Welcome to the Sunday Surf, a tour of the
best blogposts I've read throughout the week.
What's been going on this past week and a half:

Bus to train to plane to car, with two suitcases, two backpacks, two kids, and a carseat!

Into the city for uncle-nephew bonding

Relaxing with Nana … and her fun toy

Snoozing with Papa

Home again, home again, jiggety-jig.
Links!
A Texas woman was arrested for child endangerment — for letting her 9- and 6-year-old play outside while she watched them from the lawn. Um…
Times have changed since I was a kid. And not all for the better, hey?
Huh.
When a baby has a pacifier in their mouth, it is difficult for them to be able to copy the actions of the adults or children they are trying to mimic, therefore making it harder for them to learn to express their own emotions.
[…]
The authors discovered that boys aged 6 and 7 who used pacifiers regularly as babies or young children were not as likely to copy emotional expression they saw in others in a video they were asked to watch.
I’m not anti-pacifier as once I was — Alrik uses one in the car (that’s where we started) and when Sam’s trying to get him to sleep. (Night pacifier use was fine, in the terms of this study.) I’ve also been known to grab a handy one when I’m simply nursed-out and need some space but Alrik still wants to suck. This sort of study reinforces my conviction not to rely on a pacifier overly much, though, because I do notice he can’t interact with us as thoroughly when he has it in his mouth.
I wonder if there’s any connection between parents’ intent and pacifier use in boys. Do parents want boys not to show as much emotion?
This is the documentary I just watched that got me all conflicted again about being a non-vegan —
Vegucated: T. Colin Campbell, Brian Flegel, Joel Fuhrman, Stephen Kaufman. It’s a really interesting guerrilla-style documentary following three meat- and cheese-loving New Yorkers who agree to adopt a vegan diet for six weeks, learn the truth about animal welfare and the meat and dairy industries, and see how they feel about veganism at the end of it all.
I came away with two distinct thoughts: (1) I should really be a vegan. (2) I really love meat and cheese, too.
A primer on what egg carton labels really mean. The truth may surprise (and sadden) you. While “cage-free” and “free-range” and “certified organic” can be meaningless as far as treatment of hens is concerned, “Animal Welfare Approved” means the chickens were treated with the highest standards for egg layers: allowing continuous outdoor access and room for natural behaviors and not forcing molting through starvation or performing beak cutting. (However, even then, all male chicks are killed shortly after hatching, which gives weight to the vegan side of things, huh?)
This is the type of eggs I’d like to buy. Or perhaps barter with some neighbors who have chickens. Or keep hens on our condo balcony…
Carnival news:

Submissions for the
October Carnival of Natural Parenting are due early next month: October 2. Stay tuned for more details and a submission form, but here is the theme for now:
Instilling a Healthy Self-Image: How do you instill a healthy self-image in your children? What do they learn from the way you treat and talk about your own body and others? Share confessions, wisdom, goals, or research you've done. Submission deadline: October 2. Carnival posting: October 9.
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1 comments:
Talk about free range. I'm reading a biography called Bud & Me, about two brothers in the early 1900's who rode across two states by horseback when they when they were 5 and 9. When they were 6 and 10 they rode from Oklahoma to New York by themselves.
They almost drowned, an angry donkey chased them, and robbers tailed them for a few days to make sure no bad guys got them.
The country didn't reprimand their dad for being an irresponsible parent, instead the kids were treated like hero's and every town had a parade for them.
Crazy how different just a few generations can make? My friend is a 911 operator and says she gets calls all the time because kids are playing outside. It is ridiculous.
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