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.
Nothing worse than a monster who thinks he's right with God.
Mal ,'Heart Of Gold'
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.
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.
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.
tommyrot - Mar 03, 2010 3:47:08 pm PST #11939 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Are they dirty hippies?
sj - Mar 03, 2010 3:47:09 pm PST #11940 of 30000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
I just realized. This family cosleeps, and they don't diaper the baby at night.
Co-sleeping with an undiapered baby pings me as radical or alternately just eww.
Poor TCG has caught my cold and gone to bed early. I love him, but I draw the line at going to bed at 8:30.