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The healing power of prayerdoctors

Published on July 29, 2010 By spyderkl

I don’t write about religion much here. Or the lack of same. But this is a serious thing that affects more children than I want to think about. As a parent, I just can’t imagine not taking a child to the doctor. But there are plenty of people who don’t – not because they can’t [...]

A Most Inoffensive Billboard

Published on November 19, 2009 By spyderkl

This has got to be one of the most inoffensive billboards I’ve ever seen: I’m not very comfortable with placing labels on children that may change as they become older. Race, nationality, sexual orientation, gender (sometimes), biological vs. adopted (or placed/surrendered) – those are things that cannot change. Gender…well, maybe. But things like a religion, [...]

Field Day

Published on May 29, 2009 By spyderkl

Yesterday School Girl’s school had Field Day for the 1st and 2nd graders. I went over to cheer her on, along with cheering on her friends. I have to admit, Field Day has always been a bit of a mystery to me. Our school never had anything like that when I was growing up – [...]

It comes up in the most unexpected places

Published on May 13, 2009 By spyderkl

Last weekend, in honor of School Girl having an awesome checkup/not biting the new dentist, I bought her It’s So Amazing! She has been asking questions about sex lately; as in “yeah, a baby grows in her mommy’s uterus, but how does the baby get there?” I felt like I needed some handholding, and I’ve [...]

Here’s another good reason to get vaccinated

Published on March 12, 2009 By spyderkl

Because children can die from things like whooping cough (pertussis). True, 4 weeks is too young for immunizations; IIRC, the first round of vaccines are around 2 months of age or so (then again, I was suffering from sleep deprivation at the time, so my memories are a teeny bit fuzzy). However, any adults (parents, [...]