Showing posts with label Just for Fun. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Just for Fun. Show all posts
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Friday, October 29, 2010
Smart Kids
You have to check this video out. :)
How often do parents think about how their kids might care for them in turn someday? Larry and I joke about it with James. Our parents mention it on occasion and aren't joking about it. But I think we all like to look at parent dependence as being somewhat far in the future.
This video is a cute (b/c everything turned out fine) reminder that children are able to reciprocate some of that love and care parents model at a much younger age. How beautiful that this little girl thinks to comfort her father instead of just talking to the guy at the 911 call center! [I also love that she doesn't see her outfit as modest enough for visitors.] A kid like that doesn't develop that poise all at once. In a time of crisis, she's probably copying behavior that she's seen modeled time and again for minor emergencies and accidents. We don't just end up with kids who desire to care for us in our old age (or any other time of need); we form them through every incident we respond to with love and every disruption we react to with calmness and creativity.
It gives me great hope (and a sense of awe) to view the daily interactions I have with my son (even though he's too young to consciously remember any of them) as formative to his future character. Personality and personal choice definitely come into play as well; I can't absolutely determine his future (thank goodness!) However, raising children is an art--an old and honored one. And the result can more beautiful than any molded clay or colored canvas.
How often do parents think about how their kids might care for them in turn someday? Larry and I joke about it with James. Our parents mention it on occasion and aren't joking about it. But I think we all like to look at parent dependence as being somewhat far in the future.
This video is a cute (b/c everything turned out fine) reminder that children are able to reciprocate some of that love and care parents model at a much younger age. How beautiful that this little girl thinks to comfort her father instead of just talking to the guy at the 911 call center! [I also love that she doesn't see her outfit as modest enough for visitors.] A kid like that doesn't develop that poise all at once. In a time of crisis, she's probably copying behavior that she's seen modeled time and again for minor emergencies and accidents. We don't just end up with kids who desire to care for us in our old age (or any other time of need); we form them through every incident we respond to with love and every disruption we react to with calmness and creativity.
It gives me great hope (and a sense of awe) to view the daily interactions I have with my son (even though he's too young to consciously remember any of them) as formative to his future character. Personality and personal choice definitely come into play as well; I can't absolutely determine his future (thank goodness!) However, raising children is an art--an old and honored one. And the result can more beautiful than any molded clay or colored canvas.
Saturday, July 24, 2010
Mommy Rhapsody & Dad Rap
There are certain things kids will never understand about their mom's. An obsessions with strange songs from "ancient history" is one of those things. But in all fairness, after enough nights spent rocking a puking child or looking for monsters under the bed that you could have sworn you finally exterminated last week, a little humor is what keeps us sane . . . ok, mostly sane. Enjoy!
Oh wait . . . maybe those late nights do something to dads too.
Oh wait . . . maybe those late nights do something to dads too.
Monday, July 19, 2010
Warning: Time-Waster Ahead
Ok, so this is a time-waster . . . but it's hilarious, which makes it not a time-waster because laughing burns calories and helps you live longer.
Catalog Living sarcastically points out the oddities in catalog home pictures while ostensibly letting you glimpse the true lives of Elaine & Gary, the couple who lives in those lovely catalog homes.
And I must say that humor that points out the occasional incompetency of women to be practical often strikes me as really funny . . . maybe because I sometimes get "that look" from my husband, maybe because I know a slew of women who really are the most impractical beings on the face of the planet--the guess is yours. :)
Catalog Living sarcastically points out the oddities in catalog home pictures while ostensibly letting you glimpse the true lives of Elaine & Gary, the couple who lives in those lovely catalog homes.
And I must say that humor that points out the occasional incompetency of women to be practical often strikes me as really funny . . . maybe because I sometimes get "that look" from my husband, maybe because I know a slew of women who really are the most impractical beings on the face of the planet--the guess is yours. :)
Thursday, June 03, 2010
Props for Pranksters
Filpping everything in the classroom over (senior prank this year at my school) = not creative.
This prank at a college observatory building = totally awesome.
Props. You have my respect pranksters.
See here for original post: http://io9.com/5553975/best-astronomy+related-college-prank-ever
This prank at a college observatory building = totally awesome.
Props. You have my respect pranksters.
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
PC Lingo
Recently, I saw a Toys "R" Us catalog marketed to "Differently Abled Kids." Now, I'm all for toys that help children with disabilities to play and learn, but I don't think marketers need to sound like they have a language disability in order to appeal to their target group. Maybe I shouldn't expect much from a company that thinks that placing quotation marks around the "R" in their name is a proper abbreviation for "are." Plus, the R is backwards; further proof that they are somehow confused into thinking that writing like a kindergartner will make Sally buy more Barbies. Let's pretend someone said it was "catchy" and the rest of us agreed, and we'll return to my original, grammatical rant.
Since when is "abled" an adjective . . . or a word? I guess that prefix of "dis" was WAY too negative for the PC dictators somewhere. Now I start getting confused. Are these toys for kids who are different because they are "gifted" (another ambiguous educational term)? No. Oh, they must be kids who have different talents! No. They are kids who are not able to do certain things, so we made toys specifically with their abilities and potentialities in mind. Since they are only lacking some abilities and not all abilities, we just call them "differently abled." Oh, ok. Was that random hyphen between "different" and "abled" supposed to tell me all of that?
How about that word "different;" won't that make them feel excluded. downtrodden, outcast? Shouldn't it be "Uniquely Abled?" Or you could just make up another adjective. That would effectively confuse the masses! Black Friday is pretty much just about materialistic mayhem anyways, right? Who said it has to make sense?
Since when is "abled" an adjective . . . or a word? I guess that prefix of "dis" was WAY too negative for the PC dictators somewhere. Now I start getting confused. Are these toys for kids who are different because they are "gifted" (another ambiguous educational term)? No. Oh, they must be kids who have different talents! No. They are kids who are not able to do certain things, so we made toys specifically with their abilities and potentialities in mind. Since they are only lacking some abilities and not all abilities, we just call them "differently abled." Oh, ok. Was that random hyphen between "different" and "abled" supposed to tell me all of that?
How about that word "different;" won't that make them feel excluded. downtrodden, outcast? Shouldn't it be "Uniquely Abled?" Or you could just make up another adjective. That would effectively confuse the masses! Black Friday is pretty much just about materialistic mayhem anyways, right? Who said it has to make sense?
Friday, June 19, 2009
Longing for the past
Once upon a time we had heroic metaphors & metaphysical conceits...now we have poetic sludge.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCFz6Vlh-I0
[watch and laugh]
And people wonder why our culture is going down the drain...well, folks, it's b/c people pay money to hear a bunch of guys compare their x-gf to poison ivy. Wow. That's about the worst thing I've heard since "Toxic" . . . no, I take that back, at least Nickel Creek was able to make me enjoy their bluegrass spoof re-mix of that one! [ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWQo0bktuAI ]
Yours,
Culturally disgruntled
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCFz6Vlh-I0
[watch and laugh]
And people wonder why our culture is going down the drain...well, folks, it's b/c people pay money to hear a bunch of guys compare their x-gf to poison ivy. Wow. That's about the worst thing I've heard since "Toxic" . . . no, I take that back, at least Nickel Creek was able to make me enjoy their bluegrass spoof re-mix of that one! [ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWQo0bktuAI ]
Yours,
Culturally disgruntled
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