Whatmummymakes #6 Trying on clothes that are clearly too small! No one believes Nina is really that tall!!

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I made the fatal error of taking my toddler to Asda this morning - needed a couple of bits and was driving past on the way home from the park, only take 5 mins right? Except he wouldn’t sit in the trolley, said he wanted to walk, wouldn’t hold hands, ran away shouting CHASE MUMMY CHASE up various aisles, tried throwing 100 chocolate biscuits and a butternut squash into the basket, screamed because he couldn’t open a yogurt as we were walking round and then screamed because I didn’t have the key to open the door to the cash machine so he could see inside. Needless to say I bought only the essentials and will return tomorrow, toddler free when he’s in nursery. I couldn’t imagine making shopping our primary activity, I think all my hair would fall out from stress.
 
definitelynotvlad said:
I made the fatal error of taking my toddler to Asda this morning - needed a couple of bits and was driving past on the way home from the park, only take 5 mins right? Except he wouldn’t sit in the trolley, said he wanted to walk, wouldn’t hold hands, ran away shouting CHASE MUMMY CHASE up various aisles, tried throwing 100 chocolate biscuits and a butternut squash into the basket, screamed because he couldn’t open a yogurt as we were walking round and then screamed because I didn’t have the key to open the door to the cash machine so he could see inside. Needless to say I bought only the essentials and will return tomorrow, toddler free when he’s in nursery. I couldn’t imagine making shopping our primary activity, I think all my hair would fall out from stress.
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That’s exactly how my shopping trips go too 😅 says he will walk nicely then asks to be carried every 2 mins. Tries to use every apple/orange/tomato/melon as a ball. Gets cross because he wants to say hello to the fish on the counter! It’s a nightmare!
 
definitelynotvlad said:
I made the fatal error of taking my toddler to Asda this morning - needed a couple of bits and was driving past on the way home from the park, only take 5 mins right? Except he wouldn’t sit in the trolley, said he wanted to walk, wouldn’t hold hands, ran away shouting CHASE MUMMY CHASE up various aisles, tried throwing 100 chocolate biscuits and a butternut squash into the basket, screamed because he couldn’t open a yogurt as we were walking round and then screamed because I didn’t have the key to open the door to the cash machine so he could see inside. Needless to say I bought only the essentials and will return tomorrow, toddler free when he’s in nursery. I couldn’t imagine making shopping our primary activity, I think all my hair would fall out from stress.
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Omg! Mine is the same he had to be bribed with my mobile phone to sit in the trolley earlier it’s the only thing that works. Had to be quick as he’s used all my data watching this morning on my phone (he loves it 😂) so mad dash for the essentials only aswell.
 
Fellow tattlers/mothers- it’s ppl like you who make me so glad that I found this thread on tattle. I started following WMM when I started weaning my child, my little one is a couple months younger than Nina, probably 1/5th of her size and eats about 1/8 of what Nina eats. At first I thought there was something fundamentally wrong with my parenting and my child, why wasn’t she shovelling food in her mouth? Why would she cry and scream in anything more than a 10 min car journey? Why is my child not fitting into bigger clothes? Why does my child not enjoy my company when out?
this caused me a lot of mental anxiety. It wasn’t good for me or my child. I began to obsess. Over every single little thing she ate or didn’t eat or how erratic her behaviour was whenever I took her out. I felt like my life was wrong, it doesn’t look like Rebecca’s, the girls r the same age, it’s not Instagram perfect?

It’s only until I found fellow mothers like you on here, that I realised, the only thing that’s not normal around here is Rebecca. It’s a dangerously toxic page, not only portraying unhealthy foods but promoting an unhealthy obsession with food and a creepy and smothering relationship with her daughter.
I realised that’s not the mother I ever want to be, nor should any mother. And since then I’ve started following my own intuition and my own child’s cues, and she’s eating better (albeit not like Nina or as big as her but we all know Rebecca sees her as a foie gras) and my child is behaving like a child and I want to encourage this innocence as it’s only for a short time. I do not wish to mould my child into a mini grandmother who enjoys afternoon teas with me.
rebecca needs to put a disclaimer on her page that her style of living is not the norm and she should stop acting like it is. Parenting pages need to approach their topics with caution. I’m glad I was able to snap out of my misery caused by Rebecca’s page, but others might not be so lucky. Parenting/weaning pages should be promoted by professionals only and should be heavily regulated. Not by any tom dick and hagrid.
 
squatternutbosh said:
Fellow tattlers/mothers- it’s ppl like you who make me so glad that I found this thread on tattle. I started following WMM when I started weaning my child, my little one is a couple months younger than Nina, probably 1/5th of her size and eats about 1/8 of what Nina eats. At first I thought there was something fundamentally wrong with my parenting and my child, why wasn’t she shovelling food in her mouth? Why would she cry and scream in anything more than a 10 min car journey? Why is my child not fitting into bigger clothes? Why does my child not enjoy my company when out?
this caused me a lot of mental anxiety. It wasn’t good for me or my child. I began to obsess. Over every single little thing she ate or didn’t eat or how erratic her behaviour was whenever I took her out. I felt like my life was wrong, it doesn’t look like Rebecca’s, the girls r the same age, it’s not Instagram perfect?

