Link-dump
posted in Miscellaneous, News, Parenting, Science |Zooillogix today featured Martin Amm’s fabulous macro photos of bugs in nature, specifically the “wet bugs” pictures. You have got to see these photographs.
There was a partial lunar eclipse on last Saturday, and the Astronomy Picture of the Day featured a way-kewl time-lapse photograph of the event this week which shows just how big the earth’s shadow really is.
Read all about the work, devotion, trials, and tribulations of a state-fair champion pumpkin grower working to grow this year’s entry.
Remember my parable about vakseens? Respectful Insolence takes notice of today’s news about how the number of measles cases in the U.S. so far this year is the highest since 1997.
A compare-and-contrast duo: Back in April, Lenore Skenazy was taken severely to task by NY Times readers for her story of allowing her 9-year-old son to ride the NYC subway all by himself! Oh, the horrors. So she created the website FreeRangeKids, posted the column again, and now has 440+ comments. Today, in a weird sense of deja-vu, I read the post “Riding the subway–to school?” on ParentDish, all about kids 8, 9, and up riding the…wait for it…NYC subway all by themselves to go to and from school. The semi-approving post has had all-of-three semi-approving comments. Where’s the outrage there was for Skenazy’s column? Ironic.
Speaking of judging others’ parenting styles, check out CrabMommy’s tale of being dressed down for dressing down her tot in public. I am so glad I was able to wrassle OmegaDotter out of various stores while in full tantrum mode without anything like that happening to me. I seem to recall one time when I hauled her out of Costco under my arm, plopped her into the carseat in the car, slammed the door, and sat out on the hood of the car while she completed her tantrum, and got actually applauded by a few passersby who had seen the whole scene erupt.
Thankfully, that didn’t happen very often, and is now a thing of the past. I seem to recall it being closer to her fourth birthday than her third, but that was long ago. Yay!
Readership: I probably won’t futz with the RSS feed, mainly because I’m too lazy. Har! But also because, if even one of my readers finds partial feeds inconvenient, it’s not worth it to me. (Ahem. See my halo? I think I’ve shown it off before. It glitters, y’know!) Of course, the same day I was lamenting low readership stats in a half-concealed plea for people to please visit my blooooog (and so many of you took pity, thank you!) someone “Stumbled Upon” me, and I immediately got a big boost for the day. Isn’t that ironic?
OmegaMom drifts off, humming Alanis Morisette to herself.
