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

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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!

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LeninGrad · 21/06/2011 17:01

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Threadworm8 · 21/06/2011 17:11
Grin Google is now so sensitive that it customises our search results to fit our own subjectivity. I can't see why we shouldn't have the option to customise Mumsnet so that we only have to read our own posts/advice. That would be the absolute perfection of internet customisability: being back on our own again and sod everyone else.
whomovedmychocolate · 21/06/2011 17:46

Thanks MmeLindor - now I have to buy the sodding thing Wink

whomovedmychocolate · 21/06/2011 17:46

LeninGrad - I am mortified by some of the shit I came out with within six months of the birth of my first child. I was miss judgeypants militobreastfeeding swaddlenazi. Blush

Threadworm8 · 21/06/2011 18:01

Ha! Luckily I didn't find MN until my children were both over eight years old, by which time I knew that the giving and receiving of parenting advice was a completely useless enterprise.

PredictableDullard · 21/06/2011 18:06

i have been a pinnacle of wisdom and wit here since 2004, my only surprise is that it isn't actually named after me

swanker · 21/06/2011 20:37

Heheh Lenin I sometimes read posts and think 'wow-thats just what I'd have said... ' to find it was actually me under a different non-member have done it twice this week already!

swanker · 21/06/2011 20:48

Ho ho wmmc- you had a v fluffy name then too, didn't you?

swanker · 21/06/2011 20:51

'Non-member'?' WTF? Tablet auto correct grr. Nickname

whomovedmychocolate · 21/06/2011 21:16

swanker - I did indeed - actually that one was my second username. I had a proper newbie name before that! Might go back to it actually, I quite liked it.

whomovedmychocolate · 21/06/2011 21:16

Although tinkerbellhadpiles isn't that fluffy Grin

swanker · 21/06/2011 21:40

Grin it was the tink... bit I was referring to though...

MmeLindor. · 21/06/2011 22:22

Swanker
I do that. Sometimes I read an old post and think, "wow, that is exactly what I would have said"

VivaLeBeaver · 21/06/2011 22:25

Am I in it? Might be under stripeyknickersspottysocks.

swanker · 21/06/2011 22:29

Shock you are stripeyKSS? Wondered where she'd gone...

MMe- certain topics hold more allure for me than others... it is usually these that I sit there nodding on, thinking 'yes, yes, she's so right about that' [big head]

VivaLeBeaver · 21/06/2011 22:49

Yes, used to be stripeyknickers. Name changed quite a while ago now.

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