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Trumpets. If only to channel the Spirit of Jazz.

Oh, my. I didn't realise there were two of us here.

Unrequited love is really something special. While it is often portrayed as sad (generally from middle-aged guys hoping to punch above their weight partner-wise), it is quite beautiful. And advantageous! You get all of the good love chemicals and happy vibes of being in love, without the actual baggage of dealing…

My husband is strong enough to be gentle, no matter what the situation. He is extraordinarily patient and thoughtful and always comes from a place of trying to understand more. And he is always ready to laugh; at things that happen in the world, or at himself.

Thank you! That's brilliant. I just have to make sure he can't reach my hair.....

I would want some seriously credible studies (for instance, done by people who haven't developed and marketed the tool) that suggest that it can help depression across a wide range of audiences.

So. Many. Questions.

There is an interesting ethnography by Karen Ho, an anthropologist, who spent a lot of time with the Wall Streeters. She suggested that the structural factors around the field (incredibly high job turnover, bonuses for short term gains, etc.) are what facilitated the kinds of behaviours which ultimately led to the…

LOL - I feel your pain. I don't think I got out of PJs until my son was about 3 months. I had nine sets of PJs and just cycled between them.

I'm wondering if the 'baby in the corner' parenting thing is some weird crossover from those of us who grew up with Dirty Dancing?

Thank you. I'm a new parent and - frankly - this shit takes up 90% of my time. I sometimes think back to how I thought things would be; that I would foster this independent, self-sufficient baby to hang by himself playing while I read journal articles and marked assignments.

Surely what you're describing - a high balance of (unrefined) natural foods and giving the baby some agency to feed him/herself - is pretty standard. It's the approach that virtually everyone I know (with kids) takes.

My son is a monster who eats everything. He's nine months and eats around 600-700g of solid food a day (plus breast milk). He falls into the upper weight percentiles on most charts.

I think we differ slightly. I like my job and I have OK students :)

I'm assuming you're Antipodean? I'm also at a Sandstone - though not one which prefers public school kids. I suppose I assumed that the overbearing parent was a generational thing, but only because these are the only 'kids' I am exposed to. Interesting point.

Yep, we are living the attachment parenting dream. I'm in no way suggesting that it doesn't come without costs. You don't do as much with or for your partner as you did pre-child. But, that is probably kind of obvious and inevitable no matter what style you adopt.

This sounds like a shopping list for the surprise-spank. If you wait until you're calm enough to control your emotions and spank only lightly, then surely the kid has already forgotten the bad thing they did?

There is much money to be made selling those to bitter academics :)

Just out of morbid curiosity - I swear I won't use this - what does the 'correct' spank entail?