Re: Toning it down?!

"hedgehog" <hedgehog@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> I'm new to this motherhood lark as my child is only 7 weeks old but I
> don't feel any need to change how I look. I think that she would not
> thank me for doing that. There is imho too much conformity, and the
> pressure to conform will come from outside anyway. At least if you're
> different your child has some model to balance their views with. I'm
> quite sure mine will soon embrace pink and be into the boy band of the
> day but I will simply have to accept that.
> We all impose our opinions to a certain extent on our children, it's
> impossible not to. Mine for instance will not be setting foot in
> McDonalds until she can walk in and pay for it herself. But I have also
> had comments about vegetarianism and the assumption that because I'm a
> veggie I intend to bring my  kid up as one. I don't. She can make up her
> own mind. But i don't see people making these high handed judgements
> against people who impose religious beliefs on their kids.

Hedgehog, are you the twin sister I never knew I had? You sure sound like
it!

> I don't think that many people will stop their kids coming over. And if
> they do are they the sort of people you want your kid mixing with
> anyway?
> You don't say which part of London your in but I lived in the
> twickenham/Richmond area for 9 years

Oooh, but you're posh then ;-)
I'm in Cheam, near Sutton in Surrey, Greater London zone 6.
Where are you now?

and I know what you mean about some
> of the snobbery. Lots of 4 x 4's and BMW's  outside the local schools.
> Did see Tom Baker in a pub once though ;-)

I saw Rick Parfitt in his local in Teddington once. personally I couldn't
see  this famous heart-throb charm of him, but there you go...
Oh and congratulations on the birth of your bubba, how are you both?
If you need someone to yap about all sorts, including new baby related
issues, feel free to get in touch...
xx Victoria
g o t h v i c a t h o t m a i l d o t c o m