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.
Angel: Connor, this is Spike and Illyria. Guys, this is Connor. Connor: Hi. umm...I like your outfit. Illyria: Your body warms. This one is lusting after me. Connor: Oh...no, I--I--it's just that it's the outfit. I guess I've had a thing for older women. Angel: They were supposed to fix that.
'Origin'
Spike's Bitches 45: That sure as hell wasn't in the brochure.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
WindSparrow - Mar 03, 2010 3:25:32 pm PST #11929 of 30000
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
Hil R. - Mar 03, 2010 3:26:52 pm PST #11930 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
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.
billytea - Mar 03, 2010 3:30:04 pm PST #11931 of 30000
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
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.
Steph L. - Mar 03, 2010 3:31:29 pm PST #11932 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
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.
billytea - Mar 03, 2010 3:35:23 pm PST #11933 of 30000
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
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.
Hil R. - Mar 03, 2010 3:35:33 pm PST #11934 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
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.
Hil R. - Mar 03, 2010 3:36:28 pm PST #11935 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Unschooling FAQ: [link]
Hil R. - Mar 03, 2010 3:40:57 pm PST #11936 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
OK, one of the families uses elimination communication. I don't know anybody who does that.
javachik - Mar 03, 2010 3:42:04 pm PST #11937 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.
OK, one of the families uses elimination communication. I don't know anybody who does that.
Wait. Isn't that used on American Idol?
Hil R. - Mar 03, 2010 3:44:37 pm PST #11938 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Elimination communication means no diapers. The parent watches the baby to learn the signs that the baby is about to go, and holds the baby over a toilet or potty chair.
I just realized. This family cosleeps, and they don't diaper the baby at night.