So I’m telling my mom the other day about my grand scheme for child-rearing. I’m going to have a baby, keep the baby until it’s eight or nine or so — whenever they develop their own personalities and start asserting themselves — and then I’m going to send this child to boarding school and not deal with it until it’s an adult and prepared to make some sense. Because if my own child is anything like I was when I was a teenager, I want nothing to do with him or her. It’ll just make my own mother too smug to watch me struggle against a teenager just like myself.
“See,” I explained to my mother, “then the kid can’t resent me, because I won’t have been involved in any of the major decision-making processes in his or her life. There won’t be anything he or she can hold against me.” My mother glared at me, as mothers do. “Well, Mom,” I said, “I’ll call him on his birthday every year. It’s not like I’m going to be totally absent.”
Anyway.
I thought of this when I read that Kate Moss switched places with her daughter’s nanny as a birthday present for the nanny.
The nanny – on hols with Kate in Ibiza, looking after her daughter Lila Grace – woke to a fancy showbiz brekkie of smoked salmon and champagne.
She was then wined and dined, taken out on a yacht and lavished with gifts.
So, once a year, Kate Moss spends time with her child while the nanny sleeps and gets drunk. The rest of the year, it’s the other way around. This approach to motherhood, I feel, would work well for me.
and we all know what a great family vacation spot IBIZA is!!!
I didn’t even know Kate Moss had a kid. Her daughter is very very cute.
One day I want to be rich enough to ‘give the nanny a day off’
I didn’t know she has a kid either….who is daddy?
I, too, had no idea she was a mom. She’s good at being a bad mom. ;P
kate moss has a kid?!?!
if she was my mom, i don’t think i’d want her in my life anyway!
um beet, one problem with your plan. you’re going to have to up your timeline. they start getting a personality much earlier than 8 or 9. try age 2 – 3 depending on the child.
kate’s daughter is a beautiful little girl. i really hope she has a stable nanny or extended family.
I’m with Ribbet there – my three year old is currently asserting her personality by arguing with me about which outfit to wear for the day. A not-unusual occurrence. She has VERY firm ideas about clothes to say nothing of food, toys, playtime, sleep, whether it’s okay to pull the hair of other children. I am already messing up her life by laying down boundaries.
I don’t think anywhere accepts three year old boarders.
If they did, today would be a good day for me to enroll her.
You guys didn’t see all those pics of kate moss when she was pregnant? The baby’s daddy is Jefferson Hack, he’s an editor for some magazine : )
What a selfish, insecure waste of air Kate Moss is. New druggie b/f every other month, that’s got to do wonders for this little girl’s sense of security. Hmph.
i find it pretty hilarious that all of these people didn’t even know she had a kid-it just solidifies the whole point of this post! :D hahaha!
Kate is soo beautiful ,lucky guy.
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