Reason #2513 why I shouldn't breed

[featherynscale]

Posted with apologies to all my friends who happen to have babies, or who happen to be babies - it's nothing personal.

Noticed on my hotmail homepage (which I detest, by the way - I really just want my messages, and I'm not interested in any of M$N's supposed 'content') the article "7 cures for a crying baby". I can run through a lot more than that, but I'm betting the ones with things in them like duct tape and expanding foam didn't make the MSN list.

Comments

[diermuid.livejournal.com]

I knew a gal in NJ who simply used Mad Dog 20/20 on the pacifier. But then this is why I say Clerks was not a comedy, it was a NJ documentary.

7 Ways? Sounds like a quick fix. I have one way to help out a baby (cries are just them complaining about something) and that is to listen to them like I would listen to an animal. They can't talk, but they are sentient beings who will use body language to try and communicate what is wrong. Unless their problem is that they just don't like their lot in life... in which case it is terminal cholic.

Sometimes, they are depressed or pissed... no quick fix there. But therein lies the problem. Underachievers never bothered to work through things like high school, steady employment, etc. So they have free time and make babies. But the prerequisite skills to help the kid aren't there. So the rest of us get to always hear the crying of these kids... pissed off at the world from a young age.

Grump grump grump.