December 23, 2011 – 11:47 AM
It’s December 23rd and still time to answer a Craiglist ad for a new horse, pet pig, or used rabbit cage. Here’s our advice on six pets not to get:
1. Tarantula – Sure, they are cute, furry, and cuddly when you take them home, but wait until your son lays one on your face while you’re taking a post-football Sunday nap. Your heart attack won’t be as embarrassing as what you’ll do in your pants.
2. Snake – Yes, they also look great in the pet store when you’re thinking of how your ex-wife will react. But, trust me, they are a lot less fun when the wily creatures find a way out of the snake cage, free to wander through the walls and heating ducts of your house, ready to jump out at you.
December 16, 2011 – 2:30 PM
Some days it just seems like there are too many rules. Take a look at this list compiled by Yahoo! Shine’s Piper Weiss on crazy rules set up around pregnancy, baby names, schools and travel. Some seem a bit over the top and more than a few downright unnecessary, but in a world more and more focussed on the individual, it’s not surprising some organizations are trying to herd the cats. Happy reading.
2011: The Year in Kids Bans
· Baby photos: A Maryland hospital banned baby photos in the first five minutes after a child is delivered. The hospital explained that family photographers were causing risky distractions, though those in opposition to the policy believed it was put in place to avoid malpractice lawsuits.
November 10, 2011 – 2:39 PM
Before you type anything else into your keyboard, consider this: Keyboards, on average, are five times dirtier and have 60 times more germs on them than toilet seats. They are 150 times over the acceptable limit for bacteria.
…[From 16% of Cellphones Have Poop on Them ]
I guess that’s what happens if you talk on the phone and change diapers at the same time. The phone is eventually going to fall in.
November 2, 2011 – 11:52 PM
This is the kind of poetry my 7 year old is learning in school this year:
There once was a genie with a ten foot weenie
who went to a lady’s house
she thought it was a snake, so she hit it with a rake
and now it’s only five foot four.
My daughter never came home saying things like this, but now at 11, she laughs hysterically when he says recites similar rhymes. I can’t help laughing, remembering other way-crude jokes we would tell in elementary school with barely any anatomical understanding at all. Still, it’s a disconcerting debut to his journalistic career.
November 2, 2011 – 2:50 PM
Lisa Belkin, who has written the Motherlode blog on NYT.com for years, has decided the grass is greener over at The Huffington Post. This in itself, I find kind of sad, since Lisa has built her reputation attached to the New York Times brand, but so goes the world of new media. But the story has made an interesting turn since Ms. Belkin used the move to change the name of her column from Motherlode to Parentlode. Whether she did this, as she says, because ‘“Motherlode” doesn’t really fit in an era when fathers are every bit the parent,’ or because she needed a new name, is anyone’s guess. However, the NYT doesn’t agree that this is a good name, or at least that it doesn’t run up against their trademark on the use of “motherlode” for a column of this type.
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