I have a boy and a girl. Boy first, girl second and woweeeee there's no comparison between them. I think it's a nature thing, being the physically weaker sex, I think we're born with the ability to be master manipulators. My daughter will buy and sell you at any opportunity. But I have her card marked
By God Willow takes her mammy on a ride on the daily. She rules the roost. At two, there is absolutely no physical need to be blending a child's food. She showed a lunchbox today full of dried crackers and hard to chew foods. That toddler does not have issues with textures. We all pander to our kids and I've been known to cook two dinners because one hates this and the other hates that, but she is creating a little madam.
And that's not something I want to say about any little child. She's gorgeous and she's well loved for sure, but a child needs to be parented, not pandered to. I don't mind the co-sleeping, I'm all for extended breastfeeding but the food thing and the refusing to sit in a chair for a meal. No honey, you'd go hungry in my house. Not to over simplify, but we teach kids to wash themselves, read, say please and thank you. There are certain basic needs that should be met to create a human being that can function in society. Being able to sit in a chair is one of them.
I'm not accusing Tracey of what I say next, but nothing boils my blood more than oblivious parents. Ones whose kids are tearing branches of trees or whose scooters are strewn all over a footpath making it impossible for others to pass while the gab on aimlessly to another parent.
And don't get me started on the new iPhone.
If you're a scabby fucker across the board, grand. If you cannot afford to buy good quality, decent arch support, breathable fabric shoes for your child's developing feet, that's a real pity. But DO NOT come on showing your children wearing €4 shoes and then happily drop €1200 on a phone. I can't. I honestly can't. She is setting her children up for a lifetime of foot issues. It pains me to watch sometimes.
I honestly don't know how she can be so 'educated' in one area of her child's development and so totally blind in another.