WhatMummyMakes #8 Raisins and mayo are foods of the devil, but pastry and cheese are simply next level!

[Pinkii]

Most people increase their child’s hours in the run up to starting school to help them transition to full time.
But no, Rebecca takes her out of preschool because SHE wants to spend more smothering and not age appropriate time with her. It’s never about what is best for Nina - only Rebecca. Utterly selfish as always.

Just saw her stories and was going to come and say the same thing.

She might think she is a good mum because she smothers her daughter but as an outsider looking in, she is the worst kind.

Nina will either grow up and completely Cut becky off or she will have major attachment issues. I can see now becky will use A LOT of emotional blackmail when nina understands more.

 

[Yellow_brick_road]

I just don't get a) why you would do this to a child unnecessary, surely she is at nursery at least one day so Bex could have gone then and b) why you would put it on Instagram, it's not really a proud parent moment it makes you look like an absolute selfish twit. She's always been off on a Monday though I'm sure, last time Bex got a message telling her she was selfish so maybe she's doing it for content, we will have a message up later with someone daring to question her parenting about how we are all doing our best and tag a mum who's as great as she is , you've got this mama etc etc

 

[foreverfeds]

Exactly and most children Nina's age are at school. Rebecca most probably gets the 30 hours due to her allegedly working and the other working, so why not use them, send her in at least 3 days a week. I feel bad because I'll only get 15 hours, so my son will be doing 2 and a half days and I'm worried that he'll miss out a bit, Rebecca obviously doesn't have that issue.

We only get 15 hours and my son would happily do 30 if he could - he loves preschool and wants to be with his friends.
I flip flop between wanting to ‘make the most’ of the time before he heads to school, wanting to cram things in etc, and not wanting to set unrealistic expectations for him - I don’t want him to be so used to spending all his time with me and then struggle when we are apart.
I really hope that Nina has the time of her life at school and that Rebecca learns to actually manage her time so that she works / shops / gets her nails done when Nina is at school so that she can truly have some quality time with her daughter when she’s on half term etc.

 

[Yellow_brick_road]

And bingo

 

[rockhoppernroll]

Nice apostrophe there, just the kind of person you’d want proofreading a book

 

[Summernights]

If she’s in softplay why don’t you ever show that. I need photo evidence or it didn’t happen Bex

 

[Yellow_brick_road]

Never shows all the "lovely" messages either

 

[itsasecretduh]

So who wrote the message then, got to be one of us . And if it’s not, let’s get them over here to give a big pat on the back. Typical selfish, loner Becky strikes again.

 

[swipe_up]

She is a bleeping freak! That poor poor kid

 

[MakeDamnSure]

Preaching kindness but doxxing people and probably causing a pile on from her followers . How about if she doesn’t want her parenting being judged, don’t put it out there for everyone to see and stick to posting recipes as that is supposedly what her account is meant to be about.
Followed of course by a ‘thanks for all your lovely messages’ post. It was so obviously done for engagement, so boring and predictable.

 

[Yellow_brick_road]

It's just so contrived, what's sad is she has actually dragged Nina to her nail appointment unnecessarily just for content, seriously have a word with yourself Rebecca, I don't know why she's looking so smug that message is what all your followers are thinking! It's not even a one off, we all sometimes have to take kids to appointments etc but she does it all the time and it's not necessary shes not exactly run off her feet!

 

[Pushyplumb]

In my daughter's last year of nursery I made the most of that last year of not having to stick to a school timetable but I'd take her out for a family holiday or trip to a theme park. Not to soft play and a nail appointment.

 

[Noodles28]

Ok it’s up to her to take her kid out of nursery (I don’t agree and think nursery is such a fab place for them at that age to get socialised and learn some important things you won’t in the house) however to take her out and then take her to things that SHE wants to do is ridiculous.

 

[Flip&Flop]

That smug bleeping face chronically winds me up

 

[pommobear]

Might get slated for this but actually not seeing what is so horrendously awful about a child not attending pre school 30 hours a week. When my son was that age I used to take him out of nursery for the day quite often and have a day off with him where we would just potter about spending time together - my mum used to do the same with me when I was little and I still remember those times fondly.

But my son is now home educated so I am obviously biased in my views of how important I consider pre school and nursery to be.

I don't really have much opinion one way or the other to be honest but I think some of the comments here on this particular issue are a massive overreaction.

 

[Borntorun]

So I appreciate that my username is going to make you think that message was from me, but it really wasn’t although I do agree with the sentiment!

 

[JarvisCockerSpaniel]

Did a double take in Tesco earlier as I thought Becky and Minini had done a collab with the Clubcard app. Then I looked closer and saw Becky wasn’t holding cheese or a pastry and this lady had hair that wasn’t like crispy beef chow mien so it couldn’t be them.

 

[Multi-21]

Might get slated for this but actually not seeing what is so horrendously awful about a child not attending pre school 30 hours a week. When my son was that age I used to take him out of nursery for the day quite often and have a day off with him where we would just potter about spending time together - my mum used to do the same with me when I was little and I still remember those times fondly.

But my son is now home educated so I am obviously biased in my views of how important I consider pre school and nursery to be.

I don't really have much opinion one way or the other to be honest but I think some of the comments here on this particular issue are a massive overreaction.

I think the point people are making is Nina gets nothing out of sitting and watching Bex have her nails done. Bex could do that a day while Nina is at nursery.
If she is going to take her out then a day trip somewhere, or something child friendly would be a good option.

 

[pommobear]

I think the point people are making is Nina gets nothing out of sitting and watching Bex have her nails done. Bex could do that a day while Nina is at nursery.
If she is going to take her out then a day trip somewhere, or something child friendly would be a good option.

But kids aren't all the same. I'm honestly not taking the piss when I say that my son would rather come with me to get my nails done (and his own, he loves his toenails painted) than to a soft play centre for instance. I used to do that sort of thing with my mum - one of my fondest childhood memories is sitting with her at the hairdresser, eating biscuits and chatting to her.

 

[foreverfeds]

But kids aren't all the same. I'm honestly not taking the piss when I say that my son would rather come with me to get my nails done (and his own, he loves his toenails painted) than to a soft play centre for instance. I used to do that sort of thing with my mum - one of my fondest childhood memories is sitting with her at the hairdresser, eating biscuits and chatting to her.

I hear what you’re saying - and personally I think there is a lot of value in experiences like yours - both in terms of your relationship with your mum and also some of the social and life skills. However…

I think that from what we can gather on Instagram, Nina already had her nursery hours cut by Bex, there are little to no mention of play dates, groups or classes, so nursery is the only peer interaction Nina seems to get.

Bex has a number of days each week with her anyway, so pulling her out of the one regular activity where she appears to be with her friends seems unnecessary and unfair on Nina.