Meyerson denies authoring "Living With Teenagers" column

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[[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mandrake/4962988/Julie-Myerson-and-the-extraordinary-ca se-of-the-copycat-column.html Meyerson denies authoring "Living With Teenagers" column

"There have been rumours on the MumsNet website, but she is adamant that it is not her," a spokesman for the author, pictured, tells me. "It is no more than a coincidence."

oooer!

Guardian piece claims LWT columns have been taken down now the childrens' identities are known. But they are actually still there...

Oh dear.
I was frequently appalled by the Living With column.
I'd be mortified if I was a memeber of that family. I feel sorry for the kids too.

I see they've removed the online Living With Teenagers columms "to protect the children".

How long before the book containing all the columms is published do you reckon?

Ah, I see it already has been. Oh dear.

www.amazon.co.uk/Living-Teenagers-Kids-Parents-Bumpy/dp/0755317548

Bit pointless removing them on the website then.

The article says they have removed the columns now that the author has been identified, to protect the childrens privacy...but there's a BOOK of the columns! So whats the frigging point of that??

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Well, we've once again proved the truth of 'never believe anything until it's been officially denied.'
Why didn't she just admit it to the nice man from the Torygraph?

How stupid of her to deny it and then admit it. Isn't there a Max Clifford for the middle classes who can take her in hand and help her handle the media a bit better? She seems to be digging herself a deeper and deeper hole and it's uncomfortable to watch.

You could always access them anyway by using a web archive such as The way back machine

this is all going tits-up

Julie begged her children's forgiveness.

Until the next book

awww what a cock up

Oh dear how embarrassing. I feel sorry for her now.

Did a random search of teh Guardian's cached pages and this one came up which seems quite apposite now

This is a somewhat disingenuous thing for the editor to say:

"What we now know ? but did not know then ? was that the Myerson family was in the grip of a family crisis. Had I known that, I like to think that I would have put aside my editor's appetite for a great column, and advised Julie not to publish, directing her instead to people who might have been able to help them and their son."

Myerson talked about her child's drug problems in the Independent in Feb 08 saying "It has been the most traumatic thing that has ever happened to us" - this was several months before the column stopped, and it only stopped because the children found out about it.

It's a horrid case of everyone trying to sweep up spilt milk

(is that even an expression?)

I don;t get the zeal with which people are condemning her. I occasionally read the teenage column, and didn't catch anything outrageous in it. Parents with teenagers have to deal with them smoking pot. It helps people knowing that other people are going through the same thing.

And she wrote the explanation of why she did it in The Guardian months ago. Why is this news now?

Soak up?

I feel really angry about this and so sorry for those poor kids. Stupid stupid self centred woman. She'd better start saving her royalties to help her children pay their therapists.

Those columns made me very cross,why are parents so scared of their children? They do them no favours at all and then are really outraged when they behave appallingly.

My daughter is dealing with her sons speaking so nastily to one another and to their parents at the moment; she doesn't just go ,'Oh, darling, that's not nice,' She gives them what for!!

I am becoming an Old Fogey, I shouted at teenagers on the bus last week!

Why do I feel angry? Because she wrote highly personal accounts of her children's lives, arguments, personal details (eg the pubic hair thing) and published them without their knowledge let alone their consent. So now everyone they meet knows all the worst details of their teenage lives AND that will stay with them for hte rest of their lives.

The point isn;t whether their behaviour was good - it obviously was awful and quite shocking, but nothing that she did in writing that column was going to help that situation.

So let me get this straight, JM can call her son "4 pubes" so it gets chanted at him when he is at school but she goes in a huff when he sells his story to the Daily Mail?

She sounds like a self absorbed idiot.