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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not the OP but most of you sound really defensive.  Maybe she honestly wanted to know but some of the responses were so ugly.  [/quote]

The question was ugly. Not only in what it tried to imply about certain SAHMs but also because what it revealed about the OP's though process.

[b]The OP rescinded her right to polite answers.[/b] [/quote]

NP. OK, so I was going to remain just a lurker on this thread because it didn't seem likely that it could turn into a productive discussion or anything other than an extension of the mommy wars mudslinging, but this I just have to respond to.

PP, seriously? Do you honestly think that “the OP rescinded her right to polite answers”? This is such the opposite of the attitude I’m trying to teach my kids. Short of a situation where someone’s physical safety is under threat I don’t think anyone can ‘rescind’ their basic right to polite and decent treatment.  I’m teaching my girls that another person’s ugly attitude, rudeness, or lapse in manners is never an excuse or justification for their own standards of manners and politeness to slip. Just because OP seemed to have a nasty judgmental attitude doesn't mean anyone else’s posts had to take the same tone in response.

Have you seen the other recent thread on this board, something like “shocked about social media”? I think this attitude of responding in kind or “well he/she started it” is part of the problem, honestly. My girls know that their behavior online is entirely under their control and therefore they will be held entirely responsible if they are being impolite or nasty in some way without significant justification -- meaning far stronger of a reason than “she was being nasty first”.  
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