I like to read crazy blogs, and the craziest (to me) is called That Wife, in which a Mormon wife and mother blogs about her daily life. I consider myself fairly tolerant of others, but really this takes the cake. In chronicling life with an eight month old readers are introduced to where the baby sleeps, which is in the bathroom in a pack n play (playpen). This has been the case since he was born until now when he is two. Now some people may not have any space, but others may just not want to use the spare room they have since the computers can’t be moved into the living room, bedroom, etc. :dubious: Of course mom also says, "We aren’t giving T1 * (the baby) any presents this year. We’ll give him an old rag and a box to play with or something. I guarantee you that will make him just as happy as anything we can buy at the store."*
Even more fun is the cheese reporting in which she talks about how her husband locks up the cheese while he at work during the day. This is because he wants to die before her so she must lose weight and be healthy. Of course, she did make a powerpoint to convince the guy to marry her so she can’t complain. The very husband who posted on her blog:
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“I actually think the reverse is true regarding to race privilege. I
hope this doesn’t offend anyone (because it is really not meant to be
offensive), but I’ve had this conversation with many friends in
consulting, and we even came up with a saying: “there would be no limit
to what I could accomplish had I been born a black woman.” (I know
African American is the PC term, but not all black people are African
Americans)”*
It might just be me who thinks bottle propping a two month old, letting him play with blind cords, keeping him in three diapers so he can be changed only every twelve hours, etc. is a little wrong. However I know the SD is the epitome of logic and many may feel differently. How do you feel?
*I recommend reading some the linked posts and getting a little feel for the blog before you make judgements, because upon reading your opinions may sway one way or the other
I won’t comment on the stuff in the OP since I didn’t click on the links and know nothing about it, but I’ll agree with Lynn here. My daughter (who does have quite the creative streak in her), until she was about 4 or so) was absolutely ecstatic to play with diaper wipes all day. Asking for new ones only when they dried out. Don’t get me wrong, she had all the toys a kid her age could want, but she would ask for a wipe and sit there and make all kinds of things out of it and a few hours later she would ask for a new one. She did this for years. She’d get clothes for her birthday and spends the next two days playing with the hanger.
Now, I wouldn’t get her a box of wipes or a hanger of her birthday, but I can certainly understand wanting to. It’s hard to buy a kid a $20 present when you know they’re going to play with the box for the next 3 hours. It’s hard to spend a hundred bucks on Christmas present when I know she’s going to come up to me on December 26th and ask for some diaper wipes to play with.
Sure the thought crosses your mind, but only in a ‘boy I sure could save a lot of money’ way, not in a ‘hmmm, maybe I WILL just give her a box’ way. I wouldn’t want her looking at pictures from her first or second birthdays and wondering why she didn’t get anything but empty boxes.
He is soooo cute. I think the box thing wouldn’t be such a big deal but combined with everything else it just sounds really bad. The rag part made it worse.
I actually managed to track down the electric razor in the bathtub pic here.
WTF? I always felt it went without saying that I would prefer my baby not die.
And she needs to get him a bigger high chair and stop putting him in that tiny seat on the edge of the counter. A baby that age could probably flip that thing off the counter while you have your back turned for a second.
That link is broken. Do you have the picture saved or cached? I’ll check google and see what I can find. If anyone has it, can you rehost it somewhere else and link here? (imageshack or imgur)
The pillow in his bed, and the dangerous blind cords, and letting him play with the blind cords… these three are things that have been drummed into me as big No-Nos and they make me uncomfortable. The bathroom … if it’s not draughty or damp I suppose it’s just another room and shouldn’t be harmful, but I wouldn’t like to sleep in my bathroom so I do find the idea a little odd. I ran out of time to read more, so no comment on anything else
Update: found it in google’s cache by searching for “thatwifeblog electric razor” (no quotes) and I rehosted it here. Then I located a larger-res cheezburger version. And for the bonus round, I also found a picture she tweeted (rehosted here, in case she scrubs that too). The kid is standing on a toilet amidst a minefield of first aid supplies, a curling iron, and an open container of powdered bleach, with this clever caption: “How is it possible for such a small creature to wreak this much havoc?” Maybe if you didn’t leave him unattended in the bathroom at the tender age of two, this wouldn’t have happened, you daft cow!
There is a **lot **more wrong with these parents than putting their kid’s crib in the shitter.
Yes, there is quite a bit of crazy on the blog and on her other accounts. I felt my post was already link heavy so I didn’t include all that I wanted to, but by reading I think it’s pretty easy to get a clear picture.
She also contemplated whether or not to get therapy for her eighteen month old who was speaking no words, because it might cost to much. Despite their nice apartment, phones, camera equipment, etc.
My father worked for a company that made cardboard and corrugated fiberboard boxes. Every now and then he’d bring home some boxes. We had plenty of other toys, but we sure enjoyed those boxes.
My personal feeling is that kids need toys that allow for very creative play. Old fashioned wooden blocks or Tinker toys or Lincoln logs are better than most electronic gizmos that only do three things. That is, the gizmo is designed to do one thing, and it does that thing, and it also consumes batteries and breaks down. Some gizmos are very, very good, but for the most part, the younger the child, the less sophisticated his/her toys should be. So an empty box and a blanket (rag) might be perfect for a one year old.
However, having a child means that sometimes you have to alter your lifestyle, and if that means that you have to give up your computer room or photo lab in order that your child can sleep somewhere other than a bathroom, then that’s what you do.
A whole lot of crazy going on there, except for the actual title question. Two is stretching it, but before a kid starts walking it doesn’t really matter what room they are sleeping in. And yeah, until a certain age boxes are just as entertaining as more expensive toys.
When my brother turned one, we got him his own baby cake, but that was entertainment for us.
Of course the title question, which I framed my post on, would be the least controversial. And like I said, I think the box and rag comment has to be taken into context after perusing the site for a while because you start to feel a certain blase tone from the mom towards the kid in general.
Is there a Poe’s Law equivalent for Mommy Blogs? 'Cause this just can’t be real. It’s as if she carefully hit all the common safety/parenting Don’ts. Big Mama Troll, is my guess, who may now be dealing with Family Services and (ineffectively) deleting her online trail as This Shit Gets Real.
Notice how the outlets are nicely framed in the shaving head shot, but the cord to the razor doesn’t actually go back, it’s in front. And there’s no hair to cut yet. Staged to make in onto Cheezburger, I’d bet a million imaginary dollars on it.
I respectfully disagree for several reasons. There are more pictures of the razor and the bathtub for one, and he is later shown bald. It was done because of cultural reasons and for his hairs to grow evenly the mom stated. As for the photos being staged, she considers herself a a professional photographer which is why they look the way they do.
The deleting stuff is odd because she has been discussed as a crap parent for a very long time. I looked up posts about her on other message boards, and her parenting style as been criticized for these things long after she posted them. The deleting thing is new, and may have to do with her husband trying to do a little damage control (what with his high flying career, wouldn’t want his wife’s crazy blog to come up in a google search of his name).
And like I said, I think the box and rag comment has to be taken into context after perusing the site for a while because you start to feel a certain blase tone from the mom towards the kid in general.
