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Can you help with info to present my course?

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  • tod123
    tod123 Posts: 7,021 Forumite
    Well, for all the negative people who constantly put me down over my big society initiatives , I have to say I get a great sense of satisfaction from the breast feeding courses.

    People often say to me " Tod, just how do you fit everything in, its almost like you have an extra 7 hours in your day to us" , but its just good organisation and a real love for helping others that keeps me going.
  • MrSmartprice
    MrSmartprice Posts: 17,625 Forumite
    tod123 wrote: »
    Well, for all the negative people who constantly put me down over my big society initiatives , I have to say I get a great sense of satisfaction from the breast feeding courses.

    People often say to me " Tod, just how do you fit everything in, its almost like you have an extra 7 hours in your day to us" , but its just good organisation and a real love for helping others that keeps me going.

    Sounds like you have a breast fixation. Perhaps you should try finding a girlfriend.;)

    The reason you have that extra 7 hours on your hands is that you need something useful to do. You could try getting a job. Some employers make special allowance for nutjobs these days.:wave:
  • mrcow
    mrcow Posts: 15,170 Forumite
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    tod123 wrote: »
    People often say to me " Tod, just how do you fit everything in, its almost like you have an extra 7 hours in your day to us" , but its just good organisation and a real love for helping others that keeps me going.

    Hearing voices again?

    Question: Do you really need "good organisation" skills to sit alone in your stinking pit, making up stories on the internet?

    After all, the only other exercise you're getting is with your right bicep, and of course when your mother tells you to tidy up your room.

    I wouldn't have thought that fills that much of the day up?
    "One day I realised that when you are lying in your grave, it's no good saying, "I was too shy, too frightened."
    Because by then you've blown your chances. That's it."
  • tod123 wrote: »
    As many of you are aware, I do a great deal of work with the local parish council , the council has recently benefited from a private donation (part of the big society initiative) and being one of the more high profile members I have been asked to present a 10 week (one session a week) course for new mums.

    The two topics that are to be covered are

    • why its important to breast feed your baby
    • the harm disposable nappies do to the environment
    So far I have picked up a leaflet from the local surgery on breast feeding , and I am now looking for some more resources if anyone has any links that would be a great start!

    Sorry if this sounds as if I'm having a go at you but this sounds as if this will be nothing more than sessions to guilt trip new mums.
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    Overpayment to date : £310

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  • tod123
    tod123 Posts: 7,021 Forumite
    Sorry if this sounds as if I'm having a go at you but this sounds as if this will be nothing more than sessions to guilt trip new mums.

    Not really, we simply show the mummies that there is a good way to go about things, and an easy way to go about things, and that the easy way is not always the best way, either for baby or for the environment.
  • claire16c
    claire16c Posts: 7,074 Forumite
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    mrcow wrote: »

    After all, the only other exercise you're getting is with your right bicep, and of course when your mother tells you to tidy up your room.

    Those were my thoughts exactly as I read this post, and having never come across him on MSE before.


    Whoever heard of someone asking for help on a course that THEY are presenting. I read the first post and thought seriously did I just read that correctly?

    Generally people who run courses happen to be the ones who are experts on the matter not random people getting information off leaflets and internet forums :rotfl:
  • tod123 wrote: »
    Not really, we simply show the mummies that there is a good way to go about things, and an easy way to go about things, and that the easy way is not always the best way, either for baby or for the environment.


    So let just clarify what you're telling the mums

    ie breast feeding = good; bottle feeding = easy way = cruel mummy

    reusable nappies = good for the enviroment = caring mummy
    disposable nappies = easy way = bad mummy who doesn't care for the environment

    if that isn't guilt tripping I don't know what is.
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    To overpay CC by £1,000.
    Overpayment to date : £310

    2nd Purse Challenge:
    £15.88 saved to date
  • rachbc
    rachbc Posts: 4,461 Forumite
    So let just clarify what you're telling the mums

    ie breast feeding = good; bottle feeding = easy way = cruel mummy

    reusable nappies = good for the enviroment = caring mummy
    disposable nappies = easy way = bad mummy who doesn't care for the environment

    if that isn't guilt tripping I don't know what is.

    tod is a silly silly boy with nothing else to fill his day that rile people on here don't give him the satisfaction of rising to the bait
    People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • tod123
    tod123 Posts: 7,021 Forumite
    supervised by the negativity here , its very wrong.
  • *max*
    *max* Posts: 3,208 Forumite
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    tod123 wrote: »
    supervised by the negativity here , its very wrong.

    Freudian slip? I do think you need supervision in life, that's for sure.
    As for "surprised"....you shouldn't be.
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