Vaccination poll

klondikebar · February 2014

I like sitting on the pissed off bench with @lexilupin. Why does it have to be all or nothing with some of these people? I love organic and local food. I also like not getting polio. I see an acupuncturist regularly and love home remedies. I put chemicals into my body with some nasty side effects to keep healthy. It's ok to straddle the fence. These people must get some type of high from being stupid.

jorkz821 · February 2014

I always thought of hippie as grow-your-own homesteader types. If we're going to stereotype.

jorkz821 · February 2014

And crunchy is more buys organic, cloth diapers, AP, etc.
It's like a hierarchy lol

nanabanana06 · February 2014

Yeah organic foods don't automatically mean hippie. Around here hippies are more of the sustainable living, eco friendly, homeopathic types. The kind that may or may not wear deodorant or may or may not drive a Volvo.

jorkz821 · February 2014

Surely urban dictionary can settle this once and for all!

missyishere · February 2014

I only qualified myself as a former hippy, because I dug some groovy music and smoked a lot of that sweet KB.

nanabanana06 · February 2014

I'm like moderately crunchy. Which is practically normal in my mom group. They are all the APing, extended breastfeeding, tandem babywearing types. Which is great, but not for me.

NeneCakies · February 2014

Avoided the thread because, duh! But OMG Michigan is so red! I'm ashamed but we are not part of the problem.

Drea926 · February 2014

TheEmpireNeedsYou said:

mbenit4 said:

Sterling13 said:

@lexilupin, how dare you bring the dictionary into this! But yeah, I'm kind of a hippie/ crunchy parent too by accident. I'm actually a do whatever makes my baby not scream parent.

I am always confused when people say AP sounds like sooo much work. I'm like no, getting my kid to sleep by herself and not let her be attached to me all the damn time would have been WAY more work. Strap her into the carrier and go was damn simple.
Nah, I carried them 9 months so I didn't want to carry them anymore. Add in back labor with both and uh no thanks having someone attached was not easier for ME. Much easier to put them in crib from day one for ME.

We intended her to sleep in a bassinet then move to the crib. She apparently believes those devices are filled with hot lava. This child shattered all of my parenting decisions. She still, to this day, is ridiculously touchy feely. It just wasn't worth the fight, she was a baby designed for AP, heh.

I had a similar experience with my DS, but the opposite. I had all these plans to BF, co-sleep, etc, but DS was an insatiable brute whom I couldn't produce enough for so nursing lasted only 2 months and he sounded like an old man with a death rattle in his sleep. Transitioning to the crib was a godsend for him as he was pretty much, "leave me alone woman so I can sleep!"

Best laid plans!

missyishere · February 2014

HilarityEnsued said:
I have no fucking idea what "essential oils" even are... I have only ever heard of them in relation to shampoo ingredients.

I just use them to make people smell real good when I rub em down.

LuckyDad · February 2014

Monkeybabe said:

Scromlette said:

Monkeybabe said:
When you consider that 2/3 of the state lives in the metro area, it really isn't surprising at all. I have an acquaintance that doesn't even take her kid to the pediatrician at all, ever, and plans to "no school". I don't get it, but it's really not uncommon here.

WTF is "no school?"

I had to google, because I'm not really sure. Apparently it's actually called unschooling. From wikipedia:Unschooling is an educational method and philosophy that rejects compulsory school as a primary means for learning. Unschoolers learn through their natural life experiences including play, household responsibilities, personal interests and curiosity, internships and work experience, travel, books, elective classes, family, mentors, and social interaction.

aka a really shitty way to try to learn Math.

Unschooling has always struck me as a perverted version of Montessori (which I actually think is awesome, although usually extremely expensive).

nanabanana06 · February 2014

LoisLayn23 said:

LovelyRitaMeterMaid said:

Wait a min......lavender enema? Please. @LoisLayn, please tell me you don't know someone who did that.....

It was suggested in my "holistic families" FB group.

Someone is talking about this on the CD board. I'd be too afraid to get involved in a group like that.

Monkeybabe · February 2014

LuckyDad said:

Monkeybabe said:

Scromlette said:

Monkeybabe said:
When you consider that 2/3 of the state lives in the metro area, it really isn't surprising at all. I have an acquaintance that doesn't even take her kid to the pediatrician at all, ever, and plans to "no school". I don't get it, but it's really not uncommon here.

WTF is "no school?"

I had to google, because I'm not really sure. Apparently it's actually called unschooling. From wikipedia:Unschooling is an educational method and philosophy that rejects compulsory school as a primary means for learning. Unschoolers learn through their natural life experiences including play, household responsibilities, personal interests and curiosity, internships and work experience, travel, books, elective classes, family, mentors, and social interaction.

aka a really shitty way to try to learn Math.

Unschooling has always struck me as a perverted version of Montessori (which I actually think is awesome, although usually extremely expensive).

If my H and I tried to teach our kid math, we'd end up with the worst kid at it ever. My H can't do double digit subtraction in his head half the time. I'm all about my kid going to school.

missyishere · February 2014

LuckyDad said:

Monkeybabe said:

Scromlette said:

Monkeybabe said:

When you consider that 2/3 of the state lives in the metro area, it really isn't surprising at all. I have an acquaintance that doesn't even take her kid to the pediatrician at all, ever, and plans to "no school". I don't get it, but it's really not uncommon here.

WTF is "no school?"

I had to google, because I'm not really sure. Apparently it's actually called unschooling. From wikipedia:Unschooling is an educational method and philosophy that rejects compulsory school as a primary means for learning. Unschoolers learn through their natural life experiences including play, household responsibilities, personal interests and curiosity, internships and work experience, travel, books, elective classes, family, mentors, and social interaction.

aka a really shitty way to try to learn Math.

Unschooling has always struck me as a perverted version of Montessori (which I actually think is awesome, although usually extremely expensive).

I have a friend who teaches at Montessori in Colorado (yet another reason I should move there)? She gave me a lot of good info I can do at home until N starts school. Maybe some day I'll teach my kid stuff

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