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I just checked it out, but would urge anyone to stay away from it. It managed to rustle my jimmies quite thoroughly in just a few minutes, I've read saner practices when skimming non-rationalist women's magazines.
Any specific things rustled your jimmies?
Wouldn't it be better to urge people to join it, and encourage saner practices?
(When it comes to child-rearing, I don't think "non-rationalist women's magazines" are a particularly bad source; I could probably learn plenty of useful things reading them)
I'll answer that per PM later on if you don't mind, the information would be too clearly personally identifiable.
It's a nearly dormant list, very little activity. There is a plethora of parenting related materials online, not every list should be saved, especially if it's not already in a good place to start with. As for encouraging saner practices, unfortunately it's an issue worse than politics, and I often lack the zen-state to be fighting windmills and coating "you are doing it wrong" in layers of niceties. Do you try and save every bad forum you come across, or just do your minimum duty and put up a "stay away" beacon at best?
Nope! But since I'm part of that list, I encourage people to improve it :)
I think there should be a place for LessWrongers interested in parenting to exchange ideas, and it's better if there's only one such place - that mailing lists seems like the obvious focal point, so I'd like to see anybody interested join it, and improve it's quality!
I've taken a quick look at it but didn't see anything horrible -- if anything it's a fairly "standard" discussion coming out of weird/nonconventional people...
Blindly following the advice from the internet is, of course, not a good idea regardless of what you're reading.