Help Help Help!!!

[bright sparks]

I thought the whole idea of a forum was to get help on whatever topic a care giver was needing help with. By definition a forum is a place, meeting, or medium where ideas and views on a particular issue can be exchanged. There is a difference between a forum and a conversation. The particular issue on this forum was the questions I was asking, not to have a debate about what someone considers a nanny because if I knew that I wouldn't have wasted my time posting my questions.

You did get some answers pertaining to your particular enquiry though right? So because myself and others were not clear on an aspect of your post we weren't to ask for clarification and hold restraint to further enquire and learn about something? That seems a very unnatural form of dialoguing to me and not at all how this forum works and I imagine most others. It's a natural human characteristic to go off in other directions when in a dialogue. This is a pretty personal place where members become familiar and discuss multiple things. If a thread goes off on a massive tangent then generally, but not always, a member would start a new thread so as not to hijack a thread. That being said, it didn't happen in this case because of all the misunderstandings/misinterpreting of info that went on and members asking for further clarification. The discussion about the specifics on Nanny and what the title means was worth discussing if people learnt something from it which I certainly did. None of it was rude, it wasn't about right or wrong, it was about gaining new perspective and an appreciation and an understanding of how things aren't always as they may seem to one individual. I think that is exactly what a forum is about. This isn't a tech support forum with very impersonal specific answers. This is a place for a community of Childcare providers to share and learn and it seems only natural for that to mean sometimes going off topic.