Comments on: Mothers shouldn’t have opinions

By: Lorette Lavine

Lorette Lavine — Thu, 19 May 2011 23:21:39 +0000

OMG…imagine what the world would be like without people like you Annie…you say the things that I am thinking but cannot always write about…I love your opinion pieces( even if I disagree, it makes me think) I love the information that you share and I love the way we can blog and share over the internet to people far and wide.
I love that I can post this and say keep on writing and sharing and thank-you!

By: Mythbusting Motherhood

Mythbusting Motherhood — Thu, 19 May 2011 19:01:51 +0000

I recently wrote a post on my blog about judging mothers. It has everything to do with the person doing the judging and NOTHING at all to do with the person being judged.

http://mythbustingmotherhood.tumblr.com/post/5348570920/my-top-10-oh-now-i-get-it-moments

By: Lori

Lori — Thu, 19 May 2011 18:36:37 +0000

Go on sistah friend!

By: Katie

Katie — Thu, 19 May 2011 18:21:15 +0000

Totally agree! The people negatively commenting are also wasting their time when they could be out solving world hunger, homelessness and advocating for world peace! You are doing a wonderful job bringing to light important subjects that have value and meaning to other mothers. Thanks for all you do!

By: Alison

Alison — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 19:18:30 +0000

Allegra, thank you so much for posting about your AP experiences. My husband and I are expecting our first baby any minute We plan on doing many of the things you mentioned and have had to explain our reasoning for each to “concerned” (read = nosy) family and friends. Your final few sentences give me hope that regardless of what other say and think, I will enjoy my children and parenting because I plan to respond to my own instincts and to my child’s cues. Thanks again for bolstering this new mom’s courage to parent the way she thinks is best for her and her kiddo!

By: Allegra

Allegra — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 17:00:10 +0000

Gaack. My youngest is 22 and I had to go through the whole attachment parenting is wrong crap a generation ago. We fired the gyne at 7.5 months when he wouldn’t give me his episio rate. His question, “Why would you want to know that?” Got a midwife, found a sympathetic doc, had a midwife assisted hospital birth. Didn’t clip the little feller – his dad was all like “Nobody is hurting my baby boy, no no no.” (Sample comment “Don’t you think he’ll be confused not looking like his dad?” Response, tersely, “No.”) Co-slept (oh, the f*****g weeping and wailing from people who thought I would CRUSH my BABBEE. Sample comment, “What about your sex life?” Answer “Babies sleep, duh.”). Nursed all the time and everywhere and it’s amazing how a simple receiving blanket will cover that boob. Second baby born at home. Co-nursed for 6 months (and now I wish I’d taken a pic but I was too modest – crap these days I’d be posting the pics on facebook!)

Obviously without my spouse being all over attachment parenting I couldn’t have done it.

The point I want to make is that when you’re looking back on your parenting, attachment parenting yields fewer regrets. And believe me, when you’re 52 and looking back into the haze of nostalgia, it will be a comfort to you. You may have royally screwed up many things, but that is not one of them.

By: Richard Dawkins reads his hate mail | PhD in Parenting

Richard Dawkins reads his hate mail | PhD in Parenting — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 15:30:15 +0000

[...] people like Dooce and Her Bad Mother. Thankfully, I don’t receive a lot of it, but I have had some interesting comments. But I laughed out loud yesterday when I saw this video of Richard Dawkins reading his hate mail. [...]

By: April

April — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 20:58:24 +0000

Unfortunately, what Maggie doesn’t understand is that the women receiving flack for breastfeeding in public aren’t baring all and flashing their breasts. Women get harassed for nursing in public *even when* they are covered by a nursing cover, other clothing, or have already retreated to an area of the public space that is less crowded. In other words – even the most modest of NIP mothers are being treated like common trash, and they need someone to stand up for them.

By: Kate

Kate — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 17:06:22 +0000

I am the master of one-handed typing while babies “sit” in a V in my lap to nurse. How things change. Just two mos later and they think they need to type too!

By: Rosilla

Rosilla — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 15:55:00 +0000

:O Are you looking in my window? Im reading this shaking my head at some of the comments, while I am 8 mths pregnant, barefoot sitting at my computer in my kitchen, while my kids are happily playing at summer camp for the day… lol… and I am sure my kids are just fine and loving the experiences they are having while I read the comments…