to be just a bit annoyed with the lentil weavers?

[buggerybollocks]

Now I'll admit to being a little bit of a LW but I spotted a poor woman on a forum being blasted for asking for advice about sleep training. It was suggested that she just put up with the chronic lack of sleep she was experiencing and that it was all natural and any kind of sleep training would cause brain damage and blah blah blah.....

Ooh I'm just a bit cross with them and their high and mighty, moral high ground co sleeping, organic breast feeding selves.

Going to pour myself another glass of wine and calm down....

What is CIO please?

I want to know what the lentil weavery parenting forum is!!

I'm getting on a bit but I don't think I qualified as a lw

epidurals both times
wanted hospital birth
tried my hardest to bf ds1 but after 8 weeks gave up (very upset)
bf dd until about 9 months
used tins of baby food including Heinz
introduced fresh bread, cheese, fruit and veg early
children liked fruit shoots
Telegraph reader
used controlled crying but it was a long time ago
scratch cook
no veggie tendencies whatsoever
buy good quality meat
like the dc (teenagers now) to look nice
refuse to shop at Primark
like Waitrose
Have regular highlights and good hair cuts
like nice clothes
adore high heels and good handbags
have a cleaner
like nice things

Anyone think I'm a lentil weaver, anyone at all. I think DH would divorce me.

Oh I get that. Can I add Boden wearing to the list please?

I think it's less 'lentil weavers' you seem to have a problem with and more 'people who speak out for what they believe in'. The latter camp includes many different types of parent - I've come across a few vociferous ff and CIO advocates in my time. So YABU to whinge about a specific breed of parent.

Saying that, I had no idea (in the early days) that I am a lentil weaver according to others. It did not gain me many fans in rl.

Real nappies. Check.
Hypnobirth with no pain relief or gas and air. Check.
Had planned a home birth. Check.
7 month old on potty. Clean by 10 months Check.
Moby wearing. Check.
Breastfeeding at 12 months with no plan to stop until DS ready. Check.
Co-sleeping. Check.
Finger food weaned. Check.
No dummy. Check.
Reusable sanitary stuff. Check.

FFS what has happened to me. I just followed my own instincts and then realised that I am pigeon holed and detested. I feel great. Thanks OP.

What IS CIO??

Cry It Out.

Ah thank you.

Forgot to add no telly. Check.

Grumble.

It's a case of each to their own really, isn't it?

I love how people'sprincess thinks of her way of doing things as having 'higher standards'. Up your own arse there much?

I'm a part time lentil weaver. A bit of this and a bit of the other.

I breastfeed and co-sleep with a toddler. I carried DS in a sling until he was 3 years old. However, I do not weave lentils. Neither do I feel it is my business to criticise anybody else's parenting choices.

lentil weavers list
moon cups

calls self baby wearer

yak on about cloth bummed babies

drone on about fair trade,made by artisans in a not for profit commune products they buy

wouldn't be seen dead pushing bugaboo (too consumerist)

know the exact height of nearest land fill

usually believe in flaky alternative therapies like homeopathy or craniopathy

lentil weaver wimmin don't usually work (too consumerist) BUT don't object to their dp working to pay for their ashtanga yoga.he can be bread head not them though

deeply suspicious of telly, but not laptop or broadband curiously enough

Clearly my standardfs of reading are higher, because at no point have I said what my own way of doing things is.

Lol. Rofl. Lmfao. Bore of with your passive-aggressive smilies etc.

You didn't need to.

You're just looking thick now, but hey- if you want to accuse me of being perfect, then who I am to argue?.

of course natural birth,no analgesia
think wakefield was"framed"by gmc
despair at cs rate
think formula is chemical Soup peddled shamelessly

I don't think you have to be a lentil weaver to dislike the idea of CC/CIO. I know plenty of very unlentilweavery people who would never use either and dislike the fact that it is always the first suggestion alongside 'give a bottle of formula' or 'wean early' for any sleep problem.

SM - you have just described one of my dear friends to a tee!

Especially "deeply suspicious of telly, but not laptop or broadband curiously enough"
Ha ha - my friend thinks not having a telly makes her well superior to all us Lowest Common Denominators that do, yet she spends her life playing WoW and watching her fave shows on iPlayer and the like.
Err...ok then.

Why are people so bitchy about people who have opinions, beliefs and/or ways of doing things that differ from the norm?

I don't.
I think everyone should do as suits them.

The no telly thing always makes me laugh ,especially from someone who is quite happy to sit in front of a laptop all night

I'm glad mn wasn't around when my kids were babies , worthy parenting is so boring tbh

Poppy, you'd only be detested under the OP's criteria if you made desperate, unhappy women trying to help their babies feel utterly shit about their choices, or about diverging somewhat from what appears to be seen as a set of parenting values. I can't see why your ways of doing things would not gain you many fans in RL. My experience has been that in RL people are (or come across as) far less judgmental and are generally supportive about the various aspects of parenting. It's only on t'interweb that the vitriol seeps out. Don't really see why OP has made you feel crap, tbh.

you really need to ask?
online folks chew cud about everything and everyone
and lentil weaver mammies can participate too,if so minded.

I probably fall quite close to the lentil weaver end of the scale but I'm thinking your problem is sanctimonious arses who tell people how they should be parenting not lentil weavers. I'm afraid YABU.

OP what was the forum you used that blasted this person?