To think that mumsnet is a great parental resource, support network, good fun and if you don't like it

[exasperatedmummy]

There is always netmums hun!

Over my time using mumsnet, i have been entertained, moved, advised, supported, kicked up the arse, shocked, judged, addicted, challenged, soothed, calmed, helped, overwhelmed by the kindness of others.

Yes, we get a bit carried away on the old AIBU forum, but it doesnt take one long to learn that you are inviting dissent by posting on this section of hte board. We might even come here looking for a ruck, go on admit it, sometimes its good to rant and have that rant challenged, provoking futher ranting.

For me, nothing has changed, apart from the loss of a few familiar names

I LOVE mn - really, really love it. I regularly read things here that make me cry, and things that have made me laugh so hard I've wet myself.

I'm always talking about it to friends and family who just don't understand, think I'm a sad techy loon.

Also, I'm an antenatal teacher and I learn so much about individual experiences of pregnancy, childbirth and parenting that I almost feel it's my professional duty to come here. (that's my excuse anyway). I've actually printed off posts and responses and used them in class to stimulate discussion about what the first few weeks and months with a new baby are like (hope I don't get my wrists slapped by MNHQ for doing that) and about the things that have helped and hindered people with breastfeeding.

Mn is a fantastic resource. I didn't realise just how great it was before, when all that stuff was going on about GF threatening to close the site down for allowing mums to slander her. Knowing what I know now, it makes me really angry that anyone could threaten to do that and take away what's probably a life line to some of the mums who come here who are lonely and struggling. Heck - I've had a lot of kindness here from people when I've been low.

I stopped saying "Well someone on Mumsnet did this...." when people in RL started glazing over. I now say "In some parts of the country they do this..." and it gets a better response!

I have learnt LOADS. Especially about SEN provision and how the national curriculum is delivered in other areas.

On namby-pamby, irrelevant AIBU threads I miss cod's 'get a life FFS' put-downs but I don't tend to look at the posters' names so I don't know who else is missing.

I haven't been on many threads lately that have me crying with laughter. MNers are such a witty lot - come on girls!!

i wish i'd known about mn when ds1 was teeny. sure i would have been less of a loon.

what happened to cod?

A site I used to use, sometimes do but it's not as good as here, has hand outs (posters, business cards and post cards) so that you can hand them out or put them up. I think it's a brilliant idea and we should have them, we should already have them as MNHQ had planned to go to The Baby Show.

PMSL! at Abbafan lol I agree with OP!

There were posters sent out to Tsarinas- I gave mine to the lady from social services and the hv- they were good and shuld be reissued I think

what is a tsarina then?is it like MN bunny girls.advocates for the site

They write the local pages if I understand correctly.

ok thanks.never perused local page only do chat/aibu