Comments, phrases and opinions guaranteed to increase your blog comments or better yet, start a blog war.
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1. Boob Nazi. Cue horrified breastfeeding advocates resenting being associated with “that word” or “those people.” Someone else will say “ANTI-SEMITISM” and then everyone is quiet and they’ve forgotten what they were arguing about until another will pipe up about the conspiracy that is formula milk so we should all feel sorry for the bottlefed people, really.
2. I feel sorry for stay at home mothers. Cue like minded people who say things like “What must they DO with their time and how are they helping this country sitting on their fat bums all day watching Oprah and Dr Phil?” Stay at home mothers will get on the defensive and start blaming all the ills of society on the fact that children were put into daycare and raised by strangers just because mothers wanted to go out and drink coffee in an office.
3. I really need to take a break from my children. Cue parents lamenting about how awful a parent you must be to actually want to be away from the children – I mean after all, you helped MAKE them! They are designed to be worn all the time and you are most certainly not allowed ANY time for yourself. Only selfish people want “me-time” whatever happened to FAMILY time etc. Counterattack by other parents making comments about attachment parents/gentle mothering (usually called (s)mothering) and breastfeeding their children until they are 12 years of age.
4. I trained my baby to sleep… Cue happy parents who have also done this with their children and way to go it was hard but worth it in the end; babies need to cry before they sleep; I waited 50 minutes before I went in there to clean his vomit; I really needed to do it, I was desperate for sleep and so on. Counterattack by mothers MORTIFIED and angry that anyone could do such a thing to their baby; sending message of total rejection; this is CHILD ABUSE IN IT’S (sic) MOST BASIC FORM etc etc.
5. Any mention of childbirth, be it caesarian, homebirth, epidural or other forms of pain relief. Cue mothers opposed to any or all of the above. Because we all know the sort of birth experience you have dramatically impacts on your child and a “bad” birth is the leading cause of violence and drug abuse amongst teens.
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