I think in Keelin’s head, she’s a teen mother who’s mam abandoned her and kicked her out when that’s not the case. It wasn’t a crisis situation, She chose to get pregnant in her 20s, a full grown woman, with nowhere solid to live, no plan, no financial security and then bawled about it. Why should her mam put her whole life on hold to take on K + J, a baby and a cat??
holy molyI understand where you're coming from! I just felt the need to defend the babywearing because it really is so convenient for some, and always (in my experience) gets a bad rep as some people seem to think its the worst thing you can do as you might make baby over-dependent on you (my in-laws have said that I spoil my babies for carrying them, which is utter hoop! I think thats why i wanted to defend it, because so often parents will be judged for holding their babies "too much" when theres really no such thing). Babies, especially for the first few months, crave closeness and touch, so even if you can get them asleep, putting them into a crib or other sleeping implement can often be a waste of time as they tend to immediately wake. It's actually a phase called the fourth trimester! Before I had kids, I thought I could leave them asleep alone for a few mins to shower or make food etc, and I could, but they'd be screaming their tiny heads off about 5 mins after I put them down, even if they were completely comatose to startwhen they're so young, they literally can't even see properly, and all they've known is the safety of their parents body, so I suppose it's fairly terrifying to be left alone. Keeping them close actually helps them build secure attachment so that they'll be more independent when theyre that bit older, because theyre secure in the fact that their primary caretaker will meet their needs. Now, as I say, every baby is different, but that's been my experience and there's a wealth of science to back it up
In fairness to Keelin, (and again, I'm not overly defending anyone here), parenting is possibly the single biggest adjustment that will ever happen in your life (particularly first time round). It literally tears your life apart and completely transforms it, and the adjustment can feel like whiplash sometimes. It takes time to find the rhythm of your life, and her baby is still a newborn. I just wouldn't want to see anyone being overly judged for what they may or may not do in the snippets of their lives they choose to show us. It can be a lonely, isolating and exhausting time, trying to keep a new human that you JUST met alive, as well as recover from birth yourself (the birth experience in itself can take so much time to process, particularly if the experience wasn't what you wanted it to be). In fairness to her, from what we can see, I think she's doing brilliantly as a new parent. I'm also conscious too (and probably just a bit more aware of it as a mammy), that there have been a litany of horrible stories in relation to children being injured and killed lately, and it may very well be the case in many of them that had there been better supports in place and people been less isolated, those incidents may never have happened. Perinatal care in this country is genuinely a joke, so when it comes to parenting, unless there's something genuinely dangerous afoot, I think its best to look on anyone else's approach to it with a bit of compassion and kindness. Covid has also extremely negatively affected people's experiences with maternity care, and that can have a massive impact on how people feel and adjust after the fact. Judge on other things if warranted (and at that, be kind!), but given the massive adjustment parenting is, especially in the early days, kindness is everything. There are things I did first time around that I look back on and I absolutely lol at myself, but I was doing the best I knew how to at the time.
Sorry, that's a massive rant, and not directed at anything you said in particular, but might just be a reminder to anyone posting here re parenting!
Thought the exact same when I saw this, especially on a sex toy… (not a prude) but I imagine they wouldn’t be making a Caroline Flack sex toy, for example. Just because this woman has been dead a long time doesn’t make it any less disrespectful. Embarrassing and shameful to even be promoting it.
I just don't understand their romanticisation of the working class? What do they gain from it? Eimear O'Reilly's sister also owns her own beauty salon - https://aorbeauty.ie/, Eimear's family have money as the Moncrieffs have money. The carry on of them on that podcast is disgraceful, marvelling at how gauche they are to be paying rent and struggling with the housing crisis like the average everyperson. The worries of the Moncrieffs and Eimear O'Reilly are not the worries of most of us. This strive to be ‘looking’ and ‘acting’ working class is almost like a novelty to them; something to be picked up and dropped by comparison to their own backgrounds. Which by implication means dressing like they have no money, drinking to oblivion, and generally treating the idea of being working class as simply an aesthetic?
Fontaines DC have been rightly called out for their fetishing of the working class, there's a great article that went semi-viral on it here: https://garysolonely.neocities.org/is-it-too-real-for-ya.htmlIn Dublin right now and probably in a lot of major cities being working class is cool, Fontaine’s DC is a good example it in popular culture. It’s so odd, I suppose working class people have more cultural capital in the scenes that keelin and Eimear move in. When I first moved to Dublin I found it so odd that people that I knew from college were dying to portray this working class aesthetic as if all our mammies and daddies weren’t paying our fees
She mentioned before how people would look at her on the street because she was “so young” like she looks like she’s in her 20s. I think she was projecting her insecurities because 24/25 is not remotely too young to have a child - if you’re financially and emotionally capable of doing so.
Anytime I see saoirse try to be profound or deep I just remember her giving sex advice and saying if you want an orgasm just manifest one
How many times have I seen Jason in that god forsaken “God is trans” wife beater?! I see he’s making an absurdist statement to really rile up those transphobic Christians — but truly, what does this mean? And who cares? It’s seems (at best) like his attempt to rebel against authority but the authority is non-exist because he’s an adult man…At worst he’s just trying to signal he’s cool and aware of social issues. But please tell me if I’m missing something, is being trans illegal in Ireland or something? Surely there are more meaningful things to put on a wife-beater in relation to trans-rights just in general?My bean has never been more numb
She’s so incredibly wasteful. The entire point of buying expensive clothing as a means of sustainability is to have those items for years to come longer than fast fashion would last you. I have fast fashion clothes that have lasted me much longer than she’s had that jumper and will continue to do so.
Recognisable, I think the unusual surname helps to be honest. First time I heard someone mention Keelin Moncrieff I immediately thought ‘oh is she your man’s daughter?’For someone who isn’t from the UK, how famous is her dad in ireland?? Like is he a household name? Just curious
well the part they’re from anyway
it’s like they think they’re in a movie
I said it once and I'll say it again, they look like a couple who smells of goats cheese 
