It's me, crunchy, attachment, church donut mum. Fancy an update?

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Thought in thanks for everyone's time on my thread I'd give a quick update.

Apparently there's a crew of ladies in my church who tell me I've to show respect/shhhhh people/tell people not to sit near them and basically just make everyone feel unwelcome.

Unsure what the solution is but hopefully we can all find one.

Anyway, thanks again for every response on my initial thread.

This thread is mostly just mocking and "seeing how much I can prod" an OP who is clearly a bit head-mental

You totally lost me at your use of "head-mental".

"over all it sounds like an awful church, totally belying the tolerance and warm heartedness that Jesus encourages"

Have you read the first thread? Even OP used the phrase 'child-centric' to describe most of it. Just not the quiet section where she wanted her DS to play, disturbing those who were worshipping in that part.

I think referring to OP and her DS, and the other toddler (and presumably parent) as pecking the quiet worshippers out of the church is going too far, though.

I wasn't referring to the OP's experience of church. I was referring to the responses on this and the original thread.

Car seat specialists

WTF?

Crunchy Halfords.

How can you "deny the faith" of a preschool child? It's not his faith, it's your faith; he lacks the knowledge and life experience to possibly know what he believes in. Let him make up his own mind.

Does anyone here watch Girls? Because when I try to imagine a crunchy parent, I picture Adam's sister Caroline and her partner who wears that crocheted hat.

I have to stop reading this thread - I'm trying to pretend I'm working but can't stop laughing.

So basically to sum up, you go to a child friendly church where you are made welcome. But you are aware that there are a small number of people who sit in one area who don't really appreciate the playing and wandering about happening near them during the service.

So the sensible thing to do would be to not sit in that one small area. They have their peace and quiet, your son can wander about and play. Everybody's happy.

But no, you can't do that. You can't accept that there is one small area of the church where you can't sit out of consideration for other parishioners. You must have the entire church to behave in as you choose with no exceptions. All tolerance and consideration should be extended towards you and and you are not prepared to extend a single centimetre to your fellow parishioners.

And now you're making other parishioners who may well have been attending before you were even born feel unwelcome, you're stirring up trouble and making complaints.

Well I hope when you've driven them out (because you can't bear the thought of a handful of pews where you can't sit) you can feel nice and smug and Christian safe in the knowledge that you've won and all the pews are yours and none of them are theirs.

How lovely, how neighbourly, how Christian, how considerate of others.

Is this thread just one long piss-take?
Btw, what does crunchy mum mean? Anyone can explain?

'Crunchy' to describe a person sums up images of stale unwashedness to me. Not in a nice free way, but in a fusty (crunchy) underwear sort of way.

You know when sometimes people crave attention, and get it, and think everyone's laughing with them, but people are really laughing at them, and you feel like taking them to one side and quietly saying 'just be on your way now; these lot are just taking the piss' ?

OP - i think you should be on your way now ...

*You know when sometimes people crave attention, and get it, and think everyone's laughing with them, but people are really laughing at them, and you feel like taking them to one side and quietly saying 'just be on your way now; these lot are just taking the piss' ?

OP - i think you should be on your way now ...*

I can't honestly decide whether the OP is so absolutely deluded that she believes people are taking her seriously or she's trolling us all and we will find out it was the troll who just returned from her Maui honeymoon.

So crunchy parenting is just like regular parenting, you do some of the stuff most people do, reject some other parts and do some not so common stuff? Only you need to find samey people to validate the choices.

Reminds me of finding out about baby led weaning. What is this revolutionary new method? Oh, you give your baby some food when they are ready, much like my mother and grandmother did then .