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By: Headless Mom

Headless Mom — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 06:32:08 +0000

I hate pretend play, too. Luckily my boys play together (somewhat) well, most of the time.

By: Danielle Says Hello

Danielle Says Hello — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 20:36:42 +0000

Oh I am a big believer in #10!!!! I've always said if you love your children from the heart you can never go wrong. I never did do well in the pretend play department or the coloring department.

By: mama mara

mama mara — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 11:55:26 +0000

My parenting icons are Elise Keaton from "Family Ties", Roseanne Conner from "Roseanne, and now Mama MPJ from "A Room of Mama's Own". You rock.

By: Madame Yu See

Madame Yu See — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 22:00:13 +0000

My 2 1/2 year old grandson WAS diagnosed as being 'high functioning autistic.' Could you recommend a good introductory book on the subject? You have my email address.
Thanks.

By: Marsha

Marsha — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 16:56:10 +0000

I, too, started out with reading parenting books. I think all moms do in the beginning.

That was many moons ago for me now, back before a lot of material choices was available. Back then Dr Spock was the icon of knowledge.

I have to wonder about that now since didn't he have only one child? Not to mention the fact that umm, I seriously doubt he was the one home with the kid. I think it's possible a mom of 10 might have been better qualified to speak, but what do I know?

My favorite chapter was "overstimulating the baby". It was a running joke for the ex and I forever and a day. When the boy was bad we'd accuse one another (jokingly) of having overstimulated the baby. Ah. I think the boy is STILL overstimulated. It turns out he has ADHD, but back then Dr Spock didn't mention anything like that.

By: Cat

Cat — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 16:49:36 +0000

Wonderful post!

By: John Pollard

John Pollard — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 16:47:25 +0000

Interesting post. Another opinion. I'd say one reason why you don't like parenting books is that you never read the most important one.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/ref=ntt_athr_dp_sr_1?_encoding=UTF8&search-type=ss&index=books&field-author=John%20K.%20Pollard

Check out the comments and you'll see what I'm talking about.

By: Syd

Syd — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 15:28:02 +0000

I think that I'd suck at being a parent. You sound like you've got good ideas . Who knows what works? Throw in genetics and it looks like a roll of the die.

By: Sunny

Sunny — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 15:03:29 +0000

I'm with you on the parenting books. I read a lot of pregnancy books and have a few parenting books, but as soon as the baby was born, I realized I hadn't even opened a parenting book.

I think I might like playing make believe with my kids...though I guess I won't know until it happens. I like kids toys it's nice now to have an excuse to buy certain things *cough mister potato head cough*

By: Cate Subrosa

Cate Subrosa — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 10:33:34 +0000

3 - Amen, sister.
4 - That was my most hated part of being a nanny. I hope Nate likes doing that stuff if our kids want to!