Shona Sibary

SHONA SIBARY became besotted with the UK’s south west while holidaying there but after moving from her Surrey home to Devon permanently she started to hold the area with disdain.

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Shona Sibary, 45, has been hit by a sense of overwhelming apathy. The mother-of-four suggests it may be because she’s grown to resent the fact that she’s expected to put everyone else first.

In the second part of her diary, Florence, 17, has finished au pairing and joins hordes of British teenagers travelling to the Mediterranean in search of summer work for five weeks in Zante, Greece.

In the past six years I have had four male nannies and I haven’t once regretted it, writes SHONA SIBARY. Gone are the days of female au pairs with their PMT and skimpy clothes.

How can it be possible for a child — and, make no mistake here, at 15 that’s what Annie still is — to be able to hide something as potentially life threatening a bulimia from her parents, asks SHONA SIBARY.

One of Shona’s favourite photographs of her daughter, Flo, shows her about to set off for her first day at school, but now she feels ashamed as she’s rejected her expensive education for a bar job.

Shona Sibary cut her alcoholic mother out of her life for her children’s sake When her mother had 48 hours to live she flew from Devon to Vancover Shona sat by her mother’s side in her last moments.

Shona Sibary and her 17-year-old daughter Flo fight constantly. Shona doesn’t remember the last time Flo said something nice to her, and Flo believes that her mother has given up on her.

Denise, a 43-year-old school supervisor, got pregnant at 16 with Danielle. Danielle, now 26, a retail assistant from Sussex, still bears the emotional scars of her neglected upbringing.

In the past four years, I have fallen in love with four puppies and bought them for hundreds of pounds, writes Shona Sibary. Then, months later, I have turned my back on them and given them away.

Do all mothers enjoy a closer relationship with their sons than with their daughters? Yes, says Shona Sibary, who admits to preferring her son Monty to her three daughters Flo, Annie and Dolly.

Shona (inset) was packing for a family trip when she received a call from social services. A false report of mistreatment of her daughter Dolly (pictured) led to the fortnight from hell for the family.

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Petra Vlasakova, 32, from the Czech Republic, (right) reveals, ‘I was so young and out of my depth. Now I’ve had children of my own, I can’t believe some of the things Shona (left) expected me to do.’

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