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Reggie I very much doubt we know the whole story at all. I'm pretty sure there must have been a history of this sort of thing happening for her to react the way she did. I very much doubt anyone would react that way unless they've been provoked/undermined for a long time.

EDmummy I will worry away... especially at someone worrying if a name sounds 'pikey' or 'chavvy' and asking complete strangers their opinion. If you like the name, use it, if not don't. My friend just used the name Tallulah for her little girl, I'm sure many women on here would hate the name but does my friend care? NO! My name's Zeban. Not exactly the most common name but I love it for that. I love that it's a talking point when I meet people. I couldn't give a toss what other people might or might not associate with it.

Why do you care what strangers think of a name and what they associate with it??? This forum really worries me sometimes.

Except minimum wage jobs don't allow people to keep homes! Fair enough though, I didn't realise there were quite so many problems. I used to use the station loads but haven't at all for a year or so now

Does anyone know if anywhere stocks some really lovely frozen yogurt in huge tubs?

I don't know if this is good news. What's wrong with the station? seems fine now to me. sounds like a waste of money when people are losing their homes etc

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Exactly what I thought Sue

I agree dazeykat

I saw this. They actually interviewed people on LL who said they would rather see the money spent elsewhere

That's EXACTLY what I was thinking rahrahrah. Again another stereotypical comment on this forum that argues poor parents=bad parents. THIS IS NOT TRUE!!!! And inadequate housing and not much money doesn't mean good parenting comes lower in the priority list. If anything it's higher because if things go wrong they can't throw money at the problem. Do not conflate abuse towards children to social status! Also poor=badly educated isn't true- not everyone who is intelligent is wealthy, or has children only if they can afford a nice house and private school, and that doesn't make their decision to have children any worse than the Mum's who have kids as trophys and then end up resenting their kids, and their husbands and their lives! Wealthy definitely does not equal intelligent that's for sure! Sheesh, what a typical ED response! I think different cultures do treat discipline differently, and that is abit of a problem as to what to do about it. But the situation that the OP talks of sounds incredibly distressing and indeed abusive. I probably would have gone home and cried if I saw that. Once I saw a little girl being emotionally abused by her mother and older sister- it was real bullying. I kept trying to catch the little girls eye to see if she could see I was there and wanted to help her but I couldn't. I would really have liked to have called social services, it felt deep down in my heart that something very wrong was going on there. I didn't however, but I haven't forgotten about that little girl since that incident. Abuse is different to discipline and I think what you should do, whether you feel you can or not, calls for your gut instinct.

No of course it shouldn't- it's not an ED business Sue is telling us about!

Are you serious Fushcia? the lounge is no different than any other part of the forum. And benmorg I'm with Huguenot on this. Just visit the lounge and stop moaning! it's only a click away!

I think admin is completely in the right here. Southwark isn't ED specifically, it covers many areas therefore would go in lounge. And loads of people visit the lounge just as much as this section. In fact even this post shouldn't be in this section. Pick your battles buddug!

Wow that sounds amazing

Borough market is open thurs-sat. Sunday it's closed

Play with them at home?!

Definitely agree HH

spanglysteve Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I think its good that Sainsbury's provide such > spaces, they dont have to, but its a helpful > gesture to their customers. They should not then > be held responsible for not enforcing correct use > of the spaces. We are all adults here and I think > its a tad overdramtic to suggest that the breaking > of this rule will lead to "Chaos". It comes down > to personal responsibility. People will always > break the rules, but that doesnt mean that we > should expect Sainsbury's to act like some sort of > gestapo-like parking officers. I just saw this. The most sensible post on this thread

Has anyone got any recent restaurant reviews?

It's definitely common sense and practical. Think it's pretty out of order if people without young children would use them if there are other spaces to use. That's just selfish and thoughtless really.

I'm with spanglysteve on this. HH, that was my first thought about family parking. If the spaces are wider then isn't that the main reason why they're there?

I love that post sillywoman. I think there's a community here in ED definitely. I've lived all over London and have never felt like part of a community until I moved here. Even if on a day to day basis it's more the online community of the forum that I take part in and feel a part of- that's still a massive thing though and shouldn't be underestimated. My Mum comments on the community here a lot- especially when I tell her the amount of things I been able to get from the sale part of the forum which means we'ld rather pass things on to our neighbours than throw them away. I think some people are snobbish BUT no more than any other part of London- you'll always get snobs in England! and the majority are far more down to earth than say around where I work which is Clapham/Balham/Wandsworth where all of the yummy mummys are very cliquey and extremely snobbish.

It varies but I wanted to give my view to give a more balanced view of things. That I think I would have felt like I'd been more in competition if I'd been to a mixed school because I wasn't a particularly beautiful teenager, or confident about my looks, and instead of focussing on my looks and how to attract boys I focussed on experimenting with my looks to suit myself and find out more about me, and just being me. Eating disorders develop in all sorts of situations and for all sorts of reasons. We as women are often our own enemies though so I do understand what you mean. It's a tough one. My Mum wanted my brother to go to a mixed school although he has 4 olders sisters so girls aren't much of a mystery to him!

Mark Dodds this is an interesting read: http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2011/apr/10/private-firm-profits-free-schools