{"id":26,"date":"2005-02-25T12:25:00","date_gmt":"2005-02-25T12:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/?p=26"},"modified":"2005-02-25T12:25:00","modified_gmt":"2005-02-25T12:25:00","slug":"when-moms-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2005\/02\/25\/when-moms-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"When moms attack"},"content":{"rendered":"

The topic of the day on the blogosphere seems to be moms attacking other moms. Probably, it’s a result of that whole Mommy Madness thing in Newsweek (Newsweek makes you pay for articles and I am cheap, so I refer you instead to the very good review of the article in question at Half Changed World<\/a>) Personally, I suspect the demise of hockey has somehow caused a massive leak of testosterone into the Internet and that is at least partially to blame.<\/p>\n

We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve got a long incredibly funny (as always) examination of mothers criticising mothers over at Chez Miscarriage<\/a> (go read her post right now \u00e2\u20ac\u201c it should be required reading for anybody who is a parent, wants to be a parent or knows a parent. Really, go now, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll wait here until you get back. You\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll thank me later.) At Finslippy<\/a> there is more required reading for not just the parenting manual, but the how to be a nice human manual. Since I have a full coffee and it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Friday, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll even be patient enough to wait while you wander over there and read that post, too, as long as you promise to come right back.<\/p>\n

It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not just blogs. Before I discovered blogging (there was a before<\/em> blogging?) I used to spend my spare time hanging around the parenting after IVF message boards at IVF Connections<\/a>. Even among a group of women who had been through a lot together, in a cyber-y kind of way, it never failed to amaze me how quickly they would turn on each other when topics strayed to personal debates like circumcise or no, breast versus bottle, WOHM versus SAHM, and the one that really blew me away, to crockpot or not. I wish I were kidding.<\/p>\n

To mitigate all this, over at Been There<\/a> we have what I think should be a new national holiday — they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve declared a Parenting Appreciation Festival<\/strong>. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m packing my lawn chair and my cooler and joining the party, and I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m inviting you along for the ride. What, ya got something better to do? C\u00e2\u20ac\u2122mon, join the fun \u00e2\u20ac\u201c just take a minute to say one nice thing to a parent today. If you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re feeling particularly magnanimous, DO something nice for a parent today.<\/p>\n

Conveniently, today is also my mom\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s birthday, so let me tell you a tiny story about how wonderful she is: yesterday afternoon, our only car broke down and is in the shop overnight. (Another long story, don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t get me started.) But I was going to do groceries last night, and we were out of milk. Not only did my mom pick up the kids from daycare and shuttle them home, not only did she go to the store and pick up some milk to get us through, and not only did she add in a little snacky treat for the kids and for Beloved and I, but she also bought a little bag of biscuits for the DOG! How amazing is that?<\/p>\n

Go on, go buy somebody a little baggie of karmic dog biscuits. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll do you good!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The topic of the day on the blogosphere seems to be moms attacking other moms. Probably, it’s a result of that whole Mommy Madness thing in Newsweek (Newsweek makes you pay for articles and I am cheap, so I refer you instead to the very good review of the article in question at Half Changed … Continue reading “When moms attack”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}