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I am IN the Mumsnet Rules and really wish I wasn't!!

116 replies

mrsbabookaloo · 21/06/2011 11:18

Never in a million years thought I would be in it: I'm not a prolific poster and my kids are quite young, so I'm not often dispensing advice on here, more often asking for it. But of course thought it would be fun if I was. But NO.

Of all the things that I'm quoted on, it's making my dh sound like a bad parent in a parenting book!

I somewhat criticised his parenting style on here 3 years ago, never dreaming it would appear in a book. (Yes, yes I know it's a public site, mumsnet owns the rights to our ramblings...).

So, for the record, DH is a wonderful parent and the best dad in the world. He is a fully hands-on Dad, has tons and tons more patience than me, plays with them way more than me and hardly ever shouts at them, unlike me.

We had some disagreements in the early days, when we were just starting to have to lay down some rules with dd1, and I think he just hadn't thought about how we should approach it, but in fact as he says, it is me that shouts at them more, even though in some ways he's a more traditional disciplinarian. We have 2 dds now, and things have changed so much since I wrote that post. He is 100% the best father I know.

There. Now put that in your next book please!

OP posts:
stealthsquiggle · 21/06/2011 13:09

Thanks for looking MmeL. Now I need to decide if that makes it more, or less, appealing as a present Confused

Threadworm8 · 21/06/2011 13:10

Mme, could you just quickly C&P the whole book? TIA.

MmeLindor. · 21/06/2011 13:10

Nope, sorry Notnow.

Threadie
"Here's one from my dog.
Natural prey,
bedecked in hay

Awesome squeak
And yet so weak.

I heard you munch
I yearned to crunch.

Carrot eater
Jaw cheater".

Poledra · 21/06/2011 13:10

Would you search for me please? I really don't want to be in it (but suspect I have little to worry about on that score Grin).

MmeLindor. · 21/06/2011 13:11

Just go out and buy the bloody thing. It is only a fiver. :o

From the quick flick through searching from miscellaneous MNetters it seems to be jolly amusing.

Threadworm8 · 21/06/2011 13:13

Hmm not bad for a dog I suppose, but not my finest literary hour.Grin

whomovedmychocolate · 21/06/2011 13:14

Oooh do me, do me Grin

MmeLindor. · 21/06/2011 13:20

WMMC
You, nasty mummy, are advising new parents to pretend that the imaginary friend ate the chocolate.

Poledra
Nope, not under that name.

WanderingSheep · 21/06/2011 13:21

Oh crap, I hope I'm not in it! Although I doubt it - I don't post that often and I usually talk crap.

notnowbernard · 21/06/2011 13:23

Thankyou anyway, Mme!

RustyBear · 21/06/2011 13:24

wanderingsheep - don't worry, you're not!

thumbwitch · 21/06/2011 13:24

Ha. I've been told I'm in it - I'm not too impressed either as it's obviously under the section "How do you know if you're not paying your DC enough attention". Hey ho.

RustyBear · 21/06/2011 13:25

Though wanderingtrolley is, and I haven't seen her for ages...

RustyBear · 21/06/2011 13:27

Was that a guess, thumbwitch?

"Mummy, no! Computer away!"

Grin
thumbwitch · 21/06/2011 13:28

The title of the section was a guesstimate, yes - I was told the quote!
Grin

BibiThree · 21/06/2011 13:29

I'm so going to have to stand in a bookshop thumbing through a copy. I don't have £5 to spend at the moment
hope I'm not saying anything regrettable if I am in it

PredictableDullard · 21/06/2011 13:30

i couldn't find it in waterstones at the weekend

Pagwatch · 21/06/2011 13:31

Add message | Report | Message poster mrsbabookaloo Tue 21-Jun-11 12:25:43
Yes, pagwatch....you seem very involved....!

Is that lighthearted or am I being told off?

MmeLindor. · 21/06/2011 13:35

Bibi
If you always post under that name, then I can tell you that you are not in it.

WanderingSheep · 21/06/2011 13:36

Oh thank god! Good job I'm not very interesting, eh or they might have put me in Smile

BibiThree · 21/06/2011 13:37

Could you? Really? I've been Bibithree (BibiJesus at Christmas) for 4 years. How ill you do it? Are you a speed reader?

MmeLindor. · 21/06/2011 13:38

Bibi
I have it on Kindle and can search. Nothing on BibiThree, or on BibiJesus.

Hassled · 21/06/2011 13:39

I have a rather poor Haiku about a guinea pig in the book. Part of me is pleased, part of me thinks I wish it had least been a good Haiku.

Threadworm8 · 21/06/2011 13:40

Do you think that in future people will read novels differently because of the possibility of searching text? It will be tempting to cross-refer and analyse/synthesise in a new way. Authors will have to be aware of it and possibly write specifically towards that tendency.

Pagwatch · 21/06/2011 13:42

Except that my guinea pig poem makes your haiku look like the work of a towering literary genius ( which I am sure you are but, you know...)