To think that some people on here have far to much time on there hands!

[nowbehonest]

A Question: Why is it that good old fashioned motherhood has gone out the window, and has been replaced by a library. Mothers who bring up their children buy the book (or at least claim too)who will quote chapter and verse on shite they have read, when common sense is all that is necessary?

Well I don't ... but why have you name-changed for this?

Sorry, but it's "their" hands.

Sorry again, wrong thread!

Sorry again, wrong thread!

Name changed so I can be frank, otherwise I would more than likely be banned to the mn dungeon for speaking out!

...and indeed 'to' rather than 'too'. You need to do a bit more reading mate.

I have to much time on my hands. My DD is asleep now though and I usually spend time on MN at night. Why are you here if you don't need the advice? Do you not have common sense?

Now if the OP had been about the blogs or the quite vulgar sex threads I might have agreed. I can't see the link between mothers doing their research because they care, and having too much time on their hands - sorry.

Have you got a tad too much time on your hands tonight?

Perhaps some people do have time on their hands and thats why they're here (me, for one).

Whats your point?

yes I don't see the link either.

Can you explain more?

Have you too much time on your hands? That you need to spend time worrying and indeed posting about whether others have too much time on their hands.

and do you mean people who claim to do things by the book, or literally people who buy the book?

And do you mean time on their hands, or thyme on their hands [herby emoticon]

it's by the book, not buy the book, unless you're buying books.

also, space needed after incorrect too and bracket, thusly: 'to) who'.

and you don't actually need that 'who' anyway...

questions should always end in a question mark.

That's just cowardly. I agree with what you say, but since I don't know who I'm talking to, I'll gracefully bow out.

Speaking your mind doesn't consign you to the dungeons. It earns you respect, even if it isn't always apparent!

LMAO BOCO!!!

i agree wholeheartedly with sparkly i havent read the thread and just thought i would add somethin
xx ei xx

I am on here all the time.....its not that I have too much time. I have a filthy house and neglected children....whats your point???

Who bought a book? .

I was given a certain tome which ended up thrown across the room in -frustration lovingly stored in the bookcase.

I didn't buy it although I had expressed a wish to read it. The other books I had were from my HV.

Since when in conversing with other mothers and educating ourselves as women seen as having "too much time on our hands". If so, why are you even on here? Don't you have anything better to be doing?

oh read it now and i still agree wit sparkly and boco (pmsl!!) and warthog9also pmsl)
xx ei xx

Good old fashioned motherhood hasn't been replaced by a library, its been replaced by mumsnet

I kinda see your point, but many people have had a really crap example in their parents, want to do better, but just don't always know how. I read tons when my dcs were tiny, but now feel confident in my own abilities.

And sometime "common sense" meant other "old fashioned" things like smacking and the whole "children should be seen but not heard" bullshit malarkey.

nowbehonest - what are you chunterring on about?did you change your name because your post is inane because it's not contentious

Who?

And indeed, if you are such a perfect mother surely you should be busy ironing or hanwashing your dC's bookbags?.