https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Sun, 12 Apr 2026 11:52:20 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-ever-wonder-what-we-are-blatantly-wrong-about/page/2#post-854667 Thu, 13 Jun 2013 11:49:06 +0000 cascademom 854667@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@2PeasinaPod: Exactly. I find her reasoning to be a lame excuse for her to keep smoking. We had huge arguments about hers and FIL's smoking around the baby. It was pulling teeth for them even to admit that secondhand/third hand smoke might be bad for a baby. My DH had horrible ear infections as a child. One of those causes is smoking. She can't even put two and two together on that one. So much denial in his family, it's ridiculous. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-ever-wonder-what-we-are-blatantly-wrong-about/page/2#post-854660 Thu, 13 Jun 2013 11:47:41 +0000 travelgirl1 854660@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Cherrybee: ha ha, I think that all the time, I wonder who is right...</p> <p>I do wonder whether A will laugh at how I am with her, and whether she will be as shocked at how I'm raising her as I am at the way my parents raised me, lol. Not that they did anything terrible but they mock me so much for trying to protect A from germs that I'm sure they bathed me in viruses every night, lol. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-ever-wonder-what-we-are-blatantly-wrong-about/page/2#post-854614 Thu, 13 Jun 2013 11:42:05 +0000 MsLipGloss 854614@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Shutterbug: Ditto! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-ever-wonder-what-we-are-blatantly-wrong-about/page/2#post-854603 Thu, 13 Jun 2013 11:40:26 +0000 MsLipGloss 854603@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Dandelion: That totally makes me think of Wall-E . . . everyone turning into blobs drinking who knows what from their cups . . . :P </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-ever-wonder-what-we-are-blatantly-wrong-about/page/2#post-854455 Thu, 13 Jun 2013 11:08:48 +0000 Mrs. Pen 854455@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Champagne: honestly I feel like the majority of choices I have to make is more about choosing the lesser of two evils than choosing the best thing! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-ever-wonder-what-we-are-blatantly-wrong-about/page/2#post-854450 Thu, 13 Jun 2013 11:07:23 +0000 ShootingStar 854450@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I kind of figure most of the stuff we think is right now concerning babies is actually wrong or will have a "better" way to do in the future. At the time everyone always thinks what they're doing is the safest thing. Just take baby sleep - my mom always put us on tummies because it was thought that babies could spit up and choke on it and die if they spent too much time on their backs. </p> <p>@PurpleUnicorn: My mom got kind of annoyed when I told her that we wouldn't be doing rice cereal in the bottle. She got kind of snippy and was like "well, then he won't sleep through the night." *sigh* </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-ever-wonder-what-we-are-blatantly-wrong-about/page/2#post-854447 Thu, 13 Jun 2013 11:05:36 +0000 Shutterbug 854447@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@TemperanceBrennan: that's an interesting theory. I find myself personally getting less religious as I get older and learn more about science, the world, etc. (or maybe I'm just getting old and jaded, haha) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-ever-wonder-what-we-are-blatantly-wrong-about/page/2#post-854441 Thu, 13 Jun 2013 11:03:36 +0000 TemperanceBrennan 854441@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mrsjazz: I think it is very possible that in the future we could have a post-theistic society. In the Evolution of God by Robert Wright, he suggests that religion is a tool for humanity to explain what cannot be explained by science. As we discover more and more, the "need" for religion gets less and less. Just a thought. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-ever-wonder-what-we-are-blatantly-wrong-about/page/2#post-854434 Thu, 13 Jun 2013 11:02:14 +0000 mrsjazz 854434@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@.twist.: Hahaha. Well, he believes that if I'm not going to Heaven, I'm going to hell. I gave him the wrong answer, "I'm going where all of my friends are going to be...so that's most likely hell!" He doesn't know what to do with me! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-ever-wonder-what-we-are-blatantly-wrong-about/page/2#post-854428 Thu, 13 Jun 2013 11:00:57 +0000 .twist. 854428@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@TemperanceBrennan: "You have a what now? A thingy you stick in your head to communicate with your friends? It has a video?? When I was young we used SMART PHONES" lol. "Facetime dammit!" </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-ever-wonder-what-we-are-blatantly-wrong-about#post-854422 Thu, 13 Jun 2013 10:59:36 +0000 Mrs. Champagne 854422@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Pen: ah totally agree with the two sides to everything. I get so confused!! Sun = cancer, sunscreen = cancer. AH! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-ever-wonder-what-we-are-blatantly-wrong-about#post-854419 Thu, 13 Jun 2013 10:59:17 +0000 .twist. 854419@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mrsjazz: LOL, I would tell him that if I'm wrong about being eaten by worms and there is a Heaven, in which I can no longer enter, I will go around and haunt people. lol </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-ever-wonder-what-we-are-blatantly-wrong-about#post-854416 Thu, 13 Jun 2013 10:58:52 +0000 TemperanceBrennan 854416@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@.twist.: "Back in my day it took 6 HOURS to fly across the states instead of the 20 minutes it takes now." "Kids these days are so spoiled. When I was a kid, I had to learn how to type on a ancient device called a keyboard." </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-ever-wonder-what-we-are-blatantly-wrong-about#post-854382 Thu, 13 Jun 2013 10:53:11 +0000 mrsjazz 854382@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@TemperanceBrennan: Yes, space exploration! I want to meet some aliens! Probably won't happen in my lifetime.</p> <p>I'm sure there is plenty we are wrong about.</p> <p>@Cherrybee: My dad is ALWAYS talking to me about what happens after we die because I'm not a Christian, he's like but what if you're wrong and then you can't come to Heaven...better to err on the side of Heaven existing. If the Hindus are right I'm not worried, I think I've got karma! