When I say “You need to listen to me and stay close by me while we’re in the store or you will get some bad consequences” I always, always forget that actually following through on those consequences is more of a punishment for me than it is for her. I’m the one who has to…
Category: Parenting
On second thought I’m not going to buy any new plastic forks
Because look, the little plastic forks are just as pointy as the metal forks we use, and actually since most metal forks have square-tipped tines and most plastic forks have circular-tipped tines the metal forks are actually LESS pokey unless they are used to stab with a force no toddler can muster. (Like, if fending…
Raising Slightly Less Gendered Kids in a Gendered World. (And realize when I say “gender” I’m not referring to biology, but to culture. There’s nothing in the DNA that says girls will play with pink toys.)
A trip to the toy store today ended with toys in the trunk. Aside: Do you know who Mister Dressup is? I try to explain him to Americans and they stop listening when I say “Tickle Trunk” . Adrian has an older sister. And he has parents who rarely buy toys. This means that he…