Comments on: Dani’s Diary http://thelatest.co.uk/7/danis-diary-45 Just another The Latest weblog Wed, 21 Dec 2011 20:39:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: P. Dant http://thelatest.co.uk/7/danis-diary-45/comment-page-1#comment-2035 P. Dant Sun, 04 Jan 2009 14:22:34 +0000 http://thelatest.co.uk/7/?p=1097#comment-2035 People think they have a right to have children. They also have a duty to provide for them ! We need a more American attiude in this country. As for Dani,she is a hot babe in real life,and the panic stuff is all made up. People think they have a right to have children.
They also have a duty to provide for them !
We need a more American attiude in this country.
As for Dani,she is a hot babe in real life,and the panic stuff is all made up.

]]> By: Paul http://thelatest.co.uk/7/danis-diary-45/comment-page-1#comment-1858 Paul Wed, 17 Dec 2008 13:52:50 +0000 http://thelatest.co.uk/7/?p=1097#comment-1858 Dear Dani, I read your latest column with great interest. Have you ever thought of applying for a job at The Daily Mail? They hold single mothers in similar esteem, and they're equally good at demonising all of them with a single example. Yours, Paul Dear Dani,

I read your latest column with great interest. Have you ever thought of applying for a job at The Daily Mail? They hold single mothers in similar esteem, and they’re equally good at demonising all of them with a single example.

Yours,

Paul

]]> By: Beverley Williams ( full time Mother ) http://thelatest.co.uk/7/danis-diary-45/comment-page-1#comment-1857 Beverley Williams ( full time Mother ) Wed, 17 Dec 2008 13:51:42 +0000 http://thelatest.co.uk/7/?p=1097#comment-1857 Dear Dani, I read with interest your comments about single parents returning to work and as a single Mother of an eleven year old I feel the need to reply. My daughter started secondary school in September of this year. So far, the school has closed for three half days at a few days notice to parents.A further two inset days were scheduled alongside one week for half term. The Christmas holidays are two weeks long (school holidays are thirteen weeks per year),Oh and you know that chesty cold that was doing the rounds?.....she had it and needed a further three days off sick! Perhaps your Aunt or your Mother were fortunate enough to have extended family to call upon in times of chickenpox, diarrhea or school closures. Perhaps as twelve year olds you and your sister didn't hanker to go to the pier or Churchill Square or all the places children really should be supervised until they are mature enough to be on their own. So come on Dani, what should I do? Give her a key and hope she will be safe? Tell her to be a good girl and read Jane Austen until Mummy gets home? Or, explain that six weeks in the summer, two weeks at Easter, two weeks at Christmas and a week every half term will fly by at a childminders house when she's helping to look after all the younger ones? At the work focused interview I attended recently, I was told how, if I went back to work, I would be so much better off, have so much more self esteem, have more of a social life and generally be a much more worthwhile Human Being. Unfortunately, I wasn't told how to be at work AND be the kind of parent every child, in my opinion, needs......Just, there! Dear Dani,
I read with interest your comments about single parents returning to work and as a single Mother of an eleven year old I feel the need to reply.
My daughter started secondary school in September of this year. So far, the school has closed for three half days at a few days notice to parents.A further two inset days were scheduled alongside one week for half term. The Christmas holidays are two weeks long (school holidays are thirteen weeks per year),Oh and you know that chesty cold that was doing the rounds?…..she had it and needed a further three days off sick!
Perhaps your Aunt or your Mother were fortunate enough to have extended family to call upon in times of chickenpox, diarrhea or school closures. Perhaps as twelve year olds you and your sister didn’t hanker to go to the pier or Churchill Square or all the places children really should be supervised until they are mature enough to be on their own.
So come on Dani, what should I do? Give her a key and hope she will be safe? Tell her to be a good girl and read Jane Austen until Mummy gets home? Or, explain that six weeks in the summer, two weeks at Easter, two weeks at Christmas and a week every half term will fly by at a childminders house when she’s helping to look after all the younger ones?
At the work focused interview I attended recently, I was told how, if I went back to work, I would be so much better off, have so much more self esteem, have more of a social life and generally be a much more worthwhile Human Being. Unfortunately, I wasn’t told how to be at work AND be the kind of parent every child, in my opinion, needs……Just, there!

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