I think it's also just an avaricious interest in forcing folks to buy more clothes. If someone has a wardrobe for a girl (and let's face it , most babies grow out of clothes before they wear out) and then has a boy, the clothing makers want that person to buy a whole new wardrobe. Same for toys.
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....and that's what happens with a little company in Maine gets taken over by Clorox.
In their last catalog, they had a couple of pages that were unisex, with boy kids and girl kids modeling the same outfits. Unfortunately, that counts as progress considering the alternatives from Carter and Osh Kosh.
It's amazing and depressing to see how far we've fallen when it comes to gendered kids' clothes (and toys) since the 1970s. Most of the outfits in the catalog above are decidedly unisex. Now just try finding something for a little girl that doesn't have "Future Bride" or "Daddy's Princess" bedazzled on the front.
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This happened in Milwaukee, actually. So, the only places off-limits appear to be schools, police stations and jails, and bars if you are the person drinking.
Edited to include link to the law: http://www.doj.state.wi.us/sites/default/…
Is it cultural appropriation if the culture in question is not terribly marginalized? I mean, I think we would all be appalled if some random white guy tried to do a "traditional Navajo funeral" (although I'm sure random white guys do that all the time).
The coolness of fire aside, maybe we ought to leave Viking…
More information is always good, yes. I don't want to jump to conclusions, and freely admit I'm speculating and projecting when it comes to assuming the baby was his. I'm sensitive to stories about sick newbies, so am probably just emoting here.
This article makes it sound to me as if the police approached him as he was holding the baby. http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/bre…
No. I'm completely full of conjecture here. I'm guessing that it was his own baby, since NICUs don't normally allow just anyone to swing by and visit. But I'm also thinking more broadly about the general practice of allowing police to serve warrants on non-patients in a hospital setting, where the crime has nothing…
Concealed carry laws know no boundaries, not even hospitals.
The guy was wanted on felony gun charges, not infanticide, suggesting he was not a danger to the babies or staff until the moment the police came into the room. There's no reason they could not have waited in the hall to arrest him.
I mean, the problem here is obviously the jackass criminal with a gun, but the other…
Honestly, I think its worse than that. The police served the warrant as he was holding the baby. Rather than waiting until he left the ward, or (better) the hospital itself, they burst in on a man surrounded by sick and premature newborns and tried to arrest him....for felony gun possession. Then they were shocked…
AHHHHH! Yes! The kid's menu. It is the bane of my existence as a parent. I routinely lie to my daughter and tell her there is no kid's menu when we go to interesting restaurants because I don't want her eating a grilled cheese at a sushi restaurant. As soon as she knows grilled cheese and chicken fingers aren't…
Ah, you're missing the part where having a white, college-educated nanny is the holy grail. Not for little Edwin and Ione the Guatemalan or Togoan nanny. Their nanny will be a native English speaker with a BA from Wesleyan in French Literature, looking to take a few years off before her MBA or JD.
I kind of wonder what's left if you don't work and you have someone else watching your kids, doing your chores, and cooking your food.
No reason to hesitate to speak up. We used a nanny as well and would probably have used an au pair if we had the room for another adult in the house. Childcare is an important job, and one that should be paid well, but it's not a failing to hire someone to help with it. The only failing is treating people badly.
The thing that stood out for me about that, was OF COURSE the nanny's from Wisconsin. Because having a white nanny is the ultimate status symbol in some circles. Heaven forfend little Schuyler grow up eating tamales or okra stew because her nanny was Salvadoran or West African.
I was also struck by your comment in another thread that you had to get your sister to work for you. I'll admit that one of the reasons we transitioned from a nanny to preschool after a few years was because a preschool has substitutes and the preschool's son never gets sick, but I'm frankly stunned that the family…
I'm stunned that folks were looking for a cook/housekeeper. My experience hiring a nanny was that her duties ended at feeding the kids and making sure their toys didn't overrun the house. Maybe because we were only using her for work hours? I can't imagine asking the nanny to cook for the family or do the family's…