when you think attachment parenting, think the exact opposite and that’s me. Meh.
DD has had an iPad since she was 6m old. I travel with her alone A LOT and my sanity is important. I don’t even currently know where it is right now because we never use it except in the car. She also knows how to use my phone to call DH, my mom and stepdad and my dad and stepmom. And will say she’s calling who she calls. Blows my mind.
I worked in a newsroom and now my least favorite thing in the world is politics discussions.
With DD, my doctor asked me about a birth plan and I was like “uhh isn’t that your job?!” I’ll be going in with the same plan this time around.
I hate having to adult all day and then hopping on to 18262 comments and having to catch up!
My uo that goes along with the Oprah v. Trump discussion, is that I'm sick of people not wanting to talk politics with friends, family, etc. I think our avoidance of taking about the issues had made us more divided. We're limiting ourselves from hearing different sides and from challenging our own thinking. Our lack of open discourse has allowed us to funnel into our own echo chambers. Yeah, some of the conversations can be hard, but avoiding talking about issues that effect us all isn't helping any of us.
Yes. This. I’ve stopped being polite to bigots in my life and while to an extent it’s made things more difficult (like my mom who thinks trump shits rainbows) it’s also gotten rid of a lot of unnecessary drama in my life. I’m not going to waste my time walking around on egg shells so you’re comfortable being a misogynist racist. Sorry not sorry. (This is probably more of a regional issue for me though. I live right outside of the villages and old rich retirees are horrible)
Speaking of which... I hate old people. Like... Collectively, as a group, they’re entitled assholes.
@ivyvines6 I really hate old people that think they can be assholes because they're old. No matter your age, you have to earn respect from me and I will be respectful in return. Perhaps that's my millennial way of thinking lol.
@charlestonchew I got into a little bit with an older woman at Publix today so I’m feeling a little salty. She walked up to J and started trying to tickle him, I asked her to stop. He didn’t know her, and he really doesn’t like it when other people tickle him. She told me that she’s raised four boys and knows what she’s doing. I told her I don’t care who you raised, you’re not his mother and you’re not going to touch him without my consent. She spent the rest of the time in the check out line loudly complaining about my generation and how unkind we are to the elderly and how we are ruining America... I didn’t say anything else to her. Eff off with that nonsense...
+1 for going with the flow for parent style and birth plans. My “style” surprised me in a lot of ways. I ended up being way more into babywearing and making my own baby food than I thought. I try to do what I think works best for DS’s personality and what we want to focus on. And my birth plan consists of getting the baby out safely.
I’m a big proponent of take all the random tools and throw them all in your toolbox for a later date. There’s some great stuff in the silky field, the crunchy field, the helicopter field, and the free range field. I parent like a French mom in some ways, and a hippie in others, while being a true millennial mom, and still admiring the way genXers and baby boomers did some things. I’m not a soup can, and I don’t wear a label /MicDrop hahaha
@onesmallcoconut agreed, I don’t do birth plans. We didn’t even do the childbirth class. My plan was get the epidural ASAP and then whatever needed to be done to get baby out safely.
Giant +1 for hating strangers touching your kid. Keep your germs hands off my child. Wave, say hi, tell me he’s adorable but do not touch him.
@ivyvines6 it makes me so happy to not be the only one who pisses people off in the grocery store when it’s those people who can’t respect boundaries. And +1 for dabbling in parenting styles.
@tincupchalice uhhh mine too. And then some days we do all the things and I’m a Pinterest mom. And make up for that with a week of lazy reality. As my kid watched Mickey laid out in her chair half the day while i worked.
@cups4 and @fraufarbissina Not necessarily a personal opinion of mine, I was born just as he started his presidency, but most polls/articles related to that rank him in the top 10-15.
