im now genuinely wondering if I belong to you family somehow? Thankfully I’m still the genius as no one can match my 2:1 and masters degree but I’ve definitely not lived up to my ‘potential’My youngest sister was incredibly bright, reading from about 3, proper books, and was bored with the school reading material within days. Mum just took her to the library to choose something to read that she'd enjoy. We all thought she'd be the genius of the family, honours degree from Oxford at 14 kind of thing, but it all petered out when she discovered boys were more fun than books.
I hate the way someone always pops up with the 'fact' that the majority of adoptions fail, that the child had been irresponsibly removed from its birth parents, that all children up for adoption are damaged goods - it sickens me. Some friends of mine went through the adoption process and it was brutal, but they ended up going from a childless couple to a family of five, when they adopted a sibling group all under 5. I don't know anything about the birth parents, nor do I want to, but those kids are having the most amazing childhood and given so much love. Their mum and dad deserve so much credit. Those of us able to have children naturally have a few months to get used to the idea. They went from 0 - 60mph overnight.That adoption thread is just horrible. I assumed it had the one post someone put on here being unkind about it, but no. They are all rushing there to offer up awful comments about adoption not being something to celebrate. I mean, how dare someone post asking for ideas about celebrating someone becoming a mum on a website called mumsnet…
omg yes, one of my best friends and her husband adopted after they couldn’t have children of their own, and she is honestly the happiest little thing I’ve ever seen! They’re also about to adopt a sibling for her. I take my hat off to anyone who can be so selfless and do that.I hate the way someone always pops up with the 'fact' that the majority of adoptions fail, that the child had been irresponsibly removed from its birth parents, that all children up for adoption are damaged goods - it sickens me. Some friends of mine went through the adoption process and it was brutal, but they ended up going from a childless couple to a family of five, when they adopted a sibling group all under 5. I don't know anything about the birth parents, nor do I want to, but those kids are having the most amazing childhood and given so much love. Their mum and dad deserve so much credit. Those of us able to have children naturally have a few months to get used to the idea. They went from 0 - 60mph overnight.
Some mumsnetters should really step away from a parenting forum.
My youngest sister was incredibly bright, reading from about 3, proper books, and was bored with the school reading material within days. Mum just took her to the library to choose something to read that she'd enjoy. We all thought she'd be the genius of the family, honours degree from Oxford at 14 kind of thing, but it all petered out when she discovered boys were more fun than books.
Every Saturday morning, I used to sit on dad’s knee and he read my Twinkle and Pippin comics into our spool-to-spool tape recorder. All week I used to play it back and follow with the pictures and the words just went in. When I started school I was way past Janet and JohnYeah I could read before I went to school. Pissed me off that they wouldn’t let me read the books for yr6 and stuck us with the boring picture books. I used to get told off for reading constantly, by school, by my parents…
Library was my lifeline. But I ended up being more interested in the books I wanted to read, and read instead of doing schoolwork.
Now if exams had been on racehorse biographies (!) the works of Sidney Sheldon or Neil Gaiman, or the ingredients of the cornflakes/toothpaste/milk, I’d have aced them. Maths and history, not so much.
Was it Robbie Williams? He's bought a new house in London recently, but tbh, I think it was for something like 75million and even that would be a stretch for most mumsnetters. Wouldn't it?It was a while ago but did anyone see the “do you look at your old house on RightMove” thread.
Someone said no but a celebrity bought theirs and it was featured in Hello.
A 75 million house in London just makes you an average earner. <Holly Valence head tilt>Was it Robbie Williams? He's bought a new house in London recently, but tbh, I think it was for something like 75million and even that would be a stretch for most mumsnetters. Wouldn't it?
Up North we can buy Manchester, Leeds, Liverpool and most of North Wales for that sort of money.A 75 million house in London just makes you an average earner. <Holly Valence head tilt>
Same; I was the one correcting my teacher's spelling and a maths whiz from birth, but am now so hindered by being autistic that I can't get a normal job. I never expected this!im now genuinely wondering if I belong to you family somehow? Thankfully I’m still the genius as no one can match my 2:1 and masters degree but I’ve definitely not lived up to my ‘potential’
hang in there lovely, it took me a lot of tries to get the normal job that I now have and am comfortable with. I always remember the open day at primary school where the parents attended and they had played classical music, the headmaster asked if anyone knew the composer and I put my hand up and said Bach. It wasn’t but his face was a picture!Same; I was the one correcting my teacher's spelling and a maths whiz from birth, but am now so hindered by being autistic that I can't get a normal job. I never expected this!
I've just been to the Co-op to buy their poor people's meal deal (pizza, garlic bread, chicken nuggets, potato faces and chocolate ice-cream, my kid thinks he's died and gone to heaven) and now I have to regain my appetite, not think about pus spurting out of infected follicles.Back to fannies. There is a thread in Sporners Corner (and we're disgusting?). Where someone has posted a picture of her stubbly foof with an ingrown hair.
This comment made me laugh out loud. Is it too soon to suggest " we didn't need to see your clam" as a thread title?
She's a regular Tattler that one. I don't know half the influencers she's outraged on the behalf of.Hmm doubting the tattle MN poster, apparently she has only just discovered Tattle recently, yet suddenly she remembers the Clemmie scandal
I was on Tattle and barely knew about it and it wasnt a viral media thing where everyone was talking about it, so unless you frequented tattle or are majorly into the influencer lifestyles or her page, you were unlikely to have heard of this ‘scandal’
100%She's a regular Tattler that one. I don't know half the influencers she's outraged on the behalf of.
People are still begging for codes
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