@philippasmith2 Even if I was having my children nowadays, I'd have no interest in those sites. I hear enough cr*p about them without having to look at them.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
When at my last chance point that I could have children the things that put me off were many, but the final straw was the clicky mum's at the school gate! Didn't want to fit in with them!!! Never going on Mumsnet... Just sniping and stirring in equal measure! Not my kind of cocktail! Can only suggest that the stirring is being attempted here.... As I always say to such folk..... Dangle your maggot!.... I'm not biting!
The irony here seems to be that if you go back and take a look at the cumulative effect of the posts that you've made today, Fairygirl, B3 and Punkdog, it all seems to add up to what looks like the kind of behaviour you're criticising as existing on other forums - I'm confused - what am I missing here?
@WonkyWomble I must speak up in defence of the moms at the school gate, as a young mother in a new area I always found them welcoming and friendly, we moved around a lot and sometimes those moms, who I often only knew for a short while, became real life savers and friends. My youngest child is 28 but I still keep in touch with some of them though they now live a long way away.
Have to say I agree with @debs64. I met some good friends at the school gate. I still keep in touch with 3 of them who have been to stay since I moved to France and I've visited them in the UK too. They aren't sniping, stirring sort of people.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
There’s some and some … and also times have changed … our generation of mums had more time to make real relationships… nowadays everyone is pushed for time, and some folk have become very judgemental and competitive
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
@philippasmith2... Sometimes it just helps me to say that in my head to stop me doing exactly what the antagonist wants me to do!
@debs64 as @Dovefromabove correctly stated, unfortunately things have changed for the worse. I'm 46 so consider my child bearing days just behind me. Things have changed a lot in the 28 years. I don't regret not having children as I see the state of the world and the greed in it as well as the injustice and corruption all the way to the top and I thank common sense that I chose not to have any. It's a personal choice for us all 😀
@WonkyWomble. Would you believe that my mum said exactly the same thing as you’ve just said, that was in 1946! I was an accident, as happens, she was determined not to have anymore.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
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Even if I was having my children nowadays, I'd have no interest in those sites. I hear enough cr*p about them without having to look at them.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Can only suggest that the stirring is being attempted here....
As I always say to such folk..... Dangle your maggot!.... I'm not biting!
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
@debs64 as @Dovefromabove correctly stated, unfortunately things have changed for the worse. I'm 46 so consider my child bearing days just behind me. Things have changed a lot in the 28 years. I don't regret not having children as I see the state of the world and the greed in it as well as the injustice and corruption all the way to the top and I thank common sense that I chose not to have any.
It's a personal choice for us all 😀
I was an accident, as happens, she was determined not to have anymore.