Julie Myerson is...

[Thora]

From the Telegraph article:

"By early May, he will have punched his father. By late May, he will have hit me so hard on the side of my head that I’ll be in A&E with a perforated ear drum. No one has ever struck me before. I put my finger to my ear, half expecting to see blood. But there’s nothing. Just a fizzing silence. The consultant asks what happened and when we tell him he says nothing, but concern flicks across his face."

Hitting a woman? . . . hitting your mum?

The son sounds like a prick. I've got no sympathy for him.

Even if all her account is true (and it is just her account remember), cashing in on her son's problems is disgusting. What about her other children too? Bet they love having the intimate details of their family life raked over by tabloids.

 

[bluestreak]

I know nothing at all about any of this, but if she is the author of Living With Teenagers, then I hate her and her stupidity and arrogance with a passion so fiery i need to be able to find a way to make it a new energy source.

 

[Orang Utan]

dreadful person - wtf is she thinking chucking her child out of the house for smoking a bit of weed?

 

[Orang Utan]

I know nothing at all about any of this, but if she is the author of Living With Teenagers, then I hate her and her stupidity and arrogance with a passion so fiery i need to be able to find a way to make it a new energy source.

Tell me about Living With Teenagers - I never read that cos it looked like a bore

 

[Thora]

Tell me about Living With Teenagers - I never read that cos it looked like a bore

It was all just her teenage children being vile, swearing at her and each other etc, and her and her husband failing to do anything. And she wrote about it as if it was all perfectly normal family life.

 

[Orang Utan]

It is though, isn't it?

 

[Thora]

It is though, isn't it?

I was a fairly unpleasant teen, but would never have dreamed of being as horrible as her teens. My mum wouldn't have stood for it for one thing. It's all stuff like:

"I stopped by Harvey Nicks on the way home darling and bought you this new skirt"

"You know I hate purple you fucking bitch!"

"Sorry darling, how about I take you out to lunch tomorrow instead?"

"Fuck you!"

Oh, aren't teenagers just terrible. My husband says I should stop pandering to them but she was pleasant to me for several hours last Thursday so I think it's worth it!

 

[trashpony]

Tell me about Living With Teenagers - I never read that cos it looked like a bore

Here's one of the columns. If you manage to read it to the end without being highly irritated you're a much more patient person than me

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2006/jul/08/familyandrelationships.family4

 

[Orang Utan]

I didn't get beyond the first paragraph
She's rewarding her kid for not misbehaving FFS!

 

[Thora]

She had to stop writing the column because schoolfriends of her youngest son worked out it was him and started bullying him about a column she'd written about his pubic hair.

 

[trashpony]

I didn't get beyond the first paragraph
She's rewarding her kid for not misbehaving FFS!

They are really pretty shite parents it must be said. Lots of feeble hand-wringing and cringing. You don't cringe to teenagers, they'll fry you alive

 

[starfish]

TBH i dont think id heard of her till i read todays Indy, but what a horrible fucking person she sounds. Im so happy that she feels that people shouldnt make any judgements until they have read the book .

 

[Looby]

God I hate this fucking woman. I saw her on sky news and when asked whether she had asked her sons permission she said she hadn't but wrote the book as therapy. Selfish fucking cow.

I was a 'difficult teenager' -with good reason- and it was bad enough that my mum felt that she could interfere in my life and blab to everyone about my private business so I can only imagine how that poor kid feels having his life splashed across the papers.

 

[Biglittlefish]

Jesus I'm never having kids.

 

[Diamond]

Jesus I'm never having kids.

ditto

 

[Gingerman]

Hey she'll get a few column inches out of it I suppose

 

[goldenecitrone]

At least she is articulate enough to write her experiences down, that seems to be her crime.

 

[Looby]

At least she is articulate enough to write her experiences down, that seems to be her crime.

Her crime is using her kids to make cash without their permission. Does she think this is helping them? God, growing up and being a teenager/young adult is hard enough without every little details being available for all to read. Has she considered the effect this could have on her sons employment prospects etc

No because she's a selfish greedy bitch.

 

[gentlegreen]

Hideous. I would hate to be a social worker having to intervene in that family.
Is it just me reading something a bit reverse-oedipal in the mother-son relationship ?

Doubtless Debra Bell will be seriously pissed-off if she actually makes money out of her "spoilt kid gone wrong on skunk" story.

http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/families/article5853584.ece

Interesting to see how her being of the "chattering classes" is attracting more attention that the "reeefer madness" bit in the Mail's letters ...

