I wish I could say I had the best holiday EVER! I'd be lying if I said that considering I spent Christmas Eve in the hospital with Bacterial Pneumonia. I'm hoping for a full recovery by New Years.
Hope you all had a wonderful time with your families and be safe and have a HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!
Wednesday, December 28, 2011
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
Happy Holidays
Hope everyone is enjoying the holiday season, if you celebrate.
I've really got nothing for you...sorry.
I'm in the Big City enjoying some holiday shopping. I spent half the day in the American Girl Store and I wish I was little again. They sure didn't have all the great things like that store when I was little. LOL
I'm not going to be around much until after the first of the year. I'll check in from time to time, but mostly I'll be wrapping, baking and packing for our trip to visit the family for the holidays.
Comment if you like about whatever..or just spend this time with your family and friends.
Cheers
I've really got nothing for you...sorry.
I'm in the Big City enjoying some holiday shopping. I spent half the day in the American Girl Store and I wish I was little again. They sure didn't have all the great things like that store when I was little. LOL
I'm not going to be around much until after the first of the year. I'll check in from time to time, but mostly I'll be wrapping, baking and packing for our trip to visit the family for the holidays.
Comment if you like about whatever..or just spend this time with your family and friends.
Cheers
Thursday, December 8, 2011
Part II Mom Bloggers Who Use Their Children For Profit
In keeping with our discussion about Mommy bloggers who are selling their children's childhoods, we now have some who are taking it to the next level, reality television.
As I mentioned in the comments yesterday, a blog I have followed for a few years has moved into the reality television mode. I was actually SHOCKED when I read this on her blog. I really admired her before this decision. I thought she was a good mother and had handled the task of parenting multiples well. Boy was I wrong about her...
Now, I realize childhood is for sell for some.
Suz the blogger I am talking about is a well educated woman who along with her husband live a upper middle class life with Quads. They have a strong family support system and Suz also has a strong network of moms of multiples who she blogs about that give her support.
WHY..WHY..WHY would a mom do this? Believe me it isn't like they need the money.
I am saddened to see another family jump on the reality television train...does she not remember Kate Gosselin or The Mache sextuplets? The odds are not in her favor of this having a happily ever after for her family.
Here is the link to the trailer about this show..already by the trailer it appears to be the multiple mom version of a housewives episode. Doesn't make the multiple moms look so hot with all the drama.
Here is the link http://www.wetv.com/shows/texas-multi-mamas
Makes me sad to see Mommy Bloggers are selling their children's childhoods. Where are the laws to protect children from these parents?
If you ever watched The Gosselins Kate was famous for saying her children loved the film crew and the film crew was like family. When I read Suz latest blog entry about the show, she used these SAME words. OK, maybe she has heard of The Gosselins and she is following in her footsteps.
As I mentioned in the comments yesterday, a blog I have followed for a few years has moved into the reality television mode. I was actually SHOCKED when I read this on her blog. I really admired her before this decision. I thought she was a good mother and had handled the task of parenting multiples well. Boy was I wrong about her...
Now, I realize childhood is for sell for some.
Suz the blogger I am talking about is a well educated woman who along with her husband live a upper middle class life with Quads. They have a strong family support system and Suz also has a strong network of moms of multiples who she blogs about that give her support.
WHY..WHY..WHY would a mom do this? Believe me it isn't like they need the money.
I am saddened to see another family jump on the reality television train...does she not remember Kate Gosselin or The Mache sextuplets? The odds are not in her favor of this having a happily ever after for her family.
Here is the link to the trailer about this show..already by the trailer it appears to be the multiple mom version of a housewives episode. Doesn't make the multiple moms look so hot with all the drama.
Here is the link http://www.wetv.com/shows/texas-multi-mamas
Makes me sad to see Mommy Bloggers are selling their children's childhoods. Where are the laws to protect children from these parents?
If you ever watched The Gosselins Kate was famous for saying her children loved the film crew and the film crew was like family. When I read Suz latest blog entry about the show, she used these SAME words. OK, maybe she has heard of The Gosselins and she is following in her footsteps.
Monday, December 5, 2011
Bloggers Who Use Their Children For Profit
Many times we have all discussed bloggers who use their children to earn money on their blogs.
Many bloggers have used illness or unfortunate circumstances as the catalyse for their blogs taking off. Before their accident or their child's illness they were just a regular mommy blogger. Once they realize their accident or illness is the reason they are making money, this is when the lying and unethical things begin to happen.
Now before anyone comes on and states blogger XYZ isn't like that, I'm not saying EVERY mommy blogger who has had an accident or illness does this. It just seems that the most popular ones are the ones who are doing it.
I agree 100% that Mckmama has used her son Stellan's illness to market her blog to the masses. In fact, before there was OHIH or MWOP I was questioning her. I asked questions on blogfrog and got called some very NASTY names by many of the current MWOP regulars. You see, they had not seen the light yet...they were her sheeple and defended her. I questioned WHY she needed all the hotel rooms, pay pal accounts, food delivered to her house by readers, gift cards etc. etc. It's not like she was the first mommy blogger with a sick kid. I questioned the cliff hangers and I questioned the ads that went up right about the time the cliff hangers began. I knew what she was up to and I called her on it.
