me too! my poor kid just started smelling in there, too (heartbreakingly early) - but she's a believer, too!

get yourself a fun cocktail ring, book yourselves in with city hall and call it a day! oh, and get your photos done by a friend in front of the fry truck - i saw that one time and it was quite splendid.

SO with you on that - the word just grosses me out. it's worse than "slacks" /shudders

THIS is the only reason i joined FB in the first place. people kept asking for the BumbleBean's pictures, i had no desire to keep track of who i sent which ones to or who hates baby pictures with the fire of a thousand suns.

awesome. as if the social messaging to little girls wasn't already bad enough.

not good, not bad, just... fair! whee this is fun.

this happens to me, too... but sometimes my face falls into the book, and i wake up with reversed type on my cheek!

i know i'm only a greyed-out person and this won't help you much... but NICE ONE.

i am going to steal that Kraken thing.

hee - yeah, half the battle with kids is just figuring out how in the world to stay ahead of 'em! good luck with your bean!

they really, really are.

yeah, my kid's not at all a prodigy, but she is a pretty serious intellectual/physical outlier - essentially every year we have to mentally double her age in order to understand her better. strangely, she liked the schizophrenia chapter best - something about that one really spoke to her - she has a lot of empathy.…

oh, dude - GO FOR IT. do it in the name of all us thin-lipped SadFolk who can't wear anything fancier than Chapstick.

ha - yeah. i actually read a lot of it with my extremely weird little kid. i hoped it would help her understand herself (and others) a bit - and i think it did. she really liked a lot of the chapters (we skipped a few - she's quite small and doesn't need to deal with some of that stuff - i.e. rape)

so right. it's not inherently positive - like everything, it's got its ups and downs.

we don't track the complaints (of which we now have very few), but we stick the written down solutions in a jar on the mantelpiece and read them out on New Year's Eve - it's fun! i should probably mention it's a glass jar, so i think the motivation comes from seeing all these little scraps of paper building up.

oh! you need a Solution Jar. write down one solution every time your kid makes a suggestion (even if you don't use it, you are, after all, the parent!) vs. a complaint.

i'm cutting her slack.

what i'm saying is a midwife is more trained in the wide range of normal birth adventures - and knows when/if it's really time to transfer/escalate, rather than escalating interventions because that is their scope of practice (OB). sorry if i offended you somehow.

ok, you have to tell me how that goes with the spiced pear. promise?