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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:
PeachyClair · 11/05/2006 21:50

That would look good then:

Newbie: hello, I'm expecting my first baby and wondered what you thought of the Gf method

Reply: I am sorry, but if you mention that method again you membership will be terminated at the request of said lady

FAB publicity

tamum · 11/05/2006 21:50

snafu, it's clearly something very important that we can't be told about yet. Snigger.

JoolsToo · 11/05/2006 21:50

do you think they have an office full of little hobbits monitoring all threads?

pmsl!!!!

its too surreal

WWWontSlagOffAnyone · 11/05/2006 21:51

OMG, this is priceless Tamum, you're right. Goodness me and golly gosh, how confusing that might have been! Jolly lucky we got some clarification.

wtf?

chapsmum · 11/05/2006 21:51

THIS IS THE MOST REDICULOUS THING I HAVE EVER HEARD!!!!

I am seriously concerned about his so much so that I would consider taking this matter further.

The only way that we are able to learn and find mistakes and strengths with our practise as mothers is through sharing experience.

The world has been turing and babies have been settled for longer that gina has been around.
I have mentioned this before but in the 60's dr spook recommended putting babies on their fron on a hot water bottle to sleep as a remidie for colic.
If we had not questioned these praticies, If they had not been audited, who knows how many cot deaths would have continued to happen.

With any thoery there are questions.

Ginas routine is a thoery of childcare.
There are many questions surrounding it. To disassociate herself from any discusion and criticism of this theory is not only unethical, it is unsafe.

It is only in question and discussion of our childcare experiences that we can truely further our knowledge.
She is ot a health care professional or a mother. Her actions speak for themselves and I would rather bring up a child to learn tollerance and accpetance rather than the ability to sleep through the night.

expatinscotland · 11/05/2006 21:51

quid, that is.

SparklyGothKat · 11/05/2006 21:52

so she doesn't want her name mentioned on a site that swears... FFS

morningpaper · 11/05/2006 21:52

I'm going to have to leave Mumsnet because I'm officially lost for words

GamelanCarrier · 11/05/2006 21:52

[anyone notice that grocer's apostrophe btw? ]

MrsSchadenfreude · 11/05/2006 21:52

"I can assure you that this will be my one and only post on Mumsnet."

Bet you lurk though. With self righteous bosom heaving away as you purse your lips at some of the things that Bad Mothers (clearly) post here...

ruty · 11/05/2006 21:52

Eh? EH??? I read that entire thread that Ann Clough tried to link to, expecting to find mention of GF. And nothing. A bit of good humour wouldn't go amiss here, me thinks, or maybe even a sense of one...

HunKeRMunKeR · 11/05/2006 21:52

Lots of women all over the country have just wet their chairs, I think.

Someone was at the back of the queue when logic was handed out then.

arfy · 11/05/2006 21:52

yep I laughed too

I'm a member of the general public and I'm more bothered by apostrophe abuse than by swearing

snafu · 11/05/2006 21:52

Well done, Ann Clough. I hope you're getting handsome remuneration for this. You've managed to turn your client into a laughing stock.

tamum · 11/05/2006 21:53

I say, WWW old bean, we're jolly lucky indeed that someone has explained, what what?

arfy · 11/05/2006 21:53

oh snap G/HC!

WWWontSlagOffAnyone · 11/05/2006 21:53

I did indeed notice the apostophe. We may be foul mouthed but our grammar standard is generally excellent!

misdee · 11/05/2006 21:53

what the feck!!!!

how rank,

expatinscotland · 11/05/2006 21:54

And here I thought the 'I'm 40 and Have Never Worn Foundation' thread was the shocking thread to end all shocks.

:o

WWWontSlagOffAnyone · 11/05/2006 21:54

I am sniggering and sniggering! Oh dear, oh dear, very funny indeed.

MrsSchadenfreude · 11/05/2006 21:54

And I might say feck, but I know when and when not to use an apostrophe.

ruty · 11/05/2006 21:54

i've changed my mind. we should be able to discuss and critique her methods absolutely. no personal attacks of course, but this is just ridiculous and bullying.

expatinscotland · 11/05/2006 21:55

I learned to swear in my swanky independent school. :o I learned to smoke there, too. :o

snafu · 11/05/2006 21:55

So, swearing works a bit like garlic and a crucifix, huh? Excellent stuff.

kiskidee · 11/05/2006 21:55

Priceless, Ms Clough:

re freedom of speech:
then how do you reconcile the following two statements:

  1. She believes in freedom of speech and has no desire to restrict how members of Mumsnet express themselves.
  1. "It would appear that some Mumsnet members are demanding a ban of the Gina Ford name on the site. Gina herself would welcome this"

both published by the powers that be at contentedbaby.com