More More More on Moms at War

March 16, 2007 – 8:25 am |

My local newspaper is as late to the blogging party as me - or perhaps it’s just a reflection of our local world.  In either event, the Star Tribune reports that blogs are, as we’ve worried, a place for moms (and a few dads they suggest) to continue a war of words against each other about the choices we make as parents. 

We seem to have mostly avoided controversy here (although that could be a function of readership), so (never one to take the news at its word) I looked around a bit to see if the judging is really as pronounced as the article suggests.  While most of what I discovered was supportive and interesting conversation, I did find a few examples of this ‘judginess’.  My favorite, over at Urban Mommies, someone named linda walks right into my favorite cliche about working mothers when she comments:

“Why did you have kids to have them raised my a nanny? I love when people have kids, hand them off to a nanny so they can go off to job/play then call themselves mommy. Tell your kid the truth- the money and your self esteem is more inportant then [sic] she is. Don’t be surprised when your [sic] old that she sends you away to a home or worse becasue [sic] she is now busy with her stuff.”

But, again, that was one comment of 6, and, that said, I didn’t find all that much warring out there.   I concluded that one of two things is happening: either I generally avoid blogs where judgment lives, or the problem’s not as bad as the news suggests.  

What do you all see in your surfing?  Is the blog the underground home of the mommy wars?