Moos

Polmoche Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Most of the developing world does this. But I bet if you asked it, the developing world would say lots of nappies, unlimited hot water and clean sanitary conditions? Oh, yes please.

Am I the only one wondering whether Woof may be reading his own posts this morning and blushing?

Oh well, as long as you asked the internet - you'll be able to go to bed with the reassurance that you've received a balanced, informed and entirely nutjobfree response that you can rely on to help you raise your child. And surely corrective manipulation is just posh for wiping his bottom?

I'd sit down and think about the obstinacy. What do you think he's trying to tell you?

I don't use twitter, I'm already tweet enough.

Nah, didn't mean to jump down your throat. It's a touchy topic though, isn't it? :)-D

Technically, yes it does. But in no other sense. Am contemplating a banana and a nectarine. Neither looks as good as the chocolate in the chocolate machine that is in a room behind me, so I cannot see it but I can hear its siren call.

Beautiful. I take issue only with "soi disant "mind body spirit" section of bookshops" - who else is supposed to name sections of bookshops than the bookshops themselves? But I get the point.

What a load of rubbish. Oh yeah...

Not that you're making assumptions or anything, sillywoman?

Form a mob perhaps? Grab a few flaming torches, a pitchfork or two, perhaps some rusty garden shears. Then get to work. And if it turns out to be the wrong guy? At least you'll have had a Good Day Out.

You aren't easily pleased, alphafrigglefroggle, you are most discerning. We are indeed delightful, especially me. Some people take years to work this out, others (poor things) are still blind to the truth.

I think it sounds like a great idea - but 8am is too late. Sorry! I think a lot of tired parents will already have been up for more than an hour by that time, and might have given their kids breakfast, and by the time the babysitter arrives they'll be thinking 'no point going back to bed'. So maybe a 7am start would be better if she could bear to do it - and yes, I think ?10/hour is very reasonable. This would not be like classic babysitting when you just sit on a sofa, this is child-minding. Fuschia is right about insurance, I think.

*this time shakes head* You see, Wolf, innuendo is funny. Smut is just..well.. you know, smut.

Isn't he? Oh dear, I hope I haven't said anything indiscreet. *thinks - if that wasn't a special clique handshake, what was it?!*

You must have been thrown out of the clique. *sniggers*

*sticks up two fingers at BBW* Edited to annoy MickMac Edited 1 time(s). Last edit was today, 4.29pm by Moos.

I get loads of invitations to improve my love organ - here's a selection received in July, and I promise I'm not making any of these up:- Three girls? Or 4? It is not a limit for a man with a pack of this male vitamin. If you had a gold fish, you would ask for a bigger instrument. (eh?) Feeling useless worthless in bedroom? We can change it to opposite feeling. (ahhhhhhhh) This really works ask lots of happy owners of big penises. - I'm sure you'll agree that was not such a good one, but the text in the email is fantastic "Did you notice that arrogant look on some men?s faces but couldn?t understand where it was coming from? Well, we will open you the secret ? that is the big monster in his pants and you can have one like that very easily" And slightly more bizarrely: Stars' twats in focus I think the filter will take out the second word of the last email title, but rest assured that it wasn't spats or cats. For those of you thinking, Oh I thought Moos was a woman, I am. But using the miracle of internet technology, I too can have a big monster in my pants. Hoo-rah.

Bah, jellybaby beat me to it, but I was just about to blow the ref's whistle on free range eggs too. They should have been white barn eggs. And one of them should have been broken in the box and leaking onto your open pack of fags. Which you would have smoked anyway.

*blows kiss to Quids*

9/11 I was at work too. Someone popped their head around the door and said, have you heard the news? A plane's crashed into one of the Twin Towers. We all assumed it was a light plane, like the one that crashed into the Statue of Liberty a few years before. But people gradually started to tune into the news on the internet and we all watched the towers go down. My overwhelming memory was the shock, taken out in frustration as every single news website in the world crashed under the weight of audience, and not really knowing what to do. Selfishly, we started to wonder whether the City would get hit too, and some people were getting wound up listening out for planes. About 2 hours later we were all sent home, and I spent the evening glued to the news. For some bizarre reason, it felt like the 'right thing to do' in order to make acknowledgement of the scale of what had happened. At the time of the Boxing Day tsunami we were staying with friends, and again stayed glued to the news all day. At first it was hard to understand how so many people could have drowned in the flood water, until you saw images of the water and realised that it was really just roiling, liquid, rubbish. Makes me shiver thinking about it now.

Quids, that's not fair. Lindy posted a fulsome apology about that, which I think was brave of her.

My (limited) experience suggests that a regular daytime nap (or probably two or three at your daughter's age) is really helpful in getting a happy baby who also sleeps better at night. My son didn't settle in a routine of daytime naps until he was 7 months, at which point he also started to sleep through the night. What many people do is a half-hour nap or so in the morning around 9 or 9.30, followed by a lunchtime nap of a couple of hours, followed by a tea-time nap. My son was on two naps at 7 months, and dropped his morning nap at around a year old. Best is to look at what you want to do during the day, and what suits your daughter, and shape her naps accordingly. But it will take time and patience... so good luck! I don't really believe in sticking to a strict routine but the message that comes from other mothers time and again is that what suits them best is what works, rather than what other people think they ought to be doing.

Mothercare in Peckham for summer outside toys. And the internet.

Congratulations, Keef - one of my first and finest forum friends.