I can only muster the energy to post about birthdays. Toot turned 5 last weekend. We had a party with family, pizza, a cake we made and frosted ourselves, presents, and no singing. Toot demanded that no one sing Happy Birthday and no one was allowed to clap when she blew out her candles. Indeed, […]
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I watched “The Never Ending Story” with Toot this past weekend. Initially, she was disinterested - what with the main character being a boy and all. I told her there was an EMPRESS and ADVENTURE and A DRAGON - this won her interest, provisionally at least, so she settled on my lap. We got to […]
who watches the Watchmen?
Posted in kidlets, movies, oh, the cleverness of me, wtf? on Mar 12th, 2009
Friends and relatives of mine go to see Watchmen on opening night. In an audience composed of adults and young adults, the lone 6 year old sticks out like a sore thumb. He is attending with his mother.
So who watches the Watchmen? Apparently, kindergardeners.
Despite my best efforts, I still curse in front of my kids. […]
From Machiavelli’s: The Jonas Brother: “Those who wish to win favor with a Jonas brother customarily offer him those things they hold most precious or that they see him most delight in. Thus, we often see Jonas brothers given vestments of gold cloth, made-for-television movies, precious stones, insulin, horses, Baby Bottle–pop endorsement contracts, arms, and […]
it’s just as I suspected…
Posted in Interesting, kidlets, parenting on Nov 24th, 2008
Interesting article from The New Yorker on how “helicopter parents” are screwing up their kids.
“As children explore their environment by themselves—making decisions, taking chances, coping with any attendant anxiety or frustration—their neurological equipment becomes increasingly sophisticated, Marano says. “Dendrites sprout. Synapses form.” If, on the other hand, children are protected from such trial-and-error learning, their […]
Probably the best piece of practical advice I’ve ever received from a pediatrician: Our body temperature rises naturally in the evening. If you have a kid with a high temperature, let them go unmedicated during the day so that the fever will have a chance to kill off whatever nasty bug has invaded. Medicate at […]
“there was a boy, a very strange enchanted boy”
When I was little, my mother often sang me to sleep with songs my grandmother used to sing to her. Growing up, I never realized that they had origins and context outside of my experience with them. In the innocently self-centered way of children, I assumed […]
I wrote some time ago about the difficulty I was having getting Toot potty trained. It wasn’t that she didn’t know how to or lacked the bodily awareness, it was simply that she didn’t *want* to. It was driving me crazy. We tried rewards and praise. We tried going without a diaper all day, essentially […]
a lakeside weekend
Posted in about, foodie, good picture, kidlets, love, nostalgia, stuff on Sep 3rd, 2008
We’re lucky to have very generous friends like Greg and Amie. They invited us to spend Labor Day weekend at their cabin in Manistee.
It was wonderful and totally triggered my ‘living in a hippie commune fantasy”.
Except instead of living off the grid and being smelly, together we’d raise a Boden-clad gaggle of meta-quoting moppets on […]
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