Anonymous wrote:Can we all agree that the posters who love to call other women's parenting decisions crazy are mean spirited and tiresome?

Tool.

Anonymous wrote:Can we all agree that the posters who love to call other women's parenting decisions crazy are mean spirited and tiresome?

Not when it comes to not vaccinating. Everything else, yes.

Can we all agree that the posters who love to call other women's parenting decisions crazy are mean spirited and tiresome?

I am pro-vax, but I agree with trying non-medicine remedies first for MINOR problems. I've never chewed my kid's food, but that's common in other cultures, and my kids don't bathe daily. Here's the thing. She has one kid who is TWO. How is she an expert on anything kid related, if that is the basis of her advice? What will she do if her kid gets seriously ill? She probably doesn't know. It's easy to have her attitude with a very young, healthy child.

Yeah, she comes off as pretty naive. My dd also wasn't sick for her entire first year. Other than her vaccines she never had a "drop of medicine." You better believe when she first ran a high fever with a rash, sometime in that next year, I gave her some tylenol. Although now that she's 3, I am much less liberal with the fever reducers. Apart from small babies, fevers don't hurt- they may be uncomfortable but there isn't really a need to medicate. Now that her kid is 2, she doesn't have to worry about them, but I would place money that if/when the kid gets really sick she gives him whatever he needs to get better.

Anonymous wrote:http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2606066/Miso-soup-prevent-measles-Why-Alicia-Silverstone-feeding-two-year-old-son-plant-based-diet-instead-getting-vaccinated.html


No vaccinations at all...no meds (wet socks to bring down a fever)...a plant-based diet will keep her kid from ever getting sick...crazy, right?

So who is going to buy her book?

I won't buy her book, but I'll look at it in the library. I often think that there's some truth in things like this that at first sound crazy. Her thesis that eating a very clean, healthy diet is the basis for health sounds plausible to me. I think the health of the mother, including what she eats and has eaten during her life pre-conception, has a big impact on the health of the child.

If she doesn't want to vaccinate her kids, that's her choice. If she wants to use cabbage leaves and breast milk for colds, OK, whatever.

Just because some of her ideas seem kooky, doesn't mean all are. I am a firm believer in the value of eating the proper foods, and eliminating all chemicals from environment and diet. I've seen the difference in my family's health, so at least that part of her parenting philosophy is sound. The rest of it, well, I'll read it in the library.

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Anonymous wrote:Don't be so judgmental - she is doing what is best for her family.

As you know as long as you use that phrase - no matter what you are actually doing then you are supposed to be off limits for criticism or judgment.

Right! It's ridiculous. No, she's not doing what's best for her family. She's putting her family at great risk because she's a whackadoo. And by talking about it, she's encouraging others to put their family at great risk.
If everybody were always doing what's best for their family, then far fewer horrible things would happen.

Same with sleep trainers and CIO proponents.

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Anonymous wrote:Isn't she the one who fed her baby solid foods by chewing it up herself and then spitting it into her baby's mouth, or was that some other actress?

That's her.

YEP, she's quirky for sure.

Seems like Scientology is out, Anti-vax is in with the celebrity set.

Anonymous wrote:Isn't she the one who fed her baby solid foods by chewing it up herself and then spitting it into her baby's mouth, or was that some other actress?

That's her.

Isn't she the one who fed her baby solid foods by chewing it up herself and then spitting it into her baby's mouth, or was that some other actress?

"Do we all agree ...?" threads are written by tools.

Loved this article. The website might not be safe for work. It's called "I f*cking love science"

http://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/dear-parents-you-are-being-lied

Alicia is so dumb. Another Jenny McCarthy.

Anonymous wrote:It's weird that she named her son "Bear." But in Hollywood names, I guess that is kinda tame.

What's gross is that she chews up her son's food, then feeds it to him. I wonder if she will continue to do this when he is older. If so, how MUCH older? Yuck. Just yuck.

And her views on bathing just gross me out.
She doesn't believe in daily or even every other day bathing. She likes to wait until her body's "natural" oils come to the skin's surface which may take up to a week.

Again..Yuck.

That part about bathing made me laugh out loud. Stars, they're just like us (except when they are letting their "natural oils" rise to the surface). I'm laughing again.

At lease rinse off, Alicia.

It's weird that she named her son "Bear." But in Hollywood names, I guess that is kinda tame.

What's gross is that she chews up her son's food, then feeds it to him. I wonder if she will continue to do this when he is older. If so, how MUCH older? Yuck. Just yuck.

And her views on bathing just gross me out.
She doesn't believe in daily or even every other day bathing. She likes to wait until her body's "natural" oils come to the skin's surface which may take up to a week.

Again..Yuck.