Mother’s Day

Lindsay

Attended a Mother’s Day assembly at my children’s school today. Song after song about how mums do all the cooking and the cleaning and the washing and that’s why our children love us so. Sad and cross that my children are being taught to see mothers primarily as cleaners and cooks. It is 2016 and schools are still teaching children stereotypes from the 1950’s: women cook and clean, men work. The Dads don’t get a special assembly on Fathers Day, they get a bacon butty at a pre-school breakfast because of course all the MEN have important jobs to go to whereas the mums can just put down their Marigolds and spend half the morning in school. Then a few years later schools wonder why they’re struggling to get more girls into STEM sciences. Emailed to complain, waiting to be dismissed as a killjoy.