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Rant: I need to find a way to stop getting angry at 99% of other parents.
I keep popping over to the 6-9mo board just to see if anything relevant comes up, and every time I do I get angry because I see people making caring for a child WAY more difficult than it needs to be because they don't use common sense. Cereal at 3 weeks. Overly processed solids described on the packaging as TODDLER foods at 5 months. Not figuring out for oneself that if your kid can pull themselves up, it might be a good idea to lower the crib mattress. Not to mention the formula epidemic - some people have this idea that at some point your normal, healthy, effectively breastfed kid NEEDS formula. Not CHOOSING to FF, but thinking it's somehow necessary to supplement when their girls are working just fine and there aren't other factors like work/pumping/etc or even just personal preference influencing the decision.
I also got a kick out of the post over on diapering about someone's new pampers not having the pee indicator line - I mean, HOW THE F*K ELSE would you know if your kid had peed?
I know a lot of people on this board do more traditional pureed baby foods, but Max is having a blast with baby-led weaning, and it really is easy peasy. FANTASTIC for a lazy person like myself. Since we're having such great success with it, I find myself questioning why so many people think it's so necessary to spoon feed everything for so long when Max can grab, hold, bite, chew, and swallow, and he can do it all by himself while I'm right there watching him and working on something else (like dishes or chopping up the rest of whatever food he's working on). He hasn't had one bite of something pureed or mashed.
If I offended anyone, please forgive me, but I really just feel like I can't relate to the vast majority of other people who have spawned because they're so inept and or uninformed/misinformed. I feel like common sense falls upon deaf ears in this area because everything overly complicated is "normal" thanks to the companies that manufacture all the baby food/formula/etc.
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Re: Rant: I need to find a way to stop getting angry at 99% of other parents.
yup, that's the way i feel when i see people say things like 'but the book says ___________'
i don't need a book to raise my kid, i do just fine with common sense.
On a two hour drive home last night, DH and I (who are, if I do say so, intelligent people) had a long discussion about social norms, parenting...I think religion got thrown in there... DH summarized like this:
Unfortunately, life, and people, tend to fall into the traditional bell curve: you've got people on the low end, who are physically incapable of comprehension. You've got people on the high end, able to rationalize, question, and also possess the desire to do so. Then there's the masses in the middle. And you know what? Life is "easier" when you go along with what the masses are doing. The masses are fine being told what to do/think/believe, and then their world revolves around complaining about it and those who aren't doing the same things. (*coughmymothercough*)
Gah. I've got to stop myself there. I could literally go on for paragraphs. But I feel ya. FB or PM message me anytime you want to vent. Because I'm always up for discussions on this subject and it's why I avoid all other boards but this one. Am I elitist? Yes. Yes, I think I am.
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I think Pampers actually made it for hospitals. They use ones with indicators in the nursery there so it's easier to check 20+ babies. Makes sense for a hospital... just makes everyone else lazy.
I don't get the whole cereal thing at 3 weeks or soon after. My cousin did it with her son because he wasn't sleeping well enough. Ugh.
Pureed solids sound like the best idea for our soon to be LO, once she's old enough. I will try my hardest to EBF, but she will NOT get any sort of cereal under the right age.
wife to joe 2.2.08. mama to noah 9.5.09.
After multiple m/c's, a MTHFR diagnosis and the Lord calling both of our hearts in the same direction, we're adopting!
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I learned early on that I can't handle the tri boards.
I'm learning that I can often barely handle my local.
And facebook...facebook makes me want to throat punch everything.
I feel like I often wind up coming off as elitist, but I don't intend it that way at all. Like MrSoyager said, I do think that there's a bell curve, but I don't think that there's anything natural or unmoveable about it. Because I feel so strongly about education, I really feel that there have to be ways to change what people know and how they act. I honestly believe that if we don't change things, our species doesn't stand a chance, and we'll take a big chunk of our planet with us. But how to get that across without seeming elitist or preachy is often really difficult because it challenges so many of the current fundamentals of US culture.
That said, add me to your list of people to PM or email if you just want to be judgy and frustrated
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HA! At our last baby/birth class they gave us a doll and some Pampers and told us about the magic pee line. DH had asked me while she was still handing them out if the Pampers were the "bad ones" and then after she told us about the pee line DH had a coughing fit and whispered "Oh no! How on earth will we know if he's wet? Our cloth doesn't have a pee line!" *exaggerated look of fear*
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We didn't start solids until 6-7 months, so I think thats why he transitioned into finger foods so quickly. I did try cereal first. He didn't like that at all. He loved little bits of really ripe avocado.
Occasionally I lurk on 6-9 too and very rarely reply/ post over there for this very same reason. It annoyes me so much to read about all that cr@p. Sometimes I think people post questions because they're too lazy to just think for themselves or figure out what is in the best interest of their LOs. Ignorance is bliss.
I know some (well educated) people IRL that use sposies, formula etc. and they know there are other alternatives but they simply do not care. I'm always willing to share any info about CDing etc but you can't save them all and there are def those that don't want to be "saved".
The other day in Target we walked past the baby section. DH looked at the people in the sposie isle and turned to me and said: "Losers". That's a little harsh DH, maybe "misinformed" or "unenlightened" would be a better word choice.
a woman in the elevator the other day told me she gave her baby cereal at 3 days old becuase it wouldn't stop crying, I almost cried myself on the spot.
Rant approved! This is the only board I look at anymore myself.
And this is why I love this board. It seems like a group of ladies who have brains and (gasp!!) use them!! I love it.
So thanks to all of you I haven't even ventured over to a tri board. I'm pretty happy about that! :-)
I have found that with most things in my life, I hate the way 99% of other people do ANYthing. Raise their dogs, prioritize their money, prioritize their time, etc. I haven't even popped the kid yet and I know for certain that we will not be having a ton of playdates with my husband's best friend and their kid or my best friend and their future kid. Mainly because our ideals are so frakking different that seeing how other people do things makes me enraged.
Example: I'm excited to CD. DH's friends: absolutely not. They are doing sposies. That's fine, I don't preach or anything, but they think I'm a crazy tree hugging hippy. Fine, whatever. My friend wants to CD, but because she thinks her DH won't go for it, she's going to be covers with disposable / flushable liners. All the time. What? That doesn't even make sense.
So I don't post a lot because I usually don't have a lot to say, but I lurk here more often than other places because you all seem to have your heads screwed on right. And if I have idiocy IRL, why do I need to forum to get more?!
i LOVE you ladies!!!
idk why i even bother going to other boards - it just gets me angry!
I'm happy to see you ladies are well-informed and supportive. I'm new to thebump, and I've mostly been lurking on the TTGP board. They are not very nice. I actually just wrote a post about this on my blog earlier today.
And BTW, Hi! I'm Emily. It's nice to meet you all! I think I'll stick around.
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