Literally just joined here to vent somewhere people would sympathise. And look, I don't have much ill-feeling toward them, I think they are good people, even if I disagree with some of their words/actions. But I've had to stop watching them since Thursday or Friday for various reasons, and you can all tell me if I'm being petty:
× Not mentioning the nanny while making a big fuss about all the work they have to do. Even with a nanny I don't doubt that parents would be busy with 4 kids, but don't try and hide it, and frankly, don't complain at all when there are single mothers of 6+ children living in flats and cramped council houses. I don't need to hear how you're struggling, we ALL are.
× Also, they CHOSE to have 4 children knowing full well how much work it would be - if they didn't think they could do it without a nanny, they shouldn't have done it at all. Or, alternatively, they could have waited until there was a bigger gap between ages to ease the workload slightly.
× The overwhelming privilege of leaving the hard jobs to the cleaner and then laughing about it. It was a glimpse of an attitude I can't stand. Cleaners are a high-risk group, if you can afford one, you can afford to pay them to stay home.
× (Speaking as a UK teacher) The utter selfishness of sending the kids back to school when there are THREE carers at home. Unnecessarily exposing the children, the family, and the staff to heightened risks of COVID. Teaching unions and scientists have been incredibly vocal about the dangers of sending children back to school so early, there is no way they haven't seen this news, and yet they've decided to go ahead anyway. It just reeks of a decision made to give the parents a break and nothing else.
TL;DR I had to stop watching because of the abundance of unacknowledged privilege.