Parenting Phrase of the Day

Every so often as a parent we find ourselves saying things that we never expect to have to say to our children.  EVER.  I have found myself saying some of the most absurd things to my kids.  

2/10/28 - "Don't glue snow peas to your brother."

H.R. 5979: Stillbirth Awareness and Research Act

October 15th is National Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day in the United States. More than 25,000 children are stillborn in the United States every year leaving mothers, entire families and communities devastated. Estimates of the rate of occurrence of stillbirth make it at least as common as autism.

Stillbirth is not an intractable problem. Greater research would likely significantly reduce its incidence, but good research requires good data. H.R. 5979: Stillbirth Awareness and Research Act is under consideration by Congress. This proposed bill would standardize stillbirth investigation and diagnosis, thus providing more data for the needed research. Better research means fewer children born still.

On October 15th, remember the thousands of unfinished children lost and the families who remain to grieve them. Honor them by taking action. Let’s help pass H.R. 5979.

Action Steps:
Step 1. Use Your Blog to Enlist Others-Copy the contents of this entire post and publish it on your blog immediately.

GOAL: Enlist 10 of your readers to spread the word

Step 2. Use Your E-mail to Enlist Others-E-mail 5 bloggers and ask them (nicely and in an unspammy way) to publish these action steps on their blog. Consider contacting celebrity bloggers, political bloggers, medical bloggers, or bloggers who are not part of your reading community.

GOAL: Enlist 3 bloggers outside of your normal blog sphere to spread the word in other online communities.

Step 3. Help Pass the Stillbirth Awareness and Research Act-By October 15th, publish a post on your blog supporting H.R. 5979 Stillbirth Awareness and Research Act. For maximum impact, title your post: “Stillbirth Awareness and Research Act.”

GOAL: 1,000,000 Google results on October 15th when that term is searched for. Currently, Google only returns 20,400 pages - most of which have nothing to do with the bill.

Thank you to Antigone for starting this movement.

More information HERE

To Blog or not to blog...

I realized today why I have horribly neglected my parenting blog and why I have no desire to write there anymore.  It's sad really.  It's because of other people and their judgemental nature.

I was just in my email and discovered that I had a comment to approve.  After reading it I am considering deleting the entire blog.  I will probably move some entries over here before I do so, but I am really sick of people who come across a random blog post and feel that they need to comment in some insulting way that critizes me and my parenting when they know nothing about me and have never read anything else I have written.  I know, that's the danger of writing anything on the internet. However, when I take the blog space to make fun of a childrens cartoon that I personally don't like using sarcasm and satire and someone jumps down my throat about how I need to watch things with my kids and talk to them about it, when the blog states that I had been watching the cartoon, and then goes on to insult me, it proves that the person was not paying attention to what I actually wrote.  Somethings are just uncalled for.  I don't go to other peoples blogs and shit on their carpet as it were

The same type of people have gone off on me because, according to them, I do not take my children's autism seriously enough, all because I am able to find humor in it and laugh.  All because I don't focus on the fact that my children aren't normal until it starts to eat me alive and I need to be on antidepressants where I can cope.  All because I don't have my nose shoved in a book on autism, reading up on the latest studies and trying every form of biomedical intervention out there.  Heaven forbid should I accept my children as they are and enjoy them despite their difficulties.

I could rant about this all day, but I don't want to bore anyone to tears.  It really shouldn't come as any surprise to anyone to find out that I am not a people person.