Unlikely Words » parenting http://www.unlikelywords.com A blog with delusions of grandeur Wed, 08 Feb 2012 22:48:26 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 Four Year Old Plays Grand Theft Auto http://www.unlikelywords.com/2010/06/16/four-year-old-plays-grand-theft-auto/ http://www.unlikelywords.com/2010/06/16/four-year-old-plays-grand-theft-auto/#comments Wed, 16 Jun 2010 21:44:48 +0000 aaron cohen http://www.unlikelywords.com/?p=7191
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    • ]]>     play Grand Theft Auto. The civic minded son spends most of the time not stealing cars, not killing people, and using the ambulance to take people to the hospital. He did run over a woman and he was ashamed.

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    • ]]>     hilarity ensues.

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    ]]>     http://www.unlikelywords.com/2009/04/03/twins/feed/ 0     Obama And The Kids http://www.unlikelywords.com/2008/10/21/obama-and-the-kids/ http://www.unlikelywords.com/2008/10/21/obama-and-the-kids/#comments Tue, 21 Oct 2008 14:05:33 +0000 aaron cohen http://www.unlikelywords.com/?p=1463
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    • ]]>     hates the politicization of kids, whether by overbearing parents forcing their beliefs upon their children, or by, well, overbearing vice presidential candidates using their kids as cheap props. And then a reader of his writes in to say that their kid really does love Obama without any prompting as they voted for McCain in the primary.

    And then on a personal level, I've heard from 2 different friends with very young children being raised in, ahem, more homogeneous areas of the country who have taken to calling any black strangers Obama.


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    ]]>     http://www.unlikelywords.com/2008/10/21/obama-and-the-kids/feed/ 10     Another Thing the Bush Administration Has Ruined http://www.unlikelywords.com/2008/07/28/another-thing-the-bush-administration-has-ruined/ http://www.unlikelywords.com/2008/07/28/another-thing-the-bush-administration-has-ruined/#comments Tue, 29 Jul 2008 02:39:04 +0000 matt http://www.unlikelywords.com/?p=793
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    • ]]>     The Happiest Baby on the Block, by Dr. Harvey Karp. It's full of what seems like will be very practical advice for how to soothe a crying baby, which will come in handy on the off chance ours aren't perfect little angels.

    So, anyway, I'm reading Appendix B, "A New Parents' Survival Guide," in which Dr. Karp lists ten "survival tips" for new parents. There's nothing earth-shattering (trust yourself, be flexible, etc.) but I was brought up short by this paragraph in a sidebar titled "Rest: The Essential Nutrient for New Parents:"

    The extreme fatigue that goes along with being a new parent can make you feel depressed, irritable, inept, and distort your perceptions of the world like a fun-house mirror. (Some countries torture people by waking them up every time they fall asleep!)


    Yeah, some countries. Like, for instance, the United States of America.

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