Great Moments in Parenting:
This morning as I was getting ready to leave, I snuzzled down with Matilda for a little bit of cuddling and bonding (she complains mightily if anybody walks out the door without paying the hugs-and-kisses toll). She patted my face, inspected my lipstick and proclaimed it sufficiently red (I had worn a subtle shimmery shade to juliana's play on Saturday, and Matilda Did Not Approve), and then put her hands on my cheeks and gazed into my eyes. Her pink little face, framed in muzzy bedhead curls, grew alight with an intense, delighted ardor, and my heart broke into a million helpless pieces.
"Mommy?" she said in tones of reverent, numinous delight.
"Yes, honeybug?"
"When I look at your eyes, I can see my own reflection!"
I've come to the conclusion that dealing with 4-year-olds carries many of the same pitfalls as dealing with cats and dogs; just like with my pets, I keep making the fatal mistake of anthropomorphizing - I receive some kind of feedback and erroneously attribute it to a recognizably human emotion. With a 4-year-old, just as with a cat or dog, this is almost always 100% completely wrong.
JZ, you should write more.
Aw, Matilda. Aw, the narcissism of the very young.
Give me a Time-Turner and maybe I can squeeze it in.
Ha, JZ! I've had that exact same conversation with my little boy!
JZ, that's delightful, and
just like with my pets, I keep making the fatal mistake of anthropomorphizing - I receive some kind of feedback and erroneously attribute it to a recognizably human emotion. With a 4-year-old, just as with a cat or dog, this is almost always 100% completely wrong.
is funny as hell!
Oh, thank God, Burrell. It's at least comforting to know that it's not just my kid, that "dreamy little sociopath" is completely developmentally normal.
that "dreamy little sociopath" is completely developmentally normal.
last time I checked, yup. Mine own occasionally turns into a chocolate volcano too.
JZ, you should write more.
also, yup.
JZ, that is a great story.
A nice piece on that Northwestern Human Sexuality course, from someone who took it a few years ago: [link]
That was well-said.
I don't have penis envy
I totally don't get penis envy. It seems to me that the only penis envy that happens is dudes who wish theirs were bigger, and that need is now being met by spam.
