what is the likelihood that this mom vaccinates her kids

[h]

Sept 2, 2015 10:38:59 GMT -5 @mrsbecky said:

I'm with @this and I am dying that "tula in the wild" is a thing. I mean, everything else aside, I doubt most women wear their tulas "in the wild." Target does not count.

I am imagining a nature documentary narrated by some old guy with a British accident: "Now we happen upon the subjects in their native habitat, a Target store, where they are stocking up on Annie's organic mac n cheese, California Baby sunscreen, and perhaps some cheap decor items knocked off from Pottery Barn. These moms would never attempt to enter the less hospitable environment of Wal-Mart, but here, they feel right at home."

[halfpint]

Sept 2, 2015 10:44:14 GMT -5 @natariru said:

@this



Fremdschämen. I'm fremdschamening all over the place for these two idiots.

This is when I ask very quietly... _{is this a white people thing?}

Oh God, I cannot cringe enough. 

[SallySparrow]

Sept 2, 2015 10:56:37 GMT -5 chickens987 said:

Sept 2, 2015 9:55:54 GMT -5 SallySparrow said:

Is now a good time to mention I hate all stickers on cars? I don't CARE about your stick family, or that your dachshund is "smarter than" my honor student.

And don't get me started on pro-life stickers. They make me want to key someone's car.

That is my "get off my lawn!" moment.

I agree. But I do kind of want a NARAL license plate. H is against it, because he's afraid I'd get into fights over it

I could get on board with this. Not the fighting. lol

[isabel]

Actually, I was kind of wondering about this. I'm in a BWI chapter group for my city and it's quite clear that a lot of them don't vaccinate. What's with the correlation between baby wearing and not vaccinating? It's irritating because I can't take my kid to chapter meetings or get info on learning new carries because I know a lot of the kids aren't vaccinated.

[honeybee503]

Inside the car is like the last place where I could maintain "peaceful parenting".

I wonder if they make a "fourth degree tear!" sticker?

[niq]

Is this what happens to people when they live in places where crunchy parents are some sort of persecuted minority? Instead of just "parents"?

[niq]

Sept 2, 2015 10:44:14 GMT -5 @natariru said:

@this



This is when I ask very quietly... _{is this a white people thing?}

#notallwhitepeople

[niq]

Oh for @natariru's etsy shop: "I hate my kid once a week, but I'm still a GREAT MOM"

[anna7602]

Sept 2, 2015 11:27:23 GMT -5 h said:

Sept 2, 2015 10:38:59 GMT -5 @mrsbecky said:

I'm with @this and I am dying that "tula in the wild" is a thing. I mean, everything else aside, I doubt most women wear their tulas "in the wild." Target does not count.

I am imagining a nature documentary narrated by some old guy with a British accident: "Now we happen upon the subjects in their native habitat, a Target store, where they are stocking up on Annie's organic mac n cheese, California Baby sunscreen, and perhaps some cheap decor items knocked off from Pottery Barn. These moms would never attempt to enter the less hospitable environment of Wal-Mart, but here, they feel right at home."

You are joking, but when I told a friend I was going school supply shopping outside the city as long as I had a rental car, she made me promise I would go to a Target and not a Wal-mart. 

[pinotgrig]

Best thread of the day. h you are killing me today. *wipes tears*

[anna7602]

Sept 2, 2015 11:57:19 GMT -5 niq said:

Sept 2, 2015 10:44:14 GMT -5 @natariru said:

@this



This is when I ask very quietly... _{is this a white people thing?}

#notallwhitepeople

I'll let you in on my secret "hola" greeting. 

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Sept 2, 2015 10:05:05 GMT -5 @natariru said:

"Screen time is for mom"

#timetocopywritethatshit. 
#teeshirtsavailablethroughcafepressnextweek.

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Sept 2, 2015 12:11:48 GMT -5 @savestheday said:

Sept 2, 2015 10:05:05 GMT -5 @natariru said:

"Screen time is for mom"

#timetocopywritethatshit. 
#teeshirtsavailablethroughcafepressnextweek.

#copyrightdumbasslol

[pinkdutchtulips]

Slim to none

My sister does the home birth, extended breastfeeding/lactavist, essential oils thing and she is an anti-vaxxer

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Sept 2, 2015 10:20:53 GMT -5 anna7602 said:

Well, I have a secret greeting when I see other Hispanic moms out and about. We look at each other and say, "hola."

When I see other cool as Moms sipping on wine out of a sippy up on the sly, I'm all HOLLA! And they are all like " the motherfucking eagle has landed bitches" and then we chest bump. It's fucking awesome. 

[pugz]

I'm so glad to bring entertainment to your Wednesday I first noticed the mini van with the stickers at a consignment sale 2 weeks ago...then first day of preschool I see it in the preschool parking lot... Today I was parked next to it so took a stealth photo so I could remember all the different stickers because there are so many.

@natariru the school cannot disclose who is and is not vaccinated. However when we toured last winter I asked if it was required and what % had religious exemptions and she said it was only 2-3 families out of 180, which seemed really good to me. I bet this family was one of them because there is an older brother that is probably in the 4 or 5 year old classroom. His little sister is in DD's class.

I'm hoping it's just a delayed vaxxing family as there are a lot of those in town and what I'm seeing now is the super crunchy anti-vaxxing families are forming their own preschool co-ops and plan to homeschool because they have a very strong bias against public school and most are non-religious so a church preschool would be out of the question as well. Quite a few go to montessori programs or waldorf programs as well.

isabel the babywearing tie in is just that they are crunchy. So breastfeeding, co-sleeping, cloth diapering, and baby-wearing all attract the same people and many eat only organic, shun dairy and soy, and don't vaccinate.

