Why are younger people on Gransnet now?

I/m on both too.I have a 10 year olf GD who has lived with us for half the week for 9 years ,The attitudes towards raising children is very different nwo to how some here raised theirs and I like to make sure I'm not too far in any direction with our girl .
I do find some on GN are very firmly stuck in the past on a few things so a modern perspective is very welcome .I'm happy to have younger folk here .

I wonder why young people are joining in Gransnet forums
And a good thing too! As someone once wrote; "The old order changeth yielding place to new, etc and "Don't look a gift horse in the mouth"
I've been hereabouts for over a year so still a "newbie" but noticed a significant increase in new names and less so of what we called "the old guard". Wasn't there a mass migration from MN not long ago(? ); although some of them seem to have moved on also, including my Mam, "Rufussmum".

I will always be on the side of their mums/mils

How could anyone take the side of a stranger over the hurt human being in front of them without evidence they are out of line

Do you mean non grans like me?
I am gran aged having had my own children relatively late. My peers are grans.

I came to gransnet to lurk and learn on the menopause threads, then found that the financial threads were more appropriate to my stage in life than the typical ones on "younger" forums so stayed.

Or do you mean "adult children" who have problems with their parents? Whose to say theyre not grans? Plenty of grans own parents are still alive (making them the "AC"). Heck I know a gran whose own gran is still alive!

That doesn't make us green nippers!

P.s. I read MN as often news/events break there before mainstream media (e.g. Manchester attacks, Grenfell)

But I can't keep up with the chat threads they move too fast and get too long.

I don’t mind who comes to this forum. Maybe they come here to get away from nastiness and see what older folk think of all sorts.

P.s. AC are by definition adults. Not youngsters.

Maybe they’ve grown out of mumsnet?
It’s core audience are young mums, so when you’re in your 40’s you do start to feel a bit past it.

I used to be able to waste just as much time on Mumsnet as I now do on GN. Mind you, it's a different place now.

Tbh, I don't actually care who comes on here and who doesn't.

I'm just a bad girl. ?

I like that emoji.

Grandchildren (which I dont have) aside, GN fits better:

The property threads arent full of first time buyers. I have bought and sold several times and the process has changed quite a lot in ways that other GNers are more likely to understand. GNers can also empathise better with things like leaving the home you raised your babies in, or downsizing a lifetime of memories

Financial threads: MN financial threads are either (immature) stealth boasts from go-getting 20 somethings that havent hit any bumps in the road yet, or compeditive poverty. GN is more pragmatic on financial topics.

Friendship threads: making and keeping friends is DIFFERENT as you get older! I may not have grandkids, but I am also not just a few years out of school or uni, so the dynamics are different!

Health: well your health doesnt care whether or not you have GCs (unless you do heavy childminding) so that is also not something I have in common with 20somethings!

The downside of GN is that if you empathise with milleniums, some posters assume you are one and talk down to you accordingly! (Even though you may even be older than said posters!)

I would also like to point ou that there isnt a gran generation

There are grans in their 30s and grans in their 90s and everything inbetween!

Some GNers can be a bit "them and us" as if "grans" = a homogenous demographic. It is not.

The more the merrier and age is immaterial, I think. We need a variety of viewpoints, from people of all ages and backgrounds for a balanced debate.

Nice to see a triple run of posts there notanan.

I am not alone.

I do that too....I think of one thing, post, then something else pops into my brain etc etc etc

I should use the preview function more!

Nah. Just keep posting as it comes.

LOL! I do some serial posting, too, when I think of other things I want to say. IMO, this just shows we're taking these issues seriously and giving them thought (not saying those who don't serial post aren't giving them thought). And maybe just as well, so no one post gets too long.

I imagine some of the young mums come here b/c they want the perspective of GPs, and some to show us that they can be hurting, too. But I don't care why. We can learn from everyone, and as long as we don't hurt each other, I think it's ok. Also, I know, as some say, that some grans are younger than others and some older women are not grans.

"as long as we don't hurt each other" that's the most important thing isn't it Starlady especially with any of the threads on the estrangement forum, where there's enough pain already.

gonegirl

I can't make out what that emoji is......I can't see it on my list.....can you tell me what it says please

It’s not on the GN list, it’s an emoji on the iPhone

I'm on mumsnet also but it has changed so much over the years since it started. Some of the current topics would never have been discussed in a very open and aggressive manner. I think there are some good things about both sites.

Agreed, Smileless.