It’s only until I found fellow mothers like you on here, that I realised, the only thing that’s not normal around here is Rebecca. It’s a dangerously toxic page, not only portraying unhealthy foods but promoting an unhealthy obsession with food and a creepy and smothering relationship with her daughter.
I realised that’s not the mother I ever want to be, nor should any mother. And since then I’ve started following my own intuition and my own child’s cues, and she’s eating better (albeit not like Nina or as big as her but we all know Rebecca sees her as a foie gras) and my child is behaving like a child and I want to encourage this innocence as it’s only for a short time. I do not wish to mould my child into a mini grandmother who enjoys afternoon teas with me.
rebecca needs to put a disclaimer on her page that her style of living is not the norm and she should stop acting like it is. Parenting pages need to approach their topics with caution. I’m glad I was able to snap out of my misery caused by Rebecca’s page, but others might not be so lucky. Parenting/weaning pages should be promoted by professionals only and should be heavily regulated. Not by any tom dick and hagrid.
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I agree with you and I remember feeling like that with my eldest when following other Mummy bloggers/influencers. I think because I have an older child, I've never been bothered by Rebecca, she's not made me feel like I was doing anything wrong or I was a rubbish mum. However, having said that, if my 2 year old was my first child, Rebecca would have made me feel like an awful Mum, my 2 year old is so naughty and I don't do half the things she does with Nina. I find it sad, that a lot of mum's, especially first time Mum's will feel inferior thanks to her, she really isn't a great Mum, not that she'd ever believe that, she'd call someone a troll if they pointed out all the things that she does that are wrong.
 
definitelynotvlad said:
I made the fatal error of taking my toddler to Asda this morning - needed a couple of bits and was driving past on the way home from the park, only take 5 mins right? Except he wouldn’t sit in the trolley, said he wanted to walk, wouldn’t hold hands, ran away shouting CHASE MUMMY CHASE up various aisles, tried throwing 100 chocolate biscuits and a butternut squash into the basket, screamed because he couldn’t open a yogurt as we were walking round and then screamed because I didn’t have the key to open the door to the cash machine so he could see inside. Needless to say I bought only the essentials and will return tomorrow, toddler free when he’s in nursery. I couldn’t imagine making shopping our primary activity, I think all my hair would fall out from stress.
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Thank god, I’m glad I’m not the only one who has experiences like this in the shops. Perfect nini would never …
 
I went to a shop today in the way back from soft play, I had one thing to pick up, my children fought over who was going to push the basket we didn't even need the whole way round, I lost my oldest at one point, my youngest threw a tantrum because she didn't get to push the sodding basket as much as her brother and we all left vowing never to go shopping with them again. 🙄
 
I think part of the reason people feel so inferior when they see her page is because the behaviour we see from Nina isn't typical behaviour for her age. We don't see the failed trips, the times she doesn't want to eat anything, or the times she won't walk anywhere, although weirdly we do see when she's wet herself because that's hilarious apparently. I think a lot of it is also to do with her age and the difference in how old she really is and the age Rebecca wants her to be to sell her books. Nina isn't a toddler and she's not weaning. She's 4 years old 2 months so going to be one of the oldest kids in her school year. Some kids start school at the age she is now and there's a huge difference between a toddler and a school aged child.
 
hocus_pocus said:
I think part of the reason people feel so inferior when they see her page is because the behaviour we see from Nina isn't typical behaviour for her age. We don't see the failed trips, the times she doesn't want to eat anything, or the times she won't walk anywhere, although weirdly we do see when she's wet herself because that's hilarious apparently. I think a lot of it is also to do with her age and the difference in how old she really is and the age Rebecca wants her to be to sell her books. Nina isn't a toddler and she's not weaning. She's 4 years old 2 months so going to be one of the oldest kids in her school year. Some kids start school at the age she is now and there's a huge difference between a toddler and a school aged child.
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Yes to this - my son started school this year 2 weeks after his 4th birthday so he’s one of the very youngest, and was younger than Nina was now when he started there. He’s his own little person, he has his own likes, dislikes, things that he’s interested in. It seems as though Nina can’t be anything other than a clone of her mother. I think that she will really struggle when she goes to school - at the time that Rebecca should be getting her ready for it she decides to pull her out of nursery? Rebecca is so selfish it astounds me.
 
All these hints of a new house mean they’re basically just waiting on exchange and completion doesn’t it 🧐 some nice granny floral curtains for Nini to fit in with Becky’s aesthetic for her… poor girl! My 4 year old has chosen unicorns/rainbows/castles for her new room and we’re going with it 🌈🦄 👑 because she’s 4, not 40!!!!
 
Quite Contrary said:
All these hints of a new house mean they’re basically just waiting on exchange and completion doesn’t it 🧐 some nice granny floral curtains for Nini to fit in with Becky’s aesthetic for her… poor girl! My 4 year old has chosen unicorns/rainbows/castles for her new room and we’re going with it 🌈🦄 👑 because she’s 4, not 40!!!!
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I’m 41 and I’d hate floral curtains. Rebecca is such an old woman, she’d get off in a Laura Ashley shop
 
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