Just a little (link) love: Riker and weird moves edition
June 30, 2016
CAREER + MONEY THINGS
I hope Linda’s prospective new house is a peach and this sale goes through.
For mental toughness: I spotted a few familiar things here
I joke repeatedly that I’d like to prove that money can buy happiness and so on but not that deep down, I know that’s not true. This recounting of a model whose purportedly glamorous life really wasn’t is a stark reminder that nothing can buy your health, mental or physical, and having people who care about you and show it is so much more important.
File under “well, duh”: When culture and government make it possible to combine work and family, it gets way easier for women (and men) to have it all. And the babies follow.
Things I didn’t know: “The Devil Wears Prada” served as a career launching pad for almost everybody involved.
This old post from Root of Good has me scouring our taxes for more ways to reduce our taxable income. Legal ways, of course.
And the effects of the Brexit vote on food in the UK
FUN THINGS
INTERESTING THINGS
I need asparagus to be less than $4/lb so I can attempt this pancetta-wrapped asparagus.
I had no idea this is what attachment parenting (mothering) was really about and while I’m very sorry so many women are still being preached at, I’m also grateful as anything that my willingness to take heads off anybody who offered unsolicited criticism over how we were parenting may have driven off some of the preachers. Also I have pretty sensible and busy friends who are moms and don’t brook the nonsense of advocating any one method because, duh, every child is different.
The Riker sit
I never noticed this, or didn’t remember the weird sitting down.
Re attachment parenting: it’s not. But within any movement there are extremists who mangle the idea. Just like with religion.
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Now I’m a little curious what it’s supposed to really be about. Not a lot, though. I’m happy with my corner of parenting.
It is a reaction to pre-1970s Western parenting of rigid schedules, not spoiling the infant, etc. (Which is still highly prevalent in most red states.) It gives permission to pick up a crying baby, to cosleep (safely), to feed the baby when the baby is hungry, to carry the baby instead of punishing it for crying. The basic premise is that you’re supposed to listen to your instincts rather than trying to suppress them.
Some people (in blue states) take this to extremes and think it’s a list of what you must do: you must carry the baby even if the baby doesn’t want to be carried, you must cosleep even if nobody is getting any sleep, etc. People (usually in blue states) who are subjected to this kind of pressure understandably reject the movement, but they aren’t really the audience. People trapped in red states getting the constant message that they’re spoiling the baby by picking it up are.
We have a few posts on this in our archives, but I don’t like talking about it with people like the author of that post because they get very upset (speaking from previous experience with the author of that post), and it’s not like they’re abusing their children so why should I upset them further?
Still, AP is a good movement even if some adherents are crazy extremists (kind of like religion). I personally found it to be helpful as a voice of reason in a scary place where many people still think it’s ok to beat their children.
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Ahhh good to know. I didn’t realize that style was an actual movement, it just seemed like normal hands on parenting. Clearly I do not live in a blue state, though spanking (and even with some crappy family members, beating) was always part of parenting in our family. Maybe it’s even thanks to your posts about parenting and doing what works for you that it felt normal. Thanks for clarifying!
Oh Riker, how much I miss your chair mounting techniques and weird villain beard.
Thank goodness for reruns, at least 🙂
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