Why is it, if your house is clean and organised, you are viewed as being a 'good' parent?

A perfectly clean home, can be only achieved by those super mums types. But dare we not have all our washing folded, or every cup washed we are open to criticism past the state of our kitchen or laundry...its now open war fare on our parenting skills. I guess its easy to sit back and judge, to let the imagination wander into the realms of what other things that parent may not be doing...but as long as they are loved with all their needs meet what should it matter how tidy their enviroment is or isnt...

Generally, it is the former. Of course, this has to be tempered with the treatment of the kids; the mother in a clean and tidy home may be a child beater, and the mother in the tip may show lots of loving attention.

Kids don't care about the cleanliness of their home, so long as it isn't a dump. Kids like love, attention, and understanding. That's what counts.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.