Posts by aprilushka

I voted yes but that's b/c DD is 17 months and I need to follow her around the towers to make sure she doesn't fall from the higher places. Once I feel pretty good about her taking care of herself in that respect, and not getting...

I just hope not too many parents have rigid rules about males in the house b/c my DD will not get to invite anyone over (except on the weekends I guess) since she has an older brother and DH is at home with the kids and will be after...

I think the Trader Joe chicken nuggets are about as good as you can get -- you can tell the chicken is not as processed and they don't have the greasy feel of fast food chicken nuggets.

"The Golden Calf" by Ilf and Petrov, the prequel to the classic "12 Chairs". This is Russian literature not very well known in the U.S., although I'm pretty sure 12 Chairs is available in translation. It's farce basically set in the...

I don't know... when my DS started preschool he was the only Russian speaker and didn't speak English. Of course he wasn't there to teach the other kids Russian but it is also stressful being one of very few kids who don't speak English...

I think what the au pair did is reasonable. I don't do it when I'm going into a grocery store b/c typically that would involve more time and there aren't the kind of windows you describe, but I have left the kids within site distance in...

Quote: Originally Posted by siobhang I personally do not blame (most) women. I blame all of us. How many men would like to be more involved in their families but are not allowed to? They don't take advantage of family...

But why are men not buying them? Mostly because no one has probably seriously come up with one that men would want to buy because too many people are making the assumption you are still making -- that men, with very few exceptions,...

Quote: Originally Posted by woobysma : I know VERY few women irl who are the "work 50 hours and farm out the kids" kind of parents... and most of them are what I would consider "mainstream" and not...

Quote: Originally Posted by thismama ISame with the SAHD angle. How many of us who argue that SAHD's is equally viable, actually have a SAHD in our family set up? Some, but not many, it's pretty rare. . Me...