The debating debate

caliandjack wrote: This is what happens when peoples posts getting taken completely out of context, I was commenting on the ear piercing debate which has now run to 3 threads quite a hot topic for something so benign.

Haha, sorry caliandjack. I guess thats why we have debates though - what one person thinks is benign, others think it's disgusting or crazy or awesome etc

jazzy wrote: Maybe cause OB general is a bit boring at the mo..

Could not of said it better myself.

Awkward debate directed at me lol

Drugs - if you'd asked me before i bred i would have said make it legal, why waste all the time and money and resources on some stupid kids when half the time they just do it to 'show the man'. If its legal its suddenly far less cool anyway, its no fun to use drugs if you can just go down the dairy and buy then half the fun is meeting someone in a crack house and feeling badass.

Now i would say make it MORE illegal with harder penaltys so that the chances of DS getting his hands on any drug is more difficult!

However whatever he may try and do in the future i believe it is really important that your relationship is one that they can come to you no matter what. Its scary the situations young kids can get into but be too scared to phone home for help because they're so afraid of what their parents will do. I want DS to know even if hes 15 and drinks a bottle of bourbon that his best friend stole from his parents and ends up comatose covered in vomit in a park somewhere he can always call me and i will always come and get him and not even lecture him until the hangover has worn off. Of course that is easy to say without actually being the parent to a teenager but its how my parents were with me and i never actually got that drunk or did drugs because my parents were quite understanding about it. My best friends mom was so strict - she often walked home in the dark, alone, so drunk she could hardly stand because if she rang her mom for a ride and her mom found her drunk she would be in more trouble so took crazy crazy risks.

Oops accidentally i have talked about drinking instead but same goes, if he smokes some bad weed and ends up freaking out and in the middle of nowhere i would rather he knows he can call and i will come and help him then be afraid of what i'd do to him.

Emmi_ wrote: Bowie wrote: I really couldnt care less if you Formula feed, rear face, baby wear, cloth nappy, ear pierce, vaccinate, circumcise, CIO, use a dummy etc etc but i do like to know why you do or do not do these things because i'm a nosey bitch! Im nosey too!! I love to know why poeple do the things they do (although find it hard sometimes as they often get defensive about it when I was just wanting to know why) ETA and the sky must be mineral since its made up of the atmosphere/clouds/etc??

I just want to klnow why on earth you blimmin well need a stupid ticker saying you do these things??? Do you get medals/badges for that now? Or is it like a qualification? LOL

Sheza wrote: fattartsrock wrote: I just want to klnow why on earth you blimmin well need a stupid ticker saying you do these things??? Do you get medals/badges for that now? Or is it like a qualification? LOL

I love that emoticon!! it cracks me up... and ditto

Meh, it doesn't bother me, it's not my thing but I'm happy for people to be proud of their parenting style, whatever that is. I was thinking about making one myself for a laugh... I use cloth AND disposables, baby-wear AND use a pram, feed purees AND whole food, I do ERF but I vax... one muddled-up Mummy, perhaps??

I have a breastfeeding ticker because the son of a bitch bites and pulls and comes off with a let down and stops mid feed to talk and is generally making breastfeeding a pain in the ass and i need to look at it daily so i can mentally go OK! 4 months, 2 weeks, 4 days....just go to 4 months 3 weeks and you can quit...so on and so forth until this phase of his life is over.

I like Mummy_Becks siggy

Haha The breastfeeding ticker is "kinda normal"- it's the sigs with all the supermom scronyms that do my head in lol

Delli wrote: Me - I'm neither PC nor unPC, just C. (You see what I did there? I told you guys I was super hilarious)

Hehe, you got a laugh out of me, at least

tehehehe I have one of those sig's

drugs, not cool, I wish they could be banned but unfortuntely that means they just go underground and cause more problems. If they were actively managed by a pharmacutical company then I think there would be less problems.

the sky is the sky but for the sake of twenty questions I agree on it being a mineral, just cause its blue! hahaha