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By: outside the (toy) box » This is NOT a blog post.

outside the (toy) box » This is NOT a blog post. — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 16:07:53 +0000

[...] I drop by only to say that I am still going to this and if anyone else out there is attending and wants to get together, I would love it. In fact, I’m hoping to have many drinks with some of my favorite people in bloggyland and YOU are also invited. Just send me an email to mom at outside-the-toybox dot com so that I know you are attending! You’ll know me by my bright yellow coat. [...]

By: Mom'smom

Mom'smom — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 13:48:46 +0000

Why didn’t you put the coat on your Christmas list…geeezzzz

By: Lisa @ Corporate Babysitter

Lisa @ Corporate Babysitter — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 04:16:18 +0000

I know — you feel like Word Girl. Super!

By: The Secret Ingredient

The Secret Ingredient — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 03:04:27 +0000

Love it! I have a great bathtub song that we sing so as not to forget to wash all the “parts”….if you’re interested I charge only small commissions.
“SCRUB—YOUR—–TUMMYTUMMYTUMMY! YES-YOUR- TUMMYTUMMYTUMMY!” An entire manual for kids/parents set to music!

By: Mrs. G.

Mrs. G. — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 01:22:10 +0000

I like the flesh of the turkey hat in concert with the bright yellow coat…niiiiice. May all your holiday wishes come true, and I am so stealing that asparagus song.

And if Santa has any extra writing completion mojo in his sack, please, please send it to me.

By: mom

mom — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 18:59:19 +0000

Tina - I’m buying that book. Agraphia: Loss of the ability to write. Learned a new word. I’m sure someday I can work it into my acknowledgements page! Today was a good writing day. I feel like a superhero _ guess which one ?

Forever A Student - My book is on a fascinating topic that jazzed for the 4 years I gathered data, and even through a year of analysis. This year, well, I’m much more excited baout my next project. I would love to tell you all about both, but I keep that kind of identifying info private. It’s completely unrelated to the blog topic though. If the topic were the same, that would be way toooo easy.

Glad some of you are nice enough to like the asparagus song — I like to march like a solider when I sing it - if I’m feelin’ fiesty (most of the time).

Bphd and Sam - you’re both right. The other day I was so inspired by her and it just came out - “Do you know that you have the most beautiful eyes I’ve ever seen?” She does. Her funky red glasses sometimes distract me, but those eyes - wow. Anyway, she smiled so sincerely and said thank you and it was so clear how much it meant to her. I will do this more, tell her she’s wonderful, not only on the inside.

By: Sam-I-am

Sam-I-am — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 16:50:12 +0000

#5
I think that one of a parent’s goals should be to help their child look in the mirror and love what they see. Which is not the same thing as telling their child they are pretty or beautiful. How to accomplish that? Hmm. I have 3 boys, no girls, but I think perhaps the right answer to “Am I pretty?” is taking them to the mirror and showering them with love and affection as you point out their beauty, along with a discussion about characteristics (in them) you value more than physical appearance.

My youngest asks, “I look beautiful, right?” when I do his hair or he powders his face while I’m doing my makeup. I think in general as parents we are pretty good about not socializing this stuff out of him (his school is also good). Similarly, it is important to let your girls know about all the possibilities for their life, and help them identify when others are trying to impose strictures on them, because we’ll never entirely rid society of the evolutionary imperative to be sexually attractive — we can just lower the obsessiveness level a bit, and help our girls find a definition of self-worth that is sturdier and more complete.

By: bitchphd

bitchphd — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 05:32:49 +0000

Re. your #5–obviously this question has “meaning” for girls that it doesn’t for boys, but fwiw PK at that age asked me a lot if he was cute (and still does). And I still tell him all the time that he’s beautiful, cute, etc.

Also, tonight he asked me to paint his fingernails. Red. He said, “I know the kids at school will tease me about it, but I don’t care.” So I did.

By: Kerry

Kerry — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 04:47:45 +0000

The vegetable songs — you’re a woman after my own heart: I’ve been making up songs about my nutritional supplements lately (Floradix, floradix, tastes like drinking the River Styx).

Anyway, I want to hear more.

And what’s agraphia?

By: uuMomma

uuMomma — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 03:44:27 +0000

Thank you, thank you, thank you for the Asparagus song. I love it. Be-you-ti-ful!

I love your wish list. Much of it I could have written, were I writing these days, which I’m not (shame on me). Thanks again …