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.

[hellzapoppin]

Miaow Elvis!

[onebat]

sheeet must do work.

[DaisyGoodwin]

thanks to all you for your questions. I hope I have answered at least some of them adequately.

Very pleased you like my hair, it is all my own.

I am going back to the house of teen disappointment now

[morningpaper]

Good luck with teen Daisy

[GeraldineMumsnet]

Thanks v much Daisy. Hope your teen feels more cheerful soon.

[ahundredtimes]

Swedes: OMG! I have every faith in you, I think you're a wonderful ambitious and slightly scary person. I marvel at your every step. I couldn't be prouder of all the effort you've put in. I'm excited by your A levels. Look at me!. So, what do you need to do to get an A star? I think you can do anything you set your mind to, you wonderful daughter of mine, but I also think you have to work really hard to get it. Do you?

[tiktok]

Glad to speak to you, Daisy, and good luck to your daughter. I'm not totally happy with your answers but it was good to ask the questions

[onebat]

My mother was babied in the CV stylee and she certainly felt that she had been damaged by it.

She felt that it cauterized mothers, who were less and less able to 'hear' their children's emotional needs as they grew older.

She was very angry about it - used to have tears in eyes discussing it. Couldn' t imagine ever doing it hreself.

Have only just remembered that.

[onebat]

My mother was babied in the CV stylee and she certainly felt that she had been damaged by it.

She felt that it cauterized mothers, who were less and less able to 'hear' their children's emotional needs as they grew older.

She was very angry about it - used to have tears in eyes discussing it. Couldn' t imagine ever doing it hreself.

Have only just remembered that.

[AitchTwoOh]

y y Y, onebat! omg i would have LOVED to see a fly on the wall of CV, that would have been amazing. and somehow the fact that you would have been using pre-existing clients referred, presumably, by their own friends who would already have been familiar with CV etc, that wouldn't have seemed so bad as you wouldn't have had to pimp for parents to use on your show.

interesting that i wouldn't have had so much of a problem with that, somehow, as the result, a twisted first few weeks of childhood, would be the same. i must go and ponder that.

i'm sure i saw a thing written (by someone who'd been considering doing BUB and dropped out) on the c4 site that the parents signed up for having a maternity nurse on hand and didn't quite realise that they were going to follow a method. 'course, this being the internet, you don't know if they were real or not.

[squeaver]

You all know she's going to get a column out of this, don't you??

[ahundredtimes]

Actually it's really hard isn't it? Ok. I take it back. What do you say Swedes? Nothing, and then pick up the pieces?

[FabBakerGirlIsBack]

Of course, squeaver.

I won't be in it as I was deleted for being rude.

[Wittering]

That is sad, onebat.

[Swedes]

100x Arf, you are too good.

[AitchTwoOh]

ah. she's gone. hope teen is okay. remember to tell her that she might not think that she is beautiful right now because, you know, what girl does at that age but that when she gets older she will look at photos and realise that she was a knockout and WHY did no-one tell her.

i'm going to embroider that on a sodding sampler for my dds.

[onebat]

Thanks for coming, I'm sure it was alaaarming to say the least.

[morningpaper]

what about "Hoho! You'll have forgotten all about this minor setback by the time of your second divorce!"

no?

[AitchTwoOh]

aaaw, onebat, that's rubbish. your poor mum. i'm sure it's true, though, that you can't exactly be 'how to talk so that kids will listen and listen so kids will talk' if from their first cries you've ignored what they've got to say. poor wee sods.

[Rhubarb]

[AitchTwoOh]

i would also like to know what kind of a name Hamish Mykura is... if you've got a minute to pop back, DG. i mean, really...

and did you know that mykola pawluk is a MAN??!

[onebat]

Helloo Aitch! sorry have been crap correspondent.

[Lulumama]

i would have expected a lot, lot more

disappointed really

no depth to any of the answers, especially the tricky ones

would have been a lot better and garnered more respect to say, 'you know what, it was wrooooooooooooooooong'

kudos for coming and doing the webchat, unlike nameless others scherezadegoldsmith and taking a bit of flak

hope disappointed daughter is ok though

[AitchTwoOh]

they're counselling each other, rhubarb. in an interventionist style, by the looks of things.