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The "Thank You" Mumsnet thread

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Maninadirndl · 02/07/2009 12:05

Right can we try to make this the longest thread in the whole of MN? Because as a parent I have found it a source of help, strength and definitely laughter, in a "spit coffee over the monitor" sort of way!

I've been on web forums for donkeys year - I sent my first email in 1988 - and I have to say this is one of the nicest and also most fun forums I've ever seen. Not to mention morally supportive.

The girls who run this site really deserve a vote of thanks.

So here is my start: Thanks!

(Oh and I'd also like to thank Cbeebies for the free babysitting!)

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UndertheBoredwalk · 03/07/2009 00:21

I like this thread
Thankyou MN for everything Been here 6 years now Have been helped through V bad times, celebrated with in good times. Brought to tears by the enormous generosity of strangers when things have turned up at my door, and made some fabulous friends, who will almost certainly be friends for life.

lulalullabye · 03/07/2009 00:12

Ah, thankyou mumsnet for my free trip working holiday to Costa Rica and all the rest

treedelivery · 03/07/2009 00:08

MN helped me diagnose and cure my baby of colic milk intolerance. It stopped her pain, when all the health proffs just said she would grow out of it. I grovel at mn feet.

MN also helped me have bf bras - wonderful people sent me clips to make my own when dh was slung from his job when we were 32 weeks and totally broke. People sent other things too, and made my heart swell.

I think mn will have made me a better midwife - but still on mat leave so not sure. Will let you know. Thats a big thing no?

[Of course I was a brilliant one anyway.....]

BecauseImWorthIt · 02/07/2009 23:52

Custard Creme - why Justine, you are spoiling us!

Another barrel load of thanks here. I spend far too much time on here because of the information, fun, support and general enjoyment. I'm humbled to see the help and support extended to other MNetters, and proud to have played my own little part. And I've made some lovely new friends and won 2 competitions!

Thank you.

ABetaDad · 02/07/2009 23:48

Thanks MN and all of the lovely people who post here. Seriously, you have cured my illness, you have helped me to love my wife more than ever, you made me laugh, you changed my life for the better.

You have also turned me into a soppy old git.

JustineMumsnet · 02/07/2009 23:32

[Sucks teeth] Not sure we can run to Bourbons Clemette.

clemette · 02/07/2009 23:31

I am a relatively new MN poster but I would like to say that it is by far the most supportive, honest, fun and informative parenting forum I have ever been on.
(Can I have a bourbon? )

JustineMumsnet · 02/07/2009 23:26

Aww what a lovely thread - have yourselves a custard creme one and all!

Surfermum · 02/07/2009 17:22

Thank you mumsnet for helping make me a much more knowledgeable and therefore confident parent.

And through meet-ups I have made some lovely friends .

GetOrfMoiLand · 02/07/2009 17:18

MN has been a lifesaver for me the past 2 and half years, since I relocated and discovered that I had NO friends within 150 miles.

Still have very few friends as work loads of hours and have so mnay family committments, so sometimes MN is the only female interaction that I have. And I feel like the world's biggest saddo admititng that but there you are.

The wonderful thing about MN is the daftness of some of the threads. The amount of fun I have had on threads like crap tips, the stupidity thread and daft conversations about tea towels - it has stopped me spiralling down in a vortex of self pity and loneliness, I can tell you.

LeninGrad · 02/07/2009 16:43

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Maninadirndl · 02/07/2009 16:33

btw what is a helicopter parent? It doesnt sound good and I am probably it!

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Maninadirndl · 02/07/2009 16:32

I've just been down the local playground, you know they say "get out a bit". Well I never saw such a miserable bunch of Mums wandering about. There was a bloke sitting by the sandpit wearing this goatee beard and he looked at the sand all the time.

I'm not expecting some American style "Hi!" in my face but the odd smile "Yes you exist" might not go amiss.

Is it like that for some Mums in UK too? Myold playground in north Wales has needles lying around it....

You women keep me sane!

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Jux · 02/07/2009 14:57

Thank you MN. You have no idea how much.

TrillianAstrahasaJOB · 02/07/2009 14:47

Glad you didn't flounce VT, now come back and tell us what you're eating!

whoisasking · 02/07/2009 14:44

Thankyou Mumsnet for restoring my faith in the basic goodness of humanity.

There have been some threads which have been utterly life changing for people. I have watched, in awe, as Mners are given the support they need to leave abusive relationships; financial help and gifts when they are at their lowest ebb, and gin even just the funny threads which have lifted others (and often me) from a gloomy mood.

(I'm in a right soppy mood this afternoon)

VinegarTits · 02/07/2009 14:44

Sorry I'm not feeling the MN love today (almost flounced for a nanosecond) too many smug/think they are clever posters

But usually i love it, so thankyou

herbietea · 02/07/2009 14:43

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TrillianAstrahasaJOB · 02/07/2009 14:38

Thank you MN, without you I would have gone mad while being unemployed.

MaryAnnSingleton · 02/07/2009 14:37

girls,women,who cares ! a big thank you anyway because I love mumsnet

Lulumama · 02/07/2009 14:35

it would take too long to post my thanks !

LackaDAISYcal · 02/07/2009 14:33

Thank You mumsnet for making me the very antithesis of a helicopter parent

My younger two DC are far more outgoing and self sufficient than DS1 was thanks to you; I mean it took DS1 until he was 6 to master the TV remote, but DD can change channels already at age 2

Maninadirndl · 02/07/2009 14:31

Then "Women" it is. I stand corrected!

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LupusinaLlamasuit · 02/07/2009 14:28

Think 'women' would probably do the trick.