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

[mummygow]

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.

oh how depressing. can the man not be prosecuted in some way? Also the whole idea of this being the Christian way to raise children makes me very cross

mind you I am in a particularly rageful mood this evening for some reason

Makes me love Paxo even more though

Takes alot to get me cross, but I cannot believe
a man like Ezzo can get away with publishing this
sort of parenting advice. I'd never heard of him
until now

arfy I am feeling very rageful tonight too
grrrrr

he is a total loon

"Gary Ezzo: Yeah, you lift up the diaper. If you’re going to give them a little swat, because you have a twenty-two-month-old, give ’em a swat, don’t swat ’em on the diaper, just lift it up a little and give ’em a little swat on the backside. [Mr. Ezzo motions with right arm as if swatting gently with hand.]"

WTF??????

Ezzo looks vile, I'd never heard of him before and rather wish it had stayed that way, vile, vile, vile.

Paxman did give him a good old grilling, wish
i'd seen it & not just read it

all this makes me want to go and give DD a big cuddle, even though it took me a while to get her to sleep this evening

just tried to read the paxman article but it made me feel physically sick so i stopped. Depressing beyond belief.

arfy, you are right he is a complete loon. Who in their right mind would smack a baby, Or any child come to that?

Does make you want to go & give your own LO a
Big hug. Wonder if the "Ezzo raised kids" get many cuddles & kisses?

No, I'd never heard of him either. Can't quite get my head round any sane person following his 'methods'

That Ezzo stuff is beyond a joke , it just makes me , this is not how kids should be brought up

have you read all that stuff about babies getting dehydrated and being admitted to hospital, because of his feeding schedule?

no religion tells you to slap a baby, he's a freaking nutter.

Wonder if he could be prosecuted on grounds of incitement to violence?

I'm guessing his parenting methods are not that well known out of the U.S. as so many of us haven't heard of him till now, lets hope he Never reaches our shores

Really, hc? FFS.

I think the scary bit with Ezzo is not so much that he thinks what he does (there'll always be random dangerous nutters), but more that a publisher took on his ideas and thought they were good stuff and then people bought the books, read them and thought "yes, it does seem like a good idea to smack tiny babies and only feed them sometimes."

yep, it is most certainly scary

he couldn't defend himself at all against Paxman. Am bemused as to why that interview transcript is on ezzo.com, do they think it's good publicity?

yes, I'm afraid so. There are whole websites devoted to undermining his theories. So the Ezzo'a are far less open than they used to be about the details of their theories, but their courses still run and are sponsored by US churches.
the last time he came over here, there were protests a plenty.

What I find odd is how many of these so-called experts have no expertise at all, in any form.
I like Paxman's questioning the validity of his "theory" in the face of directly opposing views of 53 thousand paediatricians.
People can and will believe anything. That's what's so scary.

(arfy ezzo.com is an anti-ezzo site)

oh I am a moron

ezzo.com has a picture of a pizza on it

ezzo.info is all evidence against Gary Ezzo. Ignore me

You can get away with quite a lot these days by saying 'god told me to do it'!

(I fully expect this post to be pulled too!)

And I'm going to level 7 in Dante's Inferno too!!

In the Sleep topic Aviatrix has linked to a piece in the ST today where the director of the Centre for Child Mental Health has stated that co sleeping up to the age of 5 can have many benefits for children. She has studied 800 pieces of research to reach her conclusion.

“ 'These studies should be widely disseminated to parents,” said Sunderland. “I am sympathetic to parenting gurus — why should they know the science? Ninety per cent of it is so new they bloody well need to know it now. There is absolutely no study saying it is good to let your child cry.'

She argues that the practice common in Britain of training children to sleep alone from a few weeks old is harmful because any separation from parents increases the flow of stress hormones such as cortisol.

Her findings are based on advances in scientific understanding over the past 20 years of how children’s brains develop, and on studies using scans to analyse how they react in particular circumstances.

For example, a neurological study three years ago showed that a child separated from a parent experienced similar brain activity to one in physical pain.

Sunderland’s book puts her at odds with widely read parenting gurus such as Gina Ford, whose advice is followed by thousands."

And as for the foremilk/hindmilk guff that is spouted by these so-called experts. Or should I say breastfeeding saboteurs.