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There are waaaaaaaaaay too many topics now on MN and the worst offender is Special Needs

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moondog · 08/07/2009 18:58

We don't need all of these bloody sections.It worked fine as it was.
My concern is that people will miss valuable information.

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Goblinchild · 09/07/2009 22:09

Hmm, and pickyvic, wetaugust and I have recently joined, and we all have high ability teenagers.
Shall we sling our hooks now?

2shoes · 09/07/2009 22:42

oh please don't

Goblinchild · 09/07/2009 22:47

It's OK 2shoes, one of the things you develop over the years is a very thick skin about other people deciding what is and isn't necessary.
So gals and guys, if you don't like the sn teen bit, hide the thread. If you'd rather cluck about how tricky it all is now there are 6 whole threads running...may all your worries be so small.

2shoes · 09/07/2009 22:48

they don't even have to hide it, just don't opt in

TotalChaos · 09/07/2009 23:22

oh arse sorry goblin/vic/wetaugust, I didn't mean to make you feel unwelcome, just thought that 2shoes and other teen parents might get a bit bored with seeing stuff about nursery/starting school all the time, so might want their own board so that the teen threads could be seen more easily by other teen parents.

Goblinchild · 09/07/2009 23:28

You mean parents of NT teens?
With all the helpful suggestions about how they'd handle things, and the incomprehension as to why something is a challenge, or a triumph for our children?
Umm, our teens one of the reasons why the three of us get on. Similar issues. And a love of alcohol. Us, not our teens.

TotalChaos · 09/07/2009 23:30

oh god I'm digging the hole even deeper - no I meant talk to parents of teens with SN.

Goblinchild · 09/07/2009 23:38

passes bucket of rjoca to Totalchaos
Have a swig and join the gang of three. One of the good things for me about reading all the stuff about pre-teens is that things were a lot harder all round for me and boy then.
So I read and remember, and I look at him using his strategies and developing a sense of humour and telling the occasional joke that is actually funny and walking to and from school alone, and thinking of skilling him to catch a train to the next city and spend a while there on his own
And I'm glad we got through it all, and are ready to face what's coming. Whatever that is.

pickyvic · 09/07/2009 23:49

hey goblin....noticed mrs august is back around tonight...pass that bucket over here will you? i feel the need. (still no word - prodigal son not returned.)

TotalChaos · 09/07/2009 23:49

(glugs the rioja down in 60 seconds and slumps quietly but happily in corner).don't suppose you ladies are anywhere near NW england are you?

pickyvic · 09/07/2009 23:51

nw? england....im north east (ish....) so whats a measly compass point between friends?

Goblinchild · 09/07/2009 23:52

Oh God, the North West!
Spent 8 years up there, haven't been back since. Don't want to either, my boy would have been gutted and roasted if we'd stayed. Or kingpin of the local gang.
I live in a very twee corner of the South East now, simply lovely daaarrrlink. They may look askance at my son't odd mannerisms, but they don't want to bottle him when he stims.

TotalChaos · 09/07/2009 23:57

so nowhere near lovely Liverpool then, tis always the way on SN board.

Goblinchild · 10/07/2009 00:00

Took a pack of Y6 from my school to the Albert docks on a trip. They nicked everything that wasn't nailed down, including the ballbearings in the science display. (Useful for killing pigeons with a catapult and then putting the birds in a pie)
The security guards decided not to try and tackle them, left it to me and the others to make them relinquish their haul.

TotalChaos · 10/07/2009 00:04

sounds like an erm enterprising bunch goblinchild, are school trips always so exciting?

pickyvic · 10/07/2009 00:06

LOL!

my DH was brought up in liverpool. i keep threatening to go for a day trip to see his childhood haunts. (that would be the library then!) he spent much of his childhood in liverpool.

TotalChaos · 10/07/2009 00:11

all paths lead back to the NW or Liverpool it seems . If it's the central library, they have done away with the nicest bit (where the history and geograph books used to be with steep stair cases and big domed roof), and it's a bit like a cyber cafe with zillions of computers downstairs. So he may be disappointed if he does a pilgrimage back to the library.

pickyvic · 10/07/2009 00:20

awwww yep it was the central library. i dont think ill tell him that bit. i go a bit misty eyed when he tells me about liverpool and id really like to visit! he's long since lost his scouse accent though!

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JustineMumsnet · 10/07/2009 00:45

Interesting. The argument posed for new topics is usually the same one, i.e. without them folks miss valuable information.

Have to say that we are generally sympathetic to requests for new topics, first because it's a way of maintaining intimacy amongst folks with a similar interest as MN grows and secondly because we can't really see any harm in them. If some horsey folks want a tack room we don't really see a problem? After all, there's a hide facility in customise - so you can avoid topics if you want, and if you don't want to miss valuable information then you don't have to hide the topics.

Wrt to SN, as a it's been raised specifically, we split it up because it was very big and because there were some requests for new topics. Didn't have anything to do with the Amber discussion which revolved around having a "safe space/tea room" and which was discussed at some length by Mumsnetters and generally rejected as unworkable.

wrinklytum · 10/07/2009 00:45

I quite like the new format.Surely our sn kids grow up? (and will be teenagers at some point!) Another 10 years eek.I will be posting about dd having periods and how to deal and how to get a teenager with a reduced mental age into the bath!!!!!.And much other stuff.I think stuff like camping and chicken keepers and the horsy stuff should be reduced if anything unless the demand exceeds sn,though I do feel Moondog has loadS to contribute on all the communication stuff and would hate her to stop posting on SN.

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JustineMumsnet · 10/07/2009 00:50

"I think stuff like camping and chicken keepers and the horsy stuff should be reduced if anything"

Out of interest, just wondered why you think that Wrinkleytum?

JesuslovesCatholicSchools · 10/07/2009 02:29

isn't the sn topic on an opt in thing?

i do love moondog - i think she has 'no fear' tattood (in welsh) on her arse. It the gobshyte in her that i love, the 'i have an opinion and i don't care if you all hate it' takes balls - its admirable.

anyway, there his a hide facility

so may i suggest that if you don't like certain topics - customise your mumsnet you nosy bints.

the nly reason you haven't is becuase your afraid you'll miss something

customise it

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