How does this woman make you feel?

She doesn't make me feel anything really. She's obviously a bit up herself but her children look happy and healthy so I can't really criticise her.

Our grandsons have to either walk or cycle two miles to the village if they want to see their friends in the holidays. I did drive them on that very hot day at the beginning of the month because it's open countryside with no shade and if there's a thunderstorm while they're up there (we get quite a few) I go and look for them and drive them home.

Our children used to spend their summer holidays either riding their ponies or bikes or walking to the village. We noticed how quickly DD1 put on weight when she passed her driving test.

Can't help wondering how her children may rebel when they're teenagers. I'm all in favour of exercise and a healthy lifestyle, but this seems far too extreme.

13 miles a day! Talk about going from one extreme to the other. Of course, getting out in the fresh air, running, cycling, walking, climbing trees, paddling in streams, flying kites, etc., etc., is great for children. But there's a happy medium.

I'm inclined to think this woman is either exaggerating because she wants to get herself in the papers or she's got OCD.

As for the children "looking happy". Photographs do not always tell the truth.

Love to know what they're like in ten years' time, and twenty.

Actually, in the article it says her regime "includes" 13-mile walks, not that they have to do that every day. I expect they've done one or two walks that long. It's a long way for a four year old.

Probably enjoy being couch potatoes.

My initial reaction is to say I don't believe it. I'm sure they do some exercise but she's one of those irritating journalists who specialise in making money by exploiting/writing about her children.

She explains: 'My physique was once greatly admired by a sports masseuse who compared me to a 'finely tuned racehorse with a body that was simply exquisite'.

She makes me feel amused by her self absorption, if she actually said this.

I think the answer to that statement should have been "Oh! When was that?"

And as for her refusing to speak to anyone at the school gate who isn't wearing lycra or running gear

Isn't that an "ism"? Also, there may be people at the school gate wearing lycra who take no exercise at all!

So now we are back to being judged by what we wear? What about someone who may have done a five mile run earlier, but shower and change and then go to collect their children wearing a summer skirt and top?

Stupid, silly woman!

PS How can we be sure that she isn't either related to the bloody awful Katy Hopkins, or her in disguise?

Sarah's children Alex, 11, Bella, 7 and Edward, 4, get at least two hours of exercise every day

Well, a 4 year old is not going to walk 13 miles in two hours - at least not any 4 year old I have ever come into contact with. So it is all a load of tosh; I have just spent today with two grandchildren who have been on the go non-stop for hours (and all holiday so far!), without doing a route march.

I notice she is 53 and her youngest is 4 - I thought I was getting on a bit having a baby at 37 - but of course that is considered young these days.

I notice the journalist is Samantha Brick - should we take it all with a pinch of sel de mer?

Yes indeed rose quartz, tosh puts it very well.

Oh! Is Samantha Brick a journalist now?

Having endured the world's scepticism about her claim to be so beautiful that everyone's husband fancies her, perhaps she's now moved on to promoting another fantasist?

Well, it is in the Daily Mail!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eBT6OSr1TI

Well, it is in the Daily Mail! So it has to be true!

Samantha Brick is a writer, producer and free-lance journalist (apparently) and very, very, very beautiful.

GS2 has rarely been in a buggy since he was 2 and his brother was the same. They both walked early and there seemed no point using a buggy if they were perfectly capable of walking.

DD used to swim 60 lengths before work before she had the children but has never felt the need to appear in public in Lycra since she retired from gymnastics

I have to admit to feeling a bit 'disapproving' when I see a child of about 4 or older still being pushed around in a buggy, but I expect it's down to convenience for the parent.

My DD ditched the double buggy for her twins as soon as they could walk a reasonable distance under their own steam because it was so much hassle getting the contraption in and out of a car or bus.

She seems a sad woman, a meme, they think they have all the answers, all their choices and decisions are always the right ones , a meme has perfect children, perfect lifestyle, everything they do and say is right, anyone who chooses a different lifestyle is wrong for a meme , they live in meme world

How does this woman make me feel? - Inadequate. Also, cynical...
is it all true?

I think they'll all have worn out joints and an allergy to Lycra

And brushing their hair wouldn't come amiss once in a while.

I'd like to be able to see into the future and what the kids will be like when they are 16 or 18. Students partying, living on pizza and take-away and cutting lectures because they can't be bothered to get off the couch I suspect. The trouble with extremes is that there is always a swing of the pendulum to the other side. She has experienced this, what a pity she hasn't learned from it.

The grandsons 12 and 8 are out cycling with Dad , the eldest has his sister 3 , in a trailer , the go so far and drop into the café for ice-cream and the wee one has a run about , they walk to school but given half a chance they are doing lego or drawing with the TV blaring beside them . They are perfectly healthy . The granddaughters are into swimming and cycling , even the 3yrold can go like crazy on her 2 wheeler , but , again given half a chance they are slumped on the floor painting reading or just messing , maybe the thing is to offer the chance of exercise and rest and balance things out . Children need a breathing space to dream and use their imagination and jus think thinks out for themselves

I think anyone who believes what they read in the DM has many more problems than this women, who appears to be doing what she believes is her best for her children. Obviously as a large part (not you of course, if you happen to read it ) of the readership of the DM comes from the severely judgemental they will enjoy being judgemental about someone else's life ...