This Working Mum’s Response To A Twitter Troll Who Tries To Guilt Trip Her Is Brilliant
Radio Presenter, Susan Keogh took down a twitter troll in the best way possible. [Photo: Twitter/@suskeogh]
Any working mum who’s ever experienced the dreaded working mum guilt will want to say a great big props to a radio presenter and fellow mum after she stood up to a Twitter troll who suggested she shouldn’t have a baby and a job.
Susan Keogh from Kildare, Ireland who works for Today FM and is mum to four-year-old Faith, hit back at the unnamed man by posting an open letter revealing the guilt-fraught reality of juggling work and motherhood.
Sharing it on Twitter, Susan begins her letter, ‘Dear Brave Man, I got your message. The one where you pointed out that if I missed my 4 year old girl so much while I’m in work, then I should just give up my job. Or quit posting pictures of her, at the very least. How had I not thought of that? So helpful.’
Susan responded to the unnamed man via an open letter she posted on Twitter [Photo: Twitter/@suskeogh]
She goes on to write honestly about why she loves her job – ‘It’s really important to me..I enjoy it’ – and all the ways that both works for her, and, sometimes, doesn’t.
And in a paragraph that many working mums will related to, Susan also goes on to question the mum/dad divide when it comes to being a working parent. Writing that while she’s constantly reminded about how she is missing out on time with her daughter, her husband, Stephen, also a radio presenter, doesn’t face the same judgements.
‘I miss bed times most nights,’ she writes. ‘Do you know how many people point that out to me? Too many. My husband leaves the house at five every morning. He misses “wake up time” every day. Guess how many people point that out to him? You got it! None.’
‘Do I feel guilty? Every day,’ Susan adds. ‘to provide a better future for my daughter. So when she’s 16 and wants to go on the school ski trip I can say “yes”.
‘Of course I fear she’ll turn around and say she would have preferred if I’d been at home with her all of the time, but I’m hedging my bets,’ she says. ‘She’ll pick the ski trip right? RIGHT???’
Susan and her four-year-old daughter, Faith. [Photo: Twitter/@suskeogh]
Hitting a nerve with other parents who face the same tricky decisions, the post has been shared and liked over 1,600 times and has prompted other women to share their own juggle struggle. Many have offered their gratitude to Susan for speaking out about the upset that snap judgements can cause.
Claiming that she was in the same boat and had faced similar judgement, one woman tweeted.
‘I get this lots too. Don’t see the men getting any of it nor doing the half of the juggling.'
Another added ‘Why is it any of his business, you do what you want to do, and you’re showing your daughter to do the same.’
And it wasn’t just women offering support, one man explained that quality rather than quantity is what counts when it comes to time with kids. 'It’s not the time you spend with your children, but how you make them feel when you are with them. That’s what will last,’ he said.
Over to you unnamed man….
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