Anonymous wrote:Sad. I wonder where the baby's father is?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Mom admitted today that she drank the better part of a box of wine that night. "At least 5 glasses probably." So the night you get so drunk you might not hear someone entering your home is THE VERY NIGHT A STRANGER ENTERED YOUR HOME AND STOLE YOUR BABY? And this was also coincidentally the same night your husband was working a night shift? YOU DON'T SAY!
The mom has something to do with it. It will out.
that might be true if she rarely got drunk, but what if she got drunk several times a week? It's not so coincidental that on a night she's drunk, something happened to her baby. Does anyone know if the husband works night shifts often? maybe that's her M-O - when hubby works nights, I get bombed on the front porch with neighbor. Could be happening a lot.
Anonymous wrote:Mom admitted today that she drank the better part of a box of wine that night. "At least 5 glasses probably." So the night you get so drunk you might not hear someone entering your home is THE VERY NIGHT A STRANGER ENTERED YOUR HOME AND STOLE YOUR BABY? And this was also coincidentally the same night your husband was working a night shift? YOU DON'T SAY!
The mom has something to do with it. It will out.
Anonymous wrote:Can everyone stop arguing with the teetotaler. It's obvious that she's one of those out of control foreigns who crawled out of her shit-pit of a "home country" so she could come here and be a massive bitch to all Americans.
Welcome to the country ma'am, I'll raise a glass on your honor tonight.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:NP here- 12:47 you are coming off as extremely judgmental. Are you the same person from the Amanda Knox thread who thinks smoking pot makes you a murderer? and now drinking makes you a bad parent/baby killer?
I am sad for the family, not sure what the story is but I wouldn't assume a glass of wine made this women kill her child.
I'm not in that thread but I was just responding to a person who seemed to be making excuses to drinking while in charge of little ones.
It's never OK, being it one bottle or one sip.
Once one decides to be a parent they should be mature enough to know better. Alcohol definitely has its place and it doesn't belong with watching little children.
I disagree. It's fine to have one glass of wine while in charge of children. You need to be able to drive, of course, in case an emergency arises, so if you can't drive safely on one glass of wine, don't have it. Otherwise, one glass of wine or one beer is fine. Now that all my children sleep through the night, I am much more capable of taking care of them on one glass of wine than I was stone-cold sober and deliriously sleep-deprived with a baby.
I know, right? Sleep deprivation affects me much worse than a glass of wine - by the "one sip = negligence" rule, it seems that you have no option but to sleep train super early - what if something happens to your newborn, and you only slept for two hours the night before?
You won't go to jail if your child gets hurt and you're sleep deprived. Now, if you're drunk and you hurt them you'll definitely pay for it.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Not for 18 years but if I'm the only one in charge I'd rather be alcohol free. I worked as a life guard for a good chunck of my youth and I've seen ugly things happen with people who had only one glass.
I would want to be sober and ready to go in case of a fire, a medical emergency, home burglary or just a scared kid who had a nightmare. I've been taking turns drinking with groups of friends as soon as we were allowed to drink and we never had a problem with that. OTOH, I've seen sad things happen when a sober person was needed.
I come from a place where the tolerance for alcohol is zero so you cannot drive, operate machinery or go to work if you had what you call "just one glass" why would I want to jeopardize the safety of my family for that little pleasure? My peace of mind is more valuable than that sip of alcohol. And I'm sorry if I sounded so judgmental but we know what drunk people sound like when they try to make excuses, there's no need to pretend anything here. We're all anonymous anyway.
You seem to just simply be missing a crucial point here. Drinking a glass of wine is not going to affect your sobriety at all. Drinking one sip of alcohol certainly won't affect your ability either.
You just seem like a crazy anti-alcohol person. Personally, I can have a glass of wine with dinner and take perfect care of my kids. Nobody is saying you should get drunk and watch children, but you do realize that drinking one sip of wine or even one glass doesn't make a person incapcitated in any way...right?
