[Closed] At Christmas, take a moment to think about those less fortunate than ourselves

I was baffled until I got to:

But freelance writer and blogger Kelly, 41

Twerp.

I see what state school kids are like on the buses around where I live – shouting and swearing, looking at porn on their mobiles.

“I don’t want my son anywhere near that. It’s disgusting. If it means seeing him disappointed on Christmas Day that’s the way it has to be.

Fair enough. Lucky kid.

I thought this was going to be a roadie thread

I started working all hours and spending less time with my son. But when he moans at me for working late I remind him how lucky he is to be going to a school like his.

Poor kid.

He's bound to see the story as well, so it's not even a surprise.

[quote=muppetWrangler ]He's bound to see the story as well, so it's not even a surprise.

she'll just tell him how lucky he is to have a story written about him...

Its a great plan,

ive returned all the presents and "excess" food.

saved me nearly £200.
im gonna use that to buy a ticket to see Miranda live.

*wins*

He’s 11 and they learn philosophy, Sanskrit and Latin. Where else would you get that?”

Why would you want to?

I'm sure he'll thank her when all his class mates read the story and he gets bullied 🙄

She says: “People might think I’m mean but William knows deep down how lucky he is – because I tell him every day. And Christmas Day will be no different.”

He's not going to resent that at all is he? I wish I had someone to do a martyr routine with me every day 🙄

Why would you want to?

So you can grow up to be Roger Scruton.

But maybe he wants to grow up to be Bob Crowe?

“I see what state school kids are like on the buses around where I live – shouting and swearing, looking at porn on their mobiles.

because, public school boy's don't do such things do they. no, they just end up as mp's and such, and have paedo and drug parties.......... 😆

I wonder why her husband left? Tired of being reminded how lucky he was? 😆

“People probably think I’m a [s]s[/s][b]nob[/b] but I don’t care what anyone says"

He’s 11 and they learn philosophy, Sanskrit and Latin. Where else would you get that?”

But maybe he wants to grow up to be Bob Crowe?

Pretty dismal choice either way, then.

He’s 11 and they learn philosophy, Sanskrit and Latin. Where else would you get that?”

Leaving aside the sanskrit, I'm pretty sure that's the standard curriculum in ancient rome.

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Why don't they eat the dog? She could give the boy it's collar, doubling as a christmas gift and a poingant memorial of their oh so tasty canine.

Perhaps she can spend some of the £5k bung the mirror gave her for her bullshit filler piece to get him a PS4.

On one hand I applaud her, Christmas really is bonkers, my Son will have no less than 2 grands worth of stuff by the time all the relatives have given him stuff, it's all end up in the toy boxes recently emptied in readiness from last year - day to day he plays with very little - in fact a £2 plastic dagger from 2 Halloweens ago gets more use than anything - we 'only' spent about £600 a on gifts for the kids this year - but we could really use that money elsewhere, but never the less we spent it anyway.

But that said, I've got no time for tabloid 'grumpy face' articles or the people who sell their souls for them.

Perfectly possible to keep a lid on Christmas whilst having a great time and still going to a state school.

Is this not the same lady?

Kelly Rose Bradford Loves Her Dog More Than Her Son

Is the dog now relegated to taking the bus and watching porn?

I'm sure that article will make his time at school easier!

At least everyone knows his new nickname now too - you can hear it on the first day back, can't you?

"Did you have a good Christmas[i] Miranda?...[/i]"

Oh my. No Christmas and, if the dog stay out late, "you're tea is in the boy" ?

Mmm I find the article very offensive to people who are struggling tbh and the fact it's a total no story and isn't worthy of a newspaper and pretty much takes the piss...

Anyway the whole point of a public school isn't what you learn but the contacts you make 🙁

Perhaps he'll grow up to be a blogger/freelance writer getting paid for doin f all.

we could really use that money elsewhere, but never the less we spent it anyway.

Was expecting a Katie Hopkins thread.

Is disappoint.

From her website:

"sofa/airwaves-based social commentator, dog-owner, parent, beer and shoe fan"

If she spent less on shoes and beer she may be able to treat her [s]son[/s] dog to more Christmas treats

Shoes? Anyone who describes their 'job' as a 'social commentator' needs a proper shoeing

Isn't 'Kelly Bradford' one of the usual protagonists names used in Daily Mash stories? Is this a hoax?
RM.

Was expecting a Katie [s]Hopkins[/s] Price thread.

Is disappoint.

FTFY

Poor lad. Possibly well meaning Mum (a great investment) but oh dear.....

Trash newspaper, trash story but a good page filler.

Awful wallpaper in that house.

IS it a spoof?

Its her choice what she does with her money and I for one am glad she rammed that choice down his throat, my throat and the nations throat in exchange only for money.
I hope we all realise how lucky we are....especially her getting paid for that shit.

