A thread to share latest posts on our blogs

[MmeLindor.]

Anyone?

I will start off with a link to my latest post, a part of the story of Beth (formerly known as Dora) who moved to Geneva to escape a relationship turned sour.

This is NOT me, by the way. I have drawn on my knowledge of Geneva but it is not an autobiograpy :)

Amodmillymum inspired me to write about lying to children here

Good post, Cheria. Have commented.

Great post, Cheria - I've commented too :) And also linked to this post on another blog I follow about lying to kids from a different perspective.

Thanks both. I'm not decided on father christmas yet... and won't have to for another year or so which is great!

I am a bit concerned about FC actually. DD is 9yo and I am not sure if she still believes - she has some very forward friends, and I cannot imagine that they haven't said anything yet.

We keep saying, "This could be our last year of FC".

My 8yo knows the truth. A friend of ours kept saying 'what do you think?' to her dd whenever she asked her outright, and when she eventually gave in and told her, her poor little girl was distraught, not because he wasn't real, but because she'd asked her mum something, expecting that she could trust her mum of all people to tell her the truth about something that was bothering her, and it turned out her mum had kept on lying.

Took her mum a long time to build the trust back up!

We do do FC and TF, but we don't go out of our way to maintain the lie - if they ask us, we'll tell them. And we reminded our 8yo, when she asked, that both of us carried having stockings well into our teens, and it was still desperately exciting to go to sleep with it empty, and wake with it full, even though we knew it wasn't really FC doing it.

I remember my little brother maintained that he believed in FC for many years after he did as he didn't want FC to stop coming. My gullible mother kept up the pretence for all four of us until my little bro was 14 (I swear he hadn't believed since about the age of 6)

My most recent one variousstuff-bullet.blogspot.com/. Sort of bitter sweet.

Can I ask a question? How would folk feel about starting a w/c thread to post latest blog posts in. This thread is very long and it would be easier to read the threads if we posted a new thread weekly and also help people keep up to date with posts etc.

For example:
w/c 11th Sept - 18th Sept Latest blog posts

It's just a suggestion. I wondered also, how do feel about pimping out post we have enjoyed or that are thought provoking by tweeting them to your communities or sharing them on your Facebook page. I am happy to do that for others too and would anyway but it's a good way of reaching out to new audiences.

What say you?

Both good ideas. Who would like to take responsibility for setting up the thread each week (if everyone else agrees).

Amodmilly
Good idea. People are more likely to click on a new thread, when it pops up in ACs.

And, yes to sharing posts I have enjoyed. I do that a bit already. I am a bit wary of posting too many blog links on Twitter though, as some folk don't like blogs and I have had a couple of negative comments.

How often do you guys tweet your blog link?

I just started twitter last week, but post a link to my blog when I update so far. I don't know if it's effective or not. I don't understand why people would be negative about posting of blog links though one can choose not to click surely...

I think that whoever decides to post on a Sunday starts the thread so if you come on the forum and you are first up then you create it.

I have a dedicated blog facebook profile - please feel free to add me as a friend:

www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001140061804

This has lots of bloggers on it so they are used to getting blog posts pimped onto it

and then a Facebook page:

www.facebook.com/pages/A-Modern-Military-Mother/121965357833104

This has lots of bloggers on it so they are used to getting blog posts pimped onto it

I tweet posts quite a few times.

Ok, have finally sorted out FB. I could not get it to accept MmeLindor, so had to try out a couple of variations of blog name / pseudonym.

Shall I start this weeks thread now? We are almost at the 1000 post limit anyway.

Yeah, sounds like a good idea to me.

I only every tweet a blog post as I do feel more than that is a bit spammy. I often retweet other people's blog posts, however.

I also chat extensively on Twitter. I'm Tee2072 there as everywhere else!

Go ahead MmeL start us off!

Ok, here is this weeks thread

Feel free to add posts that you have written since Sunday.

I already tweet and share blog posts by other bloggers that I think will interest my 'followers' and friends

My FB page is facebook.com/freeyourparenting if anyone's interested :)

facebook.com/freeyourparenting

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I'm going to be all self-referential and blog about Mumsnet today, as I need to add the logo.

(now I've told you I can't put it off, I actually have to do it)