Slate is reporting today on a new study from Cornell University that links increased television watching with increased autism rates. It’s nice to have some scientific backing for a philosophy Kate and I think is important just on the face of it. Surprisingly, we have received a bit of push-back on our desire to not [...]
Archive for the ‘parenting’ Category
Watching TV
October 16, 2006
How to kiss a baby
October 15, 2006
The season premier of Battlestar Galactica contained a noteworthy scene. In it a woman is lying on a cot, holding her baby. She’s having a conversation with her husband who is sitting behind her. During the conversation, she bends over and gives her baby a kiss on the cheek. I immediately paused the Tivo and [...]
Hope for the Princesses
October 14, 2006
Ruby and I went down to the park yesterday. She rolled around on a blanket while I kicked a soccer ball around the field. After I’d been there a while, a few girls (maybe 10 or 11 years old?) came by and started playing a game. Guess what they were playing? FOOTBALL. There were no boys [...]
A Man and His Baby
September 1, 2006
An unnamed poster had this to say on the parentingideas.org blog: Somehow some basic human instinct suggests that ‘man’ is neither capable nor fit to look after a baby! This instinct immediately raises the hairs on the backs of people’s necks, images of disaster loom in their minds and unseen forces push them forwards to [...]
I’ll Settle for Top Ten
August 29, 2006
Ruby went for her first hike on Monday. It was actually more of a walk in the woods than a hike (rambling with her Papa, Nana and Grandpapa around Tiger Mountain) but we’re going to count it anyway. She enjoyed her time in the backpack carrier, didn’t enjoy wearing her several-sizes-too-big sunhat, and we all [...]
Only So Much You Can Do
August 15, 2006
Last weekend we went to a reunion of our childbirth class. There were eight couples there, and we all told the stories of our babies’ births. About halfway through, we got to a couple who had needed to have a caesarean birth. The mother was in tears — she was a doula and a childbirth [...]
More on bad habits
August 11, 2006
Further to this post… MetroDad relates this story: Yesterday, my adorable, little 22-month-old daughter climbed up on the couch, leaned her head back, sighed deeply, stared blankly at the television, and then stuck her hand down the front of her diaper.
To Play or Not To Play
August 10, 2006
Before Ruby was born, my feeling was that I would be an active playground parent. I’d play with my kids at the park, running around on the climbing equipment, and going down the slides. I looked with scorn on the parents who parked themselves on the benches and stared blankly from the sidelines while their children ran [...]
Babies don’t hold grudges
August 7, 2006
Ruby’s lunchtime feeding devolved into a screaming match. She was hungry, but struggling. She was turning her head away from the nipple, then back on for a few sucks, then away again. And occasionally she’d arch her back or kick her legs. None of this is acceptable behavior. I can follow her face around with [...]
Ruby’s huggy future
July 26, 2006
Metrodad posted this today: … The Peanut is NOT a hugger. … For the most part, she never really wants to hug us. She’s either too busy or she’s just too independent. The ONLY times that she ever gives us one of those huge neck-grabbing bear hugs is when she’s absolutey scared out of her [...]