Ooohhh, full.

Breakfast for dinner: hash browns O'Brien, bacon and buttermilk pancakes.

I will be slowlllyyyy grading until I digest that a little.

There's a show on TV about small children who swallow various objects or poisons, leading to medical emergencies. This is a different show than the one with the same exact premise that I watched a few months ago. Is there a production company out there that's just devoted to freaking out parents?

Well, Windsparrow,I hope you have some peas

Yes, I do. And after all the trouble it was to get them in there, I for darn sure ain't taking them out again. See, what happened was, while putting frozen veggies in the freezer, I knocked over the plastic pitcher with the milk bag that was in the fridge. In the process of cleaning up the spilled milk, I over-extended the knee. Also? Later, when I decided to relax and enjoy re-watching some season 5 Buffy and drink some rich, chocolate Ovaltine, I managed to knock over the glass of milk.

Totally gives the lie to the slogan of the dairy industry. Milk, it doesn't do a body good.

Also, I think we are going to need a new mop.

Is there a production company out there that's just devoted to freaking out parents?

Pretty much all of them. Except maybe Children's Television Workshop.

Now there's a show about "Radical Parenting." The "radical" philosophies they've looked at so far are unschooling and attachment parenting with extended breastfeeding. I think these people's definition of "radical" is different than mine.

Totally gives the lie to the slogan of the dairy industry. Milk, it doesn't do a body good.

Milk's like a ninja, it has to infiltrate the body first.

The "radical" philosophies they've looked at so far are unschooling and attachment parenting with extended breastfeeding. I think these people's definition of "radical" is different than mine.

What do you consider radical parenting, Hil? Or maybe "radical" isn't the right word, because I consider unschooling and extended breastfeeding (say, ~2 years) to be markedly outside the norm.

The "radical" philosophies they've looked at so far are unschooling and attachment parenting with extended breastfeeding. I think these people's definition of "radical" is different than mine.

What's unschooling? Is that like home schooling without the home schooling?

The second one just sounds like someone's invented an attachment that lets kids breastfeed from another room.

I think that, to get to "radical," you'd have to be raising your kids in a cabin in the middle of the woods without electricity, or something like that. Attachment parenting is totally within the range of upper-middle-class suburban parenting styles I'm seen from my friends, and unschooling is a bit further out there, but I've met several people who do it.

Unschooling FAQ: [link]