tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1824745890000210678.post4962746892203505131..comments2023-10-30T12:15:27.158-04:00Comments on Frogs in my formula: As a parent you should always be afraid. Of everything. Especially couches. And whisks. And throw pillows. And windchimes. I said everything, didn't I?!Frogs in my formulahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15588651443689809504noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1824745890000210678.post-90518191241857380162012-10-29T07:44:51.690-04:002012-10-29T07:44:51.690-04:00I'm with you. I can't stand this kind of s...I'm with you. I can't stand this kind of stuff, which is why I am really choosy about the parenting stuff I read lately. Which means, I read almost nothing.Janatudehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18212807101180048219noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1824745890000210678.post-88754584277098037472012-10-22T21:03:48.921-04:002012-10-22T21:03:48.921-04:00I love this! I can't stand that Parents rag an...I love this! I can't stand that Parents rag and that feature is the worst! <br /><br />One of my friends got me a subscription when I was pregnant with my first and I stupidly renewed. It has gotten worse lately with the fear-mongering. Did you read the article about the little girl whose intestines were sucked out by the pool drain? It gave me nightmares for weeks b/c the article described in graphic detail the horrible, painful experiences and eventual death of the child. They were having a violence-gasm at Parents that month and it really disturbed me. I can't imagine the horror of losing one's child, especially that way, but I was astonished that the girl's family allowed every detail of her death to be published in such a ghoulish manner. That's when I started hating Parents. Now my feelings about the magazine are best expressed by my favorite snarky pin: "You know when you hate someone and everything they do becomes offensive? Look at that bitch eating crackers over there like she owns the place." They can do no right with me now. <br /><br />Btw, if you aren't already aware of Free Range Kids, you should check out the blog. Lenore dislikes fear-mongering as much as you do.Carolinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10938151837333636098noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1824745890000210678.post-10720196007274500092012-10-22T21:03:29.682-04:002012-10-22T21:03:29.682-04:00I love this! I can't stand that Parents rag an...I love this! I can't stand that Parents rag and that feature is the worst! <br /><br />One of my friends got me a subscription when I was pregnant with my first and I stupidly renewed. It has gotten worse lately with the fear-mongering. Did you read the article about the little girl whose intestines were sucked out by the pool drain? It gave me nightmares for weeks b/c the article described in graphic detail the horrible, painful experiences and eventual death of the child. They were having a violence-gasm at Parents that month and it really disturbed me. I can't imagine the horror of losing one's child, especially that way, but I was astonished that the girl's family allowed every detail of her death to be published in such a ghoulish manner. That's when I started hating Parents. Now my feelings about the magazine are best expressed by my favorite snarky pin: "You know when you hate someone and everything they do becomes offensive? Look at that bitch eating crackers over there like she owns the place." They can do no right with me now. <br /><br />Btw, if you aren't already aware of Free Range Kids, you should check out the blog. Lenore dislikes fear-mongering as much as you do.Carolinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10938151837333636098noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1824745890000210678.post-8041085421341704692012-10-19T18:17:50.144-04:002012-10-19T18:17:50.144-04:00This is just too true. We can't bubble wrap t...This is just too true. We can't bubble wrap the whole world and put our kids in a balloon and keep them safe. Things are going to happen. When one of my daughters was 22 days old, I came in the house and put her infant carrier on the table while I took off my coat. The LEG BROKE OFF the table!!! The table I had for years that wasn't even wobbly just snapped a leg for no apparent reason. I felt awful. I sobbed the entire way to the emergency room (she was perfectly fine. Not even a bruise. You can't know stuff is going to happen. It does no good to beat ourselves up over it.Twisted Cinderellahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14273548648344779210noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1824745890000210678.post-61958859682024027272012-10-17T13:53:16.900-04:002012-10-17T13:53:16.900-04:00Accidents DO happen and they happen to good parent...Accidents DO happen and they happen to good parents. I'm with you, there's enough mother guilt around and no matter how much bubble wrap we put around our kids they're still going to find something to kill or maim themselves with... Enough with the scare columns!!Leannehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15592530066607069238noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1824745890000210678.post-70029601281125173232012-10-16T17:49:56.928-04:002012-10-16T17:49:56.928-04:00I should let my husband read this! Today our 8 mon...I should let my husband read this! Today our 8 month old pulled the kitchen table chair down on top of him. How did that happen? Well I mopped the floors and placed the chairs on top of the table. Somehow or another he managed to army crawl into the kitchen and in a split second pulled that chair down (I still dont know how he reached it). My husband went complete rant mode and almost killed the chair in the process... He was so mad at me for putting the chair on top of the table ya know because I totally saw that happening in my head and left it up there on purpose... UGH! accidents happen!BNMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14865816022677082186noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1824745890000210678.post-46304724812508216142012-10-16T13:04:43.368-04:002012-10-16T13:04:43.368-04:00Oy. Shall we talk about anti microbial stuff now? ...Oy. Shall we talk about anti microbial stuff now? Oy. Magpiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15460136246441367993noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1824745890000210678.post-14334171485412158562012-10-16T12:51:01.153-04:002012-10-16T12:51:01.153-04:00This is why I make my house out like the most dang...This is why I make my house out like the most dangerous obstacle course imaginable. Shards of glass, steak knives, and definitely battery-operated toys. (Killer robot toys, of course.)<br /><br />My kids will learn. Oh, how they will learn.<br /><br />(Too far? Possibly. But I'm with you all the way on this one.)Shttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18069545242441219178noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1824745890000210678.post-14808575640872053322012-10-16T12:15:25.945-04:002012-10-16T12:15:25.945-04:00YES! YES! YES! YES! YES!
There will always be way...YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! <br />There will always be ways kids get injured. Yes as parents we should be cautious to keep the most obvious issues safe, but holy smokes have so many people gone fucknut bonkers over ubersafety and caution.<br /><br />Catooteshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18243965613106099628noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1824745890000210678.post-63204219250293463942012-10-16T08:32:20.271-04:002012-10-16T08:32:20.271-04:00THIS is why so many of us suffer from anxiety. It...THIS is why so many of us suffer from anxiety. It's absurd!Cyndy Bushhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12617354883122757511noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1824745890000210678.post-33195339902606594262012-10-15T22:52:07.026-04:002012-10-15T22:52:07.026-04:00Unless you wrap kids in bubble wrap and store them...Unless you wrap kids in bubble wrap and store them n a closet which leads to its own issues, you can't save them from everythingbrokenteepeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06907414560986208401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1824745890000210678.post-74008662796242394002012-10-15T22:07:19.685-04:002012-10-15T22:07:19.685-04:00Okay...I love this so much. Because most gals who...Okay...I love this so much. Because most gals who know me tend to find it crazy how laid back I am about this kind of shit. And that's because the women in my family like to tell horror stories. TO THIS VERY DAY not one of the 20 something grandchildren has had a baby sleeper with footie pajamas. NOT ONE. My grandmother scared the crap out of all 5 of her kids and our footies were all cut off. Why? Because one day as she was watching me when I was an infant I wouldn't stop screaming. She finally got so desperate she peeled my hot, sweating screaming body out of the footie pajamas to see what the hell was wrong. There was a HAIR wrapped around my little toe and the toe was purple. Now to ask her, this hair was amputating my toe. It was close to falling off. She managed to save my toe, and when my mom came home, she found all of my footie pajamas had the feet cut off.<br />This is the power of fear, sister. An entire family of COLD BABY FEET!<br />Best,<br />TinaSmartBearhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02187513727826950625noreply@blogger.com