This is a class I could never teach.  I barely remember my own as babies and all the 101 little things one might want to pass onto the next generation. When Kira was born ThatGirl kept asking me stuff and I’m like, fuggedaboutdit.  Every once in a while a memory will pop up, maybe triggered by a specific situation, maybe some synapsis fires at just the right moment, whatever.

I’ve an LJ friend who just had a baby and I’ll admit here that I’d been barely scanning her later pregnancy posts.  And I probably haven’t been reading her newer ones all that carefully either.

My bad completely. But nothing personal, I’ve barely been reading anyone’s.

Somehow I got into the habit of scanning everyone’s paragraphs unless something really catches my attention.  For the last month I’ve been busy transferring stuff from my PC to this laptop, figuring out wordpress (where I’m completely over my head) for my new site, going out a LOT, etc.  I just wasn’t taking the proper time for keeping up online.  I apologize.

But geeze people, the one post I did read she was talking about using lotion with honey in it for her breastfeeding chapping (I imagine chapping is what she meant, I never breastfed) and I mentioned that infants shouldn’t have honey and she should double check if that includes lotion and people got snappish.  I wasn’t in her face, or assuming she was an idiot or anything.  How the fuck am I supposed to know what, as a first-time single parent with an apparently crappy family, she already knows.  There’s SO MUCH a new parent needs to know!  So for-fucking-give me for bring it up.

I should shut up.  I should never politely mention something is potentially harmful.  Maybe I should just crawl back under my rock.

Or.

I’ll keep saying whatever pops into my head on the off-chance it could help someone.  Cuz, you know, I have managed to get to 47 and raise three fairly healthy kids.  There’s a lot of experience in my brain even if I can’t access it like I usetacould.  And if I speak out of turn you can either ignore me or understand I said it with love.

Cuz if I didn’t care, I’d be making fun of your mistakes instead of trying to help.  I like making fun of people.  Would you rather be on that list?  I’m very careful not to make fun of my friends, but just about everyone else is fair game.  Cuz I’m pretty sure people are out there making fun of me.