Once again she’s gone on about “sensory overload” for P or whatever on the Bugs Life show. I remember going with my two when they were 3 and 5 and my youngest freaked out because at one stage it feels like bugs are touching your legs. It’s NOTHING to do with this sensory narrative bullshit, she just might not have liked it like my youngest. I literally hate her!!! If she didn’t like it, she didn’t like it. That child is 100% fine and no where near being on the spectrum.
Rebecca sees P as a nuisance. This child was going to be another golden egg; attention gained through pregnancy through fears of potential 'Zika Virus' birth anomalies, gender reveal
, birth streamed online...attention, attention attention, all which topped up the Meldrum bank balance significantly.
In Rebecca's mind all was wonderful and heading in the right direction and she could be another Giovanna Fletcher, her book would be amazing, she would be someone companies approached as their 'go to Mummy guru', business trips to London, collaborations with celebrity mums etc. Lee could look after the children whilst she could control the narrative as the main provider. For a short period it was golden, then through Rebecca's own stupidity, greed and sense of entitlement with the free Disney trip, lift gate etc it all started to go downhill.
The Disneyland Paris Trip sponsored by Tesco was a disaster due to Rebecca's failure to declare and then rightly so it was picked up and commented on that P was not included in that trip. Who does a 'family' trip as a 'Mummy Influencer' and leave one of the children at home? Add to the mix, moving to a new house, requiring a car that accommodated 3 children which didn't meet her 'status' and actually having to parent as the fall in revenue and increase in financial commitments with the new house required Lee to go back offshore so Rebecca lost her house husband and child minder.
Her own actions and belief that she was untouchable, brought the downfall and she blames P as life was perfect with 2 and everything that she perceives as having gone wrong has happened since P was born. After the Disneyland Paris fallout fully hit home I wonder how many times behind the scenes Rebecca told the older two girls "we can't do that / go there if we can't get someone to look after Poppy". There was evidence in past stories of how 'annoying' the girls find P, how P spoiled something so P became the fly in the ointment. Rebecca facilitated and encourage this.
All her statements of 'not having a third child', her far from normal parental behaviour in showing her child's distress to 1000's of followers rather than putting her phone down and actually parenting and the constant complaining about P's sleep pattern when it suited her to create content are turning into a narrative is that there must be something 'wrong' with P, she has 'issues', she stops the rest of them being able to do things or enjoy things.
Sorry Rebecca but no. In my opinion you have just zoned out from parenting that child, she is lively, she is funny and inquisitive and will try and keep up with her two older siblings as any normal child will do. It is not 'sensory overload' if a child gets scared at a 3D attraction where there are bugs poking you and a giant hopper looming over you - they just don't like it. Just say you made a mistake in choosing that attraction. The problem does not lie with P, it lies with you. I genuinely know no other mother who uses noise cancelling headphones to block out the noise of her children, pops melatonin so she can get a good night sleep to relive her student days at Disney whilst the rest of the family deal with the time zone change and actually seems to take no pleasure from time spent with her children unless there is a financial benefit or a story to be created for the 'gram'.
Rebecca is creating a narrative, a niche for her 'faulty' child, sleep issues requiring investigation at local children hospital, sensory processing difficulties requiring them to be 'let out from a show that other children were enjoying as the sensory overload was too much.
Be very careful what you wish for Rebecca, having had a child on the spectrum which when combined with an unrelated life limiting condition meant numerous hospital visits and hospice nurse input, I am now part of a community that supports others in a similar position. No one should use a child with additional needs for additional content and this is the route in my opinion that you seem to pursing.
I am not interested in whether she tans or not / state of marriage / what biscuit brand she promotes or supports but I am passionate about children being protected from public over sharenting and their childhood being manipulated for monetary gain.
Rant over ...
