Parenting Archive
21 Mar 2011
Dangerous curves ahead
(Babe 1 created by Ken, here, and Babe 2 created by SingleDad) My mom tells me that the woman on the left will kill me, and the doctor today told me that with the woman on the right, there is no way to tell. What to do? Whatever … you take your chances. We went
13 Mar 2011
It all depends on your grip
Those of you who subscribe to have my new post announcements emailed to you (and why don’t you all?) (just under the search box on the right) may have noticed that I posted the last post (“I want what they’re smoking”) and then after a little bit I took it down. Then a day later
01 Mar 2011
Non sequitur? Non. (Latin and French!)
When I was working towards my paramedic stuff, over thirty years ago, I spent some time in a trauma center’s emergency room. It happened to be about three blocks from an area officially called “The Combat Zone.” Some weekend evenings training there and I saw more than one would ever want to (at least if
13 Feb 2011
Infantilization
in·fantil·i·zation (nfn-tl--zshn) n. : The act of treating or condescending to as if still a young child Pearlsky got her first wheelchair when she was about three years old. We were given two choices for conveyance, a wheelchair or a special needs stroller. The wheelchair shyster salespuke RTS slime ball vendor assured me repeatedly that
22 Jan 2011
“If you see a snake, just kill it – don’t appoint a committee on snakes.” ~Ross Perot
Ophidiophobia – an abnormal fear of snakes. Well known sufferers include Indiana Jones and Adrian Monk. I do not have such a fear, but it is interesting to note … A new study suggests that such fear has been shaped by evolution, stretching back to a time when early mammals had to survive and breed
13 Jan 2011
Ooops, maybe
I wrote a post, and then took it down. It may have been too mean or incendiary. It was about another blogger who boasts about interfering with doctors and nurses caring for other kids, how he is always giving his opinion to others on what they should be doing. He, like me, is a single
12 Jan 2011
“Oh, you hate your job? Why didn’t you say so? There’s a support group for that. It’s called everybody, and they meet at the bar.” ~Drew Carey
I’ve touched on this before, my thoughts on support groups. And yes, this too, is tied in with the last post and a future one. I’ll get there … Pearlsky and I used to go to an early intervention program before she was in school. It was twice a week, and to this day, I
10 Jan 2011
Anonymous busybody
A couple of weeks after we took Pearlsky home from the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), we went to a high powered lawyers office about a totally different matter. I stayed in her waiting room with Pearlsky and my (then) wife was in with the lawyer. Pearlsky was on the floor in her car carrier