And the wierd criminal award goes to…Library Bandit Dude! Some people are so stupid.
Self explanatory:
Well, we had the first pediatrician appointment at which she would have gotten vaccinated, and I refused! I knew I would, and I knew that she wouldn’t be getting any vaccinations until the state of Maryland forces us to, in order for her to attend school…but I still felt nervous as I entered the pediatrician’s office yesterday. It is so easy to feel bullied by doctors, and feel nervous about asserting our rights as parents and as patients, but I did it. I told our doctor that we are not comfortable with the risks of vaccines, we do not believe the FDA when they tell us there is no link between vaccines and autism, and we will not be vaccinating our daughter at this time.
He basically said, ok, and we moved on. It was much easier than I expected, and I felt so victorious when we left! I felt I had really made a decision that made a difference in my daughter’s life, and I felt like such a strong mommy for not giving in. I just looked at my beautiful, perfect, pure little girl after we left, and knowing that I had not allowed any of those toxins in her body made me feel like a really good momma.
For those of you unfamilar with the vaccine debate: check all these out:
http://talkaboutcuringautism.org/jenny/dc-rally/green-our-vaccines-rally.htm
Here’s my daughter’s opinion of her GloWorm…which I think is pretty dang cute.
So, I just read a profoundly disturbing story on Yahoo! that seems pretty harmless on the surface. It seems that a bunch of researchers have determined that voting behavior is at least 50% determined by genetics. They studied twins raised in different housholds, and determined that their shared genetics were responsible for their politics…
Wow. Is anyone else really horrified by the ramifications of that? The idea that people are genetically predetermined to vote or not to vote, to prefer democracy over theocracy, to be a liberal or a conservative?
This reminds me of Social Darwinism in the extreme. What could be extrapolated from this study is that groups of people are genetically predetermined to a particular political system. Russia has been historically run by demagogic dictators…maybe they’re just genetically disposed to that. Maybe America, oh, wait, “Merca” (said with Dubya accent) is genetically a bastian of democracy and freedom. We are just chosen by evolution to be the leaders of the free world…
Ok, maybe I am overracting, but I do find the study pretty creepy. Check it out.
I just read about this on one of my parenting forums. A woman was looking for a book about breastfeeding, or a book that portayed breastfeeding positively, to read to her children. When she couldn’t find one, she contacted a publishing group, which explained to her that they and all their subsidiary groups only allow bottle feeding to be shown in their books. Just another example of how fearful we are in this country of depicting natural, normal behavior. Boobs = bad…unless it’s in a porno, and it’s a hot blonde. But a mom feeding her child – not ok.
So, this woman and her Le Leche League group started a petition. Here it is - sign by midnight, when polling closes.
I read this on the www.mothering.com message boards, and I think it is a beautiful explanation of why co-sleeping is great. It brings all the people we love into one place.
Read it here. You’ll have to scroll down a bit.
Good God, I hate Sheila Dixon. For those of you not from Baltimore, I’m not sure you can even understand why I would hate her so much, even if I explained it to you. Basically, she is the prototypical politician. She grants favors to her friends and family, makes empty promises designed to get her good press and then never follows through, takes credit for ideas that were started LONG before she was in power, and always manages to slime her way out of trouble. She just makes me sick. She gives women in power such a bad name.
She’s currently being investigated, and I really hope she gets it this time. Of course, our city council president would become mayor, and she’s totally in Dixon’s pocket…so, I’m not sure that’s much better.
Local politics are so dirty. I just had to vent.
I have resisted posting pictures of my daughter on the blog, just because it seems kind of strange to me that strangers would know what my kid looks like…but I HAVE to share this pic of her in her Bumbo this morning. She’s 10 weeks old, and very active, and has always been great at holding her head up, so we borrowed my best friend’s Bumbo, since her daughter has outgrown it, and we started using it about a week ago. She LOVES it! She is so happy every time she is in it, and it is one of those products I just have to sing the praises of. It’s so simple, and so ingenious. Leave it to those Kiwis.
And her she is checking out the dog:
I can’t believe this story. Everyone should just recycle their cars and buy bikes. Or horses. or anything that won’t destroy the planet completely.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20080627/sc_livescience/northpolecouldbeicefreethissummer
