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I don't want to sell anything, buy anything, or process anything as a career. I don't want to sell anything bought or processed, or buy anything sold or processed, or process anything sold, bought, or processed, or repair anything sold, bought, or processed. You know, as a career, I don't want to do that.
About Me
Blogs I Like to Read
- Amy's Very Cool Homeschooling Family
- Ann Douglas
- Blogging Baby
- David Rhoden
- Domestic Psychology
- First Impressionist
- Jonathan Hickman
- Lemuria Books
- Mamas Ink
- Marrit Ingman
- Martini Made
- Meagan Francis
- Mo's Journal
- Remembering Ward
- Suburban Turmoil
- The Vol Abroad
- This Woman's Work
- Women's Health News
- Zygote Daddy
Good Stuff on Being a Parent/Family Life
Books I"ve written/contributed to
Blog Archive
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- justice, afghani style
- racism
- timeline
- the granju boys
- No title
- Given that the head of FEMA is now saying Katrina ...
- not a naked mole rat
- No title
- elliot ponders life as a seven year old
- first day of school
- white trash mom on back to school
- buh-bye A.C.
- go fug yourself
- life, unscripted
- msn
- I just tried to call my son Henry on his cell phon...
- The semi-return of SKB
- Gawker's funny, snarky take on CNN's Hurricane blo...
- Well, it turns out it's a darn good thing that I a...
- sharp's ridge
- This is a really neat-o, old Phoenix Freemasonry C...
- Check it out. My sister Betsy and I are starting a...
- lax in knoxville
- sherry gardner howell
- This weekend is my every-other-weekend childfree o...
- the danger of yellow ribbon patriotism
- bad idea
- me n' christianity
- all grown up
- dear christian penthouse...
- the hand that rocks the cradle...and the vote
- seeking wal-mart reporter
- humankeeping
- Oh my God! It turns out that birth is, like, gross!
- Carl Snow Band
- vegoose
- Gonna check out this show t'night...
- marriage is hard, really hard!
- poet goldberg
- lovenromance.com
- elliot at bedtime
- new new pornographers
- mermaids
- I love Alan Cumming but...
- question of the day
- howard dean
- soccer
- Henry, Jane, Elliot - Summer '05
- the knitters
- karaoke ban
- liz phair
- america's white trash pope
- big brother
- arular
- Christian Lifestyle Industry
- "serving jesus christ thru carpet"
- Jane, Sydney and Eleanor-Saturday, August 20
- Noah's Ark Horse Show - Sunday, AUgust 21 - Elliot...
- boycott garth
- My nephew McLean, crazy Spam-lovin' toddler
- Jane's Birthday Sleepover
- Including a rousing game of "Operation"
- guns for god
- Henry, age 13
- August 19, 2005
- (un)intelligible
- amuse me
- jane pratt
- carl snow
- liberal hawks
- 40 year old virgin
- wal-mart's arts ideaology
- I'm on a Ben Kweller bender this week.
- a visitor's guide to downtown knoxville
- cook without a book
- be an indie rock smartypants
- cindy sheehan
- Tonight my daughter said, "Mom, you know why I am ...
- as jello biafra says...
- lactivism
- new book
- last batch of search queries people entered to fin...
- mix-up
- end of summer
- leftyblogs.com
- i'm in love, i'm in love, i'm in love, i'm in love
- Big news in Bell Buckle!
- If Karl Rove were made up...
- Arianna Huffington on Cindy Sheehan
- thoroughly debatable
- jane is ten
- pony finals
- not saying no
- good show/good cause
- ward's doctor
- entertain kate
- sea 7 states
- missing monkey
- editorial (in)accuracy
- damning with faint praise
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7 comments:
My Mom cooks dinner for me once a week and send me home with left-overs. I can drink beer with my Dad and watch football.
why, so you can micro analyze what everyone else does? so you can put it in your little hat and churn it around and decide that x y and z defines a good parent?
there are people who most definately should not have access to any children and there are, no doubt, those who seem to have a gift with children. then there are the rest of us in between. I dont think it serves a purpose to try and "define" good parent. because, there we are all "good parents" in some ways and "bad parents" in others. because we are human beings in process. if you have to define "being a good parent" I think you have way too much free time on your hands to mentally masturbate about things. you know if you are trying to grow in maturity and selflessness with others and that would include your children. you know if you are honest or manipulative in your dealings with others and that includes your children. I am sure we all have our areas that probably because of our own issues, we prioritize. and those may be things that mean nothing to our children. and we have stuff, important stuff, stuff that would have mattered, that we totally miss. if you are defining yourself as a "good parent" because you breastfed and co slept...well..you might be a crappy parent in teaching your children basic life survival skills and blueprinting for them how a good marriage or relationship with the opposite sex works. just an example.
I think, a lot of times, that those who try the hardest to be "good parents", screw it up.
Gee, you seem awfully angry.
-Katie
no just sick of people who find it neccessary to spout off and create new theories.
did your parents do so great a job Katie? they appear to not have taught you how to manage money, perform basic life skills (such as cooking) and maintain a relationship with the opposite sex. what about your upbringing caused you to be like a heat seeking missile for men that treat people like garbage? personally I would not want to take parenting advice from someone like that but apparently a lot of your fans have missed the obvious. a good parent prepares their child properly for life. in addition to mundane tasks and how to maintain a positive cash flow the parent teaches the child about relationships. I would wager Katie, that the example you are setting with men for your daughter probably is a far greater influence than demand feeding her was in her ability to maintain relationships as an adult. I would wager that a child fed on a schedule whose mother set an example of selecting and maintaining a relationship with a man of integrity (as opposed to assholes with cool shoes and hip taste in music and politics) would produce a child who would fare far better than an "attach parented" one whose mother appears to be deficient in anything except stupid esoteric skills that have no redeeming value to society (such as leaping multi figure animals over fences way too high for safeties sake and writing stupid liberal trash on the internet.)
Good grief. That's quite a tirade. I think "anonymous" has some personal connection to Katie, but isn't honest enough to reveal his identity and relationship - or former relationship. There's much too much hostility to have been written by a stranger. Yep, "anonymous," money management, cooking, organizing closets and identifying poisonous plants and snakes all are good skills for children to learn from their parents. But that is not parenting. And if every divorced parent is a bad parent, we have a national crisis. Take a deep breath, go outside and listen to the birds chirping and get a grip. You might want to have your blood pressure checked too.
I suck with both money management AND poisonous plants. And yep, it's true, I cannot cook.
-Katie
Ok, this is just sort of short and sweet, but right now, with a two and a half year old and a 9 month, I define a good parent as someone who yells a lot less than me.
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