Oh, Raising Happiness! I heard an interview with the author on...some podcast. (Things babies ruin besides marriages: memory.) This bit?
Children do what we do, not what we tell them to do.
SO FUCKING TRUE. Half the shit I find myself yelling at Dylan about is shit I know he learned from watching me. (Personally, I blame my father, with whom I share many charming personality traits, and most of the not-so-charming ones as well.)
Speaking of Nutella, this recipe claims to be a homemade version thereof: [link]
Another upload of Ryan photos. Almost up to the return of his grandparents. [link]
ChiKat, I'm so sorry. It's killing me, to know that in so many countries the public sector workers are paying the price of failed decisions of economy and proprieties. It's showing the danger and failure of taking it as obvious. Here, in Israel, the social workers are on strike. You can imagine it wasn't an easy decision for them to act so.
I hope for a good, steady, fulfilling job for you, next year.
ION, bt, it's wonderful to read your thoughts about your relationship with DW.
I still love Nutella but it tastes very different to me now than it did when I was a kid. It's way too sweet. Are they making a more sugary version just for north amercans?
I think a lot of the undervaluing of fields like education and social services comes from that they are still seen as skills that fall into the traditioally female skills sets of nurturing and communication, and are therefore of less value innately than the "hard" sets of skills seen as more masculine.