2009-09-08 16:04 | Your posts for the day.
* On parenting advice and the idiocy thereof, at Raising My Boychick:
But then I spent years in a parenting and natural living community before getting pregnant (before even deciding to try), so I also know the sting of being dismissed simply for not having had kids yet. I know how much it hurts — and how wrong it is — to tell someone they can't possibly know anything about children just for not having their own yet. And after I spent a couple years spending much of my time around other parents, reading parenting books, studying midwifery and everything baby-related (you should see my book collection!), and my parenting ideas gelled? They didn't change when I had the Boychick. People told me "you'll get a stroller, you'll learn to love disposable diapers, you'll let him cry — just wait, and you'll sing a different tune." And they were, simply, wrong.
And more on the topic of "You don't have kids, so your input is invalid".
* Dream, at Fugitivus, wherein she writes about this dream she had, and how it represents her leaving her abusive relationship… and leaving a friend in one. Trigger warning for abusive-relationship content in full effect.
Two awesome posts.
Tags: domestic violence, parenting, source:fugitivus, soure:boychick