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-ever-wonder-what-we-are-blatantly-wrong-about#post-854381 Thu, 13 Jun 2013 10:53:08 +0000 rachiecakes 854381@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>yes!!<br /> I definitely think when it comes to parenting, we (well, most of us, haha) instinctually know a lot more about our LO's needs than we understand.<br /> I took classes and read books, which I don't regret doing, but DS was not a 'textbook' newborn at all. I wish I had listened/trusted myself more. Once I started listening to my gut and listening to DS, everything fell beautifully into place. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-ever-wonder-what-we-are-blatantly-wrong-about#post-854368 Thu, 13 Jun 2013 10:50:42 +0000 2PeasinaPod 854368@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@zippylef: Hah! Wouldn't that be a sight??</p> <p>@cascademom: Right? It's just like us with McDonald's. You can't listen to the radio or watch TV without a McDonald's commercial coming on, but it's definitely a choice! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-ever-wonder-what-we-are-blatantly-wrong-about#post-854364 Thu, 13 Jun 2013 10:50:28 +0000 .twist. 854364@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@TemperanceBrennan: I am really curious what our generation is going to bitch about on our front lawns when our kids are having kids! haha! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-ever-wonder-what-we-are-blatantly-wrong-about#post-854360 Thu, 13 Jun 2013 10:48:38 +0000 loveisstrange 854360@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Dandelion: McD's is definitely not that place. haha </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-ever-wonder-what-we-are-blatantly-wrong-about#post-854359 Thu, 13 Jun 2013 10:48:29 +0000 Cherrybee 854359@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I totally think about this!! And I also thought you meant big scientific theories, too - like @looch: said - and I wonder about that, as well!! Oh and I wonder what will happen after I die - like, I get to the gates of heaven and find out that the Hindus are right, or something! (ps - I hope the Hindus are right, it's by far my favourite of the world religions!) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-ever-wonder-what-we-are-blatantly-wrong-about#post-854345 Thu, 13 Jun 2013 10:45:01 +0000 Dandelion 854345@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@zippylef: We'll call them French Bakes, lol. And, true...cheeseburgers aren't really all that bad for you, if you get them at a decent place. McD's isn't that place, lol.</p> <p>@Lindsay05: That would be cool. More ice cream! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-ever-wonder-what-we-are-blatantly-wrong-about#post-854336 Thu, 13 Jun 2013 10:42:41 +0000 TemperanceBrennan 854336@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yes! I'm really into the physics discoveries and advances that are being made. </p> <p>I think a lot of people today assume we have learned everything we can, but there are always new discoveries. Just think about how far we have come in just the past 100 years.</p> <p>I'm really interested in what will happen in the next 50 years. Especially in space exploration. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-ever-wonder-what-we-are-blatantly-wrong-about#post-854331 Thu, 13 Jun 2013 10:42:12 +0000 Lindsay05 854331@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Dandelion: but maybe that means the whole food nutrition guide is backwards. Veggies are baddd bad foods. Lol </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-ever-wonder-what-we-are-blatantly-wrong-about#post-854329 Thu, 13 Jun 2013 10:41:49 +0000 loveisstrange 854329@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Dandelion: Potatoes aren't the best, but french fries don't necessarily have to be fried. You can bake them too and they are much healthier that way. Burgers aren't necessarily unhealthy (when cooked in a healthy way with good meat) either.</p> <p>Just playing devil's advocate. lol </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-ever-wonder-what-we-are-blatantly-wrong-about#post-854318 Thu, 13 Jun 2013 10:40:23 +0000 Dandelion 854318@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Lindsay05: I mean...if the standard of health food is fries, that means all the "regular food" is going to be very very bad for us.</p> <p>@BananaPancakes: Sorry...I shouldn't analyze so much, lol </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-ever-wonder-what-we-are-blatantly-wrong-about#post-854312 Thu, 13 Jun 2013 10:39:13 +0000 BananaPancakes 854312@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Dandelion: Party pooper. :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-ever-wonder-what-we-are-blatantly-wrong-about#post-854296 Thu, 13 Jun 2013 10:36:30 +0000 Lindsay05 854296@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Dandelion: lol worse or better?? Hmmmmm... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-ever-wonder-what-we-are-blatantly-wrong-about#post-854295 Thu, 13 Jun 2013 10:36:13 +0000 cascademom 854295@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@2PeasinaPod: During our inlaw visit, my MIL kept on saying that she never stood a chance against not being a smoker because it was marketed to her heavily as a teenager growing up in the South. She's proud that she raised two non-smokers. Every time she said this, I kept on thinking in the back of my head about personal choice and sure that there's non smokers of her age group in the South who weren't influenced by ads, peers, etc. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-ever-wonder-what-we-are-blatantly-wrong-about#post-854293 Thu, 13 Jun 2013 10:35:50 +0000 MapleMoose 854293@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yep, I always think about this. Or how we have a tendency to think things are "safe" because we don't see any immediate health effects, like the smoking examples others mentioned, or the use of nanotechnology in daily life (in our clothes for instance). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-ever-wonder-what-we-are-blatantly-wrong-about#post-854278 Thu, 13 Jun 2013 10:33:59 +0000 Dandelion 854278@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Lindsay05: @BananaPancakes: @.twist.: for cheeseburgers and fries to become the health food, I'm afraid that all of our other food options are going to be even worse! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-ever-wonder-what-we-are-blatantly-wrong-about#post-854277 Thu, 13 Jun 2013 10:33:52 +0000 Lindsay05 854277@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@looch: im trying to think of something major too and all I came up with is food lol </p>