Baby expert Gina Ford has threatened legal action over "gross personal attacks" about her on a website for mothers Read it all here hahahaha. Not usually known for their vitriol, why does she bring out such extreme reactions in parents?
To find a parent who is neutral about Gina Ford is rare - very rare. You're probably more likely to see a Cross River gorilla and there are only 200 of them left in the world.
Ford is a baby guru whose advice is either loved or loathed. A former maternity nurse, she is known as the Queen of Routine and advocates introducing a strict structure to the lives of new parents and their babies in The Contented Little Baby Book.
In general terms parents tend to fall into two camps when it comes to Ford: those who think she is the wicked witch of childcare and those who hail her as the saviour of modern parenting.
But she is dividing opinion even more after instructing her lawyers to demand the closure of a popular internet site for mothers because it published comments from readers that she says are defamatory.
Mumsnet - set up and run by mothers - says the threatened legal action is a blow to free speech and "wholly disproportionate''. But it has taken the "extreme step" of asking members to stop discussing Ford.
"It is a surreal and rather sad moment," says the website, equating the ban to "barring discussion of Manchester United from a football phone-in".
2 comments:
judas priest.what does she recommend that parents do with their kids to get them so worked up????
A regime ... Hitler would have been proud of her
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