to not understand mum blogging

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I can understand why people do it, they have something to do, feel busy and hopefully get advertorials or some sort of money

Its the readers, why would you read a blog written by a bog standard Mum? isn't there anything better to read?

about life as a working Mum of 2 crazee kids, my commute and LIDL versus Waitrose, and some nicked recipes

I means that's boring right?

 at MN referring to moral support when that blog offers anything but

Yeah, exactly

It's a shining example of sisterhood. Not.

at MN referring to moral support when that blog offers anything but

Erm... MN didn't link to the blog, bitchy posters on here did!

You want all mothers to support each other yet you actively back up a MN member who has published a derogatory, judgemental, downright nasty post about a fellow parent? Curious to know why?

Also note mumsnet pays shitloads of us mummy bloggers. Cheers mumsnet.

I'm not sure what your point is glitterazi?

Damn, stupid phone posted too soon.
I'm hazarding a guess that they're meaning it's not really nice to laugh at other mums hobbies and then link to them to tear them apart to back up your point how shit they are, which is where the moral support bit comes in.

Ah of course! Cash before morals. Of course. MN are you really supporting this blog? Even though that post goes against everything that you supposedly stand for?

A hobby is fine. Posting about another parent, her methods, criticising and judging her, is not. That's what I'm criticising, I couldn't give a fuck about anything else.

She laughed at another mum, she tore her down. Save your criticism for her.

Were people laughing at her hobbies or commenting on how unkind and smug she was towards a fellow parent.

People were saying the entire hobby was "attention seeking", "smug", "pointless" etc before the blog in question was even mentioned.

Fair enough, I don't judge people for blogging even if it's not my cup of tea. I do judge people who are openly unkind like this particular lady was in that post.

I love Tina fey the actress/comedian. She HATES mummy bloggers and describes them as having 'some of the worst human behaviour I have ever seen'. I won't link is as it seems MN doesn't like that! But google it and read the article for yourself....

We are not condoning ANY blog. We are just saying that to point to a specific blog is not in the spirit of the site.

The entire hobby IS attention seeking. Or am I missing the point?

Agreed Bibbity you wouldn't start a blog hoping it got no attention would you?

I've never heard of Urban Baby but have Tina Fey and think she's great (Mean Girls teacher and prison officer in Muppets Most Wanted, right?)
So I've had a google of the article in question and then Urban Baby.
You do realise that's an online forum right, and not a mummy blog? She's saying she hates online gaggles of mummy forums which she wouldn't dare to post on "as has some of the worst human behaviour I've ever seen in my life."
Which is really funny actually seeing as where we're all posting is on an ONLINE FORUM SLATING OTHER MUMS! So I think she has a point.
The irony here's brilliant.

I certainly wouldn't be here slating the blog in question if it's author hadn't published that vile post. But she did and i won't stay silent on it, perhaps if the author had been a little kinder, shown some compassion it wouldn't have stirred up such a heated debate. If you start something then don't be surprised when others finish it. It's so easy to denigrate another person when the person neither a. knows they're being slagged off or b. has a platform to respond. It's bullying of the worst kind.
Irony indeed.

Blogging is fine, it's not something I'm into but I believe each to their own. But using your blog to tear down another parent? Nah, that's wrong, and I can't see how it can be defended.

But using your blog to tear down another parent? Nah, that's wrong, and I can't see how it can be defended

No, I do actually agree with you there. Nobody should be tearing down other parents, whether on a blog or on parenting forums like here.

I take issue with the whole laying into blogging as a whole though which some did, maybe not yourself but lots did.

Agreed glitterazi.

I was upset at her judging another parent without full evidence. She has no evidence to support her judgment apart from seeing several minutes of a woman on her phone. She has no idea what's going on in her life that made her say no, yet she was keen enough to publish her judgement through her blog. I'm not the bitch here!

Mummy blogs are dull. Now STFU, parents, however.....hilarious

The blog being discussed truly is a load of badly written, nauseatingly sickly old bollocks. With a side order of pretty poisonous judgement against another parent. I'd hate to lose brain cells reading more of that bilge, so I won't, but the post linked was deeply unpleasant. Poor Lil G.

Mummy blogs generally leave me cold. The "perfect mum" ones are particularly nauseating. I like Peter and Jane as she is an excellent writer (and has ventured into serious topics such as PND and the right to choose - I seriously recommend those posts to any Mumsnetter), plus she doesn't advertise stuff. Also, you don't get photos of her kids, which I do find a bit dubious with other mummybloggers (the kids after all don't get a choice in this). And you don't get the constant self-promotion (Totes Inappropes is a bit guilty of this - photos of herself, her outfits, her kids, constant "jokey" pleas to ITV, BBC, M&S etc. for publicity - that makes me cringe.)