Comments on: We’re Here, We’re Hip. Get Used to It http://redsy.com/2007/02/11/were-here-were-hip-get-used-to-it/ Red is Good. Fri, 05 Sep 2008 22:18:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Softer http://redsy.com/2007/02/11/were-here-were-hip-get-used-to-it/#comment-2445 Softer Thu, 06 Dec 2007 22:33:37 +0000 http://redsy.com/2007/02/11/were-here-were-hip-get-used-to-it/#comment-2445 [...] and humility without farce or false poise. They help me get over all the fighting words and fake courage of hip parenting, huge vocabulary-ed striving (well, [...] [...] and humility without farce or false poise. They help me get over all the fighting words and fake courage of hip parenting, huge vocabulary-ed striving (well, [...]

]]> By: Indie Mama http://redsy.com/2007/02/11/were-here-were-hip-get-used-to-it/#comment-438 Indie Mama Fri, 16 Mar 2007 17:16:29 +0000 http://redsy.com/2007/02/11/were-here-were-hip-get-used-to-it/#comment-438 "We parent differently. We talk about it before during and afterward. We navel gaze, but we also try and create a better world by building real communities..." - I whole heartedly agree. Isn't the blogging parenting community just the independent outlet for parenting discussion. We don't need Dr. Spock, Meredith Viera, or those crazy cats who write "What to Expect...", we can discuss real time with real people going through exactly what we are doing. Who share our concerns and angst, triumphs, and turmoils. The blogs are the outlets for our naval gazing...it's the naval gazing that makes us cool! = ) (New to the blog) “We parent differently. We talk about it before during and afterward. We navel gaze, but we also try and create a better world by building real communities…” - I whole heartedly agree. Isn’t the blogging parenting community just the independent outlet for parenting discussion. We don’t need Dr. Spock, Meredith Viera, or those crazy cats who write “What to Expect…”, we can discuss real time with real people going through exactly what we are doing. Who share our concerns and angst, triumphs, and turmoils.

The blogs are the outlets for our naval gazing…it’s the naval gazing that makes us cool! = )

(New to the blog)

]]> By: skagitbarbara http://redsy.com/2007/02/11/were-here-were-hip-get-used-to-it/#comment-437 skagitbarbara Tue, 13 Feb 2007 22:54:54 +0000 http://redsy.com/2007/02/11/were-here-were-hip-get-used-to-it/#comment-437 From a pre baby-boomer step mother with hips to a hipster mama, spit out the hornet and get real. While Gen Xer parents may be on the leading edge of communicating about maintaining self while at the same time raising young children right now - nothing that is being said or done now by you has not been said, done, ingested, drunk or smoked by previous generations. The heart of what makes this compelling is that you care about your kids. Besides, does Time Magazine even begin to define you? They write to a 12-year-old reading level on topics that are only slightly more intellectual than what would otherwise go into People Magazine and of course are written to have conflict or who would read it. If it makes you feel better to think you are different from previous parents (even baby boomers with axes to grind) than go for it. But the only thing that has changed is the context in which you bring your kids up and how you respond to the times around you. You blog because you can. Without blogs, we wouldn’t know if you were angsting, or introspecting or whatever. What I am trying to tell you is that I am grateful that your generation cares about their kids. And I find it compelling reading, but not always for the reasons that you write it. From a pre baby-boomer step mother with hips to a hipster mama, spit out the hornet and get real. While Gen Xer parents may be on the leading edge of communicating about maintaining self while at the same time raising young children right now - nothing that is being said or done now by you has not been said, done, ingested, drunk or smoked by previous generations. The heart of what makes this compelling is that you care about your kids.

Besides, does Time Magazine even begin to define you? They write to a 12-year-old reading level on topics that are only slightly more intellectual than what would otherwise go into People Magazine and of course are written to have conflict or who would read it.

If it makes you feel better to think you are different from previous parents (even baby boomers with axes to grind) than go for it. But the only thing that has changed is the context in which you bring your kids up and how you respond to the times around you.

You blog because you can. Without blogs, we wouldn’t know if you were angsting, or introspecting or whatever. What I am trying to tell you is that I am grateful that your generation cares about their kids. And I find it compelling reading, but not always for the reasons that you write it.

]]> By: Francesca (Stuntmother) http://redsy.com/2007/02/11/were-here-were-hip-get-used-to-it/#comment-436 Francesca (Stuntmother) Tue, 13 Feb 2007 00:36:56 +0000 http://redsy.com/2007/02/11/were-here-were-hip-get-used-to-it/#comment-436 I don't think that your righteous and right-on ire here negates in any way what you were saying earlier. I mean, holy crappy christ, but just how many hoops do we have to dance through before we can be seen as serious parents -- or see ourselves that way. Anything that says = you must do or be thus or so, whether that's hip, staid or purple polka dotted == is a trap. "Hip" parenting started as a way not to get caught in the trap but if it becomes its own trap, then, well, it's another trap. I need a new word for trap. Your insights are right on. We just need to do what we're trying to do as best as we can. I don’t think that your righteous and right-on ire here negates in any way what you were saying earlier. I mean, holy crappy christ, but just how many hoops do we have to dance through before we can be seen as serious parents — or see ourselves that way.

