Mum of girls (Caitlin Moran) telling us mums of boys how to speak to our sons

JudithWithABigKnife · 04/04/2025 15:30

What are you talking about? Did you miss posting a link to something?

Pinknotpurple · 04/04/2025 15:31

She's not someone I'd ever take advice from 😆

IveGotAnUnusuallyLargePelvisISwear · 04/04/2025 15:31

Can you elaborate? I have no idea whether you’re unreasonable or not otherwise.

SheridansPortSalut · 04/04/2025 15:32

What's your issue?

Smallmercies · 04/04/2025 15:32

Mothers of girls are allowed to have opinions on the parenting of boys? 🤷‍♀️

Smallmercies · 04/04/2025 15:33

Voting YABU for being so vague.

user1471538275 · 04/04/2025 15:33

It's on the home page of mumsnet.

5 bits of advice from CM to mothers of boys.

No thanks CM.

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Suitablefor · 04/04/2025 15:33

JudithWithABigKnife · 04/04/2025 15:30

What are you talking about? Did you miss posting a link to something?

It’s all over the banner on mumsnet

I clicked it and such nuggets of advice as not to sit how sons down and ask them if they’re planning to murder someone

and fact she doesn’t have sons but thinks in all her wisdom she should tell us how to speak to our sons is…. Well a bit silly

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Heronwatcher · 04/04/2025 15:33

What? Maybe as a mother of girls she sees how her daughters are being spoken to by boys and has some ideas. Listen to her if you want, decide whether it seems sensible or not, move on with your life…

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Suitablefor · 04/04/2025 15:34

Smallmercies · 04/04/2025 15:32

Mothers of girls are allowed to have opinions on the parenting of boys? 🤷‍♀️

Sure thing

but mumsnet have recruited her to tell us specifically how to speak to our sons

surely they could have rustled up someone who did indeed have a son?

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Suitablefor · 04/04/2025 15:35

Heronwatcher · 04/04/2025 15:33

What? Maybe as a mother of girls she sees how her daughters are being spoken to by boys and has some ideas. Listen to her if you want, decide whether it seems sensible or not, move on with your life…

It’s a massive banner on mumsnet homepage
take a look maybe

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ScrewedByFunding · 04/04/2025 15:35

Smallmercies · 04/04/2025 15:32

Mothers of girls are allowed to have opinions on the parenting of boys? 🤷‍♀️

Why do you think parents of boys care what your opinions are? Are you superior parents?

(I have both girls and boys btw).

OllyBJolly · 04/04/2025 15:36

I think she's exhausted her "How to be a girl" grift and is looking for ways to prolong the franchise.

I did enjoy her earlier pieces but find a lot of the writing quite tedious now.

OneTC · 04/04/2025 15:37

Have you raised a menace and this is why you're so defensive?

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Suitablefor · 04/04/2025 15:37

OllyBJolly · 04/04/2025 15:36

I think she's exhausted her "How to be a girl" grift and is looking for ways to prolong the franchise.

I did enjoy her earlier pieces but find a lot of the writing quite tedious now.

Agree
and
Agree

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Newbutoldfather · 04/04/2025 15:37

You are very right.

So many people are better qualified, child psychologists, teachers and even mothers with successful sons!

I have no idea why she thinks she has any expertise whatsoever in this area.

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Suitablefor · 04/04/2025 15:38

OneTC · 04/04/2025 15:37

Have you raised a menace and this is why you're so defensive?

Yes because that is the only reason someone might think it odd to recruit a woman who is not the mother of boys to tell mums of boys how to speak to them

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JudithWithABigKnife · 04/04/2025 15:38

Suitablefor · 04/04/2025 15:33

It’s all over the banner on mumsnet

I clicked it and such nuggets of advice as not to sit how sons down and ask them if they’re planning to murder someone

and fact she doesn’t have sons but thinks in all her wisdom she should tell us how to speak to our sons is…. Well a bit silly

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Boys and girls aren't different species. I don't think you have to be a parent of either boys or girls, or indeed a parent at all, to have perfectly valid ideas on how to talk to children.

SalmonEile · 04/04/2025 15:38

I had a look -
“When researching my book, What About Men?, I asked dozens of experts for their advice on bringing up happier teenage boys - who live in a world of online chatrooms where talk of depression can be met with emojis of nooses and knives, and boys are encouraged to mistrust adults who “don’t understand” the realities of their lives. Here are five things I learned.”

I mean I guess it’s not just her opinions alone but stuff she’s researched from others that may or may not be useful

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Suitablefor · 04/04/2025 15:38

Newbutoldfather · 04/04/2025 15:37

You are very right.

So many people are better qualified, child psychologists, teachers and even mothers with successful sons!

I have no idea why she thinks she has any expertise whatsoever in this area.

Nor why HQ presumably my paid her to do this unless she’s flogging something discretely

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Suitablefor · 04/04/2025 15:39

JudithWithABigKnife · 04/04/2025 15:38

Boys and girls aren't different species. I don't think you have to be a parent of either boys or girls, or indeed a parent at all, to have perfectly valid ideas on how to talk to children.

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so why couldn’t the article be “how to talk to your teens” in that case?

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Smallmercies · 04/04/2025 15:40

ScrewedByFunding · 04/04/2025 15:35

Why do you think parents of boys care what your opinions are? Are you superior parents?

(I have both girls and boys btw).

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So do I - 3 boys and 2 girls 🤷‍♀️.

Newbutoldfather · 04/04/2025 15:40

@Suitablefor ,

Her and MN are just trying to take advantage of the zeitgeist around ‘Adolescence’.

It’s not about the boys, it’s about the dosh.

eqpi4t2hbsnktd · 04/04/2025 15:40

She is very annoying...

Firenzeflower · 04/04/2025 15:41

She needs to make some cash.