All she needs is a goat and a sense of humour

I get a lot of really weird and crappy pitches to host guest posts on Sleepless Nights. Normally, I either send a polite email back, explaining why their post won’t fit, or I ignore them. Last night however, I couldn’t help myself and this exchange ensued, leaving me amused.

Subject: Proposal for a guest post for your blog

Hey,

I am Kate and I work for Parentingclan.com I’m trying to grow it by reaching out to other bloggers. I’ve been reading your site somedaywewillsleep.com some time and I’m a big fan. I’m interested in writing a guest post for you — something you’ve never posted on — and I have some ideas that I think your readers would love:

1.       Over parenting or Attached parenting: Which one would you choose?
2.       Change your child from spoiled to disciplined
3.       Make your toddler get down of your nerves

I know you’re busy, so I can write everything up and send it to you in one document, which you can drop right into WordPress. I’ll handle all editing, bylines, etc (feel free to edit) so this is super-easy for you. Plus I can give you 2-3 articles per month if that’s okay with your end as well.

All I want is li’l credit in terms of two do follow backlinks in author’s bio and no link would be embedded anywhere in the content.
Let me know what you think of the same.

Thanks,

Re: Proposal for a guest post for your blog

Hi Kate,

How do you get toddlers to get down off your nerves? I have a lot of trouble with my toddler climbing my nerves and I’m not sure how safe a ladder they make.

I’d also be interested in what you consider disciplined. I’m currently aiming to teach my children how to argue effectively, because I’m certain that a future in politics is the only possible choice for a female who insists that she is right all of the time and everyone else knows nothing.

Cheers,
Veronica

Re:Re: Proposal for a guest post for your blog

Hey Veronica,

I don’t have a toddler of my own yet. But yes my cousin has 2 of them. So I get to learn a lot from her like the way she handles them.
So if you want I can send you some of the tips in the form of an articlE.

What say ???

Re:Re:Re: Proposal for a guest post for your blog.

Hi Kate,

I’m not quite sure how you can write articles about toddlers if you don’t have any of your own. They’re an acquired taste, like oysters, or avocado. They smell worse though and have a tendency to leak bodily fluids everywhere.

Maybe you could babysit and toilet train a small goat for a month and then write about that? It would give you a crash course in managing a toddler and child services wouldn’t mind I don’t think. I think my readers would be fascinated by your goat experience.

Veronica

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So far there is no word on the goat experiment. I can only assume that she loved my idea so much, she is out there right now looking for a goat to babysit, so that she can report back.

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