Can I just say, to anyone who has posted - and to anyone reading - saying they feel inadequate, or that they aren’t providing for their children, or that they feel that they should be doing something ‘more’ -
Sophie Hinchliffe is not a good mother.
She does not put her children first.
She does not prioritise their happiness; their needs; their physical safety; their emotional well-being.
She has to hold her children tight to get a photo with them.
She has to tickle her toddler to force laughter.
She has her husband at home full-time.
She has her mum and dad on call constantly.
She has a niece who comes over if she has an evening without her husband because she can’t be alone.
She has no money worries whatsoever.
She is adding animals into a garden that is not big enough.
She doesn’t have the knowledge, experience, willingness or dedication to care for these animals for their entire lives.
She has her husband at home full-time.
She has her mum and dad on call constantly.
She has a niece who comes over if she has an evening without her husband.
She ‘works’ a few hours a week exploiting her children’s lives online.
Meanwhile in the real world, we are here with many struggling in whatever way to get through the day or week or month.
Some are battling every day to become parents - these people deserve to be parents, and will cherish their future children. Unlike Sophie and Jamie.
Some are parents to children no longer here. That is a devastating loss which no one should experience. You love and celebrate your children more than Sophie will ever understand.
Some are working all the hours possible and still not even comfortable financially.
Some are in unsafe situations, relationships, housing, and having to fight through every day.
The Hinchliffes will never understand what real life is like. They don’t understand their privilege. They don’t use their position to help others.
They are not in any way worthy of anyone feeling inferior or like you can’t match what they are doing.
What they are doing is fake.
What we are doing is living real life which is sometimes horrendously unfair. But we are worth a million of them.
No one should ever feel that she is better, because she’s not.