To think mumsnet makes me a worse mum?

[monkeynuts123]

MN is strangely addictive but I'm wondering if it makes me a worse mum. Before I came on here I thought it was totally unacceptable to shout at your children (mind you I only had one then!!) and now I think a bit of shouty is normal. I notice how the bar is very low on here about rubbish parenting and people seem to normalise things that are just not reasonable, such as chucking water over your kids or leaving tv on for hours or eating shit food. Is this being judgy? Maybe but sometimes I think on here people aren't judgy enough and I wonder if I spend much more time on here if my standards will lower too.

Hang about!!!!! What's a steam mop? I'll have you know I am a perfect mother.

It's goady and possibly stupid, not sure about jokey

(an extra special one with added E numbers, because I saw an advert for it on the telly)

OP never came back. Funny that

I thought this was a fake thread, but apparently it isnt.
Basically take what you want from it.
But definitely stick to what you think is right.
Dont be swayed if you are not happy about something.
When I first came on MN I thought it was representative of rl. But I have come to realise it is not. Well, certainly not the rl that exists round where I live.
If MN is swaying you and you dont think it should, then yes, dont come on very often, or just visit certain topics for some specific advice.
Also, you could use search. A lot of things on here will have been discussed at some point over the last 10 or 11 years. Just bear in mind that some of the things on there may not be up to date.

Op it's your children I feel sorry for!

Sorry couldn't resist.

Aside from time spent on here I have mn to thank for being a more relaxed parent. and a bra that fits

I was all set to one of those crazy uptight parents who disowns the mil for giving their pfb cake.

Now I realise that the best way to foster a healthy relationship to food is a little occasionally is no big deal but raspberries are strictly rationed

I think folk are too quick to try and identify a demographic when actually it's fairly representative of society and therefor encompasses the whole spectrum

I would say MN is definitely higher end rather than lower end
I would say it leans to SAHMs
I would say a disproportinate amount of posters have disabilities
I would say a disproportinate amount of posters have children with special needs
I would say MN is more left wing than the national average

There was a thread on MN about 3 months ago, where a group of posters said they didnt feel they fitted in, in MN.
I had been of the assumption that MN was very encompassing.
But when the posters listed what they did, how they raised their kids, what they gave their children to eat etc, I realised that they were indeed in the minority of the MN demographic. And yet there must be several thousand or millions of parents just like them.

FairyJen how fucking dare you put up a link to such offensive shitcrap without a warning. The colours,the twee-ness. Need to bleach my brain.