Posts Tagged ‘parenting’

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.

Tech­no­rati Tags: baby, birth­day, fam­ily, kids, mem­o­ries, moth­er­hoood, par­ent­ing

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.

Tech­no­rati Tags: babies, chil­dren, fam­ily, fru­gal, media, NY Times, par­ent­ing

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 2^nd 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.

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