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She definitely has food issues. Making a point of saying she brings low sugar snacks to the cinema. She’s honestly such a fun sponge, a few sweets isn’t going to kill them. It’s one thing having food issues yourself but projecting that on to your kids is unfair.
The sister definitely has some food/exercise issues too, every packing video she makes a point about packing gym/running kit, then healthy snacks for boys.
 
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The sister definitely has some food/exercise issues too, every packing video she makes a point about packing gym/running kit, then healthy snacks for boys.
everything about her food points to my mum’s who is SO DISORDERED
 
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In some of her throwback photos she looks so much healthier, she’s not as super thin and she looks way more youthful! 😶
 
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I’ve followed her for a while and like some content. However, she seems to try and make out she has all these hacks and methods to make parenting easier whilst actually making it look way more exhausting and stressful than it should be.

4 days of activities crammed into 1 day! She also recently did a ‘set a timer for 20 minutes to get jobs done before the school pick-up’ to make things run smoothly. Yet most of this time was spent sorting out the boys after school snack to take. This involved getting out the blender and baking utensils/ingredients to make protein balls and the smoothie maker to prepare their drink. Most of us don’t need to set a timer because we just grab a couple of bananas from the fruit bowl and their water bottles! Job done.
 
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I’ve followed her for a while and like some content. However, she seems to try and make out she has all these hacks and methods to make parenting easier whilst actually making it look way more exhausting and stressful than it should be.

4 days of activities crammed into 1 day! She also recently did a ‘set a timer for 20 minutes to get jobs done before the school pick-up’ to make things run smoothly. Yet most of this time was spent sorting out the boys after school snack to take. This involved getting out the blender and baking utensils/ingredients to make protein balls and the smoothie maker to prepare their drink. Most of us don’t need to set a timer because we just grab a couple of bananas from the fruit bowl and their water bottles! Job done.
She still prepares ‘sugar free treats’ for them like they’re 2. Give them a bloody apple or a bag of pombears and get over yourself love
 
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She still prepares ‘sugar free treats’ for them like they’re 2. Give them a bloody apple or a bag of pombears and get over yourself love
I will never understand these types of mums like her. Your kid when they hit teenage years will be eating fast foods till the cows come home may smoke behind school premises and eat crisps cake etc at school with dinner money too. It’s definitely making parenting on themselves way more harder on themselves than it needs to be like I don’t understand why?
 
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I will never understand these types of mums like her. Your kid when they hit teenage years will be eating fast foods till the cows come home may smoke behind school premises and eat crisps cake etc at school with dinner money too. It’s definitely making parenting on themselves way more harder on themselves than it needs to be like I don’t understand why?
I had a friend who would regularly eat Burger King on the way home from school and beg me to take the packaging home with me to bin it. She was never allowed fast food 😆 this will be her boys!
 
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I had a friend who would regularly eat Burger King on the way home from school and beg me to take the packaging home with me to bin it. She was never allowed fast food 😆 this will be her boys!
Oh no 😂 her husband probably does this. He works pretty much all the hours possible but I bet half of it’s spent eating takeaways in his car before going home and being served a childs portion of 1 potato a chicken leg and a piece of broccoli
 
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Oh no 😂 her husband probably does this. He works pretty much all the hours possible but I bet half of it’s spent eating takeaways in his car before going home and being served a childs portion of 1 potato a chicken leg and a piece of broccoli
Chicken leg… his guilty pleasure…
 
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For me it’s the “weekend cereal” 😅 I’m not saying giving them coco pops every morning is healthy but if your teaching them they are only for special occasions and restrict them surely that’s just going to cause a negative effect down the line when they are already fussy?
 
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For me it’s the “weekend cereal” 😅 I’m not saying giving them coco pops every morning is healthy but if your teaching them they are only for special occasions and restrict them surely that’s just going to cause a negative effect down the line when they are already fussy?
Omg that’s totally just unlocked a memory of me only being allowed cookie crisp on the weekend 🌝
 
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They seem to get a new box every week, where is the logic in that, what happens to left over as she will probably only allow them a measly 20g portion
 
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They seem to get a new box every week, where is the logic in that, what happens to left over as she will probably only allow them a measly 20g portion
Ooooh I wonder if Andy eats the weekend cereal on *gasp* a weeknight!
 
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Who the f**k uses cereal as a treat for their kids! CEREAL. Honestly I bet it’s a laugh a minute at her house
 
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Who the f**k uses cereal as a treat for their kids! CEREAL. Honestly I bet it’s a laugh a minute at her house
Have I said before she reminds me of the bit in about a boy when he’s asking for Frosties and his mum is crying and making him ancient grains and says he can’t have Frosties because it’s not Saturday.

my daughter wanted pancakes for breakfast on pancake day (and she means can she eat a spoonful of Nutella, a squirt of squirty cream and an unholy amount of sprinkles and by pass the actual pancake) and I said pancakes are a weekend breakfast mainly because of all the faffing.
 
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💯! There’s no time for pancakes on a school
Morning in my house either . Imagine those poor kids telling their friends how they are getting coco pops on Saturday! I mean that’s then labelled their weird kid right there.

Have I said before she reminds me of the bit in about a boy when he’s asking for Frosties and his mum is crying and making him ancient grains and says he can’t have Frosties because it’s not Saturday.

my daughter wanted pancakes for breakfast on pancake day (and she means can she eat a spoonful of Nutella, a squirt of squirty cream and an unholy amount of sprinkles and by pass the actual pancake) and I said pancakes are a weekend breakfast mainly because of all the faffing.
 
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💯! There’s no time for pancakes on a school
Morning in my house either . Imagine those poor kids telling their friends how they are getting coco pops on Saturday! I mean that’s then labelled their weird kid right there.
And you know it’s women like her who will pass her strange relationship with food on to her boys who will then apply it to the women who come into their lives and perpetuate further food/body issues!
 
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I’m all for giving kids healthy diets but what’s wrong with a piece of fruit for a snack and just making up a normal tea like cottage pie or a pasta bake etc.

I don’t understand the everyday blending and baking all these weird snack bits. Then dinner and tea also seems to consist of 23 different random bits and bobs on those section plates. It just seems unnecessarily complicated and tiring.
 
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I can imagine she’s an absolute nightmare to live with. The boys will end up with problems later in life, they will either have an eating disorder themselves or go off the rails completely, binge eating everything in site where she has spent their whole childhood restricting foods and micro managing every grain of sugar.

It really got me when it was one of the boys birthdays and she was still trying to force fruit down their throat, rather than letting them eat what they like on their birthday.
 
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I can imagine she’s an absolute nightmare to live with. The boys will end up with problems later in life, they will either have an eating disorder themselves or go off the rails completely, binge eating everything in site where she has spent their whole childhood restricting foods and micro managing every grain of sugar.

It really got me when it was one of the boys birthdays and she was still trying to force fruit down their throat, rather than letting them eat what they like on their birthday.
for me it was them eating rice cakes and porridge pots in the airport on the way to Lapland 🤯
 
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