Anything that says = you must do or be thus or so, whether that’s hip, staid or purple polka dotted == is a trap. “Hip” parenting started as a way not to get caught in the trap but if it becomes its own trap, then, well, it’s another trap. I need a new word for trap.

Your insights are right on. We just need to do what we’re trying to do as best as we can.

]]> By: Her Bad Mother http://redsy.com/2007/02/11/were-here-were-hip-get-used-to-it/#comment-435 Her Bad Mother Mon, 12 Feb 2007 22:25:23 +0000 http://redsy.com/2007/02/11/were-here-were-hip-get-used-to-it/#comment-435 "Big media is scared witless because we no longer need Meredith Viera to talk us through whether it’s ok to have a drink during a playdate. The democratization of parenting information is at hand." Yeah! And - yeeee ha! (*loud hooting and thundering applause*) “Big media is scared witless because we no longer need Meredith Viera to talk us through whether it’s ok to have a drink during a playdate. The democratization of parenting information is at hand.”

Yeah! And - yeeee ha! (*loud hooting and thundering applause*)

]]> By: Sarah, Goon Squad Sarah http://redsy.com/2007/02/11/were-here-were-hip-get-used-to-it/#comment-434 Sarah, Goon Squad Sarah Mon, 12 Feb 2007 21:10:02 +0000 http://redsy.com/2007/02/11/were-here-were-hip-get-used-to-it/#comment-434 I don't really consider myself hip, but I would totally wear that outfit if my stomach looked that Mom. I don’t really consider myself hip, but I would totally wear that outfit if my stomach looked that Mom.

]]> By: Paige http://redsy.com/2007/02/11/were-here-were-hip-get-used-to-it/#comment-433 Paige Mon, 12 Feb 2007 19:03:32 +0000 http://redsy.com/2007/02/11/were-here-were-hip-get-used-to-it/#comment-433 My inner cynic chalks this up to a case of "whatever sells magazines"... My inner cynic chalks this up to a case of “whatever sells magazines”…

]]> By: Kevin Charnas http://redsy.com/2007/02/11/were-here-were-hip-get-used-to-it/#comment-432 Kevin Charnas Mon, 12 Feb 2007 02:50:49 +0000 http://redsy.com/2007/02/11/were-here-were-hip-get-used-to-it/#comment-432 YEAH!!! What you said! LOVE the matching outfits, by the way. YEAH!!! What you said!

LOVE the matching outfits, by the way.

]]> By: Oh, The Joys http://redsy.com/2007/02/11/were-here-were-hip-get-used-to-it/#comment-431 Oh, The Joys Mon, 12 Feb 2007 01:38:33 +0000 http://redsy.com/2007/02/11/were-here-were-hip-get-used-to-it/#comment-431 I would say that I'm less riled up about the argument. I mean, I am just too tired, you know? ( I would say that I’m less riled up about the argument. I mean, I am just too tired, you know? (

]]> By: crunchycarpets http://redsy.com/2007/02/11/were-here-were-hip-get-used-to-it/#comment-430 crunchycarpets Sun, 11 Feb 2007 22:19:19 +0000 http://redsy.com/2007/02/11/were-here-were-hip-get-used-to-it/#comment-430 "Big media is scared witless because we no longer need Meredith Viera to talk us through whether it’s ok to have a drink during a playdate. The democratization of parenting information is at hand." I don't know if this was ever true though. I asked my mom and she said she was never filled with angst or questions about parenting or drinking. They just did. Cos everyone did. Nobody questioned each other apart from the biggies of 'boy your kid is a spoiled brat'... I think this is the first time that the media are trying to USE us and we fight back. Thanks to things like the blog. We don't believe what we are told and we question. That is a new thing and a good thing. But also, never before was parenting books a multimillion industry. “Big media is scared witless because we no longer need Meredith Viera to talk us through whether it’s ok to have a drink during a playdate. The democratization of parenting information is at hand.”

I don’t know if this was ever true though.
I asked my mom and she said she was never filled with angst or questions about parenting or drinking.

They just did. Cos everyone did. Nobody questioned each other apart from the biggies of ‘boy your kid is a spoiled brat’…

I think this is the first time that the media are trying to USE us and we fight back. Thanks to things like the blog.

We don’t believe what we are told and we question.

That is a new thing and a good thing.
But also, never before was parenting books a multimillion industry.

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