Now the reason I am bringing all this up is to say...there are many who are doing exactly what she is doing and has done.
I get it...many LOVE Kelle Hampton and NieNie and even Angie Smith. I get that, but let's be honest here. Each of the above bloggers has gotten famous because of illness or accident. Each of the above bloggers have written books because of their situation. They pimp the books out on their blogs. Angie Smith actually asked her readers of her blog to go and give reviews on Amazon about her book just recently and offered them a signed book jacket if they would. Now I call that paying for a review and I happen to think it is unethical. A review someone writes should not come with a gift attached. So to me that makes Angie Smith seem to be unethical.
I believe people have a hard time seeing the truth about people that they view as an idol. We saw this time and time again with Mckmama. When you feel a connection to someone you sometimes look the other way with their faults because it is painful to feel the disappointment in someone we look up to. If you have read for any length of time at MWOP, the majority of the ladies were at one time sheeple themselves and they tell their stories of how they looked up to Mckmama and defended her. Finally, Mckmama angered them and they find their way to MWOP and the rest is history.
The moral to this blog post is MANY popular bloggers are doing the very same thing as Mckmama. Maybe try looking at things more objectively. Try reading these blogs and forget how much you adore them, forget what great mothers and Christians you think they are. Block out their picture perfect lives that you only WISHED you had. When you can do this, you will see what I am talking about.
Now I'm not saying you can't still idol and adore these bloggers. No, not at all...in fact that is your choice if you do. What I am saying is at least read knowing that YOU ARE being lied to, used and these bloggers are not your friend. They have a purpose, it is to make money and pimp vendors wares so they can get free stuff. Just don't allow these bloggers to fool you the way Mckmama did...if you do, as soon as they do something like Mckmama did that makes you change your mind about them, you will be feeling duped like you do now about them. Without faithful readers books will not sell and sponsors will not pay for ad space.
Lastly, here is a PERFECT example of a mommy blogger using her children to make money on her blog. NieNie wrote this on her most recent blog post:
My children wrote their Christmas lists.
Here is what they want:
I know you elves need some help this time of year-
I know where you can go to get some help:
Blinkenstaffs (IN ALL CAPS AND IN COLOR FONT WITH A LINK ATTACHED)
to make it easy for you, all you have to do is click on the image
to see exactly what their little hearts desire
Next it is filled with link after link of boxes with each child's name and pics of what they would like. All from this VERY VERY EXPENSIVE toy store, who just happens to have a link on her sidebar and who she has been pimping out for a few months now on her blog. Bottom line, Blinkenstaffs is a paying sponsor on her blog.
What this proves is even a Christian Mommy Blogger will pimp out her kids for the sake of money!
Many bloggers have used illness or unfortunate circumstances as the catalyse for their blogs taking off. Before their accident or their child's illness they were just a regular mommy blogger. Once they realize their accident or illness is the reason they are making money, this is when the lying and unethical things begin to happen.
Now before anyone comes on and states blogger XYZ isn't like that, I'm not saying EVERY mommy blogger who has had an accident or illness does this. It just seems that the most popular ones are the ones who are doing it.
I agree 100% that Mckmama has used her son Stellan's illness to market her blog to the masses. In fact, before there was OHIH or MWOP I was questioning her. I asked questions on blogfrog and got called some very NASTY names by many of the current MWOP regulars. You see, they had not seen the light yet...they were her sheeple and defended her. I questioned WHY she needed all the hotel rooms, pay pal accounts, food delivered to her house by readers, gift cards etc. etc. It's not like she was the first mommy blogger with a sick kid. I questioned the cliff hangers and I questioned the ads that went up right about the time the cliff hangers began. I knew what she was up to and I called her on it.
Now the reason I am bringing all this up is to say...there are many who are doing exactly what she is doing and has done.
I get it...many LOVE Kelle Hampton and NieNie and even Angie Smith. I get that, but let's be honest here. Each of the above bloggers has gotten famous because of illness or accident. Each of the above bloggers have written books because of their situation. They pimp the books out on their blogs. Angie Smith actually asked her readers of her blog to go and give reviews on Amazon about her book just recently and offered them a signed book jacket if they would. Now I call that paying for a review and I happen to think it is unethical. A review someone writes should not come with a gift attached. So to me that makes Angie Smith seem to be unethical.
I believe people have a hard time seeing the truth about people that they view as an idol. We saw this time and time again with Mckmama. When you feel a connection to someone you sometimes look the other way with their faults because it is painful to feel the disappointment in someone we look up to. If you have read for any length of time at MWOP, the majority of the ladies were at one time sheeple themselves and they tell their stories of how they looked up to Mckmama and defended her. Finally, Mckmama angered them and they find their way to MWOP and the rest is history.
