Re: It's a hard life being a Mum.....
 

When I look at the way Mrs Vorlon and I bring up our kids, it's a world apart from when I was being brought up.

We both had to work to pay the mortgage and everything else, and we send ours to nursery, french club and swimming lessons. We have never smacked our children (there are other ways, just as effective, of discipline) and both our children are quite capable of voicing their opinions.

And we don't stay in bed all day either...

Re: It's a hard life being a Mum.....
 

Yes, it IS a different world.......I was 11 years old and I was left to make sure that my 3 brothers and myself got off to school.....clean and with breakfast inside us. Both of my parents worked......we had very little in the way of luxuries. Then when my Mum had another baby I still had to get the boys ready for school and then on MY way to school I used to drop the baby off.....(not literally) with a lady who lived near us......she had a baby of her own who was similar in age, so she looked after my baby brother and her own child and my Mum used to pay her. My Mum went back to work six weeks after the birth of her babies. By the time I was 16 there were 7 of us. It was a very hard up-bringing, but it taught me about responsibility.(And child care) I did sometimes feel a little 'hard done by'...... but I also realised that without both my mothers and fathers wage we would not have food to eat.

Re: It's a hard life being a Mum.....
 

We were also taught that whatever we did had consequences......we were given smacks, but I hasten to add not without good cause......discipline was quite strict, but you knew you would only be punished if you had done something wrong.

Re: It's a hard life being a Mum.....
 

Yeh same here Margaret

Re: It's a hard life being a Mum.....
 

Being given a clip for misbahaving never did any harm, yet a wont raise my hand to mine and have no trouble with her as she nows were I draw the line.