Parenting Blogs (Homework Help)

[trailerparkmedic]

I'm writing a paper about a childbirth or parenting controversy. If I go the parenting route, it will be focused on infants, not teens. Part of my required research is looking at parenting blogs. I've found a few, but what parenting blogs do you read or know about? Extreme, crazy views are welcome and encouraged (since it's way easier to review someone who writes in absolutes), but I'll welcome any help.

[AnaKhouri]

I have one in my signature but haven't updated since like, October. Probably not much help...

[TawnyMyst]

The Toronto star currently has an article about parents raising a genderless child, basically they are refusing to tell anyone the gender of their 4 month old under the premise that he/she will be allowed to establish their own identity when old enough.

[Sapphire Silk]

How about vaccinations? The whole vaccines cause autism thing is still very much alive, in spite of the fact that the ONE study suggesting a link has since been denounced as a complete and utter fraud.

In fact . . . I require a paper on this from my students in my Family Health class

[trailerparkmedic]

Tawny, I read that article! Very...unique... but sadly it's not a medical issue so I can't use it. I also looked and there isn't much scholarly research on it, and scholarly articles will form the majority of my paper.

Panacea, I'd love to do vaccines but with the structure and limitations of the assignment combined with my writing style, I don't think it would be the right topic for me. I'm leaning towards elective c-sections vs. not doing them or breastfeeding vs. bottle feeding. It seems basic but they're pretty important topics. I'm still doing lots of research to see what I can find and how I want to approach the paper.

[Mishi]

The three I can think of are:

- www.smallestcarbonfootprint.blogspot.com
- www.sausagemama.com
- http://www.thecowgoddess.com/

but I'm not sure how helpful these will be. I've run across them in my web travels, not a regular reader.

@Panacea: THANK-YOU!!! My bestfriend's mother tries to argue with me about vaccination every time I see her! I really think that there needs to be more public awareness about the diseases they help prevent.

[Der Cute]

Try this:
http://wellroundedmama.blogspot.com/

[pitmonkey]

Here is a blog http://freerangekids.wordpress.com/. It is an anti helicopter view on raising children.

[trailerparkmedic]

Mishi, the first entry on the first blog you posted is about elective c-sections. I think it's a sign.

If you want evidence to show your best friend's mother about vaccination, let me know. If nothing else, the journal that published the original article retracted it and said it was fraud. Sadly, I know that people who don't want to hear something won't.

[kaherbert]

http://ecochildsplay.com/ environmentally friendly

http://freerangekids.wordpress.com/ let kids go outside and play

http://www.lovethatmax.com/ Child with CP

http://naturemoms.com/blog/ you are poisoning your kids

http://nerdyapplebottom.com/ (Let her son dress up as Daphene from Scooby Do - suffered a huge backlash from "concerned" people at the school ended up having to move her kids because of the wackaloons she is normal the people around her are raging lunatics)

http://sciencebasedparenting.com/

[Kogarashi]

I generally avoid parenting blogs because either I know the person (and they don't really do a heavy "parenting" one as opposed to "hey, this is our life" blog), or I don't know the person and will invariably hit something I highly disagree with.

But here's a book I read while pregnant with my first that I didn't really like at all, largely for the seemingly paranoid approach they took to parenting. I don't know if it will help, but I do remember there was a nice long chapter about why breastfeeding is awesome and everyone should do it, followed by a much shorter section titled "If you choose to bottle-feed...." I honestly started reading that section expecting the first sentence to be, "...then you are a horrible, awful mother, OMG!" It didn't outright say that, but it did seem to imply it as it kept pointing out how breastfeeding is so much better.

Maybe I'm biased, but my mom bottle-fed all of my siblings and myself, and my MIL did too (because she couldn't breastfeed), and we turned out just fine.

[Sapphire Silk]

Tawny, I read that article! Very...unique... but sadly it's not a medical issue so I can't use it. I also looked and there isn't much scholarly research on it, and scholarly articles will form the majority of my paper.

Panacea, I'd love to do vaccines but with the structure and limitations of the assignment combined with my writing style, I don't think it would be the right topic for me. I'm leaning towards elective c-sections vs. not doing them or breastfeeding vs. bottle feeding. It seems basic but they're pretty important topics. I'm still doing lots of research to see what I can find and how I want to approach the paper.

Sounds like you are on track. Both are good subjects, and I've seen others post some good links to get you started. Good luck!

@Panacea: THANK-YOU!!! My bestfriend's mother tries to argue with me about vaccination every time I see her! I really think that there needs to be more public awareness about the diseases they help prevent.

You're welcome Public health officials and physicians are trying to explain things to the public but it is an emotional issue. I'd best not say more lest I wander into Fratching territory

[Seshat]

@Panacea: THANK-YOU!!! My bestfriend's mother tries to argue with me about vaccination every time I see her! I really think that there needs to be more public awareness about the diseases they help prevent.

I believe we have a fratching thread (probably more than one) on vaccination. I know that one that I was involved in ended up fading out because of a lack of argument: it pretty much amounted to 'well duh, of course I'd rather my kids not have polio, smallpox, etc'.

I think I put a bit about herd immunity into that thread. If you want to do thread necromancy do a search on that term ("herd immunity") over in Fratching.

[Kogarashi]

But here's a book I read while pregnant with my first that I didn't really like at all.... -snip lack of book-

Seems my chronic "forgetting the e-mail attachment" strikes again.

http://www.amazon.com/While-Waiting-...6693214&sr=8-1 -- HERE's the book I was talking about, "While Waiting...."