Lullaby and Goodnight, Now 'Go the F@#! to Sleep'

Dorothy:

You are completely wrong. My children are a blessing and my children are a curse. The fact that I can examine life daily and find a reason to laugh instead of beat them is a blessing. This book is nothing more than a bit of humor. Not only do I sometimes want my children to "Go the F**K to sleep, sometimes I think they are a**holes, and sometimes I think they are angles. The beauty of parenthood is the fact that there are no set guidelines for being a good and decent parent. The author of this book took one approach and while I share the idea behind the humor not all people will. This does not mean that we are in "the end of days" or that EVIL is taking over. The 21st century has no place for such nonsensical biblical prophecies. Using profanity does not lower any intelligence quotient. You can take your high and mighty attitude and read a different book, no one cares about your opinion.

CHARLESMCADAMS~Your attack is quite immature. You obviously don't read well. I wrote that parents will chuckle, as did I. I never mentioned 'end of days' or whatever else you mentioned so I am not sure if you are confused or if YOU need to go back to F@#kin bed(as you would say). I don't think negative feelings should be celebrated especially against children. That doesn't make one high and mighty, it makes them smart enough to know that children take their parents to the extreme and everything possible to keep a non hostile attitude is best. I don't like to swear at my children and they find it offensive if I do. Whatever plays on your mind will eventually come out of your mouth. Do you think that it's OK to entertain the word Biatch in your head when you get angry and your daughter at that moment in time seems to be acting like one? Entertain it enough and it will come out of your mouth and children, even the ones in their late teens and early 20's are quite put off by foul mouthed parents when they are speaking to them. I say you can't stop what flys into your mind but you don't have to let it roost there. AND you don't need to attack people because they have a different opion than yourself. :(

Well, thank god we have absolutely perfect parents like you, Dorothy.

Wow !!!! Lighten up already!!! You say vomit, I say blow chunks. You say bowl movement, I say go take a shit and feel better. Who the f@##$%k cares how it is said as long as you get it out there and doing that in a fun way to you is important. Parenting has many moments and face it, some are not as pretty as most parents try to make it out to be. Like when at 3am the kids won't go to bed or they are shitting themselves silly or they get older and don't want to go to school or whatever !! Stop pretending already it is not always a bed of roses!!! I just think that parents that are that stuffy to not admit that are the WOST offenders!! They are the ones that shove their kids in to every sport and activity they can and only see the kid for about 5 mins. in the week and that is long enough to tell them to get the f@#$%k out!!@! And they are the same parents that tell everybody else what to think now too?? GET real!!!
Before you ask, yes I have kids and they are the best I have seen in a while. They are respectful and they are from 18 to 11and one is on her way to collage in the fall. Whenever we have went to restaurants we have had to be there for 10 extra mins for people that can't say enough about how great they behave and how great the manors are, but I am sure they have had the, 'I wish hateful things on Mom and Dad', and that is okay because that makes them normal kids!!! It's the ones that don't have parents that allow them to think for themselves and control every aspect including what they think (hint hint) that grow up and shoot up schools and whatever else!! You know the same stuffy bunches with sticks shoved straight up their asses that want to control what everybody else is doing and thinking as well.
Oh and have a lovely f@@$#$##$g Day !! :)

Actually Dorothy some children DO want their parents to use foul language. I hate having to watch my mouth around my parents but I do it anyway out of respect for their values...I had two friends growing up whose parents swore (not at them but in general) and it was awesome..and guess what those kids(now grown up and still close) are well adjusted successful people who went on to get college degrees and have jobs and still use profanity when appropriate (not cursing like sailors lol) Please speak for yourself and not for people/children as a whole. And no negative thoughts towards children are not good but denying reality and thinking your child is an angel all the time is not good either. Children will make you mad and angry sometimes and that is normal and i dont think that can be controlled. (ps not an attack, just my opinion)

