Mumsnet Talk

....said 'Middle-class parents, politicians (and, apparently, Mumsnet) have turned parenting into a science, says Professor Vincent of the Institute of Education, University of London' (Telegraph)

I didn't say that! At the beginning of the talk mentioned in the Telegraph I noted the abundance of parenting advice, and quoting another researcher
saying that mumsnet has reformulated the boundaries between public and private by taking the private concerns of participants (over the healthcare for those who have suffered miscarriages, over disability allowance, over the sexualisation of young girls clothes, for example) and making them into public campaigns, seeking public change. At the same time, a lot of mumsnet conversations do – with varying degrees of support and empathy – promote private solutions, promote changing individual maternal - behaviour, rather than the wider social and material contexts in which mothering takes place.Mothers are expected to work to improve themselves.

It was an illustration of the (not new) argument on the increase in maternal responsibilities for all aspects of their children's development.

I love mumsnet and have been a member (under a different name) for years!

lol these things happen...

All the time. But I don't want to get on wrong side of mumsnet

Oh this sounds interesting. What was the talk you were giving?

I love chewing over motherhood as opposed to actually doing it

It was actually mostly about parent-teacher relationships, and and how working on developing the social relationship between parent and teacher might make them feel less like a conveyor-belt experience!