and it's not too hard to clean him up - just throw him in the kitchen sink, grab some soap and scrub him down.
Monday, February 28, 2011
self feeding...
remi is now very competent at feeding himself. and when i say "competent" i just mean that he can get food from point A to point B (his mouth) with accuracy. it doesn't mean that he's neat and clean at the end of it. last week we had spaghetti and after remi was done eating shawn said that maybe we should just keep feeding remi because he makes such a mess. i had three responses: (1) he'll never learn to eat if we're always feeding him, (2) that it was so nice to be able to eat a meal without having to take a break every 20 seconds to spoon more food into remi's mouth, and (3) where's the fun in that?! :)
and it's not too hard to clean him up - just throw him in the kitchen sink, grab some soap and scrub him down.
and it's not too hard to clean him up - just throw him in the kitchen sink, grab some soap and scrub him down.
shopping...
why is it that we love shopping so much? i've been thinking about this lately and wondering why we love spending money to get new things. and why is it that social status in middle and high schools can revolve around malls and on shopping at certain stores and owning specific name brand things? is it any surprise that we are in a time where being in debt is common and accepted as normal?
growing up with five siblings it was easy to get carried away as to who had more than another - especially at meal times. i don't know if we were typical in this but it became a competition at dinner to see who could end up with more food on their plate. at one point i remember my parents mandating that they had to dish up the plates because they were sick of all the whining and griping and fighting.
so is this drive to own more or better things than another an innate survival instinct? in nature, animals try to acquire resources for survival and guard them possessively. if they don't, it may well mean that they won't live very long. if it is innate, how can we defeat it? how can we teach our kids to overcome it?
i'm not saying that over-acquiring ("debt"or "hording") is a natural characteristic of every person, but is it a natural drive? and how do we change the next generation's outlook on it? on shopping? on owning new things? and how do we change our own?
on a side note, below is a picture of all the items that i scored for $16 at albertson's a few weeks ago. yeah, yeah - acquiring things can sometimes be exciting! :)
growing up with five siblings it was easy to get carried away as to who had more than another - especially at meal times. i don't know if we were typical in this but it became a competition at dinner to see who could end up with more food on their plate. at one point i remember my parents mandating that they had to dish up the plates because they were sick of all the whining and griping and fighting.
so is this drive to own more or better things than another an innate survival instinct? in nature, animals try to acquire resources for survival and guard them possessively. if they don't, it may well mean that they won't live very long. if it is innate, how can we defeat it? how can we teach our kids to overcome it?
i'm not saying that over-acquiring ("debt"or "hording") is a natural characteristic of every person, but is it a natural drive? and how do we change the next generation's outlook on it? on shopping? on owning new things? and how do we change our own?
on a side note, below is a picture of all the items that i scored for $16 at albertson's a few weeks ago. yeah, yeah - acquiring things can sometimes be exciting! :)
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