People who blog about their babies...

With all due respect, who cares?

Love your kids, live your life, do whatever. Don't worry about what others are doing. Let them live and learn.

Aren't there larger fish to fry in this life, than to worry about people who blog about babies?

nyco wrote: With all due respect, who cares?

Love your kids, live your life, do whatever. Don't worry about what others are doing. Let them live and learn.

Aren't there larger fish to fry in this life, than to worry about people who blog about babies?

Very well put.

Seriously Babel,

Go F yourself. I think kids are downright pointless save for a few precious moment - I don't even really like them. Also, they certainly are trophies. It shows that the parents have achieved yet another level in the game of life... especially if the baby is dressed in a disgustingly cute manner.

I've seen blogs about much more pointless topics than the future of our society and the importance of love and human connection... so give these people a break.

Let them blog and mold their kids into little images of themselves that will eventually grow up to hate them.

Probably done for family, not for the general internet enthusiast's viewing purposes.

Chipster... seems like you don't have enough leisure time to capitalize the first letter of sentences. Just saying.

If this thread can be read more broadly to include all pet peeves then that is certainly mine. It's called the "shift" key. Look into it.

What is the difference between blogging about babies, and an article about babies in a parenting magazine? An article writer will often discuss their own personal experiences with their child in such an article.

Honestly, Babel, why do you give a shit? If it were true that "nobody cares" , then nobody would read the blog. Methinks you have some deep-rooted issues if baby blogs are making you get your panties in such a bunch.

Hi All,
Guilty as charged. I think there are a few reasons why one would create a blog about your kids, or, taking it back a step, your family.

Having a kid is a pretty profound life change, the most profound I'd ever had. As a writer it certainly changed the way I viewed things, my life, the world, my priorities. I thought these things were worth recording, and documenting, and that the element of keeping it public would make me both more diligent about keeping up with it (I'm horrible about keeping a journal) and would make me try to present the ideas in a lucid, logical manner.

Also, let's be honest, as a writer the whole baby world and culture yields pretty much infinite material. I started my blog before my kid was even born, with our profound, and ultimately futile, search for a cheaper, but bigger apartment. I wrote 10 chapters on this. Was it worthwhile? That's for you to decide, but I enjoyed writing about it. The Baby Industrial culture itself, of course, is also ripe for dissection.

It's also, not least of all, a quick way for everyone I know to keep up with what's happening over here.

But many of my readers are not people I know personally. Some have, judging by comments left on the blog, have gotten invested in our story just because they've followed the blog and enjoy the writing. I've been a professional writer for 15 years, but this has surprised and moved me. They are interested in what's to come. As I am.

I don't think having a child, love her though I might, makes me special. It is special, but it doesn't make me special. If it's an elite club than it's one that billions of people belong to. And, to invert Groucho, it's still one I would like to belong to as a member.

I try to not make it too sickeningly sweet. That's really not my style, you know? I try to keep it real, honest and, hopefully, funny. If it's not, it's not. But I try.

Finally I blog about my kid because I'm a writer. This is my life. This is the way I see the world. If I weren't writing about this I would be passing up my own story. You might not like the story, you don't have to read it. But I am interested in seeing how it ends.

I don't mind if people blog about their kids.... but please don't let them roll on the floor screaming in coffee shops, restaurants, and supermarkets! Teach your children how special they are to you --- and teach them that they are NOT special to the rest of the world. I love my child (now over 21) more then life but I never felt that everyone in the world should be subjected to her when she was a brat.

I am only kid friendly some of the time (like when I am drinking and they are telling me I'm pretty), but I say bring on the baby blogs! It can create a detailed account of a child's life that they may want to see later. I say this as a second child. My older brother had millions of baby pics and books and such and I had one page in one book and hardly any pictures. So, blog away! If I don't want to read your musings on baby's first poopie in the potty, I am perfectly capable of moving myself onto the food porn.

yoda wrote: you all will become what you hate, guaranteed.

I hate cauliflower. I'm going to become a cauliflower? Well crap.

How about if they were blooged as children and are still blogged as they become young adults? Oh, the therapy bills!
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"now" big business? when were they not? certainly not in the last 150 years.

Babies are the future you never had.

I tolerate my kids, I hate yours.

doctorj wrote: If Jesus were born today, don't you think Mary and Joseph would be blogging it from the mountaintops?

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. they would probably take him to Sears for baby pictures.