Webchat with Daisy Goodwin, lunchtime, Tues 23 June

[GeraldineMumsnet]

As requested and promised, Daisy has accepted our invite and is coming on next Tuesday (exact time to be confirmed, but probably around 1pm). Get there early to bag your place.

errr. what webchat? she posted 9 times. mostly not to answer questions.

I ask again, why was my post deleted?

Maybe she was treating us with the contempt we apparently deserve.

Daisy, Daisy
Give us your answers, do...

(Oh come on, you know you were all thinking it...)

PS my DD is called Daisy. Lovely name.

PPS It's all v. passive/aggressive here

It was deleted because it was rude FBG.

"The show was vetted by a paediatrician and a child psychioligst before we started filming and after we made the show. They were happy with the show"

Hmm. But the NCT et al were quite definitely not.

Since the stakes were so VERY high - a child's emotional safety at stake - do you in hindsight wish that you had listened to those other voices, rather than your paid consultants?

The show was vetted by a paediatrician and a child psychioligst before we started filming and after we made the show. They were happy with the show.

Could tell us who they were?

Well OneBat - we'll never know whether it's worth pinging the CV over to Silver River now

Well, that went well

onebat: It was widely reported that the NSPCC and the NCT asked Channel 4 not to commission the programme.

psychologist

So you basically ignored the advice of nearly every other professional body and chose a paediatrician and psychologist who were happy to fit in with your criteria. Must have taken you ages to find them, I wonder how much you had to pay them?

Still, it all makes entertaining viewing eh? Watching as mothers weep, listening to the hungry cries of newborns, witnessing small babies being deprived of physical contact, being starved and having their demonic little powers forced out of them by intelligent adults. Oooh yes, bloody good viewing that! Wonder how much it netted you?

It's a good point Daisy - and is regularly discussed on here actually. In my experience, the self-regulation rule works, and poster's who are exceptionally mean or aggressive or disrespectful or rude - are usually told not to be.

but tis the internet.

And you do need a hard hat.

Tina Fey told a really funny joke once when she collected an award, she said something like, 'I won't let this go to my head, anyone here who thinks they're really something - there's this place called the internet. And everyone there really HATES YOU.'

Hellz

I already did that. I mentioned my circs. Got no reply...

Ach well.

Daisy's going to stick around for a bit longer because of slightly late start.

Did you or did you not ask other "routine fans" to be involved, such as Jo Tantum, Gina Ford or Jo Frost - why Claire Verity who no one had heard of ?

"To be fair to Daisy, I think it's likely Silver River did ask other 'routine fans' to be involved."

Rude??

Well, I never did.

I really object to that as it wasn't rude at all imo.

priyag goes paxo

(Onebat, maybe add a few extra qualifations? I don't think they routintely check CVs)

MP - that's what my post says isn't it?

the nct et al were most definitely not [happy].

Perhaps confusing bcs contracted..

One more thing about Bringing Up BAby:
Those of you who watched the show will remember that all the points you are raising today were aired and debated by the advocates in the show.

CV's methods were attacked by the Spock champion and the Continuum Concept champion.

I think that debate made it pretty clear what the downsides of her methods are.

MP - the paediatrician was named, I think, at the time. I won't name him here because of what I am going to say about him, but his name will be buried in the interwebs somewhere. He is known as a bit of a maverick, happy to be non-collegial, and more than happy (if you get me) to go against his own professional body (Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health) who were very concerned indeed about BUB and who wrote to Silver River and everywhere else to say so.

I have that assessment of him from a trusted source at the RCPCH.

I cant recall who the child psych. was.