PS one present and its Miranda is surely abuse? I would rather have none than that

http://www.parentdish.co.uk/2013/12/16/this-is-why-grammar-schools-are-stuffed-full-of-the-middle-classes-private-tuition/

For the past 12 months – in some cases longer - dozens of children of our acquaintance have been having extra tuition for competitive grammar school places.
...
I just couldn't buy in to it – I couldn't afford to

I bet it would have been cheaper than private school fees!

I don't care that my kids go to a state school. I know they are awesome enough to do well in most situations (shoudl they choose to!), and I also know that me and the Mrs are awesome enough to give them good opportunities to encourage their thirst for learning. There's some reverse snobbery for you 🙂

Also, as a nice side effect they are gaining fluency in a second language, for free.

I bet it would have been cheaper than private school fees!

She seems to be a bit of a nutter: http://www.****/femail/article-2088534/Why-Ill-NEVER-let-exs-new-girlfriend-meet-son.html

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"Why I’ll NEVER let my ex’s new girlfriend meet my son
By KELLY ROSE BRADFORD
UPDATED: 09:45, 19 January 2012

Surely I can’t have been the only separated mother who felt great empathy for Elen Rivas after hearing about her Twitter row with Christine Bleakley over Christmas.
Rivas, who was in India at the time, claimed that her former partner Frank Lampard and his new fiancee would not allow her to talk to her two daughters on the phone.
In the end it turned out that Rivas had miscalculated the time difference and called in the middle of the night. However she has previously expressed upset that her girls now call their future step-mother ‘Mummy’.
Unbreakable bond: Writer Kelly Rose with her son William
Unbreakable bond: Writer Kelly Rose with her son William
As the mother of an eight-year-old boy, I know only too well how the thought of another woman ever being a ‘parent’ to your child leaves a very bitter taste in the mouth. And it is something I for one will never allow to happen.
My son’s father, from whom I separated three years ago, now has a new girlfriend. I made it perfectly clear to him from the moment he mentioned he was in a new relationship that my son was not to be part of it.
In fact, I phrased it slightly more bluntly. In an email which was ironing out other issues of access, maintenance, calendar synchronisation, school meetings and the 101 other things you suddenly have to deal with as separated parents, I added a terse line saying: ‘I do not want our son sharing his time with you with third parties.’
By which of course I did not mean his granny, his aunties, cousins or friends we have known for years. My meaning was quite clear — I did not need to spell it out. He replied that it was something we would need to ‘discuss at some point’.
Nothing more has been said, but as far as I am concerned, there is nothing to discuss. The child we had together is absolutely nothing to do with anyone else who might subsequently come in to our lives. And this is something I fully intend to stand firm on. There is just no way I am ever going to hand my little boy over every other weekend to play happy families with someone who is nothing to do with him.
Regardless of whether or not he would have a good time, I would spend the period going insane with jealousy and fury. I did not have a child to have someone else take on a mothering role in his life and I won’t let any other woman even try to take the role.
I am adamant that whatever the future holds, my son will not be raised with step-parents, step-siblings and a host of other people who have been brought into his life as the result of a flight of fancy. If my ex chooses to marry or have more children, I will still insist that any time he wants with his first-born is carried out as it is now — on a one-to-one basis.
Selfish? Vengeful? Perhaps. But I am mainly motivated by a desire to do what I believe is best for my child — and in my mind that is not having a string of new people in his life who might be off the scene as quickly as they were on it. Or those who come as a package with their own kids, who take priority over my son when he visits.
I say ‘mainly’ motivated because of course there is jealousy as well. The bond between me and my child is fierce and unbreakable, but that doesn’t mean to say I would not worry about him growing closer to someone else. I would hate it if he ever regarded anyone else as a ‘stepmother’ or ‘my other mummy’.
To me, it goes totally against every in-built maternal instinct: other people in your life are plentiful, but you have only one mum and dad. And no one should ever try to impinge on that. I don’t want someone else picking my child up when he falls over, rubbing his knees better, or helping him dry his hair after his bath. In fact, the thought of anyone touching him in a maternal way is just too hideous to contemplate.
Yet, if my son were to spend time with his father and the girlfriend, there would be incidents where he would need a mother figure to turn to. And I cannot let that happen. It works both ways; I can’t ever see myself entering a long-term relationship where, by default, a man who is not my son’s father would then take on a parenting role.
I can’t bear the thought of my son phoning his daddy and telling him of a super day out he’s had with ‘Mummy and her boyfriend’ or casually mentioning how ‘Uncle so-and-so’ read him a bedtime story. And that is because I imagine the thought of another man doing ‘dad’ type things would be very hard for my ex to take.
I can still picture the look on his face when, during one particularly heated discussion over access and childcare arrangements, I told him that if he continued to be difficult I would simply move away, get married, have more children and he would have to deal with another man being ‘Daddy’. He visibly crumbled. I didn’t mean it, and it was a terrible thing to say. But it would be even more terrible a thing, in my mind, to put into action.
Friends have warned me that when my son is older, he might want to spend more time with his father and ask to meet whoever it is my ex is then seeing. Obviously when he is a teenager, I will have little control over that. But now, while he is so small, impressionable and in need of stability and — most importantly — his mum, surely there is nothing wrong with my stance?
Therapist Sarah Hart tells me there is not, but that ultimately things will change and the issue will need to be dealt with properly: looking at my feelings as a mother, and then addressing the needs of my child. For a person going into the situation as the ‘other woman’, Sarah points out, it can be hard to realise the intensity of the mother-child bond and she may overstep the mark by accident.
A new partner coming in must try to have as much respect for the mother as she can, and try to imagine what it might feel like,’ Sarah says. ‘But one has to understand that it would be very difficult if she did not have her own children.’ And perhaps this is the issue: maybe incoming partners — particularly if they have not started a family — just do not know where the boundaries lie with their partner’s kids, or the hurt they might be unwittingly causing.
One friend told me she went cold when she saw her little girl’s hair expertly braided after a trip out with her dad. ‘It was obvious who had done it,’ she said. ‘His new girlfriend. He had the grace to redden a bit when I said “nice hair” to our daughter. But it really upset me that someone I did not know, who was nothing to do with my family, was doing something so intimate to my daughter.’
This is just the sort of incident that upsets me too, and Sarah Hart tells me it is the same for most divorced mothers. ‘It’s the little things,’ she says. ‘The washing of hair, choosing and buying a child’s clothes, the snuggling up to read a story. The things that to a dad might not mean that much, but to a mum are really important.
‘For men, the biggest fear is often of being completely replaced in their child’s life, but for women, fears are mostly centred around new partners doing the intimate little things — such as holding your youngster’s hand. ’
Which is precisely why I stand firm on my decision that our son should never be introduced to my ex’s girlfriends. Because if I ever heard, as Elen Rivas did, that my child called another woman ‘Mummy’, I think it would break my heart for ever."