The moral to this blog post is MANY popular bloggers are doing the very same thing as Mckmama. Maybe try looking at things more objectively. Try reading these blogs and forget how much you adore them, forget what great mothers and Christians you think they are. Block out their picture perfect lives that you only WISHED you had. When you can do this, you will see what I am talking about.
Now I'm not saying you can't still idol and adore these bloggers. No, not at all...in fact that is your choice if you do. What I am saying is at least read knowing that YOU ARE being lied to, used and these bloggers are not your friend. They have a purpose, it is to make money and pimp vendors wares so they can get free stuff. Just don't allow these bloggers to fool you the way Mckmama did...if you do, as soon as they do something like Mckmama did that makes you change your mind about them, you will be feeling duped like you do now about them. Without faithful readers books will not sell and sponsors will not pay for ad space.
Lastly, here is a PERFECT example of a mommy blogger using her children to make money on her blog. NieNie wrote this on her most recent blog post:
My children wrote their Christmas lists.
Here is what they want:
I know you elves need some help this time of year-
I know where you can go to get some help:
Blinkenstaffs (IN ALL CAPS AND IN COLOR FONT WITH A LINK ATTACHED)
to make it easy for you, all you have to do is click on the image
to see exactly what their little hearts desire
Next it is filled with link after link of boxes with each child's name and pics of what they would like. All from this VERY VERY EXPENSIVE toy store, who just happens to have a link on her sidebar and who she has been pimping out for a few months now on her blog. Bottom line, Blinkenstaffs is a paying sponsor on her blog.
What this proves is even a Christian Mommy Blogger will pimp out her kids for the sake of money!
Friday, December 2, 2011
Just Because...
I figured I would put up a new post since it had been almost a week.
I can't believe it is December already. If you celebrate Christmas have you done any of your shopping yet? Big plans or trips for the holidays?
I've not done any decorating or shopping yet. I'm so behind it is not even funny. I'm not doing a tree this year because between traveling and spending the holidays out of town, I see no point. Makes me sad but it is what it is.
I did see that Anja took down the OLD naked pics of Mckmama's kids and I was so happy to see that. Whoever posted that was so wrong. Not sure how long it was up but it makes me sad that someone would think that was OK.
Feel free to discuss whatever you like...I really don't have anything right now.
Happy Holidays
I can't believe it is December already. If you celebrate Christmas have you done any of your shopping yet? Big plans or trips for the holidays?
I've not done any decorating or shopping yet. I'm so behind it is not even funny. I'm not doing a tree this year because between traveling and spending the holidays out of town, I see no point. Makes me sad but it is what it is.
I did see that Anja took down the OLD naked pics of Mckmama's kids and I was so happy to see that. Whoever posted that was so wrong. Not sure how long it was up but it makes me sad that someone would think that was OK.
Feel free to discuss whatever you like...I really don't have anything right now.
Happy Holidays
Saturday, November 26, 2011
NieNie Just Doesn't Get It!
It appears NieNie posted this statement on her blog in regards to her "Beggin For Christmas Gifts" aka Homemade Christmas she hosted last year. NieNie doesn't seem to get it that people were used by her. Telling people to send their homemade wares and you will feature them on your blog and then saying you only featured some and NO you will not be sending anything back is just like stealing. The article she is referencing is about mean comments getting posted because people are jealous.
No NieNie, they aren't jealous of you. The reason you get mean comments is because you use your accident to gain gifts and attention and people are sick of it. You parade your children in dangerous situations, you know no seat belts and no life jackets. You post nude pictures of your children on the web and think that makes you "Mother of The Year"...sorry but it doesn't!
You aren't doing "Beggin For Christmas Gifts" aka Homemade Christmas because there is no one who will participate again because they got burned by you last year. At least be honest about it...
This is what NieNie said on her blog:
No NieNie, they aren't jealous of you. The reason you get mean comments is because you use your accident to gain gifts and attention and people are sick of it. You parade your children in dangerous situations, you know no seat belts and no life jackets. You post nude pictures of your children on the web and think that makes you "Mother of The Year"...sorry but it doesn't!
You aren't doing "Beggin For Christmas Gifts" aka Homemade Christmas because there is no one who will participate again because they got burned by you last year. At least be honest about it...
This is what NieNie said on her blog:
I am not doing Homemade Christmas this year. You wouldn't believe how much hate mail I received last year because I did that.--Thanks anyway;) On that note, I enjoyed this article
Thursday, November 24, 2011
Giving Thanks...
Today in the USA we celebrate Thanksgiving. I say this because I know some of our readers live in other countries and having lived overseas myself, I know today is just another day for many.
Regardless of what country we reside in, we can still be thankful for the blessings in our own life.
For the readers who do celebrate Thanksgiving, enjoy your family and friends. Enjoy this one day of the year that we can eat anything we like and not feel guilty.
I know I have many things to be thankful for and today I will give thanks and enjoy the gift of family.
Cheers