Natalie has just started having very vivid dreams at night. She wakes up screaming (as in the blood-curdling type of screams) at 3 or 4 AM. I immediately jump up because (a) I am concerned that she may have hurt herself and (b) I don't want her to wake up her brother.
Once I go to her room, these are the sort of descriptions I get about her bad dream:
"C" pushed me.
"B" took my Buzz Lightyear.
"P" called me a poopoo-head.
VERY rarely are we talking about monster-in-the-closet sort of things. Most of her dreams seem to revolve around children at preschool. But her teachers assure me that she is well likes at preschool, children like calling her a friend, etc.
Who knows. In the meantime, sleep deprivation rules the land. At least for Mom.
Thursday, January 13, 2005
Thursday, January 06, 2005
Going to the library
A big event in our household is going to the library. I take Natalie with me and we go to the computer to look up books -- usually she asks to look up dinosaur books or she wants to look up one of her favorite books, Go Away Big Green Monster. What I usually do is do some research on books I would like to introduce to her and I order them online through our County's library web site, and then we pick them up.
So I was reading a recent issue of Child magazine and there was an article about a book titled Home Alone America by Mary Eberstadt. It was supposed to be a "warning" book about how much damage we are doing to children in America by "abandoning" them to daycare/family care, etc. Just the sort of thing to get me riled up, right? Well, I (somewhat foolishly, I guess) checked the book out of the library. I started reading it and after I picked myself up off the floor from the "no one breastfeeds their babies when they go to daycare" diatribe, I wanted to do a formal, scholarly critique of the darn thing. But then I came across 11D's great analysis thanks to mention of it on a DC Working Moms email list that I subscribe to.
I breastfed my daughter until she was 14 months old and I am still nursing my son. Yes, it is possible to breastfeed a baby that goes to daycare. How about thanking all of those employers out there (including my own) that opt to sponsor high quality on-site or near-site child care facilities for the benefit of their employees and their employees' families?!!!
So I was reading a recent issue of Child magazine and there was an article about a book titled Home Alone America by Mary Eberstadt. It was supposed to be a "warning" book about how much damage we are doing to children in America by "abandoning" them to daycare/family care, etc. Just the sort of thing to get me riled up, right? Well, I (somewhat foolishly, I guess) checked the book out of the library. I started reading it and after I picked myself up off the floor from the "no one breastfeeds their babies when they go to daycare" diatribe, I wanted to do a formal, scholarly critique of the darn thing. But then I came across 11D's great analysis thanks to mention of it on a DC Working Moms email list that I subscribe to.
I breastfed my daughter until she was 14 months old and I am still nursing my son. Yes, it is possible to breastfeed a baby that goes to daycare. How about thanking all of those employers out there (including my own) that opt to sponsor high quality on-site or near-site child care facilities for the benefit of their employees and their employees' families?!!!
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