Daybook blog: The art of the English language
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| Nurse your baby = Pentacostal? Gee...glad I didn't live in the states during that time....would have resulted in a lot of hurt feelings (on their part)  Leap. The net will appear. |
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| Not only do the babies spend too much time in those seats, it seems young parents take the babies everywhere, anytime. This is a pet peeve of mine. When my DS was a baby - anything that went on after 7 pm he would be at home in his bed with a sitter. It taught him a great sleep routine and we never had the nightmares with sleep-problems that you hear from so many parents. I was using a favorite book as guideline at the time, and one quote has stuck in my mind since: 'if you don't teach them the rules, how do you expect them to play the game?' All behavior at that age is taught... sleeping at the right time too! I know sitters cost money, but we frequently traded off with other parents for sitting services so it wasn't that expensive. |
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I just realize we have wandered WAY off-topic!  |
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| It's ok- I'm the person who took us down that rabbit trail! I did want to add in that I am not at all a "my way is the only way" kind of person, or parent. That's why I like a good discussion! I love to hear other points of view- to challenge my own, and possibly come to a different conclusion from my original one. I'm also positive that there are many many roads that lead to successful parenting, not just the one that I am on. Good thing, as I've been on different roads too~!  We do own a car seat (of course!), it just isn't the bucket kind this time around. I have absolutely had the bucket seats previously, and also used them as a seat for the infant. However, the baby certainly wasn't in the seat long enough to get sores, which is where my rant comes from. So, I'm not at all saying anything bad about bucket seats, nor the parents who use them for normal baby use  Just wanted to clarify. I didn't want to come across as a know it all snot or anything. Which can probably happen when I try to be short because I am tying one handed! My little spot NOW SHIPPING: soy candles, mango body butter, and peppermint foot cream |
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Quoting:Which can probably happen when I try to be short because I am tying one handed! Gee I hope you release your kids soon Trish, you must be feeling frazzled! |
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| Naw, not like that! I type while nursing the Little Man.  My little spot NOW SHIPPING: soy candles, mango body butter, and peppermint foot cream |
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| I know the feeling, I often do that now as I have an adopted 3 legged boy pussy who has to have his snuggles too. You know the one I mean, he wanted to stay so I couldn't stop him. He's called Winston. Trouble is I often find myself forgetting to use both hands now as he spends so much time on my lap! |
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AlohaHoya wrote:Nurse your baby = Pentacostal? I know that is exactly what I thought. I almost told her I was Christian but she was running for the door as if she knew that was dumb to address a person in such a personal way without starting a conversation. lol!!! I thought if I saw her again I would ask,"Hey, what are you?" LOL!!!(Nah, I`m kidding!) I agree with Dutchlady1 that young parents these days tend to run their babies everywhere and stay out too long. Trish, I didn`t get that from you. I understood you were just saying car seats were being used too much for baby holders and not that they were wrong. I had one for both of my children and I kept the car seats in the car or I only carried it in public places. Once the baby was old enough to hold up his head and be carried the car seat stayed in the car all the time. Neither of my babies got sores and I`m sure that is because we had a routine where we moved around in different rooms and did different things all day. I think even very small babies can get bored and cry from a lack of a change of scenery. I used to walk my daughter by the windows and look outside and she would get quiet. A ride in the car would make my son go to sleep but my daughter never did like being strapped to a seat but she made it just fine. I`m glad little man is sleeping more. Good for you! yay! Karen |
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| I am coming late to this discussion but would like to add my opinion. Grammar? I truly wish mine were better. Should we resist the current trends? Yes and no. I think that some change is fine. I think our children need to be taught good grammar with hard and fast rules. I do not get upset by most of the common misuses of words but I do tend to judge a person's intelligence by what they write/say and how they write or say it. One of my sons can really get under my skin with his writing. He is very intelligent. He can read and comprehend ideas and concepts easily that send me off on hours of research before I get it. But he writes in a way that makes no sense and makes me wonder if he is not just ignorant but possibly mentally impaired. People tend to underestimate him because of his lack of grammar , spelling and punctuation. Who is to blame? I blame myself for not being a better mother. I blame the school system for not teaching him the basics. I blame him for not caring enough to learn. As for the car seat abuse I never owned one when my children were babies. I also did not own a car. I did have something called an infant carrier/seat. My eldest son slept in it as an infant until he outgrew it. He was in that contraption so much that I thought he would never grow hair on the back of his head. I hated that thing. I used it because he had breathing problems when sleeping and the pediatrician told me it could save his life. When he was not sleeping I could hold him or let him roll around on a blanket and enjoy him. By the time the doctor said he could be put into a bed he refused to sleep in it. It took weeks of rocking him to sleep, laying him down, him waking and crying,rocking more, lay him down, repeat... and repeat and repeat. Looking back, I am glad we didn't have a car seat. It would have felt too much like I was strapping him back into that infant seat. |
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| Now here is a subject close to my heart, grammar. Living in a foreign land and engaging with foreign speakers of the English language, despite errors in grammar I still understand and the same goes for me as I try to speak their language. I guess grammar is only important to native speakers. |
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| Ready for bed...and new to this thread...but wanting to comment before I forget. Perhaps the changes in grammer (and they drive me bonkers...especially the there/their/they're etc.) are simply evolutionary...as in not teaching cursive (Oh my goddess...!!!  ). I wish I could always be totally correct and pure in my grammer and word usage...but I'm not because I have more on my mind than there/their/they're...and it shows. I am horrified rereading to find gross (really really gross) errors...and...  well I hope that when conversing, what I am saying will be more interesting than the grammatical/punctuation errors I am making and I will be forgiven. My brain outpaces my fingers! I really try to have a good vocabulary and hope that my reader will be so intrigued by my word usage they won't even notice the butchered text.  Dream on.As for baby bucket seats...no experience/no opinion. And I bow to you all.... Carol Leap. The net will appear. |
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| Here in Japanese schools English is taught, grammar first vocabulary second and pronunciation third. Result they cannot communicate in English. |
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