Thanks to facebook, everyone posts every little thing on their mind, (me included) and I have noticed that all my mom friends love to share articles, pictures, and links to things that they have an opinion on. Not only that but anything that you follow that may be parenting related also posts tons of stuff about it too.
It's weird how it kind of semi-annoys me.
I personally don't care what you choose to do with your children. Circumcise or don't. Vaccinate or don't vaccinate. Cloth diaper or use Disposables. Breastfeed or Formula feed. Rear face or don't rear face your kid. Tv or no TV. Make your own baby food or buy jarred. It goes on and on and on.
But why does it semi-annoy me? Most of the time, I can read the stuff and just move on. Sometimes, maybe on an especially "parenting" cluttered news feed day, it starts to annoy me?
I guess maybe it's because I read it and get the idea that even though it's not directed to me, it's more for just general awareness, that I am not smart enough to figure it out on my own, or maybe I was too dumb and didn't know the supposed health/saftey benefits.
I do read.
Case in point, I read up a lot on circumcisions and even followed a blog which semi-annoys me with all the crunchy-naturalness going on.
Okay, well the circumcising thing, that was annoying because all the anti-circumcising stuff was making me feel like I was some terrible monster who had tortured my child by choosing to do it. When in reality, it was a very short and fast procedure, which my son WAS numbed for, so that he didn't feel anything.
Lucky I'm not some popular mainstream blogger because I'd probably get a lot of hate comments on my opinion regarding that situation. But guess what I was informed. I wasn't stupidly just like, "Cut him up! I don't know anything about anything. Durp durp."
I toyed with the idea about not circumcising. But I had reasons for choosing it. One being that I have a personal experience of not being circumcised being a bad thing. Long story short, infections all the time and then getting the surgery at a later age because it was recommended and seeing the healing process on older person, is just something I would not want my son to go through. The other was that I also had to weigh in what my spouse wanted.
Perhaps if I hadn't had this personal knowledge of how bad being uncircumcised can be, I might have been more reluctant to choose circumcision.
Clearly, I am just in an annoyed state of mind. It might because I run on about 4 hours of sleep and my nipples feel like they have been sucked off, (Don't even try to tell me we are doing it wrong, because we are doing it right. Guess what it still sucks!) my house is a wreck like 24/7 and the weather outside is crappy and my mood always dips when it's crappy weather outside.
But anyways. Thanks you friends for all your sharing. I'm sure there is some parent who is now breathing a sigh of relief because she/he did not know about the benefits to what you may be ranting about. It's not me though. I'll be back here, trying to keep my eyes from rolling out of my head.
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moms just want to judge other moms, and the judgey moms will end up with awful teenagers ;) keep doing what youre doing, in the long run who cares about any of this? at your kids college interview do you think they will be asked if they were breastfed/extended rearfaced/cloth diapered/circumcized? no.
ReplyDeleteit all seems so major now but in the long run, no big deal!
@ Krista AGREED and well said!! I really truly believe that you are 'damned if you do damned if you don't' when it comes to parenting. About the sore nipples, seriously, how can a persons nipples not hurt when someone is constantly sucking the crap out them. I don't get how some women say it shouldn't hurt, maybe they just have a better pain tolerance than I do, lol!
ReplyDeleteFunny, Anna! People do make ridiculous assumptions of other moms and friends in general with some of their "shares" but other times I think people genuinely think they are helping other people to learn and educate others or simply sharing something interesting. I think you did the right thing with circumcising. In general, with ALL of the things you said, you have to do what is right for your family. Seriously. Do you what you think is best and hope it works out. In the end, you just need to keep them alive and reasonably well-adjusted enough to let them live on their own, right? :-) I guess when it comes to more health-specific things I have more of an opinion. Like the car seat thing - the difference between rear and front facing can be life-threatening, so pretty important. But cloth diapering? Breastfeeding? Unlikely.
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