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.

thank you m hewes.

GREAT LINK advocat of the devil

check out those reviews!

ah you see that M Hewes
what's her problem
know-nothing paedeatricians [tsk]

check out C+C's Mommmy's review

WTF is Gina Ford?

Something tells me she is some sort of child-raising guru with questionable methods. I am afraid to look any further as it may cause my hackles to rise...NOT good during this sensitive time of the month.

(Scurrying off...)

don't see how what's happened over the past 2 days can be used as an example of the gina ford issue.

free speech. on that principle alone gf has it wrong. to stuff censorship down my throat is to make me form an alliance with my enemy.

If you look at the Amazon review, don't forget to say you found it helpful... ;)

sorry kiskidee what I mean is I think some people on mn can go to far with what they say about others and I don't know if it's because the person is not standing or sitting in front of them but they can be very hurtful. I think freedom of speech is great also, but when people just become nasty to others I think that is sad, as I said before everyone parents differently and can disagree with each others methods but surely there should be a limit

i don't follow the gf threads much or get excited over her. i still can't see how anyone in the public domain can be so bothered with being called nasty names (even if that is a sad thing to do) gina is the one laughing her way to the bank after all. it is not about criticising anyone's parenting methods either. it is down the one-dimensional perception Ms Ford wants everyone to see.

I like this bit from the synopsis of her book:

"Drawing on her experience of thousands of mothers, bestselling parenting author Gina Ford has turned her attention to the women charged with bringing up the next generation."

Where does she have access to thousands of women? Is it possible that much of the information in her book was drawn from websites such as Mumsnet?? Maybe she doesn't want us talking about her so we can't point out that she's been using us as unpaid researchers. Allegedly.

arfy news travels fast

I attempted to put a review on Amazon but it didn't make it

\link{http://www.guardian.co.uk/parents/story/0,3605,884254,00.html\Here} is an article about Gina Ford's own childhood: very sad.

"She directly relates the fact that she is an insomniac - a handy trait for a maternity nurse - to having slept in her mother's bed (until she was 11): she never learned to get a proper night's sleep on her own."

haven't read the whole thread [yawn] but does she want to be disassociated because her latest book is essentially MN in a book?

I wonder where the scientific evidence is to show that sleeping with one's parent(s) causes insomnia in later life.

Tell that to my dad and his siblings, all of whom slept in the parents' bed - so they could breastfeed on demand - till they were 2.

They all slept like logs.

As my dad said, 'Get drafted into the Army. You'll learn to sleep through anything.'

I slept in my own cot in a room w/my sister from about 4 months and have horrid insomnia.

er, yeah
weren't so long ago in human history that we all slept together
I didn't have my own bed till I was, oh god I don't know, 12?
I sleep like a big fat log

my DS's are giving each otehr insomnia lol! chattering away till all hours

altho i could recommend a cure for insomnia

\link{http://www.socialaffairsunit.org.uk/blog/archives/000532.php\I like this, about parenting literature: Babies By The Book: A Personal Journey Through the Literature of Parenting}

www yes I like this:

"The parenting books we latch onto persuade us, not because of what they say, but rather, because of the way in which their arguments and assertions resonate with what we already believe to be true. We seek in them a community of people like us, to give us the reassurance and sense of cosy inclusion so often unavailable elsewhere "

Sorry to disturb the conversation, but anybody could give me the difference between GF and Tracy Hogg's books????

the marriage scenario GF describes in that article [man comes home from work, wife is exhausted, looks a mess, throws child at him and moans] is exactly how things were until ds started co sleeping with us. After that things got wonderful.

Mind you, it is a touch sexist to expect men to come home to wonderful, sexy wife and not have to deal with baby at all....

if that is not what she is suggesting then of course i may be misinterpreting what she said. I'd hate to malign her opinions of course....

'weren't so long ago in human history that we all slept together '

Most people in the world are still doing this, not necessarily out of choice.