Alpha Mom billed as the Martha Stewart of parenting.

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did this whole article scare you too?

The whole thing - I hardly know what to say.

I'm not worried. She's at one end of a broad spectrum.

Well, I hope that end is far, far away from me.

Yikes!

Yikes indeed.

That article was kind of double-yikes, though, managing to throw the baby out with the bathwater. There is both a (valid IMO) "look at this freakazoid!" aspect to it and a "them babywearin', breastfeedin' freaks" aspect that I think is reactionary.

Meanwhile, the "hire a village" thing is so wrong-headed I don't know where to begin.

Gagging and wondering why I kept reading.

And, there will be a whole channel devoted to this???

No kidding.

The whole "Mom as Manager" thing looks like a recipe for disaster, too. Poor hubby. I wonder how long this marriage will last.

Alpha moms: they fetch sandwiches the fastest.

Well, moms are managers, but this control mania seems to be straight out fright reining. Good luck to the husband and son.

You're right, osso. I should have said, "Mom as CEO." I meant Corporate Manager. That's how she's running things. <shudder>

I don't think her project will fly, even if it gets going. Too small a market with potential for a lot of disgusted comments.

So, watch, I'll be wrong and there will be magazines..
I think this is a bright achieving woman at the height of confusion. (I know I speak from unsophisticated land, but not entirely, I do sense the pulse of NYC). She would do better to write a small book, imho. Or, better yet, relax and find a new project.

Yes, a whole channel! I thought they already had that covered on "Lifetime," the cable channel; I remember watching "A Baby Story," and such of that ilk when I was p/g and had cable about 8 years ago... Isn't THAT still out there?

This woman Isabel doesn't seem to have the expertise Martha Stewart had in *her* area, so I don't quite get the comparison... She sounds like an idiot; her husband seems to have a healthier relationship to their child than she does, so who does she think she is instructing a legion of insecure mommies? She's going to make a whole load of money off this. And while it probably won't actually HARM any children, not in the long run, good mommies like me (and probably many of you) are out there struggling in the trenches stretching our nickles and our dimes so we can BE there for our kids, not hiring a village to handle ONE CHILD. I'd rather have a relationship with my children than a whole bankload of money, and I am not certain that I want to see my children as PERFECT, although I've gotten into this topic twice in the last month and both parents in separate discussions insisted *their* children were *perfect* how they were, whether lazy and insubordinate, academic underachievers, picky, unfocussed, etc. I picture little Ryland being all that, and more in another decade or 2...

I just scanned this article the first time, this time I read more thouroughly, and now I'm even more scared.

She was surprised her infant was "very needy"?
She "hired a village" to raise her own child.
"Every woman needs a village"
She "carves out time" to be with her husband and child.
Oh boo hoo, her kid didn't make it into the Harvard 2 year old program? maybe it had something to do with the booger on his finger.

What a step backwards - just when women were getting over that first round of "I can do it all" and realized, "not only can't I do it all - I don't have to"

Like we're not sleep deprived as much as it is.....
4 hours sleep, 100/wk of work, husband, child.
Give me a break - she sounds like a nervous breakdown waiting to happen.

Wait - there's 168 hours in a week, minus 100 working (even though little Ryland drawing on the floor with her), minus a big 28 hours of sleep, ok, give her an hour a day for personal hygiene needs.... That leaves this woman less than 4 hours and 45 minutes a day to devote to her family.

What's wrong with this picture?

The booger on his finger... LOL!!!

Yea, every preschool is looking for the booger child to help promote their program.

Hey parental types, do you have any advice for me?

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