as in, "what's her's?"

It is so sad that someone can be so disconnected from joy and simple pleasures that they are "bored" by their own children. And it's very upsetting to think about those boys being raised in a home where they know their needs rank below shoes, texting friends, and hair highlights.

And they know it, too. They're growing up knowing that they aren't important enough to their mother to warrant her attention.

I think her defensiveness leads her way off base, too. Her article is all about the extremes. She's extremely disconnected from her children because she basically doesn't like to engage with them. But she points out how much better this is for them than the child-centric culture in which parents annihilate their own needs for the sake of their children. This child-centric culture, does it even exist? Are enough parents hyper involved with their children and expect everyone else to be that it can be called a culture?

Granted she's in the UK, but here in Oregon and where I lived in Missouri, I've never met any of these people she's talking about. All the at-home moms I know try very hard to balance their needs with those of their children. We have hobbies, interests, and things in our lives that do not revolve around the children, but I firmly believe that in order to raise children you have to become more self-less and pay attention to them, meet their needs, and spend time with them.

I shudder to think what those boys lives would be like if she couldn't afford the nanny.

That article is truly appalling.

Anhata
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