We’re anti-pink in our household. It’s not just that we don’t like the color (which, for the most part, we don’t). It’s also one front in our battle against the princessification of our daughter. We want Ruby to be an independent thinker. We want her to experience every color of the rainbow, and then decide [...]
Don’t Think Pink
November 30, 2006
Eating, Regressed
November 12, 2006
Well, apparently I gloated too soon. A few months ago a (different) set of parents in our parents group talked about how their child was vomiting, and my question to them was, “how do you tell the difference between vomit and spit-up?” Well, now I know: if it’s green and stinks and keeps going and [...]
Eating, Advanced
November 12, 2006
One of the parents in our parents’ group mentioned that his child won’t eat freshly prepared squash. He’s been eating jarred baby food and the flavor in the freshly prepared stuff is too strong. Not so with our precious Ruby! The only processed food she eats is Cheerios. Everything else is freshly prepared by ours [...]
Watching TV
October 16, 2006
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 [...]
Product Reviews: The Best of the First Six Months
September 4, 2006
Ruby celebrated her six-month birthday yesterday. With all those months behind us, it’s time to look back and see what products Kate and I found most useful. Bob Revolution 2006 baby jogger (read my original review): The jogger gave Ruby and I something to do together and got us out of the house every day. [...]
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 [...]
We Are Fabulous
August 30, 2006
Everywhere we go, people point us out. At the mall and the market and the grocery store, they stop in their tracks, elbow their friends, smile in our direction, laugh with delight. Everyone loves us. Actually, since people don’t point and whisper when I’m alone (unless it’s behind my back), I’ll have to give most [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]