Parenting forums are officially the bottom of the internet.

It is with great satisfaction that I heard that another child in my girl's class-a child whose parents run a strict, widely bragged about, organic vegetarian household for their children, with nary a goldfish cracker or god forbid a piece of bacon in their lives ever- was caught going through the garbage on the lunch yard, stuffing his face with fritos and any other palm oil filled snack that other children had discarded.

Forums made up of women who use the following terms:

DS-Dear Son
DD-Dear Daughter
DH-Dear Hubby

should be the first to be gassed. 

10-1 Toe belongs to a board like this somewhere and uses those abbreviations.

pALEPHx wrote:

I had a hand in evaluating "Mommy Forums" a couple of years ago. I really had so little go on, forced to keep advice technical or restricted to the physical functions/appearance issues of the board. The instant you pointed out the senseless acrimony, the self-destructive demeanor of the participants, or the obvious establishment of 'cliques' who abused and diminished minority input at nearly every turn, you got all sorts of hostile, defensive, passive-aggressive rationales. Such forums are a dime a dozen. I can't entirely figure why some mothers feel obligated to stick with any particular one if there are so many to choose from where they might be better received.

Ahhh, you tweeners are always so confused.  Where us men prefer to find a forum/pasttime where we can display our physical/intellectual dominance, the women prefer to bitch it out.  They prefer a forum of popularity, the clique is their battle ground, the more that are in their pack the more successfull they are.  The idiot bitch that hangs around is the equivilant of our perennial loser/psychopath.

Sharp words and demeaning phrases are their arsenal, this is their 'animal instinct'; proving that their family is better is the ultimate goal. Most grown men learn to stayout of it and walk away;  pay attention to Barrack Obama - at no point does he allow himself to come close to that game being played my Michelle and the other politico wives.  This also explains why everyone hates Hillary Clinton with the exception of a few over-the-hill butch lesbian bitches.

Taint wrote:

I ran across this while doing research for a possible story about people raising their children to be food snobs. The comments, 151 of them, are priceless.

I hate to judge but I'm going to. I dropped my DS off at preschool today and one of his classmates was looking through her lunchbox. This is what she had: a Special K cereal bar, a package of HandiSnacks (those crackers with the fake cheese and the little plastic thing to spread it), and a pre-packaged cup of processed peaches. Gross! That is NOT LUNCH! I hope her mother is reading this.

I have never joined a mom board. I get all my parenting input from High-Street. Emmeran's child discipline philosophy from the other day in the thread where the lady who hit her kid with a belt was divinely inspired. I agreed entirely with his approach.

Seriously, though, I don't do it. I get along fine with women, it's just I put a lot of my own thought in how I want things to be for my demonspawn. I don't have room in my mind for parenting ideas that conflict with my own. We had my first one before the internet became a parenting tool, and I've managed to keep him alive.

You mean I can't raise my kid on a diet of generic Mac and Cheez and pudding cups? I guess I gotta quit asking her advice at the grocery store...

pALEPHx wrote:

I had a hand in evaluating "Mommy Forums" a couple of years ago. I really had so little go on, forced to keep advice technical or restricted to the physical functions/appearance issues of the board. The instant you pointed out the senseless acrimony, the self-destructive demeanor of the participants, or the obvious establishment of 'cliques' who abused and diminished minority input at nearly every turn, you got all sorts of hostile, defensive, passive-aggressive rationales. Such forums are a dime a dozen. I can't entirely figure why some mothers feel obligated to stick with any particular one if there are so many to choose from where they might be better received.

So you DO have an iVillage assword!  Whatever happened to
"The Diary of V"?

pALEPHx wrote:

exdwarf wrote:

So you DO have an iVillage assword!  Whatever happened to "The Diary of V"?

Meh. I would never touch iVillage with a ten foot pole. Why are you on my shit today, someone crap on your Wheaties?

They would probably taste better that way, but no.  I prefer Co-coa Wheat.

Dmtdust wrote:

Hi Pale!

Graciously accepted.

sigmoid freud wrote:

Rather than give a fuck what young Britannica or Johnathan III are getting for lunch, I'd rather worry about kids who eat school lunches because that's all their folks can afford.

Those of you of a certain age will recall when the Reagan Administration tried to describe ketchup (and pickle relish) as vegetables in an early form of compassionate conservatism.

So tomato's aren't a vegetable?

Emmeran wrote:

sigmoid freud wrote:

Rather than give a fuck what young Britannica or Johnathan III are getting for lunch, I'd rather worry about kids who eat school lunches because that's all their folks can afford.

Those of you of a certain age will recall when the Reagan Administration tried to describe ketchup (and pickle relish) as vegetables in an early form of compassionate conservatism.

So tomato's aren't a vegetable?

A prepared form of vegetable... with lots of sugar!

Trans-genetic Soy is becoming a real health problem.  A very large and important report about the health effects of Trans-Genetic Foods came out this last week, and was promptly deep-sixed by the food industry.

And hey, school lunches are looking very good lately. Yes, there's some horrible shit (the "uncrustables" look like pus filled peanut butter pockets) but the free lunches-all the lunches- get fresh strawberries and some serious vegetables on a daily basis. None of them eat it, but that's another story.

"One thing I never see, to be honest, is any New York City baby smiling or laughing in their stroller," Shallcross says. "They all seem to have that 'get me out of here' look."