If the problem is about parenting, and not just... Something they happen to be doing with their kids. I mean, "How can my son beat Level 13 in Angry Birds?"
@Jacob - but then should you take sleep questions to a sleep forum, breast-feeding questions to a breast-feeding forum, and health questions to a health forum?
@JavidJamae I think to a degree, the people who don't have exposure to our culture see the "gun thing" as a hobby for rednecks. They do not grok that it is part of an overarching lifestyle/parenting-style choice that is pretty intrinsic to how we raise our children.
@JavidJamae But take an example where there is an exchange site... What guitar should my child start on? would that be more suitable for the guitars exchange site?
So, is our metric "is this a question related to parenting that can't better be answered on another SE site?"
I guess it comes down to what we want Parenting.SE to be...
Personally, if it's a grey area, I'd rather err on the side of inclusion, then tag very carefully so people who are annoyed by a particular type of question can effortlessly avoid it.
For example, an "activities" tag that handles everything related to teaching/engaging in specific activities with your child, but not solely about parenting.
@JavidJamae So we can have controversies over whether things are controversial or not?
@JavidJamae So for the meta posts we'll need a "recursion" tag, right?
The thing with going to specific sites is that sometimes a parent answer might be better than an expert answer. The expert site may not have the practical parent perspective your looking for, but rather an esoteric technical perspective..
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