Fuck. After about a three month hiatus, I checked in on the pregnancy and motherhood message board that I used to read.
My due date club was awesome. It was totally helpful, and still is, to be in contact with a few moms going through the same things I am.
But the general forums? OH MY FUCKING GOD. What a bunch of brainless bints. When I’m not participating in the thread it’s amusing in a scary way (“i have gestational diabetes and am so hungry but dont know what to eat i know protein and stuff but i dont know whats high in protein so far today ive had a bowl of fruity pebbles and two hersheys kisses what should i eat?”).
But lord, WHY THE HELL did I have to try to participate? The thread had been pretty interesting up to the point when I replied, but now the responses are so poorly written that I can’t even figure out whether I’m being agreed with or attacked.
THESE PEOPLE ARE ALLOWED TO RAISE CHILDREN? Jesus wept.
No guff. They’re brutal! I can’t go any more. No matter how educated my decisions, no matter how confident I am in my parenting, no matter how small or petty an issue, I always come away feeling judged about something. If I can even read the more illiterate posts, that is. Seriously, there seems to be no parenting decision too petty that you cannot be doing it so wrong that your child will be forever damaged.
Somehow these people managed to get through the Captchas during registration? I bet they probably had some smart family member do it for them.
On a related note, I am currently a pregnant mother, and I have a question for you… were there 3 to go proteens or yesterday the hungry feelings stopped? KTHX!!! <3 <3 <3 BABIES!
I went to a message board for people who had, ummm, been through something I went through a long time ago, figuring I could help–you know, offer some old-lady encouragement and words of wisdom.
Jesus, what a bunch of whiny, illiterate, emo children! This place has spoiled me.
The worst mommy board of all is Motheringdotcommune. They promote all kinds of craziness including unassisted home birthing for twins and anti-vax nonsense. You’ll lose brain cells just reading there.
tygre has been on a few of these boards. I think nowadays she’s only on for the snark factor…recently someone on her board has loudly and unceasingly touted the benefits of bone broth, raw liver, and cow brains as the best diet for her and everyone else’s kids. She straightfacedly suggested that “if your kids don’t like bone broth, freeze it and make popsicles out of it.” Well, I suppose that’s one way of stopping the kids from raiding the freezer.
This is the same board that featured a mom whose kid threatened to blow up his school with a bomb hidden in a potato.
Yeah, I’ve viewed a couple of mommy boards but I refuse to participate. If I have questions I come here and risk being viewed as a one trick pony as opposed to listening to people who seem to make up the medical and parenting advise they give by consulting a cootie-catcher or something.
Isn’t it a truism, back by medical research, that pregnancy is one of those times when the hormones run riot? Wouldn’t we reasonably expect that such a board would have a big whopping dose of emo?
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I googled, “bone broth, raw liver, cow brains” and came up with the above. That has to be a joke … doesn’t it? All these hard to come by foods and “I do not recommend the use of most whole grains” ?!?
I’ve never understood advocating for liver - it filters the blood, therefore always seemed like it’d be one of the least clean/safe parts of an animal to eat. It’s usually the first to go for drug addicts & alcoholics.
Back to the original topic. I’ve checked into a couple of parenting boards, figuring that I could answer a few questions. Dear Og, these people are allowed to walk around without a keeper? AND they are in charge or will be in charge of raising kids? I’m amazed that some of them are capable of reading. They certainly can’t construct readable sentences. A lot of them are proud to be single teen moms, and hold this title up as a badge of honor.
Possibly the scariest thing of all is that a lot of the worst offenders declare that they’re homeschoolers.
