I was just wondering if MN could revisit the tone of its advert at the top of threads in the teenager topic. The text in the advert is "Like, chillax, already! Check out Mumsnet's Teens pages for genius tips on parenting your wannabe-grown-up." The triviality of this grates with the often distressing tales immediately below the advert, of profoundly difficult conflicts that parents are navigating with their older children. And it doesn't feel very age-appropriate either: "wannabe-grown-up" is more suggestive of a pre-teen (or at best a young teen) not a young adult.
I haven't looked at the teen pages in the magaziney bits of MN. I really hope that they aren't as bad as the advert suggests. The striking thing about the talkboard is the raw truthfullness of its content, contrasting with all the slick superficiality how-to books and magazines. HQ-composed stuff sometimes seems to be actively fighting against that rawness.