Alex Jones ( The One Show)

I can't believe that in this day and age women are actually debating this issue - would anybody be asking this question if it were a man rather than a woman?

I agree with GoldenAge.

I also agree with GoldenAge

Alex Jones just wants to stay in the spotlight.

She didn’t need to return to work so soon after the baby.

Holly willoughby is another one.
She is rarely of the t,v,

They are both fame hungry.

Also, they are not the main breadwinners. I could understand if they were and the need to get back to work.
So yes, I think she is being greedy.

I don’t buy or read these lifestyle / self help books that are cropping up regularly . Written by so called celebrities who fancy themselves as psychotherapists Anniebach so if it is that kind of book then I will give it a wide berth .

I agree Greciangirl it’s not about money, it’s about staying in the spotlight .

I don’t think many workplaces would let you work with the pram beside you these days paddyann I would give anything for my DD to be able to stay at home with her baby but sadly the end is drawing near and she will be forced to return and there is nothing we can do about it .

gilly, I don’t read those books but I defend the persons right to write them. Freedom of speech, you and I express ourselves freely on this forum, no difference.

I’m not arguing the freedom to write or put ones name to a book Annie . I just wonder why the sudden trend for showing us how it should be done. I don’t even know what AJ has written for all I know it could be a Sci-Fi epic ?

I couldn’t resist the urge to google it. It’s about parenting.

Oh dear, elderly mother gives birth to her first child and suddenly she is an expert on childcare. She is clearly not doing the childcare if she returned to TV after three months. I don't think it is ever about the money I think they are afraid of being replaced by a newer, fresher face.

Alex Jones (The One Show)
Canada ?? gives one year maternity leave at half pay!
I stayed at home for 10yrs when I had my children. It was my choice and we could afford for me not to work.
I loved those years at home with my children.
I don’t think many women have the luxury of staying home now as both salaries are needed to pay the huge mortgage

Oh Maggie I resisted the will to look , but I just knew it would be !

All these TV presenters are super mums now, telling the likes of my DD ( who works in a coffee shop) how it should be done !

Exactly harri and who made her a parenting expert ?

Surely in this day and age we can accept a woman’s right to choose? “Celebrity” careers are often short lived, so if she’s making hay while the sun shines, who can blame her. Even if she stayed at home, it’s unlikely anyone other than another so called celebrity would take her place. Men don’t get called greedy - they are ambitious

Does she claim to be an expert gilly?

Have you got your obtuse head on with me today Annie ?

To write a book about parenting you are surely claiming to be some kind of expert on the subject . If you are clueless you wouldn’t write it would you ?

Is having a nanny or a grandparent to take care of one’s child whilst one works not taking care of one’s child ?

I have just read the book and found it very honest about having a baby and life afterwards. Now nearly all Mums return to work and value their careers just as much as their partners as do my daughter and daughter in law. I stayed at home and found it lonely and boring at times so neither option is perfect. Well done Alex I say

Is that a riddle Annie ?

Do you mean that some women have to work ( meaning to make ends meet ) and grandma or nursery might look after them while you do ?

Or do you mean some women don’t work (in the true sense) and use nannies to relieve them of the burden of day to day childcare?

Having a career that someone enjoys cannot be compared with being forced to do a boring/ physically hard job just to make ends meet .

Do try to avoid personal attacks gilly, I am not being obtuse.

I have no idea what she has written in her book neither have you .

I have now read the reviews, she speaks of having a baby in her late thirties after she had spoken sometime ago of fertility problems.

Like many a working mother she will be criticised whatever her choice. If she goes back to work too soon she's in the wrong, if she takes lots of maternity leave she'll also be wrong. Poor old mums always get it in the neck, don't they?

I've not read the book and don't intend to but I have listened to her when on shows to discuss the book and she does say that her and her husband were both clueless and the book is her own experience of pregnancy and childbirth and being a new parent so I don't think she is in any way proclaiming to be an expert .

I remember being surprised at the time AJ returned to work and all I saw then was one very insecure person. I saw her on LW yesterday and that opinion hasn't changed. I think she is one of the modern 'I want it all and I want it now' group. I have one child who openly confesses to this and I cringe. Nuff sed!