Do you know, I am such a fantastic parent that I have been reading to my children since before they were concieved...

[Fillyjonk]

Just wanted to share that really

For this I took silver at the All-Internet Parenting Olympiad last year.

You should write a book so we could all slavishly strive to follow your brilliant example.

oh dear you have just broken the golden rule of mumsnet

Gosh yes, I've been reading to my ovaries since I was 6.

Oh fgs! Saying that you read to your kids doesn't make you some sort of saint you know, lol!

actually my mother read to my ovaries when i was in the womb.

Who took bronze? Was it some lazy slattern who only read to her children after they were born?

Part-timer - my grandmother read to my mother's ovaries.

chequers&c i consider that just pushy, you have probably suffered terrible emotional damage (as manifested by your need to boast on here)

Its funny you should say that broccoli as I HAVE been thinking of writing a book

It will be all about what a fantastic parent I am and how if you do it exactly my way then you will have children exactly like mine, and of course you will all want that as my children are perfect.

I wonder whether our partners had the decency to read to their sperm since an early age. Lazy bastards!

My husband used to recite Shakespeare as I ovulated and the grandparents-to-be used to cook old comforting recipes and waft the scent in my general direction while I tried to conceive. I get a special mention for Recognising The Importance Of The Whole Parenting Team and Its Effect Upon The Outcome Of Smugness Toddler Intelligence.

NB: DD's been in the kitchen for about 20 minutes unsupervised while I MN

re the sperm, yes you know, it ALWAYS comes down to the mothers, doesn't it?

my parents did riverdance while ils recited rabbie burns and drank copious amounts of whisky and special brew while we conceived to reinforce dd's complex cultural heritage.
[trophy sponsored by the european cultural heritage committee for retaining pointless made up cultural rituals]

actually it should be in 'talking out your arse' but that doesn't exist yet.

I disagree Filly, I'm pretty sure that my children would have a higher IQ if they came from more literate sperms

mine are bopping to abba developing an auditory-kinaethetic interpretation of a swedish modern classic

I taught mine to read and write before my grandmother was born.

what do you mean, spin?

We are having a serious discussion here

Did YOU not read to your ovaries?

I composed classical music whilst in my highchair. My husband disproved Einstein's theory of relativity before he could walk.

I am glad to see this has rubbed off on my beautiful and extremely gifted dc.

Their favourite part in a cartoon they watched yesterday was where a character got up from the toilet and ran off, toilet seat still attached to his derriere. They were still laughing at breakfast.

So educational

Hell, DH was composing sonnets to his sperm years before we decided to concieve.
I meditated every hour and feng shui-ed my uterus and read to my ovaries daily.
All classics, obviously, in the original greek.

yes dd has a v. fine tuned appreciation for the british cultural heritage of 'le humoure de toilette' and can often be heard chatting poo bum! poo bum!, in a post modern ironic way.

Bit of irritation at this thread - the book reading thread was harmless and not show-offy at all