[pugz]

oh and I would absolutely put a MMMism vinyl sticker on my car @natariru, lol.

[shell24]

I have running stickers on my car, a 13.1 and 26.2. Also an IAFF sticker since my H is a fireman. You all are making me embarrassed of my running stickers!

Although I always know it's my silver minivan in the Target parking lot

[pippa]

This thread is amazing! Thanks to all.

However, the video of the two idiots caw-ing at each other makes me extremely uncomfortable. lol People do this stuff??

[laurack]

i like this one

[sweetbrier]

addictedtooilsapparel.com/collections/all

That's the website the sticker from the original post is from. It's mildly terrifying.

One shirt says "I embrace the healing properties of Essential Oils. What do you do?"

I vaccinate.



So I'm going to say it's about a 5% chance they vaccinate.

I wanted a Tula, but now I don't. I would go around being terrified someone would yell "TULA IN THE WILD" at me. And then I would burst into tears. It would be good way to break this cycle they've created.

[sweetbrier]

Sept 2, 2015 14:12:11 GMT -5 @mrswindycity said:

Sept 2, 2015 14:04:23 GMT -5 sweetbrier said:

addictedtooilsapparel.com/collections/all

What on earth is gun oil?? 

[sweetbrier]

Sept 2, 2015 14:31:04 GMT -5 @mrswindycity said:

Sept 2, 2015 14:23:24 GMT -5 sweetbrier said:

I googled it and it's lube.

Hope work isn't recording my keystrokes and google searches.

That shirt is so bizarre. I'm so confused by it.

[isabel]

Sept 2, 2015 12:52:02 GMT -5 pugz said:

I'm so glad to bring entertainment to your Wednesday I first noticed the mini van with the stickers at a consignment sale 2 weeks ago...then first day of preschool I see it in the preschool parking lot... Today I was parked next to it so took a stealth photo so I could remember all the different stickers because there are so many.

@natariru the school cannot disclose who is and is not vaccinated. However when we toured last winter I asked if it was required and what % had religious exemptions and she said it was only 2-3 families out of 180, which seemed really good to me. I bet this family was one of them because there is an older brother that is probably in the 4 or 5 year old classroom. His little sister is in DD's class.

I'm hoping it's just a delayed vaxxing family as there are a lot of those in town and what I'm seeing now is the super crunchy anti-vaxxing families are forming their own preschool co-ops and plan to homeschool because they have a very strong bias against public school and most are non-religious so a church preschool would be out of the question as well. Quite a few go to montessori programs or waldorf programs as well.

isabel the babywearing tie in is just that they are crunchy. So breastfeeding, co-sleeping, cloth diapering, and baby-wearing all attract the same people and many eat only organic, shun dairy and soy, and don't vaccinate.

Yeah, I mean, I get it. I guess I just want to find my people. Babywearing, semi-organic, paper(!) diapering people. lol

[sent]

I just watched that YouTube video. OMG. No. I also thought it was "ca-CAW"

Also the way she said "Tula," with the hard emphasis on the "t." I have always thought it was pronounced like Tula from My Big Fat Greek Wedding.

I have the Folk Birds, but I don't have those sections on my shoulder straps. Is this one of those really fancy $1000 versions, or did she hack her Tula to have those patches made?

[hammerfist]

Sept 2, 2015 22:48:02 GMT -5 sent said:

I just watched that YouTube video. OMG. No. I also thought it was "ca-CAW"

Also the way she said "Tula," with the hard emphasis on the "t." I have always thought it was pronounced like Tula from My Big Fat Greek Wedding.

I have the Folk Birds, but I don't have those sections on my shoulder straps. Is this one of those really fancy $1000 versions, or did she hack her Tula to have those patches made?

I thought those were just those drool pads people put on their carriers.

[sent]

Sept 2, 2015 23:10:37 GMT -5 hammerfist said:

Sept 2, 2015 22:48:02 GMT -5 sent said:

I just watched that YouTube video. OMG. No. I also thought it was "ca-CAW"

Also the way she said "Tula," with the hard emphasis on the "t." I have always thought it was pronounced like Tula from My Big Fat Greek Wedding.

I have the Folk Birds, but I don't have those sections on my shoulder straps. Is this one of those really fancy $1000 versions, or did she hack her Tula to have those patches made?

I thought those were just those drool pads people put on their carriers.

I see you're right.  They're called Tula Droolas.  

[sweetbrier]

Sept 2, 2015 23:17:22 GMT -5 sent said:

Sept 2, 2015 23:10:37 GMT -5 hammerfist said:

I thought those were just those drool pads people put on their carriers.

I see you're right.  They're called Tula Droolas.  

[kangaroo11]

I wanted to get into the baby wearing thing, but couldn't understand all the slang for the carriers and gave up. I'm a Beco Gemini dropout.

[anna7602]

Sept 2, 2015 23:17:22 GMT -5 sent said:

Sept 2, 2015 23:10:37 GMT -5 hammerfist said:

I thought those were just those drool pads people put on their carriers.

I see you're right.  They're called Tula Droolas.  

I just have regular, old, found-them-at-a-craft-fair drool pads. I've used the same pair on an Ergo and a Beco and bet they would work on a Tula, too.