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What the Weekend Has Taught Me
1
There is no lower age limit on having a taste for whipped cream.
2
Even if you decide not to bother with sending your kid to school, you have to navigate a cluster of educational choices and worries. Homeschooling is just the tip of the iceberg. The New York Times just tried to describe "Unschooling" in this article, which leaves me with a fistful of questions and convinced that actual school is the route I'll take. I wasn't ever tempted otherwise, truly. I may be contrarian, but I'm rather conventional when it comes to education, and wary of my science skills.
3
Try as you might to raise your child gender-neutral, the world will interfere. This afternoon in the playground, my husband found himself stuck in the middle of a debate that raged among a kindergarten-aged boy with a clutch of toy soldier; a long-haired, pink-clad, glitter wearing boy of similar age and the mother of the kid in pink.
The mother in question trotted up when she heard that Soldier-boy was referring to her pink child as a girl.
"Actually, she's a he."
"She can't be a he. She's wearing pink."
An enormous debate erupted. Soldier-boy kept looking to my husband (noodling with Felix in the vicinity) for support (not forthcoming), and becoming increasingly and rather precociously sarcastic about what he saw as a ridiculous state of affairs.
It ended with a very cute pink clad toddler friend of Felix's wandering up. Soldier-boy looked at her and snarked at Pink-boy's mother: "So I guess that must be a boy. He's wearing pink."
4.
The real lesson to take from example #3 is that it is pointless to get in to theoretical arguments with other people's kindergarteners.
5.
I saw Casino Royale and Daniel Craig doesn't disappoint.
posted by Elise at 8:15 PM
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