April 2008
Monthly Archive
Benjamin – 5-6 weeks
Sleeping with my arms up is the best!
Whatch YOU looking at?
I love my Ducky Towel.
I love storytime with my Mommy.
This is the life. Alseep in my swing.comments off Thursday 03 Apr 2008 | MrSodomy | SlantyNet - General
Milestones and thoughts
- Vancouver Canucks fans are the hardest drinking Canadian hockey fans. That’s not a properly measured fact, but if its not a fact, it should be. Love them but SO frustrating — the longest history of futility among Canadian hockey teams. Another season, another destiny not in our hands. Lets see what the next few days bring.
- Child comes into this world, thinks he’s just figuring things out. How to sleep, how to eat, how to play. Parents throwing him all sorts of new things (“hey! Mushy orange food!”) and he’s dealing with everything — he’s a pro. And then, all of the sudden, its “man, my mouth hurts. what the heck is this? Hey, I’ve got parts of my endoskeleton bursting through my mouth! Waaaaaah!!!! Mommmmmm!!!!”If it isn’t clear, little one seems to have his first teeth. But he’s not actually using the word ‘endoskeleton’ or verbalizing just yet.
- Salon.com interview with Parenting Inc author from a Kottke article. Both articles really resonate with me. Parents have been conned into buying/doing all sorts of things in the name of their children. (We have some of the items mentioned in the articles, but I think we’re wink wink nudge nudge aware of the educational value of Baby Einstein…)Regarding toys:
When you think back to the ’60s and ’70s, all the right-thinking progressive parents thought toys should be natural and open-ended. Crayola and Kinder Blocks and Lego were considered raise-your-kid-smart toys. Then, all this data that came out which said that kids need to be stimulated. They need sound! They need multi-sensory experiences! Now, the more bells and whistles a toy has, the supposedly better it is. Our parents’ generation actually had it right. The less the toy does, the better. Everyone thinks: “Toys need to be interactive.” No, toys don’t need to be interactive. Children need to interact with toys. The best toys are 90 percent kid, 10 percent toy, the kind of thing that you can use 20 different ways, not because it has 20 different buttons to press, but because the kid, when they’re 6 months old is going to chew on it, and toss it, but when they’re a year they’re going to start stacking it.
I’m giving the kid grey blocks to work with. If he can imagine a gun and a fire engine out of those, he’ll have a creative mind worthy of an artist
- BSG is back. Sounds like soon. Starbuck, we miss you.
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