MARIE...
Wow, angry much? I'm glad your children are as colorful as you and as well behaved as you. That's great, mine are great too. Seriously, I don't think some people read very well or they are not thinking clearly as they make the assumptions that they do. Then again it's still early and the coffee is still brewing. I have to say that I have 5 children, from 20 on down to 7 and I lost my first to SIDS. My thought process is probably much more different when it comes to the frustration of parenting kids at a young age, those we are still putting to bed at night. I more than likely backtrack on negative thinking alot faster than most. That's just the way it is. I don't think that makes me higher than anyone else or better than anyone else it just makes me feel differently. Why does that anger people? I am also thinking about the younger generations now who have kids before they are even out of HS. How do they deal with their frustration? Not well mostly. Do we want them to think that their frustration is funny? I think it's more an adult thing and I default to wanting to let young parents know there is a better way to deal with these thoughts when they come into your head. I don't want them to think it's funny and then perhaps they said it to the kid(because they are a kid themself). I feel for the parents who have had a child shaken to death or beaten and the last thing that was said to them was... "Go The F@#k to sleep"! It just isn't funny really. BTW you are right, I don't say the words you do but I don't say the words you assume I use iether. You have a good day too!

Hey Dorothy:

Suck a bag of d**ks!!

It doesnt matter what kind of parent you are...good bad whatever. We all have had that moment of pure frustration or something like that when your child is screaming and will not go to sleep and you have no help to deal with it. To say that, *If I saw this on someones bookshelf I would know they don't really appreciate the blessing that their child or children really are*. Is trully unfair and stereotypical. You have no idea what kind of life that person has. You could be the best parent there could be but everyone has a breaking point and if reading that book helps take your mind off the situation at hand and gives you some sense of humor in a terrible time then by all means READ IT. I would encourage new parents to go and buy it. Because being a parent is not all ice cream sundaes with cherries on top. Being a parent is hard work probably the hardest job you will ever do. That being said, dont go around accusing people of being Bad Parents and not appreciating the blessing that their children are. I know I appreciate every second I have with my children and feel honored and blessed that God has appointed me to take care of three of his creations. Dont you think God has a sense of humor and knows just how difficult raising children can be. ( I dont think that the words used would be approved by him) but if that little book saves a child from a parent who is overwhelmed, exshausted and at the bottom of the barrel, from doing something terrible to their child that they will regret for the rest of their lives, then "hey" it works for me!

I believe you're taking the term too literally as it's long since passed beyond the usage of blasphemous calling of God into the realm of common usage as anything considered an expletive. The common definition of the term is 1. curse word - profane or obscene expression usually of surprise or anger. The title certainly reads as something a parent would say in frustration which likely is tinged with anger so.. it falls under that definition. I doubt highly anyone (at least not a native English speaker) would be confused by the term.

But oddly enough, you understood what they meant. So maybe the problem isn't as dramatic as you may think?

THANK YOU!!!!!!!!! It is usually bible thumpers that use that term and I am tired of it being so misused that I just tell them now, "no I did not say may God shit on you", I told you to "go piss up a rope"!!! But none the less, thank you for getting the point across in a more cleaned up manor, even if I am the only one that appreciates it LOL :)

Hey Greg, I Agree. Like you I too had high hopes that the Huffington staff would raise, rather than lower, the level of discourse here on AOL. But unfortunately it seems that the only thing that's getting raised consistently around here is the level of stupidity. Keep up the good work ! I gotta go. I can feel the IQ points getting sucked out already. Gee can you say Sucked On Here ???

In no way shape or form, spoken or thought, would I associate Forceful Unlawful Carnal Knowledge with anything about my children. It is Old English, describes an act of rape, the type or warrant and arrest that was issued for the act, and is patently offensive on it's face.

Someone mentioned hoping this will be something like Ermma Bombeck. I can assure you, simply from the title, it will not. Ermma has class and wouldn't put that in a book, at least from everything I have read.

America, let's stop dumbing ourselves down. This is likely to be another trash book with the writer hoping to make themselves a fast buck. The title alone tells me volumes about the writer, and I will pass on this 'work of literary genius'.