I think self-destruction is one of the primary goals of the toddler, right after not going to sleep and getting to the candy.
Giles, if you would like to get by in American society, then you are going to have to follow our traditions. You're the patriarch. You have to host the festivities, or it's all meaningless.
Buffy ,'Sleeper'
Natter .38 Special
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Gudanov - Sep 09, 2005 8:51:05 am PDT #5840 of 10002
Coding and Sleeping
Jesse - Sep 09, 2005 8:51:51 am PDT #5841 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Well again, I think the speculation about them becoming so common is based on the idea that kids are exposed to too much of it, too soon.
I just don't get how kids now are more exposed than, say, kids in my generation. We were all about peanut butter, and I never went to school with a seriously peanut-allergic kid. It's not that I don't believe it, I just don't get it.
flea - Sep 09, 2005 8:52:15 am PDT #5842 of 10002
information libertarian
I am now going to spend the afternoon reading up in PubMed on peanut allergies. Curse you people! I have things to do!
Topic!Cindy - Sep 09, 2005 8:52:35 am PDT #5843 of 10002
What is even happening?
Sonofabitch is gone.[link]
He's being replaced by the head of the Coast Guard, who by all accounts did a great job.
Here's your hat, what's your hurry; don't let the door hit you in the ass, on the way out; your cell is ready, and a 1,001 other platitudes to him.
Betsy HP - Sep 09, 2005 8:53:20 am PDT #5844 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
I think self-destruction is one of the primary goals of the toddler, right after not going to sleep and getting to the candy.
At my kid's one-year checkup, the pediatrician looked me straight in the eye and said "For the next two years, your job is suicide prevention."
Damn straight.
flea - Sep 09, 2005 8:53:28 am PDT #5845 of 10002
information libertarian
First report: doctors mystified by increases in allergy rates. I also have garnered this lovely phrase: "negative peanut oral challenges".
tommyrot - Sep 09, 2005 8:53:47 am PDT #5846 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Here's your hat, what's your hurry; don't let the door hit you in the ass, on the way out; your cell is ready, and a 1,001 other platitudes to him.
"Apology accepted." </Vader>
Susan W. - Sep 09, 2005 8:54:15 am PDT #5847 of 10002
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
I think self-destruction is one of the primary goals of the toddler, right after not going to sleep and getting to the candy.
I really don't know how our species survived. You'd think all the little cave-babies and toddlers would've choked on rocks (Annabel is fascinated by pebbles) or poisoned themselves by stuffing random leaves in their mouths.
Betsy HP - Sep 09, 2005 8:54:54 am PDT #5848 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
We were all about peanut butter, and I never went to school with a seriously peanut-allergic kid
Apparently there are a lot of peanuts in places you wouldn't expect them (e.g. skin oils), as well as there being cross-allergies to soy. A baby who's on soy formula young is supposed to be at greater risk of a later peanut allergy.
Betsy HP - Sep 09, 2005 8:55:33 am PDT #5849 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
You'd think all the little cave-babies and toddlers would've choked on rocks (Annabel is fascinated by pebbles) or poisoned themselves by stuffing random leaves in their mouths.
You have a baby every year and you raise a quarter of them, if you're lucky.