I can't imagine why he left her 😯

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Poor kid! Imagine if that was your mum

Mummy.... Can you save up a bit more and send me to boarding school?

looks like she's wasting her money anyway...

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/education-news/stateeducated-students-achieve-better-degree-passes-at-university-9219867.html

Which is precisely why I stand firm on my decision that our son should never be introduced to my ex’s girlfriends. Because if I ever heard, as Elen Rivas did, that my child called another woman ‘Mummy’, I think it would break my heart for ever."

obviously she has no plans to get a new relationship as such a wonderful mother couldn't be a hypocrite

So this is where we've got to after thirty years of feminism and family breakdown...a boy gets the Miranda DVD for Xmas.
Probably be castrated for his birthday.

WTF has this got to do with Feminism?

Feminism goes up, fathers rights goes down.

Still not got a clue what you're talking about.

But freelance writer and blogger Kelly, 41, isn’t willing to take any risks over her son’s education – especially after her own experience at a comprehensive.

Perhaps if she got a proper job rather than sitting on her arse writing shit for Mirror/DM readers to look at (I won't say 'read') she could afford to send little William to whatever school she wanted to AND buy him something better than a Miranda DVD.

This is a perfect example of what a fked up world we live in.

Oi! Badnewz, it's your go on the crane! Go on get up there, don't forget your cape.

Edit: Bit harsh

bad newz your confusing feminist with knobber.

I think he means this?....

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Possibly a reference to Missy here dictating whats going to be what, and the bloke (who understandably ran for the hills when he realised she was a mad bitch) having to just accept everything she says?

Do I win a prize?

I'd imagine she's just laying the ground for a bigger CSA claim. And hoping they won't reference her earlier articles about her shoe collection

Why have they given captain america cellulite?

Brilliant, just brilliant. She needs locking up, what a wretched mother. 😐

It's quite brilliant. The kid will have a metric shitload of presents, from all the well-wishers who will had read that and felt sorry for the poor blighter.

I bet that after reading that, dad has got him an iPad for Christmas

And just imagine mums face when he unwraps it 😀

And image when she see's the label:

To my poor son
Happy Christmas
Lots of love

Dad and my new girlfriend xxx

Another blogger social commentator trying to rise through the ranks to brand ambassador or some other made up job title that gets them free crap

So is she going to get the dog a PS4 and an iphone to look at porn on while the kid gets called Miranda for the rest of his days

****

obviously she has no plans to get a new relationship

Desperately sad indictment if our society , her and sympathies to the wee fella involved.

Come on @binners you know this whole story is just click-bait/page filler nonsense.

^ there's always a spoilsport. 😉

Just read what aracer posted. And now I'm wanting to read the "what air rifle" thread...

[quote=jambalaya ]Come on @binners you know this whole story is just click-bait/page filler nonsense.

Hence why I spoiled that game for them. There are more like that - interestingly I didn't find it directly from google, but from one of the many links google threw up to other women having a go at her on their blogs.