Cherie Blair attacks 'yummy mummies' for putting their kids before career

Unfortunate photo of Cherie, I wonder what caption could be applied?

Why oh why do people like her have children. Obviously just to pass on the family name - can't think of any other reason. So many kids are dumped on child minders, carers, relatives, in fact anyone as long as the parent/s can get on with their normal lives. They never see the kids. So what is the pont. And then to try to berate mothers who actually want to look after their kids - well it beggars belief. She was a dozy twod when her idiot husband was PM and unfortuately is not improving with age.

I think she is wrong, it says more about her - self self. I agree that women's independance is important but not everyone has family support or wads of cash to afford them the best nannies. Without family support many jobs don't pay enough to justify childcare. The choice should be the mother's, looking after children is an important role, not everyone can afford or wants to dump their children in boarding school.

From what Ive seen kids that are the most "clingy" are those that have been Dumped, sorry taken to nursery from a very young age. I am at stay at home mom and I class that as my full time job and the most important job I can do, I had a career, but it was no way as fullfilling as being a mom, being there for my children is the most important thing in the world to me. If women dont what to look after their children why have them I see to many children that are just "in the way" of someones work life.
Cherie Blair should be ashamed of herself saying something like that, how can a who has been taken to child care at 7.30am and not collected till 6pm at the age of 4 or 5 be at the best at school and when are they meant to see their parents.

never trust a woman who can eat a banana sideways.....I would never let my gamekeeper put down any on our shoot........strange bird, really ........no breast huge thighs and two left wings..

Hmm, very polarised views. my own is that bringing up children is a full-time job in its own right. Some highly intelligent women would however rather have a lucrative career than bring up a family. Most women are forced out to work because their partners are grossly underpaid if they can get a job at all, and housing costs are obscene. Oh, and by the way Cherie, your husband was the best Tory Prime Minister this country ever had.

Sorry should've been "walked" not worked

Disgusting comments, all Cherie and co are interested in are getting as much money and work out of us all. How can you not spend too much time with your kids. Most Mum's who go to work just about cover the extortionate cost of childminders etc. What's the point of having kids to let any stranger bring them up. I'm glad my family have breadlined for years to give my children the security they deserve and not missed them smiling for the first time or reaching any milestone. Couldn't imagine someone else telling me that my child worked for the first time without seeing it myself. I have 2 children and are very independant despite being a stay at home Mum. I see more clingy kids at school because their parents work and they are so clingy because they know they won't see them very often. It's because for years now both parents have worked full time that kids have lost respect by being brought up by lots of different people therefor having no stability or boundaries anymore!! It is harder work staying at home bringing up your own kids however the rewards are pricesless.

I agree with Cherie Blair women have to find a way to be independent this is what my mother taught me. Relying on your husbands income is putting all your eggs in one basket. I refused to be a stay at home mum when my child was born. My husband wanted our child to go to a state school to save money, luckily I am able to pay for his fees for a really good prep school. My husbands business is suffering because of the Euro recession and I have told him not to worry I will be able to support him if he has to go bankrupt. I have been able to organise my work to be able to take my son to school, pick him and the childminder up after school and be home on time to help with his homework and read him a bedtime story. I only have one child its a completely different story with 2 kids. To be honest its all a matter of choice.

It used to be that parents had kids and brought them up as part of a family. Now, thanks to the need to earn ever more money to chase the illusion of prosperity Blair and his goverment brought us, people have children and send them off to be looked after at play groups, nurseries, pre-school clubs, after-school clubs or anywhere else that will take them. These kids grow up almost exclusively in groups of their own age group and then we wonder why when they get older, they hang around the streets in gangs and don't interact with the rest of society. We need to move back towards a point where all parents, mothers and fathers, can put more emphashis on spending time with their children and less on working all the hours there are to try and survive.