Comments on: Crazy Narcissistic Exploitative Zombie-Pimp Mom-Bloggers, Unite and Take Over

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 22:48:00 +0000

P.S. I AM from Calgary, and our chld was born in a northern oil patch city. My child attends a public school, and neither my husband nor I are Rhodes scholars.

The boy loves to talk.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 22:08:00 +0000

Um, my child did speak in complete sentences and did have perfect diction by two years of age. In fact, he ordered food in a restaurant at 14-1/2 months of age. He used a complete sentence. He asked questions like, “Do you like the light?” at 19 months of age.

I don’t know what that says about me, or his father.

By: Mud Mama

Mud Mama — Fri, 02 May 2008 16:37:00 +0000

The feminist in me is wondering where they’;ve strung up Dave Barry and Bill Cosby for mining their family life for humorist material. Then my little child of the 70’s self wonders who is burning Erma Bombeck in effigy for destroying her children’s lives.

Fuck!

By: Commander Mommy

Commander Mommy — Fri, 02 May 2008 12:34:00 +0000

I’ve only just now entered the world of mommy blogging. Who knew there were so many haters? I find it hard to believe that these people who say such horrible things never talk about their kids. I mean, that is all this is, right? We talk about our children and someone happens to be amused enough that we get paid for it. Nuff said.

By: Adventures In Babywearing

Adventures In Babywearing — Thu, 01 May 2008 01:23:00 +0000

I’m quite late to the party here but I guess I was too busy exploiting my poor kids… sheesh- I don’t get these people, but I do get you.

xoxo
Steph

By: To Think is to Create

To Think is to Create — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 06:19:00 +0000

I wasn’t going to comment because I pretty much am just violently nodding my head in agreement with you and the other commenters, but then I saw you say you read every one…so…

Totally loving you taking this stand for the rest of us, and feel like I’ve been really missing out on your writing up until the J&J event when I first started reading you. Kinda grew a bit of a comedy crush on you after seeing the video of you that Tracey showed of you discussing your “nether home”. Apparently I have a thing for funny zombie pimps. Who knew?

By: Wishful Mommy

Wishful Mommy — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 04:44:00 +0000

Excellent post as always. I also enjoyed the article. Kudos to you for not removing the comments. And the photo is so lovely.

Here's a thought: if Wonderbaby is annoyed you recorded so much of her life in a blog, she will have tons of other kids to empathize with her! They can start a club.

Hang in there. Stay strong. Getting excited about Baby #2.

By: Rhen @yestheyareallmine

Rhen @yestheyareallmine — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 03:45:00 +0000

Oh my goodness! If we, as parents, could not say, do or have anything that could even be considered embarassing for our children then we would have to burn our camcorder tapes and DVD’s, burn our baby books, shred all the family get together photos and never talk to anyone about our families ever again. That would be one boring world. Isn’t part of the fun of being a parent embarassing your children at some point? Geez, I am 32 years old and my parents still get a kick out of it!!
Great blog!

By: Meg

Meg — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 00:38:00 +0000

I think I’d take the words written by someone named Tralee with a grain of salt.

(((hugs)))

By: Andrea

Andrea — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 21:10:00 +0000

I can't say anything that the people above me haven't already said more eloquently than I could. But I wanted to chime in my support.

I was particularly moved by the part in your post about the veil of silence us mothers are supposed to obey. Pish, I say. It's my life, my take on parenthood, and if I manage to make a few extra bucks doing it (right now I don't, but that's not to say in the future I won't) who's to say I'm not putting it toward my kids' education or putting clothes on their backs? Just because my audience happens to be bigger than just my parents and in-laws and grandparents doesn't mean that what I have to say is exploitation.

And clearly, those in the comments of the actual article seem to be completely out of the loop as to how parenting works. I love the opinions about a subject which the clearly know nothing.

Solidarity, sistah. Don't stop because someone tells you to. They're just too weak to handle it.