Why are younger people on Gransnet now?

My daughters joined GN. MN and GN is the whole boxed set. I find it good to read other version to events.

I needed advice about family stuff from people with a better perspective about dynamics with older family members.

All the other (professional and non professional) advice I got was to go no contact with all the parents, which I wasn’t prepared to consider.

So, there’s that.

I've been MN for years but find the parenting aspect no longer of interest. My DC are early 20s and I am 61. No GC. SirChenjin were you on MN under that user name? I recognise it from someone who used to post on Higher Education?

Yes I was Red I posted under a lot of things so Im sure there was probably some wittering from me under Higher Education!

Did your username there include the word Red?

I personally think it’s the name that’s a problem Gransnet makes it sound exclusive to grandmothers (I don’t think it even obviously shows grand fathers in that title although people will argue the gran bit could be either) I think it’s an old sounding name and quite spoils the fact that even 80 year olds are often young at heart and have a lot of lifetime experiences to offer and anyway you can be a ‘grand’ anywhere thirties onward
I ve never been on mumsnet but although I m a mum and will always be a mum that’s not where my main role is now

I wonder why young people are joining in Gransnet forums

Why not?

*Bluebelle*, I agree with you about the Gransnet name.
I think it is old fashioned. Most of the posters on GN are very young at heart and have lots of advice to give that is current and up to date with the times.
I think it is great that younger people post here. They also can give advice from a different perspective and can be helpful when older Grans are coping with understanding their adult children.

I like the name Gransnet. What else would you call it - "Peoplenet"? Doesn't have much of a ring to it does it?

It's for grans. Or should be. Even if the site owners/managers do like to emphasis the" anyone welcome" thing. Which I think, waters it down.

Why - are you defined by your grandchildren Gonegirl?

I can't stand 'gransnet' as a name.
Its awful.

I'm very happy to be Gran. Gransnet is a logical name for our demographic. We're surely intelligent enough to work out that it covers a wide age span.

I'm happy to be one myself.
Still think its an awful name though; it sounds like it was thought up in the 1940s.

I thought perhaps it’s because GN is perceived as less toxic and without as much swearing. However They’ve brought the MN template with them recently it seems.

Sirchenjin

Now, that is a question I would definitely have expected to see somewhere like Mumsnet.

Too daft to even answer.

Is there any forum anywhere that caters for ctual grans to have a chat and a bit of a laugh?

I'm not very good at finding forums.

Daft in what way? I’m genuinely curious as to why it should be for grans specifically and not the over fifties as its currently advertised which includes both men and women. Looking at the range and scope of the subjects discussed why do you believe that only women whose children have produced children should be allowed to post on them? What is it about the grandmother role specifically?

The bloody website isn't all of me! Absolute rubbish.

I don't actually care that much, who comes on here. It's just a bit disappointing because when it first started, it was meant to be separate from MN. Now it's becoming Mk2.

But hey! Why not welcome all the daft buggers in Christendom?

Agree that too broad a base waters the site down. It isn't as though we're wholly dependent on younger contributors here to know what other people think. Many of us have AC who are only too ready to tell us. This is for the woman who wasn't born yesterday.
It would be a shame if we started getting threads on baby care or schools or first-time house-buying but that doesn't seem to be happening.
Gransnet may not be a brilliant name but serves its purpose. Mums net is no better.

What makes it MN Mk2?

Can't you just think about it? Work it out for yourself?

I can’t read your mind Gonegirl, nor would I attempt to. You seem to feel very strongly that the whole site is becoming like MN what with all us youngsters in our fifties on here, so it should be very easy to explain how you’ve reached to that conclusion.

I like the name Gransnet. Why does it sound like it was thought up in the 1940’s? Heaven forbid we should become Nannet or Nananet!

Off out now to see said grandkids and get my dinner cooked for me.

that to Sirchenjin

Have a lovely time Gone