Rebel Alliance Starts Free 'Other Park Slope Parents' List
Last week’s news that the popular Park Slope Parents list and website was considering charging members a $25 annual fee elicited a wide range of response from its users and others (see the poll we ran here) as well as plenty of news coverage. And now there’s another response: A band of dissenters has started…
Last week’s news that the popular Park Slope Parents list and website was considering charging members a $25 annual fee elicited a wide range of response from its users and others (see the poll we ran here) as well as plenty of news coverage. And now there’s another response: A band of dissenters has started a new free list targeting parents in the Park Slope area called The Other Park Slope Parents list. The group describes itself as “Fall off of parents who were a part of the Park Slope Parents list and believe that community lists should be FREE.” For now, moderation is “light” and they’re hoping that people “think twice before you post on a potentially flammable subject (ie vaccinations).” This should be interesting.
Majority of Park Slope Parents Won’t Pay to Play [Brownstoner]
Park Slope Parents to Start Charging for Membership [Brownstoner]
They bought Dr. Spock’s book.
Before the internet how the heck did parents raise kids?
MM – you summed up my thinking exactly!
I just find it realllly strange. None of the kids I grew up with had many issues and it seems to be a very American thing, no?
This is why I want to buy that book, “Why dirt is good”.
A few years ago there was a report that we are too obsessed with cleanliness. that we are so frantic to be totaly germ free kids don’t develop immunities like they should and that’s why there are higher rates of asthma and allergies today. Is this still the case?
I really wanted to reply to the question about the clothing for a baby but not so much that I could be bothered to sign up for an account.
Baby the baby and you end up with a baby for life.
I think alot of the asthma is because of parents who smoke, although mine did and none of us have asthma.
The mollycoddling and lack of exposure to the world hightens the incidence of allergies. Let them play outside and eat dirt every once in awhile.
I have two children now. I remember before I had children telling my sister who has two children all kids of advice and told her my opinions of raising children. Well, now that I have two kids, I wish I could get superman to spin the world around to go back in time so she could slap me in the face at those moments of my pontificating.
You will change your mind about some things when raising children, once and if you actually have them. And you may actually find yourself worrying about vacinations, fast food and gas emmisions.
This is just anecdotal, but it seems to me that more upper income kids have severe allergies to things that never affected my generation as kids. Yes, I know we barely had emerged from the caves then, but in my entire elementary school years, none of my classmates was allergic to peanuts, wheat, dust, perfume, the whole environment, and a whole host of exotic things some kids are allergic to now. And while poorer kids now have a higher degree of asthma, they don’t seem to have such allergies either. What is it? Having kids later in life, overexposure to organic food, lack of McDonald’s and junk, or too much doctoring and fussing?
good for you, but it has zero to do with park slope, or park slope parents, or the “other” park slope parents.
Posted by: i disagree at April 9, 2009 10:46 AM
Neither does your comment as thread monitor.