Posts Tagged ‘parenting’
A Year Ago I Had Cankles

We had our family movie night on Saturday, we all hung out in the living room & finally were able to watch Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs. It was great. I love seeing the kids hanging out together with their blankets & cuddling up. Hubby took this picture of D-man laying on Mr. G’s blanket trying to be all cute. As we looked at him laying with the “big” kids we realized that he’s going to be one soon. This time one year ago I was waddling around, with my giant swollen cankles & thinking he’d NEVER be born!! Now he’s rolling around on the floor acting like an adorable fool with his siblings. And I gotta say it’s pretty awesome.
NY Times: It’s No Longer Necessary to Spend a Grand to Wipe Tushes
I was doing some back reading of articles I bookmarked last week & in my cue was a New York Times article, For Firstborns, Secondhand Fits the Bill. I had bookmarked it to read because I am looking for articles to give my students when school starts back up. I’m trying to find some that deal with how changes in the economy can cause other social changes.
In this article the focus is a supposed increase in frugal choices when shopping for kids. I know the NY Times has a pretty skewed audience, trending toward a higher income & higher educational level. I get there are differences in cultural understandings about money & necessity based on socio-economic class. But PULEEZE if this is what money & education gets us then we are totally screwed on lessons of sensible economics. For example as the article points out that parents who have it “together” have realized this stunning fact:
No longer is it necessary to buy a thousand-dollar changing table in order to prove your parental savvy and breadth of love; if anything, the opposite is true.
I’m not sure anyone in my classes will be able to relate, no matter their age or if they have kids. I know I can’t. Because really a grand?
Is this really a newsflash? I don’t know about anyone else, but I don’t think it was EVER necessary to buy a $1,000 changing table. Not unless your kid is going to create literal diamonds on it, which I’m pretty sure is impossible. Rainbows maybe, but diamonds nope. No diamonds then no grand is going to be dropped so I can wipe a tush.
Donut Lessons

You decide it will be fun to give your kids each 1 donut. You then learn the following:
- If you give each of your kids 1 donut they will each ask for a 2nd one.
- If you say no to another donut because 1 donut is plenty of sugary sweets for the day & you have 3 kids you then will hear 3 kids cry for another donut.
- 3 kids crying for more donuts sounds like 6 kids crying for more donuts.
- I’m not sure why it sounds double, perhaps it’s the power the donut has over them. Making them superhuman in their cries.
- You will then have regret over giving anyone any donuts or trying to do anything fun.
- You will promise yourself you’ll never do that again.
- That is until you forget & do it again.