 

[Thora]

Her crime is using her kids to make cash without their permission. Does she think this is helping them? God, growing up and being a teenager/young adult is hard enough without every little details being available for all to read. Has she considered the effect this could have on her sons employment prospects etc

No because she's a selfish greedy bitch.

And if it was her who wrote Living With Teenagers, she never even told her children she was doing it and had to stop because kids at school worked it out and bullied her youngest son. She seems to lack respect or empathy for them as people.

 

[cat107]

From the Telegraph article:

"By early May, he will have punched his father. By late May, he will have hit me so hard on the side of my head that I’ll be in A&E with a perforated ear drum. No one has ever struck me before. I put my finger to my ear, half expecting to see blood. But there’s nothing. Just a fizzing silence. The consultant asks what happened and when we tell him he says nothing, but concern flicks across his face."

If she is the LWT mother then this episode is a real eye-opener.

www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2007/sep/22/familyandrelationships.family8

She objects to her son hitting her and her partner. Yet when she arrives home to find her daughter pinned to the floor with Jack/Jake standing on her hair and threatening to spit on her, later punching her, trying to tear off her top and pretending to headbutt her, her only concern is that it's "embarassing" that the girl's screams can be heard outside.

She blames the daugher for fighting back, backs up Jack/Jake by also ordering her to strip, calls her a silly little cow, and completely fails to tackle her son's violence as she's going out with their father in half an hour.

Not sure that dad would be any help to the daughter here either
"I know what their father would say. Walk away. Leave them to it. Let them kill each other."

Jesus fucking Christ., that's so depressing. I feel so sorry for their two other children.

 

[imposs1904]

. . . on Radio 2 right now.

 

[kyser_soze]

Quite frankly if my mother had systematically violated my privacy by repeatedly writing about me since I was 2 years old I'd probably have ended up hitting the bitch too.

Polly Filler of the worst kind.

 

[Orang Utan]

I think she should be hung, drawn and quartered and her head placed on a spike on Blackfriars Bridge as a warning to Bad Mothers everywhere.

 

[gentlegreen]

She really wouldn't recognise a clue if it fell on her from space.

 

[Thora]

From the Telegraph article:

"By early May, he will have punched his father. By late May, he will have hit me so hard on the side of my head that I’ll be in A&E with a perforated ear drum. No one has ever struck me before. I put my finger to my ear, half expecting to see blood. But there’s nothing. Just a fizzing silence. The consultant asks what happened and when we tell him he says nothing, but concern flicks across his face."

If she is the LWT mother then this episode is a real eye-opener.

www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2007/sep/22/familyandrelationships.family8

She objects to her son hitting her and her partner. Yet when she arrives home to find her daughter pinned to the floor with Jack/Jake standing on her hair and threatening to spit on her, later punching her, trying to tear off her top and pretending to headbutt her, her only concern is that it's "embarassing" that the girl's screams can be heard outside.

She blames the daugher for fighting back, backs up Jack/Jake by also ordering her to strip, calls her a silly little cow, and completely fails to tackle her son's violence as she's going out with their father in half an hour.

Not sure that dad would be any help to the daughter here either
"I know what their father would say. Walk away. Leave them to it. Let them kill each other."

Jesus fucking Christ., that's so depressing. I feel so sorry for their two other children.

"Jack" isn't the same boy as Jake - the oldest son in LWT teenagers is called "Eddie". I agree though that she can't be too shocked about her son punching her when she has let them get away with similar behaviour towards their sister.

 

[DexterTCN]

Radio 4 now.

 

[Mrs Magpie]

I know. As soon as her name was mentioned my fist hit the off switch. I never liked that woman and she's all over the sodding place now Is there no escape?

 

[Biglittlefish]

Her justification for writing the book is that skunk is a problem that needs to be high lighted. I really find it hard to believe
skunk was what made her son a total prick. A factor sure. But how then does she account for the other horrible kids she seems to have. Are they hittin the crack pipe?

 

[LJo]

I know a family where the oldest daughter was a smackhead, she hit her mum, she stole her money, she shot up in the house and brought her smackhead friends round.

Her mum stood by her, spend hours trying to get her help, always had her back, did everything she could.

Said smackhead is now, 20 years later, completely clean, happy, fulfilled, in a brilliant relationship with a great job. I very much doubt she would have been in that position if her mother had thrown her out when she was 17.

Saying that, my son is three and our biggest conflict is when to put the Play-Doh away. I can't help reading stories like this and thinking that if I judge the person then karma will kick in...