Posted on 12/03/2004 7:01:43 AM PST by grellis
First, I'd like to ask all of you to say a prayer for one of our moms, backinthefold, whose son broke two foot bones recently. Can we have an update, BITF?
Next...well, I'm not sure where to begin. Earlier this week a thread was run, "A Paradigm Shift in Parenting" (sorry folks, I've forgotten the html for links) in which many of the FFT parents posted comments. The discussion among FReepers on the thread began as a look at the economics of parenting, a topic which we have discussed a number of times in the past. What the discussion turned into was just ugly, on many different levels. A few of the prevailing attitudes seemed to be "I am a stay at home mom so I'm a better parent than you are;" "I homeschool my kids so I'm a better parent than you are;" "I live in an afforable community so I'm a better parent than you are"...one complete (insert expletive here) even had the raw nerve to refer to the adoptive parents of foreign-born children as traitors to America.
What goes on here? Do we realize how hurtful some of our comments are going to be before we post them and have at it anyway, or is it just that we don't think about it? Do we make an effort to try to understand someone's situation before we pass our judgement upon them? Which begs the obvious question: Who are we to judge? I freely admit that I have done this in the past. When a poster gripes about the high cost of living in their community, my first thought is "So move!" Yet, recently, when I had occasion to gripe about the slumlords in my own community, I took great offense when I was told--you guessed it--"So move!" Is there some way that we can be more supportive of the choices of other parents? If that is not possible, could we at least try to be a little more constructive in our criticism?
Is this going to be the first FFT thread in which comments are removed by the mods??!
Expletive poster is lucky he's not in Lansing or he'd be seriously missing in teeth! Nobody messes with the FReeper moms, not on my watch. Grrrrrrr!
Criminey jimjams! Is your family from San Fratella? Cattolica?
Sorry. We are Frogs from Aix-au-Provence. But we are nearly neighbors geographically!
Expletive poster should count himself lucky that I don't still live in Philly. Anyone who whould recommend living in Port Richmand needs a beatdown. Crack dealers and hookers are ideal neighbors as we know.
I'm going to look in on that thread again. I wonder how expletive poster is doing...
Be Nice!
You girls are cracking me up!!!!
I'm originally from Brooklyn, NY..........I know lots about taking care of that kind of stuff as well!!!!
Ping him over here, I dare ya! ; ) He can tell us how we are all CINOs and how wonderful life is in the ghetto.
You're the nice one! The rest of us are yentas.
Too tired. Backinthefold gave me her damn cold, bless her heart.
ROFLMAO!!!!!!!!!
With the frog first and last name I've got most folks think I'm not a real live EWNIGHTED STAITES OF AMERICA born type person.
The frog last name is my husband's from sometime in the 19th century when those canucks came across the border.
2 of my grandparents were born in NYC, the other 2 were born in Ireland.........my name t'ain't got nuttin to with where I's from!!!!
I gave it to her. We're just passing it around, bless our hearts.
who is this guy - I'll give him some stories about life in the ghetto.....I can sum it up in one phrase....which I will leave to your imagination
I have the French first name and the modified French last name, but my dad and my ex husband had Deutscher last names.
You may want to pray for your bowels
I run the typical gamut of Sullivan, Fitzgerald Fitzpatrick, etc..you know the deal.
Hubby can at least go back to one that actually means something in this nation (or at least used to) -- Hale.
I certainly will! Last thing I need over the weekend is irksome bowels!
ROFL!!!!!!!!!!
Hermann the Cherusker this guy. A total gabrone.
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