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.
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good for you, but it has zero to do with park slope, or park slope parents, or the “other” park slope parents.
I like the sausage biscuit.
I don’t really care where the questions are from. They show a very poor grasp of how to raise children.
Heather
ahh – interesting b/c here I am thinking ah man these kids are just getting your usual Dipteria/whooping cough and polio vaccines like I did
So are you saying that nowawdays kids get even more vaccines then before(sorry am not a parent, so I have no clue)
and I agree I think if you need to go on the interet DAILY to get advice on parenting, you are totally lost then. I mean all our parents did it and were fine!
dave, learn how to navigate yahoo, please. those questions are from yahoo’s general parenting section of yahoo answers. has nothing to do with the new group…of which i’m not a member, so i have no idea whether their questions or answers are any more intelligent. just sayin’.
i dont think so dave. i was pretty much raised on mcdonalds and pizza hut.
oh wait a minute
*roB*
Dave I know you’re upset right now but there’s no need to say something like that!
The blame lies with McDonalds and Pizza Hut.
Well, gemini, the nay-sayers would tell you that kids today get more vaccines for more stuff earlier than ever before. And that’s sort of true — vaccinating for Heb B at birth does seem a bit overkill. (Although my joke about how my infant wasn’t dating iv drug users yet was totally lost on the maternity nurse.) Also, there have been some vaccine recalls — rotavirus, most recently, I think. And there are kids who really do have bad reactions, or who have compromised immune systems who shouldn’t be vaccinated.
Of course, that’s all the more reason for the rest of the healthy population to keep current on their vaccinations.
To see a completely insane send-up of the topic, and the effect of a heavily moderated message board community, go to mothering.com. Those women, while well-intentioned, are completely batshit insane.
Go to the site and scroll through the answers that people are posting. I’ve never seen so much bad advice in my life. The vast majority of these people have no business raising childrem, IMHO.
rob’s right about the incidence levels of autism. Parents just want their C or D-level child to be labelled with something so they can give them a pill.
And, children should be spanked.