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marfknox
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Posted - 07/28/2011 :  21:07:31  Show Profile  Visit marfknox's Homepage  Send marfknox an AOL message Send marfknox a Private Message  Reply with Quote
This is a just a bit of awesome satire from my new favorite blog that I thought you all would enjoy reading, and perhaps find useful in any debates with anti-vaccine people.

It is perhaps the ultimate irony that advocates of attachment parenting who reject vaccination because of fear of autism have ignored the possibility that it is attachment parenting itself that causes autism.

Consider the ever growing body of evidence:
"Too much certainty and clarity could lead to cruel intolerance" -Karen Armstrong

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Kil
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Posted - 07/28/2011 :  22:08:53   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit Kil's Homepage  Send Kil an AOL message  Send Kil a Yahoo! Message Send Kil a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Originally posted by marfknox

This is a just a bit of awesome satire from my new favorite blog that I thought you all would enjoy reading, and perhaps find useful in any debates with anti-vaccine people.

It is perhaps the ultimate irony that advocates of attachment parenting who reject vaccination because of fear of autism have ignored the possibility that it is attachment parenting itself that causes autism.

Consider the ever growing body of evidence:

Oh. Good one!
Uncertainty may make you uncomfortable. Certainty makes you ridiculous.

Why not question something for a change?

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alienist
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Posted - 07/29/2011 :  08:15:17   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send alienist a Private Message  Reply with Quote
I like the way she writes. I also liked what she said about being a koala mother
The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well! - Joe Ancis
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marfknox
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Posted - 07/29/2011 :  10:25:32   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit marfknox's Homepage  Send marfknox an AOL message Send marfknox a Private Message  Reply with Quote
The koala mother post is the only entry I've read so far that I didn't like. For one, she didn't read the book; she only read the Wall Street Journal article, which was essentially part of a marketing strategy to generate controversy around the book by making it sound quite sensational.

The things Dr. Amy says about Chua and her children are hateful and based in ignorance. She's great when she sticks to topics within her field of expertise, but I fear she'd developed a bit of arrogance that makes her feel justified in being just as critical in areas she knows nothing about. I'm sure Chua's daughters would feel quite insulted to be told that their accomplishments are "not their own." And I fear Dr. Amy totally misses the many good points that Chua makes about the Western obsession with "happiness." Is Dr. Amy prepared to provide evidence that children raised in very strict homes grow up to be less happy than those who grow up in homes more like hers? I suspect long-term happiness is influenced by a far more complex set of circumstances and individual traits.

Also, I'm sick and tired of people judging perfectly capable parents for making parenting choices they disagree with. I never knew the sort of bullcrap parents have to deal with from other people having so many opinions until I had a fetus in my womb. And then the unsolicited advice started rolling in. And the worst perpetrators of this seem to be other mothers, who I suspect in most cases are reacting out of their own parenting insecurities.

Anyway, I actually did read Chua's book, and I wrote a long review of it on my blog here
"Too much certainty and clarity could lead to cruel intolerance" -Karen Armstrong

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Edited by - marfknox on 07/29/2011 10:27:24
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Hal
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