I think self-destruction is one of the primary goals of the toddler, right after not going to sleep and getting to the candy.
Lorne: Once the word spreads you beat up an innocent old man, well, the truly terrible will think twice before going toe-to-toe with our Avenging Angel. Spike: Yes. The geriatric community will be soiling their nappies when they hear you're on the case. Bravo.
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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Gudanov - Sep 09, 2005 8:51:05 am PDT #5840 of 10002
Coding and Sleeping
Jesse - Sep 09, 2005 8:51:51 am PDT #5841 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Well again, I think the speculation about them becoming so common is based on the idea that kids are exposed to too much of it, too soon.
I just don't get how kids now are more exposed than, say, kids in my generation. We were all about peanut butter, and I never went to school with a seriously peanut-allergic kid. It's not that I don't believe it, I just don't get it.
flea - Sep 09, 2005 8:52:15 am PDT #5842 of 10002
information libertarian
I am now going to spend the afternoon reading up in PubMed on peanut allergies. Curse you people! I have things to do!
Topic!Cindy - Sep 09, 2005 8:52:35 am PDT #5843 of 10002
What is even happening?
Sonofabitch is gone.[link]
He's being replaced by the head of the Coast Guard, who by all accounts did a great job.
Here's your hat, what's your hurry; don't let the door hit you in the ass, on the way out; your cell is ready, and a 1,001 other platitudes to him.
Betsy HP - Sep 09, 2005 8:53:20 am PDT #5844 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
I think self-destruction is one of the primary goals of the toddler, right after not going to sleep and getting to the candy.
At my kid's one-year checkup, the pediatrician looked me straight in the eye and said "For the next two years, your job is suicide prevention."
Damn straight.
flea - Sep 09, 2005 8:53:28 am PDT #5845 of 10002
information libertarian
First report: doctors mystified by increases in allergy rates. I also have garnered this lovely phrase: "negative peanut oral challenges".
tommyrot - Sep 09, 2005 8:53:47 am PDT #5846 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Here's your hat, what's your hurry; don't let the door hit you in the ass, on the way out; your cell is ready, and a 1,001 other platitudes to him.
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Susan W. - Sep 09, 2005 8:54:15 am PDT #5847 of 10002
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
I think self-destruction is one of the primary goals of the toddler, right after not going to sleep and getting to the candy.
I really don't know how our species survived. You'd think all the little cave-babies and toddlers would've choked on rocks (Annabel is fascinated by pebbles) or poisoned themselves by stuffing random leaves in their mouths.
Betsy HP - Sep 09, 2005 8:54:54 am PDT #5848 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
We were all about peanut butter, and I never went to school with a seriously peanut-allergic kid
Apparently there are a lot of peanuts in places you wouldn't expect them (e.g. skin oils), as well as there being cross-allergies to soy. A baby who's on soy formula young is supposed to be at greater risk of a later peanut allergy.
Betsy HP - Sep 09, 2005 8:55:33 am PDT #5849 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
You'd think all the little cave-babies and toddlers would've choked on rocks (Annabel is fascinated by pebbles) or poisoned themselves by stuffing random leaves in their mouths.
You have a baby every year and you raise a quarter of them, if you're lucky.