Comments on: Sea it my way

By: Expat Mum

Expat Mum — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:25:57 +0000

Anyways – who says you have to be nice just ’cause you have a blog?

By: London City Mum

London City Mum — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 12:03:15 +0000

There are some very very very sad people around who seem to have nothing better to do than purposely misinterpret sarcastic (and, might I add, very funny) humour, and then don the mantel of holiness to preach to us all about how we should moderate our comments/re-align our thoughts/take shame for being honest/stop poking fun at the helpless/etc etc etc (delete as appropriate).

Personally Mothership, I love reading your blog. It makes me laugh and take myself less seriously.

As for your ‘doom and gloom’ commenters, two options:
1. get a life
2. delete

I’m with you babe.

LCM x

By: shayma

shayma — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 10:29:22 +0000

MTFF, you have every right to feel upset about the way your daughter is being taught in school. those plastic baggies must go. i think the negative ones here have missed the point and are trying to create controversy in the comments section. i am glad you and the teacher are talking and moving ahead. good for 5. yay.

By: Mothership

Mothership — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 05:09:58 +0000

PS Can I rely on you to be one of the people ’spreading the word around’? You certainly seem raring to go!

By: Mothership

Mothership — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 05:02:01 +0000

Oh, hello Domestic,
How cosmic that you should turn up right around now, just when I am talking about the very subject that irks you most. I think you must have left around the last time I also dared to take issue with a teacher which I know you feel extremely sensitive about.
I hope you will recover from your disgust quickly enough to read the next post and soothe your own thinly veiled sarcasm. Or not. xo

By: Domestic Engineer

Domestic Engineer — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 04:47:25 +0000

I stopped reading your blog months ago. Reading this latest post, and your response to those commenting on it, I remember why I stopped.

Mothership, something you may have missed, or forgotten (or are pretending about): your blog is not anonymous. When you first started writing it, you sent an email announcing your endeavor to a list of contacts from your email account. Some of these people live in the same town as you…know what school your daughter attends…and so on.

So, while you claim to omit names and places, this is not entirely true. Do not act as if your blog is anonymous. You are a smart woman. You know that it is not.

And, while I agree with you on your points about protecting the ocean, disposable goods, and plastics, your attitude towards the teacher, and your public ridicule of her, is, at best, ugly.

You live in a small town. Trust me, word will get around.

I’m glad that you have reached a “wonderful, open dialogue” with the teacher. I’m wondering if that includes her reading this post?

If so, then, bravo. If not, then, when are you planning to show it to her?

By: mothership

mothership — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 22:19:06 +0000

Thanks for the support, LBB.
I suppose that the comments section are just as much a place for people to air their views as the main portion of the blog. Of course I am in control of whether those comments remain as it is my blog, but in this case I shall leave them there because they are rather funny and serve as a reminder of how many people miss the big picture in service of the sweating the small stuff.
One interesting thing that both irate commenters missed is that I am poking fun at myself for my irritable habits, as I continually do throughout the blog.
But I can’t expect them to pick up that kind of subtlety when they missed the main point of the post in the first place!

By: Little Brown Bird

Little Brown Bird — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 21:40:22 +0000

Mothership. Some people really miss the point of a blog.

For instance, the website for my nephew’s school, has typos and spelling mistakes on it. “sandle” instead of “sandal” and various apostrophe misdemeanours.

How are children ever going to learn grammar or the right way to spell?

The best one that I saw today was on the communcation board at work.

“We will be introducing the Penny Bizaare for Christmas”

I was tempted to annotate the spelling with a choice comment but I had a quiet laugh and walked away.

LBB x

By: Mothership

Mothership — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 21:22:11 +0000

I’m not really sure what your personal agenda is here, Tamara, other than registering disapproval (duly noted ) that I wrote irritated thoughts after the letter that you assume I lifted directly word for word. Perhaps it is to display some legal knowledge? To have a mini rant yourself?
Fear not on the humiliation and fury stakes. Teacher and I are now having a wonderful open dialogue which has produced a great result all around.
Watch this space, though you might have to turn elsewhere for the righteous indignation..

By: Tamara

Tamara — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:07:21 +0000

Well, perhaps you should ask the teacher if she minds you publishing her letter on the internet for all the world to see, with a snarky commentary by you appended to each paragraph. That’s rather different from cc’ing a letter to people concerned with the issue. Do you really think she would be happy about it? Do you think it would help your ongoing relationship with her as the teacher of your child? If she finds out, she will probably feel both humiliated and furious. And how would you feel if she put your letter on her blog, and wrote about you in a similar fashion? Would you be comfortable with that?

Yes, you are free to be as nasty about her as you like, because you are protected by ‘anonymity’ – but it’s not really a very nice thing to do, is it? And, as several legal cases have recently shown, anonymity on the internet is very often only skin deep. It’s rare for a blog writer to be 100% anonymous. Are you completely sure that none of the teachers at your school read it, or the parents of children who go to that school?