Who doesn't fit in anywhere? - Page 2

[rubidoux]

Originally Posted by Dacks 

I'm a little freaked out about this right now too. 

I hope this site becomes a little more accepting of people who don't go Full Crunch. Mothers shouldn't have to keep half their lives secret from the forum for fear of being shunned as a bad parent.

lol  That was a pretty good typo.    I think I'll leave it.
 

[Storm Bride]

I'm not crunchy. I'm not mainstream. I haven't felt like I fit anywhere since several years before my first marriage went belly-up. The last label I willingly self-applied was probably "metalhead" somewhere around 1983 or so.

I'm not here because I'm crunchy. I do pretty well on the AP front (although I'd already been here several months, and my oldest was 12, before I'd ever heard that label), but my NFL cred is in the toilet. It used to be decent, but I've become considerably less green over the years, in several ways, for various reasons. I'm pretty hardcore on being anti-circ and I'm kind of nuts on the subject of informed consent where birth choice is concerned. Other than that? I don't "fit" here all that well, in many ways - but I like it, anyway and it's suited me well enough for the last six years.

[cappuccinosmom]

Welcome!

I'm another doesn't-fit-er.

[2xy]

^^^That's me.

I had my first child was I was barely 21. I had no non-mainstream parenting support and it was several years until the Internet became widely accessible. If I'd known then what I know now, lots of stuff would have been done differently. I also had a very mainstream husband and was in the Navy, so I was surrounded by convention.

Anyway, my boys were fortunate enough to be left intact and were each breastfed for several months. I'm pretty vocal about intactivism (am working on getting Medicaid to stop covering it in my state). I use mostly baking soda and vinegar for cleaning, but have been known to bust out the EZ-Off and Clorox on occasion. My kids are fully vaxed....they were military brats and it never occurred to me to NOT vax them. I'm pretty sure I would still have selectively vaxed. I did briefly consider using cloth diapers when DS1 was born, but couldn't figure out how to swing it with his sitter.

I shun artificial sweeteners and colorings, and don't buy into the "low-fat" craze, and boycott Nestle. I'm pretty rabid about Church/State separation, and also about recycling. My kids went to daycare when they were very small, but we've been homeschooling/unschooling for almost 12 years now....and I've WOTH for all but two of those years. When it comes to religion I'm a Naturalist, when it comes to politics I'm a Moderate. I pretty much a square peg in a round hole no matter where I go.