Not sure where you are from, but this attitude reminds me far more of the UK, than here. I think they are much more child friendly here than in UK, what you describe I felt much more there as a full time mother than here.
Loads of adults talk to my daughter, more so when she was younger, and I was amazed when I first got on the train and saw the ticket inspector take the time to chat to my daughter and issue her a play kids ticket which she loved, not just a one off experience.
Like someone else said, everyone gets or at least feels judged for something about motherhood. I think it just goes with the territory, either you work full time, and thats bad, or you dont work and thats bad, or you allow your kids chocolate before they are 5, or you dont and thats bad!
| Quote: | |  | |
| Hi there outside
10 months ago we mooved from Zürich to Nyon with our two toddlers 3 years and 10 months. Even with my master of law I decided to stay at home full time, at less 48 hours per day, since the birth of our first child. In fact with my job as a legal counsel I had no chance to cut to a part time job. Unfortunately I feel like an "alien" in this society because there is no acceptation for a mum to be "just" a "stupid" mother who wants to do things with the children and in fact I don't see the need to take a nurse just to be able to go to a dentist, hairdresser etc. It seems that the society wants to have children but they don't have to disturb the silence of the normal world... Is it not faboulous to enter into a women clothing shop with at least 6 others women inside without children and as it comes always my toddlers, boyslike..., start to crying in according just in the shop and all the other women, mothers perhabs as well, looking at me with a look "why are YOU here and with your crying children oh no!!!" as I'm the most wanted enemy of this world. That's really the most sad feeling of being an ugly alien...
So please tell me are there others like me???
Thanks for any support...
Shirin | |
| | |