An Open Letter To *Some* Park Slope Parents

I dug the recap that the City Room blog did summarizing some of the more "colorful" comments from the Letter to the Editor the other day about the babies in bars sitch in Park Slope. But thanks to the magic of google alerts, I came across this fine missive, An Open Letter To *Some* Park Slope Parents, from fellow BK blog Shouts from the Stoop.

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The Starbuck Stops Here: Since When Are Breeders Not Allowed In Starbucks??

I’m starting to develop a complex.
 
I get that you free and happy people don’t want me and my annoying kids in your bars. And I’m okay with that (although helicopter mom did have a point that we breeders need alcohol by 5:30 way worse than you ballers. And since we’re back home in our jammies by eight, clearing the way for you to move in from 8-2, its not such a big deal. Anyway...)
 
So yeah--I’m willing to give you the bars.
 
But Starbucks? I protest.

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BEBES IN BARS: PART XVXLLIV

Hiroko Masuike for The New York Times

Fuck if I even know if that's an actual Roman numeral above, ppl. See I got way bigger fish to fry, so I can't even googlez it. Here's why:

The NYT posted this gloriously penned, ranty, BREEDER bashing letter today, written by a Park Slope BALLER named Risa Chubinsky. Ms. Chubinsky is kind of annoyed that everytime she goes out to get her drink on, her mellow gets harshed on by little Eloises, Mathias' (how the fuck do you even pluralize that??) and Olivia bebes, who seem to be breast feeding, pissing, and lining up their bottles in all the bars this chick likes to go to.

Anyway.

Then Gothamist posted about this shit too, and so what the fuck am I supposed to do people??

So, eventhough I'm gettin ready for all the "snooze!" "boring," "posting about this is like posting a trend piece on hipsters in Williamsburg" bullshit comments from all of your asses, here's what I gotta say to that: TOUGH. I've got to post it too (obvs).

People are still talking about bebes in bars, and so we are too.

Cool or Not Cool: Misspelling Your Kid's Name?

Ohdeedoh recently published a post on current bebe naming trends, and if you've ever stood in line at Union Market listening to mommies scream at their kids running around with handfulls of organic kale, none of this shit is a big surprise: retro names (Josephine, Charlotte, Harry); "Double L" names (Delialah, Tallulah); "X" names (Max, Dexter); and "econonomical monosyllabic" names (Hal, Joe) are all very popular right now...and ESPECIALLY popular in this neighborhood.  

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If You Want to Cheat on Your Spouse Just *Once,* Smartmom says 'GO FOR IT!'

Seriously.

Look: "If it’s a one-time thing, Smartmom says, why not? While that might sound flip, the truth is, it does happen and doesn’t need to break up a marriage."

Nice one, Smartmom!

There was a whole series of posts back and forth on Park Slope Parents last week in which a woman was asking for advice from her fellow BREEDERS on what to do about her husband who was Craigslist trolling for some baum chicka baum baum action. Smartmom, in her weekly Brooklyn Paper column, chimed in.

Oh man...you can't make this shit up, people.