offered without comment January 31, 2008
The new “Kids and Globaloney” contest is marketed to parents who are “shocked, amused or just plain disgusted about what your kids are being told about global warming:”
Are YOUR kids being victimized by global warming hysteria? Tell us and win!
Have they been forced to watch “An Inconvenient Truth” in 5 different classes?
Have they been ostracized because you don’t have a hybrid car, solar panels, or other “green” item de jour?
Have their “science” courses been hijacked by global warming zealots?
Are they being confronted with the half-truths and downright falsehoods that greenies and junk-science believers are using to foist the cult of global warming on the rest of us?
Are you shocked, amused or just plain disgusted about what your kids are being told about global warming? Kids Ahead, the publisher of the new book, The Sky’s Not Falling: Why It’s OK to Chill About Global Warming wants to hear your kids’ funny, unbelievable, or just plain weird stories of greenie overreach.
I have to admit i have read much more intelligent critiques than this gentleman wondering if we are being sold a load with the global warming or even if the earth IS warming up, if in fact humans are the cause. I don’t think not swallowing the whole thing hook line and sinker means you are an idiot. Frankly I think both conservatives and liberals behave very badly mocking people with different opinions. Doesn’t really encourage looking at ALL sides of an issue. My personal take on it after looking at all sides is I am not so sure but practicing good stewardship is a very good idea, global warming or no.
One of the reasons I am happiest about my choice to forgo having children is being able to sidestep nonsense like this.
These people should be shipped off to the melting Antarctic ice shelf . . . .
These people should be shipped off to the melting Antarctic ice shelf . . . .
I think it’s hilarious that your son has compared you to Dick Chaney! What an insult! Keep that note. You’ll both laugh about in years to come!
yeah the Cheney thing is hysterical-maybe not today or even tomorrow but in a few years or so
just breathe deeply remember this is just the first one…
katie, I am sorry you are having a hard time with your teenager. But, I’ve read your blog for a long time, and have to admit that I often shook my head when you talked about how it easy it all was–that you just had to nurse them forever and attachment parent them and so on, and I was thinking, “Oh god, this woman doesn’t have any idea” (having not lived through parenting teens, I mean.)
Best of luck to all of you–you can do it!
I think similarly to Leigh on global warming.About the raising of teenagers,I think most inexperienced parents (as well as those with no children) might suffer from what I like to call “Silent Smugness Disease.” When they see other folk’s children or teens acting out they say to themselves “My child will never do that because I’m a smarter and better parent-blah blah blah.” But,the big,bad parenting joke is soon on them. Forest Gump had the right idea…
Gee, I’m really sorry if you have somehow gotten the impression that I ever said/thought that it was “easy” to parent teenagers, or that breastfeeding prevents both asthma **and** obnxiousness in adolescence. In fact, if you’ve read my blog a long time, I’m not sure how you possibly could have gotten that impression since I quite frequently talk about the challenges of raising my kids at all ages. I can think of many blog entries over the years where I’ve said I thought my head might explode because one or another of my kids was driving me nuts at any given moment.
I continue to believe that close, attached parenting is the right choice for my family, and it continues to help me stay close with each of my children, even as they get older and we sometimes navigate rocky waters.
PS: If you ever got the impression I thought parenting teenagers was “easy,” you didn’t read this essay, which I wrote at least four years ago …http://www.metropulse.com/dir_zine/dir_2004/1408/t_inloco.html
Katie, I didn’t mean to upset you.
I am not aiming this at anyone in particular. But I had a HORRIBLE time with my first kid. Breastfeeding didn’t work out. I had a bunch of judgemental b*t**es telling me what to do, what not to do and how I was surely screwing my kid up for life if I didn’t follolw their self righteous advice. This followed what was a very stressful pregnancy, thanks to my mothers unquestioning stance on taking medication shilled out by her doctor when she was pregnant with me. I was at risk for premature labor and/or miscarriage every step of the way. Constant monitoring. And a husband who was freaking out. I had PPD in the days before anyone knew what it was and they just thought I was a nutjob. I used to cry for hours and no one knew why. For years. But I hung in there and worked through the problems and (see my post above) I am now loving being a parent. I did not love it then. I thought, thanks to the endless prattle about how great everyone else was doing with their infant, that I was just a sucky failure. I didn’t even think I was in the leagues. Now, a lot of the people that I personally knew who were holding their nursing babies up like badges of honor (was this maybe the first good thing they had done in their lives?) are not connecting with their teenagers. They don’t get why all that nursing didn’t prevent sneaky teenage behavior. I find it humbling rather than an occasion for smugness. At how easy it is to preen your feathers that you are in control and have it all down when you really don’t. We are on a lot more even ground than we think, all of us. Just this week, some kid brought guns to a neighboring school and I have far more reason to be scared for my baby now than when I was freaking out over her not getting breastmilk. However I AM reading a lot of bad stuff about soy and if there is one thing I am glad I didn’t do is load her up with soy formula, soy milk and soy everything. Blech.