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We're merging some sections into the Parenting area

210 replies

MichaelMumsnet · 15/05/2019 16:36

Hi all,
We’re doing some work on making the Talk boards more useful and user-friendly for both regular and new users. After looking at some stats for the site, we think we could boost activity on the whole by merging some of the lesser used sections.

We’re proposing to fold this section into the general Parenting area.

This should increase the number of topics in the section - and hopefully lead to more posts and responses to members.

OP posts:
rosedream · 15/05/2019 22:25

I think that's a bad idea. Please leave it separate

BrokenWing · 15/05/2019 22:25

Combine teens and tweens at a push

Please don't. parents of 10-11 year olds already post in teenager about their non teen dc, if you merge them both there will be posts from 7 up. Not relevant for parents of teenagers.

Viebienremplie · 15/05/2019 22:26

Not a good idea. I once posted on a teen thread when my DC were under 5 and I posted utter bollocks. Quite rightly got arse handed to me on a plate. Teens and toddlers are a very different kettle of fish and deserve separate sections/participants.

Now I have an almost teen, I'm pre-reading the teen stuff and it's a great education. Doesn't need mixing up with the sleep/dummy/reception angst.

northerngirl2012 · 15/05/2019 22:26

Don’t merge this, I think it needs its separateness.

Viebienremplie · 15/05/2019 22:27

Brokenwing xpost, but i promise I am only lurking as a tween mum until I'm qualified!

madeyemoodysmum · 15/05/2019 22:29

Really bad idea Teens are a unique age and parents of well behaved kids will never believe their darling will turn out a awful teen. We need a safe place to vent and get advise.

GinUp · 15/05/2019 22:29

Teens need their own separate area.

There are a lot of issues that are very specific to that age-group.

I know it used to be tumbleweed in here a few years ago when only a relatively small number of MNers had teenagers, but these days it seems to be a lot busier.

DogsandBoysmeanMud · 15/05/2019 22:30

Teen topics need to be separated please. Don't merge.

Hotterthanahotthing · 15/05/2019 22:30

This started as a parenting site.If you are going to merge subjects do so but leave the parenting specific ones alone.
Like others the help needed for small children is wildly different from the teens.The post would be list and people who really need help would either drop out or put it on AIBU which is already full of non AIBU posts.

24balloons · 15/05/2019 22:31

Please keep the teenagers board

daffodilbrain · 15/05/2019 22:34

Please keep the I've just become eligible to join in courtesy of my DS13 it's very helpful

BillywilliamV · 15/05/2019 22:35

Leave it alone please

Kittekats · 15/05/2019 22:37

No no no!!!!
Please keep the teenagers board separately. It is a totally different stage of parenthood and one that only fellow parents of teens understand.

It is sooooo important not to merge it please.

gegs73 · 15/05/2019 22:38

Please don’t move it, I like it here

colouringinpro · 15/05/2019 22:40

Maybe better to get rid of random old sections like Swine Flu? (Health)

TrixieFranklin · 15/05/2019 22:42

@MichaelMumsnet the people have spoken.

horizontalis · 15/05/2019 22:44

Please don't merge it - teenagers need a separate section.

I've hidden a lot of the topics about babies and young children as they are not relevant to me at all. I wouldn't have to want to wade through all that lot to find threads about teens.

RevokeRemainiac · 15/05/2019 22:46

@MichaelMumsnet

Leave the Teen board where it is.
Sort out AIBU

GallopingGreen · 15/05/2019 22:46

Please don't do this! Teens definitely need their own section!

CheekyFuckersDontGetPastMe · 15/05/2019 22:49

Another vote to leave teens as a seperateboard please.

BackInAtLast · 15/05/2019 22:52

Nooo please leave Teenager board separate!

AChickenCalledKorma · 15/05/2019 22:56

Just had a look at the "general parenting" area. Lots of posts about breastfeeding, dummies, nappies and naps. No thanks. Been there and done that. And I don't want to have to wade through it when looking for discussions relevant to my 13 and 16 yos.

I'm guessing that there are fewer people on this site with teens. So it will be a quieter area but that doesn't mean it's not "user friendly".

HomeHell · 15/05/2019 22:56

No. Just no. Please don't.

Haffdonga · 15/05/2019 23:00

Agree with all PPs. Teenagers are different. There are some really useful threads on the teen board at the moment. I guess they wouldn't have been posted unless there was a teen section.

I wouldn't ask for advice about, for example, my teen's first sexual experiences, their mental health or their challenging behaviour among parents who are in the throws of sleep training or arguing with each other about using a naughty step.

Different worlds. Need different boards.

MaudAndOtherPoems · 15/05/2019 23:02

Please reconsider. I don’t generally post here, but I do read and (like so many others) don’t want to have to sift out all the younger children threads which, useful as they are, are irrelevant to me.