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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Imagine that - lazy parenting. How revolutionary. The smugness is astounding. Real race to the bottom in this thread. [/quote]

I'm sorry, who here is being smug?

(hint: it's you)

This has been one of my favorite threads on DCUM for a few reasons:

1) realizing that some people GET OFF on making this as hard as possible because the WORST thing to be is "lazy." I'm so glad (honestly, not sarcastic) that you have this thread to make you feel superior. I mean, why on earth would you even click this thread otherwise? And then COMMENT when clearly no one on this thread wants to hear from you? You'd just be like "Oh, no, I'm not really the bare minimum type, nothing for me here" and move on. Glad we could help.

2) Everything else in DCUM, and a lot of parenting in general in the professional circles of DC, is insanely competitive. And competitive parenting SUCKS. A race to the bottom for once, in one thread, here on DCUM, is such a refreshing change of pace.

3) There are some damn good ideas on here. After reading this, I'm for sure never doing a goody bag.

4) It's good to sometimes feel like you're doing okay, and other people are cutting corners, too. [/quote]

The judgers probably assume that everyone around them is doing as much as they are, too. They want to believe that anyone not doing everything has dirty, miserable, uneducated kids with no friends. I think it scares them to think that there might be people with kids who are FINE but not working quite so hard.

Thus, the shaming.[/quote]

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