to ask which MNer's influence you?

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I've just read a thread where a poster was influenced to buy somthing really expensive because of a poster on here.

I think BOF has influenced me by her posting style which is very funny and she deals with bad issues with OP's without being nasty and personal. I hope I have become funnier and kinder because of seeing how she is.

Also I was persuaded to go and buy a steam mop by ChippyMinton - so she's obviously imfluenced me.

And a moon-cup - but I can't remember which single OP that was.

Who has influenced you? (on here)

I would like to see that Goblinchild post about longterm parenting.

Goblinchild is brilliant

Trill
Sorry, in bed on iPhone so can't link too idle to fire up pc

Will post it tomorrow

The gist was best parents face the challenges their children present with unswerving love

I wouldn't make you leave your bed, I'm not that demanding!

Shirley, there's so much I want to say about the pink issue, but it's probably not the time to bore everyone with my ramblings.

But yes, the feminism topic has done that for me too. I was so overjoyed to have burlesque described as "stripping for fat goths" instead of "empowering" and now I won't suffer fools gladly.

Which does make life harder, as I am surrounded by them. Hey-ho.

trillian :)

Search for thread entitled:

"To think that having children who eat well and sleep well is not the be all and end all of parenting"

'twas in AIBU

BoF makes me out loud.
I love Shineys threads - (probably for all the wrong reasons )
ChippingIn and Hectate ususally manage to type what I'm thinking in a much better and clearer way than I could.

But actually influenced me from here into my RL?
Goblinchild -she (he?!) gave me sound advice a few months ago with DS who's 'quirky'. Having taken her advice I can now get him to make what he's trying to say clearer and follow his slightly mad trail of thought.

How can I forget -- scaryteacher and edam gave advice on bullying. Which WORKED. Almost brings tears to my eyes to remember it now.

Not one person in particular, but I have been influenced by the BF threads and am now planning to carry on until DS self-weans. probably
I've bought and read a few of the recommended books on BF and Feminism too and have learned a lot, even though I haven't agreed with it all. (and that applies to both topics)

It would be easier for me to list the MNers that irritate the hell out of me have me rolling my eyes, but that would not be sporting.

I've just got a job thanks to Cod.

And to all those who mentioned the Comic Relief thread, that was me.

nice job mate

have got over the chastening - just about - and have learned something

It's one of those conditions that nobody realises is a condition, if you see what I mean.

Spread the word!

I will tawdry I will

Honestly, mass opinions never sway me if I think / feel differently I just think "what a bunch of predictable sheep" when I see that and don't always believe it.... But on occasion, there is a singularly left field comment by someone who is just coming from a really kind and thoughtful place - that always stands out for me - as a few years ago that was more commonplace here. I am put off by all the banal stuff and arse-related (in the literal sense) stuff on here which seems to have flooded even into the previously safe zones of "good housekeeping" and " adult fiction"

fuck off

BluddyMoFo

DS2's name came from MN. DP and I thought we'd come up with it between ourselves but the other day I searched one of my previous names to see what I'd said about something else and there I was before I even got pregnant saying 'from your list you should use 'DS2's name'. Thank you skyplusbump for that!

Not an individual as such but I do tend to ask myself AIBU before wading in with both feet. I have been surprised on here to learn that a lot of people did think IWBU when I thought I was totally in the right. MN has made me far more likely to see both perspectives of an argument.

Tiktok's sound, nonjudgemental advice means I am still ebf'ing my 5 month-old when I nearly didn't make it to week two. Honestly, the woman deserves a medal or an OBE or something.

ShowOfHands is the kind of mother I want to be. She has also helped me process a difficult birth experience.

Oh, and I'm another person who has been ashamed by a previous attitude (about using the disabled loo) after reading a thread here.

Here's the quote from Goblinchild:

Good parenting is when you have a child who isn't easy for whatever reasons and you don't give up on them, reject them or try and pretend that stuff isn't happening. The very best parents I've known have coped with very challenging circumstances, often lurching from one issue to the next in a fog, with only the certainty that they love their children as a constant.

The original thread is here.

Right, well, I'll nominate myself.

LeQueen, my Guru of Life. :o Pagwatch, who is always right, and Hully, who is always hilarious. All my dear friends on the Buddy Bench, GoMummy, Elmo, Tea, Tiredmum , and the newbie of sorts, Valium . I just joined the Paul McKenna and FLYing threads, and I think those are going to have a big influence. And shabba and Edgar and MrsDeVere , whose stories inspire me to be more loving and patient with my DS.

And just...Mumsnet in general. It's so interesting to get non-American perspectives on things. It's been very good for me, I think.

Cheerful, do you wear Boden though?

Um.

Possibly ...