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Huia
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Eliab, if that's the same child you mentioned in Heaven as planning your successor (should the need arise) I think she's brilliant.

(If it's another one - you obviously raise awesome kids).

Huia

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Eliab
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Thank you.

Yes, it's the same girl. When my kids came to see me after my op, my son came up to me and gave me the gentlest of hugs, saying "I love you Daddy, I missed you, are you OK?" and my daughter went straight to "Can I see the scar?".

I suppose that there is a legitimate parental role in encouraging my son to be more curious and analytical, and my daughter to be more considerate and sympathetic, but (1) to complement, not to replace, the ways in which they naturally think, and (2) to broaden their respective experiences, not to channel them into a narrower idea of what girls or boys 'ought' to be like.

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argona
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quote:
Originally posted by LeRoc:
quote:
Originally posted by Sioni Sais:
FWIW we got fed up with little old ladies (sorry, but it was mostly elderly women) who saw Eldest Son c 12 months in anything other than deepest blue and would say "What a lovely girl". That was it, off came his curls.

I would have left the curls.
Me too. What exactly were you worried about, Sioni?
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Soror Magna
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Yeah, the sexist crones are the problem, not the curls.

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Anselmina
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Interesting article on kids' toys, and the blue vs. pink thing.

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Anselmina
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Last link on this, promise.

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Penny S
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Well, I'm a) good at maps, and b)lousy at asking the way. The latter because I know I'm going to get a string of directions probably based on the names of pubs which are now boarded up or demolished, and an ability to estimate yards which I do not have, and in any case more than three and I can only hold three of a series in my head at a time.

Got the wrong ratio of white to grey matter, then.

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