Hello Mudduh Hello Fadduh: ILX Rolling Parenting Thread

all in all, i don't know how i feel about this. in the short run, it modified my behavior, but in the long run, maybe it didn't help me learn self-motivating behavior? i was a perfectly well-behaved child, but the instant i got out on my own it's like i was craving hedonistic chaos. i mean, if the only reason you act well is because of a physicall threat, once that threat is gone do you go totally wild (like my irresponsible burnout adulthood)?

xpost, MINDMELD!

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Congrats to you and the PP man! Sorry about the barfing, though. My sister in law was sick as a dog the whole 40 weeks, no letup.

ok, im going to go hang out in the bathroom for a while.

I just found this blog, good reading: http://moxie.blogs.com/askmo

Good reading, yes,but I'm hesitant to take her advice because, well, she's not an expert. I dislike the Q&A format because it still, despite her warnings, gives the impression she's an expert. So I'll opt out of it.

As much as I'm a proponent of breastfeeding, I'm now much less an advocate of it. I don't mean I'm against it, QUITE the contrary, but I respect mothers who do not wish to breastfeed. I mean, they have a choice and if they don't feel like breastfeeding it doesn't make them a bad parent, y'know.

Spanking, classic or dud?

Completely UTTERLY dud. But, ah, in some cases I can understand you sort of lose your mind, so to speak, and slap the child. My cousin was an extremely difficult child. I never spanked him, but I could understand that his parents did occasionally. Still, it's completely utterly dud. I hope I will never lay a hand on my child EVER. Really. I just find it so wrong. I've seen child abuse and what it can do. And yes I realize that there's *lighter* forms of physical punishment.

me and the beb on the cellphone cam.

Spanking... I'm going to say dud, although it's tricky. We always swore we would never resort to it and the fact is that we have, on occasion. But there are so many better things to try...

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And haha sunny, I somehow KNEW you were actually preggers and not just showing a healthy interest :)
Hope your sickness stops soon.

I just put in five loads of laundry stained with various effluences emitted by the sick pewees this weekend. But the one who got sick on Saturday is better now, and the one who got sick last night seems in relatively good shape.

Super congrats Sunny!

haha no but she wishes, everyone wants to be down with the badgerz

Michael, I'm thinking of you and Pam. Hope all ends well.

archel, seriously, with the 10,000 questions i asked, i kept expecting you to bust me any minute.

haikunym, no wisconsin for years now :( gotta keep the kid near its grandparents for babysitting duty. how else will i jet off to cabo whenever i feel like it? ok, im dreaming. I STILL LOVE YOU WISCONSIN.

sam, i love the south. i just long for the snows and the cows, ya know?

puke report: nothing since saturday night.

good luck to michael.

this seems to have happened immediately after his second month of vaccinations (we are splitting them up and getting them every month rather than getting four at a time every two months).

that sucks about the crying during the day though...but nights are okay? Mine was definitely fussy the day after vaccinations but it was just the day. If he's truly inconsolable I'd call the doc.

I bought a sitting chair (with a bump between the legs so they can't fall) but she frigging HATES it and starts screaming hysterically. So much for trying to get her to sit more. :-( She knows how to sit but doesn't really want to: so she just goes into crawl mode or something. Ah well.

She's been handing over things for some time now. It's the cutest thing EVAH (for now). "Can I have this?" and reach out my hand and she PUTS IT IN MY HAND. Oh damn she makes my day...

I'm going to order that Raymond Scott and also a lullaby CD (babified classical music) cause, well, I want my baby to enjoy music. She clearly loves the other one (we got for free from a friend).

I need some music tips, I think. We have a CD from the Early Learning Centre, which has all your favourites on it, but they are presented in a cheapo one-synth style, like the kiddy equivalent of the early days of digital dancehall. It gets on my wick after a while, although it is worth it to see Edith doing Heads Shoulders Knees and Toes. In the wrong order, of course.

1. Laughing policeman - Penrose, Charles
2. Ugly duckling - Kaye, Danny
3. Robin Hood - James, Dick
4. Right said Fred - Cribbins, Bernard
5. Hippopotamus song - Wallace, Ian
6. Banana boat song (Day O) - Freberg, Stan
7. Goodness gracious me - Sellers, Peter & Sophia Loren
8. Bee song - Askey, Arthur
9. Who's afraid of the big bad wolf - Pinky & Perky
10. I know an old lady - Ives, Burl
11. My boomerang won't come back - Drake, Charlie
12. Teddy bears' picnic - Hall, Henry
13. Nellie the elephant - Miller, Mandy
14. Sparky's magic piano - Blair, Henry & Ray Turner
15. Owl and the pussycat - Hayes, Elton
16. Ernie (the fastest milkman in the West) - Hill, Benny
17. Buckingham Palace - Stephens, Anne
18. Windmill in old Amsterdam - Hilton, Ronnie
19. Grandad - Dunn, Clive
20. My brother - Scott, Terry
21. Morningtown ride - Seekers
22. Gnu song - Flanders & Swann
23. Two little boys - Harris, Rolf
24. Runaway train - Holliday, Michael

A couple of quid from their Easy Listening section. Half great, half horrendous. That version of Nellie the Elephant is awesome and you can't beat a bit of Arthur Askey. Bill's favourite song though is the Pinky & Perky one and that one in particular does my fucking head in.

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Punk Rock standards done in a lullaby style:
http://punkrockbaby.com/punkrockbabycd.html
(80s, rock, hip hop, country also available)

i had pinky and perky records when i was a kid.

http://www.trunkrecords.com/turntable/fuzzy_felt.shtml

there are plenty of cows here in TX but the snow. . . can't help you there.

my friends have just put out a great kid's record. designed not to make parents want to gouge out their ears:
http://www.asylumstreetspankers.com/

http://www.coloursarebrighter.com/site/

Half Man Half Biscuit FOR KIDS! (plus other stuff)