This is the tell-someone-whom-you've-never-met-what-to-do-thread

[Anonymous]

1. Act like an adult when you have kids. Don't put your selfish pleasures ahead of your kids' emotional well being. Don't smoke pot (it's illegal). Don't have torrid affairs (get a divorce first). Do all that stuff before you have kids.

2. Don't use your kids as an instrument for achieving your own ambitions.

3. Don't prosthelytize in real life. No one will take it personally on an anonymous thread.

[Anonymous]

Interesting thread topic...hmm...

1. Don't call your kid Declan nor Conrad.

2. Join Facebook.

Tootles!

[Anonymous]

1. Don't name your child Quinn or Isabella or Olivia or Sophie.

2. Don't stop smoking pot because some loser in Viriginia has a stick up her @ss.

[Anonymous]

Don't tell me what to do on a forum that is, um, all about telling people what to do.

[Anonymous]

Can you name your son Declan if your last name is Quinn?

[Anonymous]

No. Call him Quinn Quinn.

[Anonymous]

1) Don't live outside of the beltway.

2) Raise your children with religion.

3) Don't smoke pot.

4) Don't get a tattoo, and if you already made that mistake, get rid of it.

5) Don't get caught up in the Beauvoir/STA/NCS mania spread by this Board.

6) Ride a bike at every opportunity.

7) Don't name your kid with a name that suggests ethnicity.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:1) Don't live outside of the beltway.

2) Raise your children with religion.

3) Don't smoke pot.

4) Don't get a tattoo, and if you already made that mistake, get rid of it.

5) Don't get caught up in the Beauvoir/STA/NCS mania spread by this Board.

6) Ride a bike at every opportunity.

7) Don't name your kid with a name that suggests ethnicity.

Just for that, I am going to name my child Declan Hans Cho.

[Anonymous]

Don't brainwash your children with religion, allow them to find it on their own if they choose!

[Anonymous]

I just have one:

1) Don't get caught up on what other people are doing or how they are living - you miss out on your own life, plus everyone will know how insecure and unhappy you are. Including your kids.

[Anonymous]

Here are some of mine:

1) When your child is throwing a tantrum, once in a while forget about his misbehavior and just give him a hug - you never know, it may be what he wanted all along.

2) Add some Grape Nuts to a blueberry banana smoothie - it gives it some crunch and is good for you to boot!

3) Make your kids breakfast for dinner - they'll love it.

4) Don't obsess about organic, all-natural, whole foods. Once in a while, a Twinkie does the trick.

Enjoy the rest of your weekend!

[Anonymous]

Don't ever give your baby even a single bottle of formula. It was created by the devil and will ruin your child and weaken the mother-child bond forever.

Just kidding. Here's my real advice:

Don't pass judgment or act scornful (toward a stranger or colleague) when it is likely you know very little about the actual situation. Actually, let me rephrase that. Don't be so judgmental - instead show some grace.

[Anonymous]

1) Stop taking your kids so seriously. You are giving them a complex.

2) Stop nagging your kids and counting to three, it doesn't work. Never has, never will

3) Don't scream at your kids, in public or otherwise

4) Have a sense of humor about this f*cked up city

5) Get out more with your partner, be it movie, a show, a concert, ice cream, SOMETHING. Have something in common other than your house and your kids.

6) Stop hiring other people to do EVERYTHING. If you have a fulltime nanny, a housekeeper, a personal assistant, a driver, you are not living your life, you are managing it

7) Stop signing up babies for music class. Waste of money

8) Have sex, for the love of God. With someone else or alone...either way an orgasm is good for the soul.

9) Hang out with buddies and do more than drink and complain

10) Read books more, and NOT parenting books.

11) Get over your f*cked up post-baby body. It is different. It is okay. Move on.

12) Move everyday, but do not be married to a workout routine.

13) Watch the Desperate Housewives when you are not feeling like a good mom. YOU ARE.

14) If you are the rule-maker in the house, let some get broken. If you are a pushover, create some reasonably boundaries. Baby steps.


15) A little pot/wine/whatever releases you is okay when it is not your crutch for stress.

16) Belief in something/someone other than yourself is good and traditions religion provides are good for children. Be humbled by something bigger.

[Anonymous]

PP- NICE!

[Anonymous]

1. Don't listen to 10:10-she's deranged.