When single mum Sarah is planning her budget for the week, she faces a dilemma – does she buy designer brand clothing for her kids or does she eat lunch?
For 26-year-old mum Sarah, who appears on UK TV series Single Mums Club, she regularly skips meals to afford designer sneakers for her twin boys, aged eight, because she wants them to be “popular”.
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“I’ll starve myself for a week to buy them a pair of Jordans (Air Jordan runners) so everyone knows they’re not meffs (homeless people),” Sarah reveals on the show.
“I will do everything I can to make them the popular kids. Because I know the popular kids have the easier school run.”
The events management student insists there is an upside – she loses weight when she skips meals, which she says makes the decision a “win-win”.
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"Sarah says paying the bills is a "tight squeeze", with a large portion of her money going towards "nails, hair jobs, tattoos and clothes shopping for me"
Seriously? How do people get this stupid?
This is where males start to learn to put their needs in front of womens needs. They're not making their Mum do it, but she's teaching them the lesson that her needs aren't as theirs. That how things look is more important than how things actually are. There's just so many things starting to go wrong with this.
Clothes don't make kids popular, their personality does. From what I have seen, the popular kids generally don't tend to succeed in life anyway, because they aren't hungry for success.
Mum needs to look after herself first, then she can look after her kids. Starving herself so they can have designer clothes, is just asking for a host of health problems. Her designer kids clothes won't help if she ends up in hospital.