I’ve been cruising through some parenting and mommy blogs today and I gotta tell ya…it’s a little scary. This isn’t going to be an attack, because quite honestly, a lot of the women I’m reading seem to be very nice people…but damn…I was thinking to myself ‘can’t ya’ll make a decision regarding your child without consulting surveys, studies and the blog collective?’
But then I found out WHY parents seem to have no idea whether they’re coming or going:
A five year study conducted at Texas A&M University recently reported that the amounts and quality of time parents spent with their children has a direct effect on children’s rates of obesity. In general, researchers found the amount of time a mother spent with her child, her work stress and her income level had a larger impact in lowering the child’s risk of obesity than the father’s time, work stress, and income. Furthermore, the more time a mother spends with the child, the less likely that child is to be obese; conversely, the more time a father spends with a child, the more likely the child will be obese.
As if today’s parents don’t have enough reason to be neurotic, now we have scientists trying to pin childhood obesity on the amount of TIME you spend with your child.
I’m sorry, but the ONLY reason why Johnny is such a porker is because you buy him the Twinkies…not because you don’t spend the correct amount of time with him.
My advice to today’s mothers? Don’t parent-by-committee. Put down the child psychology books. Stop worrying about what ‘the survey says’ (anyone else channel Richard Dawson when they read that?).
Just trust your instincts.
No TagsI’ve seen the links in my referral logs, so I finally went over to Bloglines to see what all the fuss is about.
Let me just say right now that I am in love.
I’ve used a software feedreader before but found that I never remembered to turn the damn thing on. It was always just easier to use my browser. Plus, with the amount of computers in my house, it was a pain in the ass to remember to update each program every time I added a link.
I also rediscovered an old love of mine: the Performancing plug-in for Firefox. I had used this a long time ago but somehow forgot to install the plugin after my last reformat. If you reference a lot of blogs in your posts, this plugin is a Godsend.
Yes, I have finally come into the 21st century.
No TagsOnly a Biker knows why a dog sticks his head out of a car window.
Damn ain’t that the truth. TheEx has a gorgeous Harley that he bought when we were together and I swear to God, after all these years, it’s the only thing I miss about him sometimes 
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