuits, chocolate and crisps in the house. In a way I think this helped me as I don’t ever find myself ‘craving’ it and I know when to stop.
 
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Me and my partner had completely different upbringings in this sense. He was similar to you. And was allowed it. Not restricted.
Where as I was always massively restricted. Hardly allowed things.
But who's the one who's always struggled with their weight/binge eats ect... Me.
My partner doesn't bother with chocolate ect and when he does, he eats it.
He's never been overweight in his life.

Trying to do the same with my kids! It's very hard to let go but I'd do anything for them to not grow up the way I did!
 
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Kids get no choc for Easter but she'll go ahead and scoff a share bag of matlteasers at the cinema

ETA nothing wrong with munchies at the cinema but don't deny your kids a treat aswell...
 
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Could have written this myself. And having the nice stuff accessible in the house adds a whole host of issues for me because I crave it constantly. Husband and daughter can take it or leave it, me on the other hand…cup of tea required 3 biscuits earlier purely because they were there and once I’d tasted one, I couldn’t help myself
 
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Could’ve written this myself. I’m convinced restriction and early exposure to diet culture is part of the reason for my disordered eating habits. Trying so hard not to pass them on to my daughter
Emma’s always been that way though, remember when she accidentally bought him a chocolate flavoured baby biscuit instead of a banana one so limited him to one per week?
 
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‘James will get too much chocolate at Easter’ says the woman who bought sixty creme eggs for herself?? What does it matter, chocolate lasts ages! I’ve noticed that several times in the past she’s commented on still having Christmas chocolate in July as if it’s some kind of flex. So yet another book instead 🥲 have these kids ever chosen their own toys??

I agree with everything above - a childhood of restriction means I have food issues too, and gradual exposure to crisps/chocolate etc (such as ordering it in the weekly shop and just having it around the house) has helped me but I’m still feeling the effects of restricting for so long.

I’ve unfollowed so that I don’t have to see her posts anymore and just going to check in on this thread, she displays so many behaviours that I’ve struggled to unlearn - I used to be a toxic productivity diet culture obsessed teacher too and one big reason I got out of teaching was because of joy suckers in the staff room like Emma commenting on your lunch and comparing who works the most hours!
 
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Here we go again! Back to ‘splitting’ individual sized snacks with a toddler child! Half a hot cross bun indeed
 
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Now she 'doesn't like sponge' why post a moany comment about something someone has made you. Such a drain all of the time!
 
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I don't believe she doesn't like sponge. She eats brownies/pastries etc. She is either on a weight loss mission or just being an ungrateful cow.
How many thomas the tank engine books are there?! I'm sure he'll get 1 tiny bit of choc and the rest in 6 months.
 
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She’d have a fit at my 3 yr old’s food today… it’s been centred around chocolate - that we bought for her so the Easter Bunny had been when she woke up, then her grandmother came over with eggs from the rest of the family for her. She had Lindt bunnies for breakfast with her cereal - she was so excited for Easter - like she was on Christmas morning! I wonder if James and Hattie will ever get that excited about these special days and enjoy the fun that comes with them?
 
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