Mumsnet Little Italy 9

[Brangelina]

Aka le Patatine

Ciao

Franca - thanks for your email. I replied earlier though was typing from my phone so it may have come out a bit funny.

I am exhausted. Dd is not well still and woke up around 15 times last night and stayed awake for anything from 20 minutes to an hour .

Off to bed now.

Buona notte
MM

ciao everybody, and thanks for having me! I feel a bit shaken I must admit!

I also live in London and I also have two dds- 3yrs and 9 months.

Ciao Beforesunrise, I'm an Italian in UK. Been here for 11 years, have a DS and a DD. saw that thread earlier, but I just stick to giggles-thread here and my postnatal and real nappy threads, as there always seem to be people out on a witch-hunt or a fight! And there's enough of that in RL!!

Have posted on your thread, Pippi - how strange? Were you rebuffed by the receptionist, or what?

Saw your thread, beforesunrise...

Wow! A true initiation into AIBU - you were totally flamed!

You have to remember that AIBU gives people the opportunity to be holier than thou and vent their spleen on the OP. I do get where you were coming from, though. I'm a university lecturer, and I'm constantly horrified by the poor standard of grammar that I see. You're not wrong to think it's not something we should be defending.

Internet connectio went AGAIN. It gets cut for 20 mins wtf?

MM, sorry to hear your dd is still unwell. I'm going to the post office tomorrow and send you Pimpa

Ciao bsunrise, I read your thread, mumsnet at its worse, mamma mia, the vitriol! Che lingue acide.Wonder why they attacked you so badly, you made a perfectly valid point and there was no malice on your part. What else you didn't like about the school? I am quite curious about the private school world and if paying lots of money really gets kids a better education or just better connections.

Che vaiasse, come si dice al mio paese.

i thought lecchino could also be translated with the word sycophant, does anyone know?

hei Hot . how are ya? are we going to meet up during half term? yes that thread was foul. the 'holier than thou' attitude is what I dislike the most about MN tbh.

sunny, my daughters are 3 and 9 months!!!!!

franca I hope it's just a receptioninst issue. the thought of having to walk up the hill rather than throw my dd to school everymorning kills me ! I've decided I'll go tomorrow.

ah penthe d'ya want me to talk dirty to you? I'm doing the nutella thingy again !! (PS 2 for 2.50 in ocado atm)

BS: I saw your thread and I think it covered many MN taboos (private education, fees and criticism to school's standards). There is also - I think - a major cultural misunderstanding, as I don't really think that for us who grew up in Italy, being corrected in public is a big deal or remotely humiliating.

Oh yeah, baby.......

God. I'd kill for some Nutella now.

you naughty! DS tells me I'm not allowed to eat Nutella, it's his! if only he knew... maybe a spoon, just a spoon would help me sleep better...

pippi, our first choice school was the local catholic one because it had "outstanding" reports. But when we saw it, it was very disappointing, Y1 children looked terrified, Head and secretary bitching about nursery teachers, Head and teacher telling off a crying Y1 girl and bitch about her in front of us, complete strangers! They told us to ring back the following year when we first rang them, when we did we were told we should have gone earlier and they would never have tod us to wait, and a lot of other little things. so go and see it, best on paper is not always best for children

no house should ever be nutella free inmho!

no, that should be l'11mo comandamento!

so what did you do in the end sunflower?

it is true that that thread contained all the biggies.....
lets meet duing half term, will check calendar and email tomorrow, pippi

it was so refreshing in a time warp sort of way to see that my friends kids in italy still get pane e nutella per merenda.

My dc have pane e nutella a colazione!
ANd I know this will Brangelina big time but they like merendine kinder. And dd's friend eats Buondi' motta a merenda !

our local 'best school' is similar, the good values you would expct from a primary school completely lost to pushiness to get good grades, and ambitious parents cheating to get in, all very unpleasant and not our cup of tea. we wnet for the chilled out and cuddly school and we are delighted..

I only visited the school that was closest to us.

pane e nutella per colazione? , off to call the mumsnet police

went for second choice, same distance, good reputation and more "mixed". we did put the catholic one as first, though changed our mind, but we knew we woudn't get it as we hadn't been registered with the priest for 6 months despite having gone to local church for 18 months (and registration done by divorcee who gave us homework, even though the priest was in the next room and could have recognised us) and provided christening certificate from italy etc. the school he went to nursery for was "satisfactoy" but was getting better as had just changed head (a Robbie Rotten lookalike) who was just brilliant, same the teachers and really valued each pupil (the head commented on every school report) and they all seem very rispettosi but happy, pity it was a car journey away and with DD it would have been too much.

I have admitted to this on MN before, and apparently it is fine