Alex Jones ( The One Show)

Yes we will gilly.

Well then we will have to agree to disagree then Annie

It is still work gilly.

There’s no way they’re the same Annie .

Dreading going to work for 40+ hours doing the same mundane / physically hard job that you hate can’t be compared with doing something you look forward to and love doing .

Alex Jones and Holly Willougby aren't the main breadwinner? You mean their partners earn more than £400k pa. I disagree they are being greedy. They are currently highly successful, and wish to stay that way as long as possible. Good on them.

Personal attack’s ? What are you on about
Annie ?

Having a career one enjoys is the same as a boring job gilly, both are work.

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!

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 .

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?

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.

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

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?

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

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 ?

Does she claim to be an expert gilly?

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

Exactly harri and who made her a parenting expert ?

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 !

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 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.

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

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 ?

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.