Update: the giveaway is now closed. Thank you to everyone who entered! I will post the winners shortly. June 2011 was a big one for this blog. We started the month with a site re-design and I began my efforts to monetize my site. This has also been the biggest month ever in terms of traffic. Back in April, I received a little over 95,000 unique visitors and so had set a short-term goal of 100,000 visitors per month by the summer's end. Well, as of 12:00am this morning, I had received...
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I saw an article titled "How Dumb Was Your First Online Handle?" yesterday on Gizmodo and I couldn't help but let out a small giggle. It sure brought back some good memories...
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Lately I have been losing my patience with Comang. So much so, that the thought of giving him away has entered my mind on more than a few occasions. :-( Our beloved shih-tzu has a classic case of first child syndrome. He is insanely jealous of the attention that Claire receives and is adding undue stress to my life. Please don't get me wrong — he has never acted out against Claire and I am certain that he won't. Instead, he acts out toward me, his mommy and his favorite person in the world. Whenever I am sitting anywhere with Claire, he will try to squeeze himself between us. When I am doing something with Claire that requires most of my attention, such...
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Earlier today, I read about Egalia, a Swedish preschool that aims to break down gender stereotypes. At this taxpayer-funded preschool located in the liberal Sodermalm district of Stockholm, staff avoid using pronouns such as "him" or "her" and address the 33 children as "friends" rather than boys and girls. Every little detail — from the color and placement of toys to the selection of literature (which mostly consists of books dealing with homosexual couples, single parents or adopted children) — has been carefully planned to ensure that the children do not fall into gender stereotypes from a young age. I couldn't help but be reminded of the Canadian parents who are hiding the gender of their baby. Upon reading that article, I remember asking...
Continue readingJ and I took Claire to visit some friends over the weekend, and when we were all saying our respective goodbyes, Claire started waving bye too! Immediately J and I looked at each other with raised eyebrows. We hadn't been trying to teach her how to wave, so we thought it might just be some coincidental arm motions. But long after we had returned home, Claire continued to wave bye whenever we asked her to, and we knew that this had to something she had picked up just from observing the world around her. I finally managed to take a short video of it today. I stupidly aimed the Flip too high to get her first waves in the frame, but you can...
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