BabySmarts

Through a tangled set of weblinks, we ended up at TechCrunch and then at Minti. The review at TechCrunch was interesting, more on community and website feature/design…while the actual content at Minti was more in line with our interests.

Perhaps most interesting was the way the comments about Minti were aligned at TechCrunch. There is a good blend of parents on the crunch it seems. Who have struggled the same way we have, with the common debates and the attitudes that come with them. It seems, one really just needs to find their online community that thinks similarly and be able to thrive in it.

But one of the comments seemed to stir the pot, without probably meaning to. Propogating the difficulty and emotions around discussing parenting. They offhandedly dismissed the “wisdom of crowds” in regards to parenting and went on to claim that most people follow the experts because they don’t know what they are doing. Well, sure. I believe that’s why experts give advice…I feel the post was a little too self-promoting and not constructive enough. Reminding one to use the expert advice as a guide instead of a strict rulebook to figure out how to solve their own, unique issues (every situation will be slightly different requiring tweaks to the solution) seems more helpful than just dismissing friendly advice.

Anyway, we’ve just started poking around at Minti; our landing page was an article on getting babies to goto sleep. It is an interesting article, but seems a little too thin a slice and high level - as most of those tips can be found in the average parenting book. Also, there seems to be a missing link or two - possibly related to some of the content comments at the crunch? Or maybe just a typo? We’ll look into the articles more.

We plan on checking the site out more and giving a more thorough review soon.