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I don’t follow a parenting method. I just try to respond to my kids based on their individual needs. I don’t let them play with tablets or technology though. They can watch TV but i don’t let them play with interactive devices. Our kids’ school doesn’t use technology in the classroom either. Of course, that’s just me, and I don’t have a problem with other people letting their kids play with tablets etc. I’ve never had a birth plan, but there are some things I will not consent to because I had terrible pelvic floor injuries with my first birth, and I try to avoid tearing.
I, like many of you, don't fall into one parenting style. Every kid, situation, etc is different. I like breastfeeding, babywearing, but also like my strollers, I'm fine with screen time, we do purees and blw, I follow SIDS and carseat recommendations to the full extent, I'm definitely not a helicopter parent, especially after having twins.
I, like many of you, don't fall into one parenting style. Every kid, situation, etc is different. I like breastfeeding, babywearing, but also like my strollers, I'm fine with screen time, we do purees and blw, I follow SIDS and carseat recommendations to the full extent, I'm definitely not a helicopter parent, especially after having twins.
I call us "porch parents". Like, we're monitoring the kids and are close, but we aren't hovering over them by any means. And we also may have a drink in our hands, haha.
@suchaglencoco sounds like my style of parenting! Particularly the “with a drink in our hands” part Haha.
I also do do not like people touching my belly or kid without consent. My son was born in September so we were out and about in the winter months and random strangers would want to reach in the car seat and touch him! I couldn’t believe the audacity these people had.
As as far as politics, I agree we need to talk about things HOWEVER, I hate when businesses are super public with their views. At times I have to stop supporting them.
@heelsidehero I used the Britax bucket seat with DD and when she was new until about 4 months, I used the bug screen shield on the seat whenever we were in public. It was awesome! People would look in at her but they couldn't touch her unless I took off the entire mesh screen cover. Not one person ever asked me to take the cover off.
Also to the Oprah is better than Trump comments. While I agree with this (because the bar is so damn low), but is this really what we want to portray? That we are using Trump as our baseline for a president and just trying to “do better than that”? Now I know most of you are just saying this in jest, but I think this mentality is where our country is headed and it’s seriously frightening.
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when you think attachment parenting, think the exact opposite and that’s me. Meh.
DD has had an iPad since she was 6m old. I travel with her alone A LOT and my sanity is important. I don’t even currently know where it is right now because we never use it except in the car. She also knows how to use my phone to call DH, my mom and stepdad and my dad and stepmom. And will say she’s calling who she calls. Blows my mind.
I worked in a newsroom and now my least favorite thing in the world is politics discussions.
With DD, my doctor asked me about a birth plan and I was like “uhh isn’t that your job?!” I’ll be going in with the same plan this time around.
I hate having to adult all day and then hopping on to 18262 comments and having to catch up!
Speaking of which... I hate old people. Like... Collectively, as a group, they’re entitled assholes.
We didn’t even do the childbirth class. My plan was get the epidural ASAP and then whatever needed to be done to get baby out safely.
Giant +1 for hating strangers touching your kid. Keep your germs hands off my child. Wave, say hi, tell me he’s adorable but do not touch him.
@tincupchalice uhhh mine too. And then some days we do all the things and I’m a Pinterest mom. And make up for that with a week of lazy reality. As my kid watched Mickey laid out in her chair half the day while i worked.
Married June 2012
BFP June 2013- blighted ovum, D&C Aug 2013
BFP Oct 2013- twins! A&H born May 2014
BFP Aug 2017- EDD 5/8/17
I also do do not like people touching my belly or kid without consent. My son was born in September so we were out and about in the winter months and random strangers would want to reach in the car seat and touch him! I couldn’t believe the audacity these people had.
As as far as politics, I agree we need to talk about things HOWEVER, I hate when businesses are super public with their views. At times I have to stop supporting them.
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Also to the Oprah is better than Trump comments. While I agree with this (because the bar is so damn low), but is this really what we want to portray? That we are using Trump as our baseline for a president and just trying to “do better than that”? Now I know most of you are just saying this in jest, but I think this mentality is where our country is headed and it’s seriously frightening.