Browsing all posts in May, 2009.
The Role of the Grouch will Now be Played by the Goth
Just when things were looking up around here, too.
I mean, I have finally finagled a way to get the Grouch out of my house. I was really looking forward to a whole summer of no-grouch-zone.
Someone up there, and I won’t say who, because you all know where I stand on that one, has it out [...]
The Divine Mother and Child–NefHxMotherhood
The earliest written medical books we have date from the ancient kingdom of Egypt, 6000-1200 BCE. As you might well imagine, they are a little different from ours. For one thing, the Ebers papyrus, one of the oldest of the lot (1534 BCE) is a 68-foot scroll. Not the easiest reference volume.
For another thing, Egyptian [...]
Circumcision, Anyone?
There are a few dilemmas that affect the parents of boys a bit more often than the parents of girls.
That’s because there actually ARE differences between little boys and little girls.
I know. You’re shocked, right?
For instance, do you let them grow their hair out, just because they loved Lord of the Rings and everybody in [...]
I Taught my Baby to Spell in Utero!
The Houston Chronicle published this bit on Tuesday:
“Paige Vasseur of Valencia, California, never gazed at an alphabet mobile above her crib, but the contestant for the national spelling bee this week had an earlier lexical advantage. The womb. Her mother, Maria, not only sang her the ABCs in utero, but began reading to her newborn [...]
I Won the Mom Lottery!
Some of you who are new to this blog may not be familiar with the saga of the Grouch.
The Grouch is aptly named. He was a perfectly normal little boy until he didn’t learn to talk. Diagnosed with primary speech aphasia, he was in therapy for two years as his little bitty brain pathways were [...]
Don’t Send Me Woo
“Woo,” in scientific and skeptical writing, refers to unfounded or ludicrous beliefs, and the persons who hold said beliefs. It may have come from an abbreviation of “waste of oxygen.” Who knows. But there is a hell of a lot of it out there.
Scientists rail about the proliferation of pseudo-scientific junk on the web, which [...]
The Couvade (NefHxMotherhood)
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Exactly when man figured out that he had some involvement in this magic thing called “birth” is lost to the pages of history. By the time we get to written records (ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia), man had not only found his role, but he had completely co-opted it.
Man, in his great wisdom, knowing that [...]
Do I LOOK Like a Drug Dealer?
Don’t answer that.
Most of you have no idea what I look like anyway, so how could you answer that?
But honestly.
I’m nearly fifty. I dye my hair red from its natural state of almost completely grey (a hereditary thing–I got it from my kids). I’m 5″2′, twenty pounds overweight and always dress in black (YES, OKAY, [...]
Top Five Ways to Stop a Tantrum
Kids have tantrums. They aren’t any fun, at least for the mom. They are embarrassing, socially isolating, and they can give you a splitting headache.
A child throwing a tantrum is the star, director and producer of a drama orchestrated for, by, and entirely around, himself.
The only reason they do it, of course, is to get [...]
I Couldn’t Resist–
You all know, of course, that I am a major Anti-Anti-Vaccine proponent.
Respectful Insolence, one of my favorite blogs, posted this headline this afternoon:
Oprah and Jenny need your–yes, your!–help!
Oprah’s production company, whose unflagging idiocy in giving Jenny McCarthy her own soapbox has already flabbergasted me, has now asked for suggestions for topics for Jenny to discuss [...]
