Trouble in Paradise
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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
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Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
The Nest thinks you're a dumbass for having kids! Ywia!
From those super clever Nest authors, I bring you:
8 Things You Can't Do Once You Have a Baby
Here's a hint of what's to come: if you're pregnant, you better savor that chapter book you're reading, because it's the last one you'll ever read until Baby is in college!
- namaste mothafockaaaas -
Re: The Nest thinks you're a dumbass for having kids! Ywia!
That has to be one of the dumbest articles I've read on here.
Seriously, let's put a negative spin on having kids. Hopefully by the time you're ready for kids you're done closing down the bar every night.
Oh, Nest, you're sooo clever.
They sound like my whiny Facebook friend who posts every 10 minutes about how annoying her children are.
and yet this is one of the most 'pro' sterotypical 2.5 kids and a picket fence sites out there. It's stepford-izing
(not the people on it, the feel of the site itself--beyond the boards)
This is why the bump is fully of nuts, well one of the reasons.
Things are usually only as hard as you make them. Yes, it's an adjustment, but it's not a fun times death sentence.
Ugh. I have a friend proving that to be true. She wants to go to dinner at 6. In Vegas.
Seriousli!
Thanks for ostracizing 75% of your users nest staff!
That is the dumbest thing ever... for those who don't feel like reading it.
1. Wear white. Um... I wear whatever color I want. If DS spits up on me, I change my shirt or get a wipe and clean it off. No big deal. I didn't wear white pre-DS. I'm a klutz and I spill on myself a lot.
2. Close out the bar. Gawd, I hope you've moved beyond that before you have kids. Again, I didn't do that pre-DS... I have no need to start now.
3. Use the bathroom in peace. Yeah, my bathroom door has a lock on it and DS will be learning personal boundaries. I'm set.
4. Zone out to a Real Housewives marathon. Why would you want to? If I want to watch all 7 seasons of Gilmore Girls I will do so. It's not that difficult. Personally, unless I'm snowed in I don't think I can watch that much tv in one sitting... and I watch a fair amount of tv.
5. Get out the door quickly; you'll need to add at least 30 minutes to your routine. Our family (H, me and DS) is up and out the door in 30 minutes every day. That includes a feeding DS.
6. Read a chapter book. Interesting. I just finished one and started another. I have no issue finding time to read.
7. Talk on the phone. I'm not much of a phone talker, but I've held a few conversations in excess of 30 minutes since DS was born. I've never had to hang up the phone because of DS.
8. Stay up past 9 pm. Yeah, H and I have always gone to be at 10, even before we had DS. We get up at 5:30 am to go to work.
http://pandce.proboards.com/index.cgi#general
None of those things are true, especially if you're a working mom (working mom because I happen to wear very nice clothes every day without getting spit-up or poo stains on them).
Actually, the only one that was true was the "you'll never leave the house as quickly again." But that's true as a practical matter. If it takes x minutes to get ready, and you have to get a child ready in addition to yourself, it'll be x times two.
I've ready probably two dozen books (real books with chapters) since having Baby D #2, and probably over a hundred since baby D #1. I read a lot of books. I read while I'm nursing, I read at night after the kids go to bed, I read while watching TV....you get plenty of time to read. Quiet bathroom time? It's called "here honey, I'm going to take bath/shower" and you hand over the baby.
So yeah, not really true at all.
This mentality get a serious eye-roll from me. I have 3 kids. Stayed up til 2 last night. An hour of that was booty call.
KMA Nest.
I heart you.
Picture me with cartoon hearts coming out of my eyes.
I wasn't closing out the bar before I had kids so . . .
But as to the rest, please. Now granted, pinky is obsessed with having "woman talks" while i'm in the bathtub but you bet your sweet ass I do toilet business all by my lonesome and have since they were small. They don't make cribs, swings, pnps, and baby jails for nothing.
Click me, click me!
Like lactose intolerance!
Yeah only if you have Jeopardy to keep you awake.
I got this in my email from the Bump a few months ago. Gee thanks. The kid's already ten months old.
And LOL at most of the list.
I love the boards, but the nest writers are nit wits. They are completely disconnected from the people that use this site.
This is the only one I might have trouble with.
So true.