Lessons for Peter

well, thank you. I go by P.. Not Pete.

I'll remember this. I have been told about drama and cat fights. That's not why I'm here. Want to raise my daughters right.

Good ones so far!

Try to respect the question being asked. For example, if a single mom asks a question about her boyfriend's dog losing its hair or something, don't give your opinion on (a) why she isn't married, or (b) the effect of bringing boyfriends around her kid.

Consider all advice you get, but if an answer J. rubs you the wrong way, ignore it. For example, if you post on cry-it-out sleep training, a hard-core co-sleeping mama may tell you you're damaging your child for life. As long as you are parenting with love and respect for your child, regardless of the method you feel is appropriate (this rules out corporal punishment and bullying!), you're NOT going to damage your kid for life.

On the flip side, if you are a co-sleeping parent who strongly believes that cry-it-out is the devil's work, do everyone a favor and J. ignore the cry-it-out posts. If you don't have something constructive/helpful to say, don't say anything at all.

Welcome!

Poor Pete (r).

Poor Pete.

(And re-Pete, tehehe)

He'll be ok though.

:)

I think if you're honest and upfront, you can never go wrong!

(Sadly, everyone doesn't operate by that principle, but overall it's the best approach.)

Main one, don't take the man hating too personal. We know that our husbands (and men in general are for the most part) not stupid jackasses, but we get frustrated too.

Yeah, unless you're a doc be careful with some of the personal female medical questions. We will automatically assume "you don't get it". :)
The exception would be, "My wife had that same problem, and this is what happened." Then your point is no longer moot and becomes relevant.

Goes without saying, this is not a place to try and meet women for trysts. I had that happen on another site...Ewww.

If you are easily offended, then this is not the place for you. Women get what we call "very mama bear" about our kids. Most of aren't shy about tell you what we think. Not. At. All.

We like to have fun on here too, JFF, means J. for fun, usually will get a laugh out of those ones.

1) try searching in the upper right corner of the page first and peruse old discussions. Many of my questions have already been asked and answered.

2) try the timeline thingy for your kids. It helps with the "aha - didn't think about that" and also the "What is happening in the next 3 months"

3) Extreme opinions exist on pretty much any topic
* If kids sleep in parents bed
* circumcision
* Schedules vs. "on demand"
* discipline
* breast feeding

There is no ONE right way to parent, so take the stuff that makes sense, and wish good luck to the kids of the silly ones.

The Men/Dads here are great additions to the site.

Tip:
J. be yourself.
Ask a question if you really need to even it it seems simple.

You need to make sure you add a question to your post.
I think if you reply to a post with only a link it would be deleted.
You need to send M. flowers for all my replies..ha, J. kiding (J. making sure you were putting attention, lol)
If you have questions about the website alone, better J. directly ask them because if you ask here they would delete your post.
We don't always will like your answers but most of us know better that a person is more then J. one opinion and we can still agree to tons of other point's of view of that person, so don't get to upset if we don't always agree with you.
ONE MORE:
Some of us (M.!) use a LOT things like LOL, no, we are not in real life always LOL, don't worry, we are not nut cases, all the time, LOL!

Welcome Peter! If you have to post a link that leads to information that you would like to share with us, post the link in your so what happened.

*We all like to read the so what happened.
*Mama pedia will pull/delete a question that does not fit thier standards. so you may see a question and than blink & then it is gone.