When my Google Alerts turned up this post on Momversation, entitled Hipster Mom: Oxymoron?, I had to comment. The author Christine poses the question ‘…is it really important to be ‘hip’ and a mom?’. She claims that …’Being a ‘hipster’ is about being better than thou and if a mother is concerned about being too cool for school, she’s sending a dangerous message to her kids.’ This is such bullshit. First of all being hip isn’t about being ‘better than thou’, it’s about looking good, feeling good and enjoying who you are. While I think the term ‘hipster’ is funny and I use it partly in jest, I also believe that myself, and probably most of my readers, do embody the origins of the word ‘hipster’ which by Websters Dictionary is defined as ‘a person who is unusually aware of and interested in new and unconventional patterns’.

Christine also claims that if you are a hipster mom your kids will turn out like the bratty kids on My Super Sweet 16. Where that kind of reasoning comes in is beyond me. I would think that, like myself, any hip mama would expose her child to art, music, kindness, creativity and good fun not extreme materialism and snobbery. She ends with telling her readers to ‘be yourself’…but I guess if being yourself means being ‘hip’ or a ‘hipster’ you’re inevitably a bad influence on your kids. Suck it Christine! And by the way, you couldn’t be more off the mark on your hipster imagery for the post. See above for an actual hipster mom.