It might not affect you, but this is not true for everybody. That's why there are laws telling people to not drink and drive, because someone out there has no common sense on what's OK and what's not.
I prefer not to drink and my DH agrees with me. If being under the influence doesn't affect you, good for you. I'd rather not take a chance with my children.
But it's not illegal to have one glass and drive. I don't do it personally but it isn't illegal.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:NP here- 12:47 you are coming off as extremely judgmental. Are you the same person from the Amanda Knox thread who thinks smoking pot makes you a murderer? and now drinking makes you a bad parent/baby killer?
I am sad for the family, not sure what the story is but I wouldn't assume a glass of wine made this women kill her child.
I'm not in that thread but I was just responding to a person who seemed to be making excuses to drinking while in charge of little ones.
It's never OK, being it one bottle or one sip.
Once one decides to be a parent they should be mature enough to know better. Alcohol definitely has its place and it doesn't belong with watching little children.
I disagree. It's fine to have one glass of wine while in charge of children. You need to be able to drive, of course, in case an emergency arises, so if you can't drive safely on one glass of wine, don't have it. Otherwise, one glass of wine or one beer is fine. Now that all my children sleep through the night, I am much more capable of taking care of them on one glass of wine than I was stone-cold sober and deliriously sleep-deprived with a baby.
I know, right? Sleep deprivation affects me much worse than a glass of wine - by the "one sip = negligence" rule, it seems that you have no option but to sleep train super early - what if something happens to your newborn, and you only slept for two hours the night before?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:NP here- 12:47 you are coming off as extremely judgmental. Are you the same person from the Amanda Knox thread who thinks smoking pot makes you a murderer? and now drinking makes you a bad parent/baby killer?
I am sad for the family, not sure what the story is but I wouldn't assume a glass of wine made this women kill her child.
I'm not in that thread but I was just responding to a person who seemed to be making excuses to drinking while in charge of little ones.
It's never OK, being it one bottle or one sip.
Once one decides to be a parent they should be mature enough to know better. Alcohol definitely has its place and it doesn't belong with watching little children.
I disagree. It's fine to have one glass of wine while in charge of children. You need to be able to drive, of course, in case an emergency arises, so if you can't drive safely on one glass of wine, don't have it. Otherwise, one glass of wine or one beer is fine. Now that all my children sleep through the night, I am much more capable of taking care of them on one glass of wine than I was stone-cold sober and deliriously sleep-deprived with a baby.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Not for 18 years but if I'm the only one in charge I'd rather be alcohol free. I worked as a life guard for a good chunck of my youth and I've seen ugly things happen with people who had only one glass.
I would want to be sober and ready to go in case of a fire, a medical emergency, home burglary or just a scared kid who had a nightmare. I've been taking turns drinking with groups of friends as soon as we were allowed to drink and we never had a problem with that. OTOH, I've seen sad things happen when a sober person was needed.
I come from a place where the tolerance for alcohol is zero so you cannot drive, operate machinery or go to work if you had what you call "just one glass" why would I want to jeopardize the safety of my family for that little pleasure? My peace of mind is more valuable than that sip of alcohol. And I'm sorry if I sounded so judgmental but we know what drunk people sound like when they try to make excuses, there's no need to pretend anything here. We're all anonymous anyway.
You seem to just simply be missing a crucial point here. Drinking a glass of wine is not going to affect your sobriety at all. Drinking one sip of alcohol certainly won't affect your ability either.
You just seem like a crazy anti-alcohol person. Personally, I can have a glass of wine with dinner and take perfect care of my kids. Nobody is saying you should get drunk and watch children, but you do realize that drinking one sip of wine or even one glass doesn't make a person incapcitated in any way...right?
It might not affect you, but this is not true for everybody. That's why there are laws telling people to not drink and drive, because someone out there has no common sense on what's OK and what's not.
I prefer not to drink and my DH agrees with me. If being under the influence doesn't affect you, good for you. I'd rather not take a chance with my children.