Parenting wank is the best kind of wank!
Neal Pollack posts an essay on online magazine Salon about his two-year-old son's getting expelled from preschool. For biting. A lot. Hard enough to draw blood.

In the letters column of Salon a few days later: Six pages of responses, most variations on the theme of "Bitch, please." Highlights include a lot of advocation of spanking, a little sympathy, quite a few people wondering why Salon published the article in the first place, and one very angry father whose own child was bit by some obnoxious little twerp in preschool.

The blogosphere has pretty much the same opinion: Rebecca Hartong refers to them as People Who Shouldn't Have Children, and most of her audience agrees. Then Neil's wife and the biter's the boy's mom Regina wades into the fray.

Hartong also discovers that Salon edited the article to delete Regina's describing her son as "the little shit."

Neal Pollack himself whines about the whole thing in his blog.

If you think it's too tl;dr:



And yes, I have issues with attention whores whipping their milkbags out in public to show off what a goddamned wonderful Earth Goddess they are. Which sounds right up your alley, Regina — after all, it's not really about Elijah, it's about you and Neil.

Reginleif has a serious personality disorder and I feel very sorry for them. Some mommies aren't all about whipping out their milk bags because they want to show off what earth mothers they are, but because that's the way breastfeeding works! Breastfeeding is the healthiest, most nurturing way to feed the baby. I'm sorry you are so afraid of a little nipple. Get over it.

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Mr. and Mrs. Pollack evidently believe, without much reflection, in the market theory of raising Elijah: Throw money at the problem in the hopes that someone else will do the dirty work for them.

When did Salon turn into a confessional for parents who can't handle their kids?

Did they think kids arrive as miniature adults? It is the human nature to be beastly. Kids are little savages and it's up to their parents to civiliize them enough to make it possible for innocent bystanders to encounter their kids without bite scars. If you don't want to be the disciplinarian all of the time, don't be a parent.



Sorry I couldn't find the one where the Pollacks got compared to the Mengeles. If you find it, I'll link it!