Live chat with Dr Tanya Byron, Thursday 6 September between 1-2pm

[OliviaMumsnet]

Hi all
We're delighted to announce that Dr Tanya Byron will be here for an online chat with Mumsnetters this Thursday, 6 September.

Tanya is a practicing consultant in child and adolescent mental health and has two children of her own. Her new parenting book Your Child, Your Way encourages you to really think about the kind of parent you are and the kind you want to be, but mostly to understand your child.

Tanya will be joining us for an hour on Thursday at 1 o'clock, so grab your sarnies, get your questions ready and join us then.

For those of you who have unavoidable lunchtime commitments, we'll let you post your questions in advance here.

Thanks, MNHQ

For the rest of you, we'll see you on the 6th.

Sorry Dr T.. I see you have given SN a mention below. And now you've gone. Sob.

Would you like to come round for tea? Dh will bake a lovely cake..

We're coming to the end of our scheduled chat, so I just want thank Dr Tanya Byron very much indeed for joining us not to mention apologise for terrifying her!

Thanks also for wading through the chanting and Mumsnet in-jokes as well as decoding all our abbreviations.

And of course, thanks to everyone who took part today.
MNHQ

Thank you Dr T!

here's the thing I have to go as have a meeting before picking my DD and DS from school! I am sorry and feel guilty that you all prob very frustrated by my lack of being specific and probably too genral advice. I hope some was useful and it's been fun altho I have severe hand cramps! Do mumsnet do speaker events Q & A sessions where we can do this face to face and raise money for charity at the same time? I do these things sometimes so let me know and if we can set something up let's have more time together. Anyway goodbye lovely mums and dads (and all other carers out there). Thanks for this slot and please remember that a problem only becomes one when we label it as one and most of what we are describing as problems are in fact behaviours that are normal for the developmental stage of your child. XXXX tanya xxxx

Awww Marsy

nooooooooooooooooo dont let her go......is it too scary to want to handcuff her to her keyboard?!!

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So MNHQ.... what about a series of Dr T chats?

Twins
Teens

etc...........

Ooooooooooooooh that sounds goooooooooooood

thanks Dr T sorry we terrifed you, you have to learn to touch type quicker essential life skill when looking after children too

Yes! MN you have to do that! I would be there!!!! Thanks again DrT

mars - my foot was aimed for the door before 2.00pm but mn took so long to load that it was late!!! (sob, sob, sob)

Yes! MN you have to do that! I would be there!!!! Thanks again DrT

Hope it wasn't too scary.

Gosh she is pretty cool, isn't she, I may actually watch reruns of her programme now

Oooh liking the idea of a face to face Q&A

Can't beleve I was late getting home and missed most of this! Not fair.

Thanks squonk!

Thanks, Dr Tanya.

Thank you Dr. T.

May have to go and buy your book anyway

Yes! Yes! A live Dr T Mumsnet meeting!!

Can we? Can we?

OlivaMumsnet? JustineMumsnet?? AnyoneMumsnet??

And I forgot to ask for an autograph for DH. He is stroppy now.

god, I can just imagine a Dr T and a mumsnet face to face love in!!!

Thank you too. Some really great advice.

Shinyhappy, I've already added Dr T's suggestion to the list of things to discuss at our next meeting.
AnyoneMumsnet

She was good. Hour not long enough though...obviously.
Like the stuff about how often a problem is only a problem because we label it as such (like a weed being a plant in the wrong place) and that actually children are 'supposed' to act up and it is our job to parent them through the phases, that the fact they are being awkward little thingummybobs is not down to our crap parenting nor is it automatically 'problem behaviour'.

thanks dr t

Thank you xxxx

and thankyou, Dr Tanya, for introducing me to the expression 'gripper knickers'. for that i am Profoundly Grateful.