My blog has it's first hater. How exciting! Some random person posted a whole slew of negative comments this afternoon, which I of course deleted. He or she is deeply offended that I fed Henry solids at 6 months (too soon?), that he self-weaned at 19 months (not 19 years?), and most of all that we let him cry it out. I still am not thrilled that we went that route but it worked for him at a point when he needed sleep so badly.
I feel like I am dancing in a middle ground between two different approaches to mothering. I did let him cry it out, but I advocate natural childbirth. I nursed him exclusively, but not till kindergarten. We did cloth diapers until the poop got real. I'm not completely mainstream but I'm not 100% crunchy either. That way I get to offend everyone!
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Fun times. I refuse to even discuss the my bfeeding experience on ye old blog because of the crazies. I even worry about what other mothers must think of my parenting.
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On my blog, I've got comment moderation turned on for just that reason. It's kinda nice... I get to approve each comment before it appears on my blog.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, try not to let the haters get to you. Anyone who is that critical has likely never had to live through it themselves. Or they're just a dick. Either way, they don't count. ;-)
Yeah, I just turned on moderation after that. It was never a problem before so I didn't feel like messing with it until I needed to.
ReplyDeleteIt's hard to be bothered my those critical of my parenting because I know every kid and every mom is different and I think I've done pretty well with what I've got. It's really easy to criticize before you've actually had a kid!
So weird. We've had our blog for years and never had anything worse than just plain old comment spam.
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