MNHQ here - do you want free life advice?

[AnnaCMumsnet]

Mumsnet recently teamed up with Maternity Action to offer a FREE advice clinic. You might have seen the thread here.

We wanted to try out a way of making good free advice available to all. The thread helped lots of users with issues including grievance procedures, sick pay while pregnant and rights in the work place.

Now we'd like to do it again - or, at least, something similar.

What issues would you like help with? Housing? Money? Relationships? Are there any organisations you would like us to feature?

Let us know and we'll see about organising more free advice clinics.

Thanks

MNHQ

Currently? Mental Health in relation to work.

Advice for older women such as:

• pension / financial planning
• career advice over 40/50/60
• relationship advice post divorce
• peri-meno/menopause advice
• help with lonelyness

I'd love some 'buying your first property' advice.

Or maybe 'getting rid of imposter syndrome' for work.

Careers and interview advice. I do a mean application form/cv but actually being able to do a good interview seems to be beyond me.
Went to a careers advice place once and because I was well presented they said I would be fine. But actually I am not!

Career change, retraining in 40s
How CAMHS works, how to access support, parenting a child who has a severe mental illness, surviving mentally yourself.

winterhatsandgloves I hear you. I'm also in that show.I used to be smart and smiley and funny too.... really hope things pick up for you asap

Like laurG says group chat type thing with psychologist

Popping in to add to @RippleEffects suggestion about career development thread.
I was on one (many years ago) where @Xenia inspired posters to aim higher with their own business.
At the time, I was mired in imposter syndrome but I now work full-time, supporting my family single handedly.
I will be taking on my first employee in 2019; possibly a second if that goes well.

It was an inspiring and uplifting thread.

I think relationships is an area that is desperately in need of decent advice. Having been in a series of bad ones myself, I am drawn to the relationships area of MN and I am depressed by the number of posts from women with no boundaries, poor self-esteem and really bad relationship patterns of behaviour. So much misery, family disruption, probably poverty could be avoided by addressing this and enabling women to form better, healthier and more enduring relationships.

Financial planning would also be on the list

Career development, re-training, flexible working etc also important

Family law might not be a bad area either, looking at all aspects that commonly touch families. Wills, property disputes, consumer law etc.

Coping with elderly parents while raising children.

Being the ‘squeezed middle’ - raising our children with our careers right at the pressure points and our parents needing us more and more... I’m looking ahead and seeing it all get harder and harder with no end in sight!

Divorce/separation and money would always be useful

Blimey what's with all the deleted posts?

I'd like advice on realistic jobs for older returning to work SAHMs. The careers advice I got was rubbish.

Can anyone link to a thread by @Zenia

I like the way you can get advice from other posters on child care, but although it's often very useful, I sometimes wish it wasn't so anecdotal. I'd really like to see some advice that had been thoroughly researched, on child mental and physical health and wellbeing.

For example, if a researcher could look up the latest articles on different ways of helping a child stop wetting the bed, then write us a summary of the research results, and maybe interpret them for us?

Like a modern Dr Spock in bite-size chunks, which has access to the latest research?

Some topics could be:
how to help a child who is being bullied at school (or one who is doing the bullying)
whether doing SATs in P1 harms a child (Scotland), and what useful information can be gained from it, and how the information should be used
how to help a recently bereaved child who has anger issues
why children sometimes steal, and what to do about it, etc

Why do randoms keep coming on here to break guidelines? What is it with this thread?

Perhaps they are those earn-a-ton-on-google spammers we had the last few days, @Shriek.