but not their kids'. I'm the parent of a two-year old and I have a FB account, but there's no way I'd ever post pictures of my kid on there. All this stuff will be searchable and data-mined into the deep future, accessible from TVs, phones, etc. forever. And the people of this new very young generation will come of age in the thick of it. It's one thing to embarass your kid at family reunions, it's quite another to leave searchable public records of his poopoo photos to satisfy your own narcissism.

You adults might use FB to hook up with old long-forgotten friends... But keep in mind that becuase of sites like FB future generations will no longer have the luxury of losing touch. Simply moving away after high school will no longer provide a fresh coat of anonymity. So I think this means today's parents need to hold back from creating online personalities for their kids until the kids are old enough to make these decisions on their own.

Great that you have 'em.

Don't care to know otherwise.

We cool then?

...we just didn't have enough stupid reasons to hate one another. Know who I have a problem with? People who are parents! No, people who are not parents!

Know who I really have an issue with? I find that the only people I'm really easily annoyed with are those who are too easily annoyed.

I guess I just haven't encountered the problem. Those I know, on Facebook and off, just haven't been obnoxious about the fact that they have kids (or that they don't). It's pretty much been limited to "hey! I/my son or daughter just had a baby! here's a picture of the baby!" Cool! Congratulations. Or: "Hey! It's Christmas! Here's a picture of the kids and us to say, 'Merry Christmas.'" Cool! Merry Christmas. And yes, a lot of my friends are having kids, while I'm not. Does it need to be a problem? The kids are rather neat people too. What's bad?

yet another unprovoked attack by the child-free on the child-rearing?

Yes, because people without children are NEVER subject to scorn, ridicule, unwanted intrusion, or just plain assholery from those who've decided to reproduce. The gods know we NEVER have to face societal opprobrium, or have to listen to ENDLESS monologues on how Widdle Snookies is the smartest fucking baby EVER. No, none of that ever happens.

Excuse me while I throw up in my mouth a little.

It's sad that there are so many clueless people out there that a blog like this is possible, but I have to admit I enjoy the site.

I am not a parent and never was, so I feel I can't comment. yet I feel they have their rights to discuss things that may disgust others just as much as those in toiletstool.com have their rights to talk about their bathroom functions [ or far worse being the much more extreme " Army of God" , Operation Rescue, KKK, in their sites- yeesh!]

Yet as a single, lesbian-transwoman, I learned of a site from an article in Gay Parent where this lesbian couple discusses all the family stuff about their child's " Christmas Adventures with the family and more". It both had me in tears wondering about what having an LGBT family was like, as well as thinking " Maybe Mrs. Governor Sarah Palin needs to read this before defining 'traditional family' for the rest of us!"

That most details of our daughter's life were fascinating to us, and us alone. We were thrilled to tell each other what she had said, done, etc, but just knew not to share too much with others. For so many reasons, all based on common sense. Nobody else loves her like we do, why should they care about the details?

For years, nothing could make us happier or feel more peaceful than spending a few moments with each other watching her sleep. Parents will understand. People without children might not. But I wouldn't invite anyone else to join us, or expect anyone else to appreciate our child the same way we do.

And, unfortunately, there are a lot of gross aspects of parenting a baby and small child, and, believe it or not, when it's your kid, it's not as gross as it should be. But I never shared any of those details, except, maybe, with my mother, and then only if I needed advice

I did find the STFU Parents site a little funny, particularly the parent who posted that her (his?) kid was going to the doctor's, but please don't ask why because there's such a thing as patient privacy. If that's not inane, what is?

That said, I won't return, because I didn't think it was that funny.

George Carlin is smiling down on these blogsters from whatever the atheist version of Heaven is. It's high time the mealy-mouthed, entitled, narcissistic child-fetishists were admonished for their nauseating douchbaggery. Hallelujah, people!

Dear Ms. Berman,

So, you're still "shuddering" over the thought of a baby vomiting directly in its mother's mouth? hmmmm.....things can get worse....

A few Christmas's ago, I was back home in Tennessee for Christmas, where I ended up mugging for the camera with one of my brother's new babies. For various ill-founded reasons, nothing delights folks more than Bachelor Uncle Playing With Baby (!!!).

On that particular Christmas Eve, I and baby (which was about six months old, I think) ended up playing "airplane" for the camera, while everyone in the room beamed with delight. For some damn reason, I sort of got into the act,myself.....and my father was snapping fast-action shots just as I lifted baby completely over my head, made a big, delighted "OHHHH!!!" sound....and the baby laughed and vomited straight down into my mouth.

We have something around twelve photographs of the ten seconds before and after this incident.

It's helpful, I suppose, to have a record of the exact moment you decided that you definitely were NEVER going to have a baby.

Sincerely,

David Terry

www.davidterryart.com