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For all who want GF banned from MN - so does she!!

857 replies

mummygow · 11/05/2006 18:41

As you are all prob aware I follow the Gf routine and am also on her website and this was posted for us to see.

Dear Members,

In response to your emails regarding the statement in The Times Newspaper on 9th May 2006. We would like to confirm that neither Gina or her lawyers have put pressure on Mumsnet regarding the criticism that her methods receive on their forums. Gina was forced to seek legal
advice regarding other very serious issues with Mumsnet, and we will in the near future make a public statement as to her reasons for this. It would appear that some Mumsnet members are demanding a ban of the
Gina Ford name on the site. Gina herself would welcome this, as her forthcoming statement will confirm, she has for very valid reasons, no wish to be associated with the Mumsnet site.

OP posts:
chapsmum · 11/05/2006 23:53

I stand by everything I have said!

VeniVidiVickiQV · 11/05/2006 23:54

You would if you could [stand]

GamelanCarrier · 12/05/2006 06:40

something struck me when I got to bed
about ANNCLOUGH'S post
dozens of threads like that one
DOZENS of them?
really??
are there loads of threads where we just swear all the time
where???

WWWontSlagOffAnyone · 12/05/2006 06:48

Oh yes, hadn't you noticed, this site is riddled with them!

GamelanCarrier · 12/05/2006 07:35

ah, I am obviously not on here enough
(loving the potty mouth thing btw hinker Envy)

LadyTophamHatt · 12/05/2006 07:40

OH MY GOD !!!

I really am totally and utterly speechless.

(although I can't leave without saying "fucknosed fartdonkey" because I now love those words, and I love you Hunker for teaching me such fantastic phrase. I LOL when I read that and your "delicious irony" post. PMSLGrin)

Twiglett · 12/05/2006 07:43

PMSL @ Justine's comment Grin Grin Grin

tigermoth · 12/05/2006 08:00

I for one am just so impressed with the inventive use of language on the swear thread. With all this eloquence, mumsnet people will have no problems discussing gina ford's methods without 'mentioning the Gina Ford name' hey - we've been doing that for ages!

This is surreal, as justine says.

And any member of the general public can so easlly see mumsnet is an open discussion forum. Why on earth would they confuse it with a Gina Ford site?

If all Gina Ford discussion is banned from one of the largest parenting sites around for legal reasons, I cannot see how the Gina Ford machine can spin this into a positive piece of publicity. As I new parent, considering what childcare guru to follow, I would find that action an instant turn off.

FrannyandZooey · 12/05/2006 08:03

Actually, I think we do have loads of threads where we just do swearing. I can think of at least 4.

It's one of the reasons I love MN so much :o

joelalie · 12/05/2006 08:04

Sorry....had to add my tuppenorth.

".. bestselling parenting author Gina Ford has turned her attention to the women charged with bringing up the next generation."

Ooh get her.....'the women charged with brining up the next generation'....doesn't that have a ring to it. Methinks we need a Soviet type statue showing a noble idealised mother brandishing a bottle and a stop watch!

Doesn't it just stir the blood. Might have to write an anthem.....

OK......leaving well alone now. Couldn't let it lie.....

Piffle · 12/05/2006 08:08

Well lets come back in 25 years and see if the CLb kids are delinquents or hunkers are Grin
My mother always used "colourful" language and we all made it to adulthood without too many scrapes.
I think the post makes an horrendous judgement (about mn and it's posters) personally and I think mn should be polling as to the damage now mentioning GF in any seriousness would do to the poor vulnerable and potty mouthed princesses (and odd dark prince) of mn...

Filyjonk · 12/05/2006 08:09

I'm sorry, but this is too much.

a farly small size gamelan fills a small room. NO WAY do I believe one woman could carry a gamelan unassisted. Its just ridiculous.

Unless she's had her 7.34 drink of water, I suppose.

GamelanCarrier · 12/05/2006 08:16

ah you forget that I have been practising with carrying a harpsichord for all this time
and ironing the labels on my babies' clothes
(that's my fave bit of GF advice, ever, that one)
)

FrannyandZooey · 12/05/2006 08:20

yes I bet those mothers in the third world don't have a large glass of water and cereal and toast before breastfeeding

no wonder they struggle with it so much

erm....

Filyjonk · 12/05/2006 08:20

so what, are you stacking them?

Would you not have a bit of a problem with the gongs?

hmmmmm....

snafu · 12/05/2006 08:22

Some of them don't even have irons apparently, F&Z. Shocking. How will they ever manage to get their babies to sleep through the night with their labels all wonky and creased?

GamelanCarrier · 12/05/2006 08:23

I have a complex system of pulleys and ropes filyjonk

(PS this must be doing ANNCLOUGH'S head in btw)

FrannyandZooey · 12/05/2006 08:24

Well she can clough right off

Filyjonk · 12/05/2006 08:25

Or blackout curtains, snafu. I don't expect any of them sleep at all. Even as adults. In fact, I expect their society is comepletely sleepless and has been for centuries.

We really should organise some sort of crusade to inform those pooe people of the truth and light that is Gina Ford.

Dior · 12/05/2006 08:25

Justine was right, this thread is bloody surreal.

FrannyandZooey · 12/05/2006 08:27

I think they even make eye contact with their babies at nap time, as if it were some sort of good thing or something Shock

No wonder they are still living in mud huts while we sit here with our ironed labels

Filyjonk · 12/05/2006 08:28

I see gc. I see. hmmm.

\link{http://www.autopartswarehouse.com/performance_sm/ford~pulleys~performance.html\this} sort of thing, perchance?

Filyjonk · 12/05/2006 08:30

fuck, does she really tell people not to make eye contact with their babies? That is bloody barbaric.

Kittypickle · 12/05/2006 08:32

Chapsmum, I thought your post way down the thread about a theory was a very good one. Until there is a study organised by an independent agency which compares the sleeping patterns of babies whose parents' follow no advice, versus those who follow a specific parenting method outlined in some source ie a parenting book - looking at variables such age when slept through the night, sleep during day, breastfeeding rates etc, then a book remains a theory ie the opinion of an author. It may be backed up by anecdotal information from people who have followed the advice, but without a control group it remains just that and until that research is done the jury is out as to whether a particular method is a one size fits all. My DD was sleeping through the night at 8 weeks but I followed no method, it was pure luck as I had no idea what on earth I was doing !

Also, I am completely confused by the idea that anyone googling and finding numerous mention of a parenting book on a parenting website would think that the two were associated - to me it would just mean that the book was being discusssed for its merits etc by parents ie the people it was aimed at. Or am should I be assuming that our common sense vanishes at the same time we give birth ?

GamelanCarrier · 12/05/2006 08:33

yes filyjonk, one of those big red ones. Actually.

AND thi shas been bothering me for a while actually - how do those thrd world babies manage to play without a Play Mat to kick on?
I see a new campaign - One Baby, One Playmat
then those thrd world women can put their babies down and stop making them so flipping clingy