Is it just me...

or does anybody else think ST is getting CREWed to death lately?

Lord have mercy some of these stories!

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Sometimes I'm just not sure.

Sometimes I'm just not sure. DH likes to tease that I don't give people the benefit of the doubt because he's often heard "people can't really be that stupid/crazy/mean..."

Then he shows me a YouTube video of a young guy driving in the car with his wife. He asks his wife, if he's driving at 80 mph, how long will it take to go 80 miles. She starts talking about wheel rotation and how fast she can run. It's insane and pathetic and scary. I was completely floored.

DH asked me at the end if I still thought people couldn't be That stupid. I'm not sure which I was more concerned by - that she could be so seriously dumb or that some dumbass man actually Married her. So sometimes I read things and think, can't Possibly be.... And en I wonder if I'm just being too harsh and people really are just living a truth is stranger than fiction life.....

I don't know what's going on,

I don't know what's going on, but some poor soul is over in the Forum making post after post after post after post. It's getting pretty hysterical.

Oh, we are on #15 now.

It's been like watching a

It's been like watching a freshman psychology experiment unravel.

That is literally, exactly

That is literally, exactly what I was thinking.

I tend to believe that most

I tend to believe that most new posters are genuine.
No one here on ST asks for ID: hey, show me your stepkid, which BM do you work for...?

If people want to mess around, it's a free internet... However, more interesting hobbies should be recommended.

Thanks for sharing it! DH

Thanks for sharing it! DH kept asking me why I wasn't laughing.... Because I find it horrifying and really sad that someone can really be that ignorant or well, lacking in brain power.

It's hard to shrug off

It's hard to shrug off nasties when you're already in a vulnerable state. This place should be a safe site to for step parents to vent and seek advice. They're obviously here because they care and want to make a change In their families.

To those that attack, shame on you. The whole story isn't heard and a quick excerpt is often thrown out in desperation.

Look here Dragon, you came in

Look here Dragon, you came in here with a really upsetting story. You didn't add all the details in your first post. I'm actually attempting to be nice here okay, so hear me out.

You seem young and naive. We all were at some point. That's fine. Some of us jumped on you. With your first post, you came off sounding like the instigator against the child. A lot of us love kids, and from the only information we had, we got worried about the kid.

This is what it all comes down to, we all want the kids safe and healthy. I still suggest parenting classes, and I do to a lot of people ion here for a reason.

That reason is the majority of people in my/our generation were patented by...let's say a lazzie fair attitude? Permissible and coddled. I was to an extent even. A lot of us were not given the fundamental knowledge of raising children, just like our parents were not also.

Parenting classes are a way we can objectively learn to raise children in happy and healthy environments. Not gonna lie, that was one of the reasons I became a foster parent, because I knew I would be doing the major upbringing of those kids. The state paid for classes for myself, all of them having to do with the reasonable and responsible caring of disturbed children.

I highly believe every pregnant woman should be required to take those classes, the same for biological father(or man listed on the birth certificate.)

People like to think parenting is all instinctual and frankly, it just isn't. Do not leave yourself ignorant of something, when you have all the power of this amazing amount of knowledge we have at our finger tips with the internet.

So are the cafemom posters

So are the cafemom posters bored with their own boring posts and need some excitement? Or are they interested in ST and want to contribute here too?

If I actually sat down and blogged about my 9 year journey of HELL, ppl would think I was making it up, so I'm not 100% with a lot of the new posters.