Beth Sandland #5 The First Woman To Parent

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Asdfghjkll said:
Good for you!! Babies and children need stimulation and colour. I’m all for not conforming ti gender in the sense of my little girl will be bought whatever toys she’s interested in, whether that’s dolls or cars or whatever and I’ll buy whatever clothes we like but I cba with the trend of everything being bland and boring! How will these children ever learn their colours I wonder 🤣 Surprised she hasn’t jumped on the Montessori toy bandwagon but that would require buying him some toys in the first place.
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they would also be to spenny for her to buy herself - unless a company is silly enough to send her something for free! Heaven forbid Begs puts her hand in her own pocket.

don’t get me wrong, I like the odd wooden toy and neutrals. I also know my baby loves the light up bright toys and that they also have developmental value. All we seem to see Z doing is bouncing in his bouncer or jumping in his jumperoo or being dragged around London when it benefits her. How much stimulation is he being given? How much is this helping his development? It isn’t.
 
NutellaFix said:
they would also be to spenny for her to buy herself - unless a company is silly enough to send her something for free! Heaven forbid Begs puts her hand in her own pocket.

don’t get me wrong, I like the odd wooden toy and neutrals. I also know my baby loves the light up bright toys and that they also have developmental value. All we seem to see Z doing is bouncing in his bouncer or jumping in his jumperoo or being dragged around London when it benefits her. How much stimulation is he being given? How much is this helping his development? It isn’t.
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Haven’t seen any evidence of her taking him to any parent and toddler classes/ playgroups yet either ( apart from her infrequent exclusive swimming lessons ) …. I was taking my 3 to playgroup by 6 months old - just to get out of house and meet other mums ( for friends for me and my children- still friends with these parents more than 24 years later).
Does Beth have any other friends with children other than meeting 1 or 2 for numerous coffee/ lunch dates? - not exactly stimulating for Z!
 
Cariad said:
Haven’t seen any evidence of her taking him to any parent and toddler classes/ playgroups yet either ( apart from her infrequent exclusive swimming lessons ) …. I was taking my 3 to playgroup by 6 months old - just to get out of house and meet other mums ( for friends for me and my children- still friends with these parents more than 24 years later).
Does Beth have any other friends with children other than meeting 1 or 2 for numerous coffee/ lunch dates? - not exactly stimulating for Z!
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I don’t think she has many if any friends and I can probably tell you why/people can figure it out 1) she’s a self centred witch, 2) she’s a wannabe posho, her fake accent would drive anyone up the wall 3) as soon as you get into the conversation about how her and her husband met…. You’d be freaked out
 
NutellaFix said:
they would also be to spenny for her to buy herself - unless a company is silly enough to send her something for free! Heaven forbid Begs puts her hand in her own pocket.

don’t get me wrong, I like the odd wooden toy and neutrals. I also know my baby loves the light up bright toys and that they also have developmental value. All we seem to see Z doing is bouncing in his bouncer or jumping in his jumperoo or being dragged around London when it benefits her. How much stimulation is he being given? How much is this helping his development? It isn’t.
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I was one of those people who thought I’d buy all lovely natural toys but since having my baby and realising how stimulating the flashing, bright, noisy things are we’ve got a tone! And not ones attached to any container - ones I use to play with him because guess what, he’s a baby who needs to be played with by him mum…!

We also head to baby classes. The best ones are at the local library for free so she can’t even complain about the price like she did with swimming
 
NutellaFix said:
they would also be to spenny for her to buy herself - unless a company is silly enough to send her something for free! Heaven forbid Begs puts her hand in her own pocket.

don’t get me wrong, I like the odd wooden toy and neutrals. I also know my baby loves the light up bright toys and that they also have developmental value. All we seem to see Z doing is bouncing in his bouncer or jumping in his jumperoo or being dragged around London when it benefits her. How much stimulation is he being given? How much is this helping his development? It isn’t.
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Oh absolutely, we love a wooden, open ended toy in our house but we also get enjoyment from some plastic tat 😂

Cariad said:
Haven’t seen any evidence of her taking him to any parent and toddler classes/ playgroups yet either ( apart from her infrequent exclusive swimming lessons ) …. I was taking my 3 to playgroup by 6 months old - just to get out of house and meet other mums ( for friends for me and my children- still friends with these parents more than 24 years later).
Does Beth have any other friends with children other than meeting 1 or 2 for numerous coffee/ lunch dates? - not exactly stimulating for Z!
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It’s mad, my little girl was only a few months when lockdown hit and it was around the time I finally felt ready to start some baby groups and they all got cancelled. At the minute we just don’t have the finances to do them or send her to nursery (a constant source of guilt I’m trying to get over!) - she doesn’t realise how lucky she is! Luckily I’m hands on (also a teacher) and have a friend with a little girl so my daughter is on track and exceeding in some areas developmentally but it would be so easy for her to have fallen behind if I just plonked her in a seat for the day to start at the walls and wandered off to do “work”. My point is, she doesn’t need to spend loads of money on fancy private swimming lessons or expensive toys, she just needs to be there for him and she really isn’t, she’s not even doing the bare minimum for his development. Seems like her husband isn’t either. It’s really sad to watch 😞

I’ll do nice again say that if she’s happy to show all this publically, I can only imagine what goes on behind closed doors😩
 
cookies74 said:
She has genuinely replied to a comment on her latest post saying "no primary coloured tractors here" and "lots of gorgeous neutrals".

Such a smug, boring mum

My baby girl is currently enjoying her new red fire truck toy 😂
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Exactly my little boy is chilling with his light up toy in his blue leopard print pjs just one of many brightly coloured sleepsuits we have! I love all the colour! The more the better
 

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Gossip101xoxo said:
I can’t find any trace of it on the website but I’m sure she said right when the book club started charging that at the end of the year, 10% of the profits would go to charity. Maybe they haven’t made any profits yet but it’s fishy that all mention of this charity initiative has disappeared…
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She said once they started making profit…. Hence why I don’t think she’s said anything. Can’t believe her and hels have updated their kindles but can’t donate anything to charity
 
gingerteacup said:
Started making profit? How can it be operating at a loss? This is all very suspicious.
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Exactly. I think there might be some overheads for the website costs but they charge £7 a month and there are certainly a fair few people who pay that so I’m not sure where the rest of it is going?

ETA I can’t find any trace of the mention of 10% going to charity on the website (correct me if I’m wrong)even though she defs said that. Just another thing to virtue signal about along with (amongst others I’m sure) abandoning second hand September a week in and forgetting picture descriptions for people with sight impediments
 
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