Mr. Zack is 18 months old and yesterday we went to see the pediatrician.
His development is faster than mine. He’s moving chairs where he wants them to be and climbing on top of stoves, tables, cabinets, dressers, and desks. In my mind, he’s still can’t reach things, like the butcher knife I used to cut the watermelon – and I don’t realize he can reach it until I walk into the kitchen and find him hacking away at the watermelon with a knife. That’s when I freak out about the near miss and say a prayer of thanks that I found him …read more

Kate over at Babylune has a great post called Regretting Motherhood about a new book circulating in France, No Kid: Forty Reasons Not to Have A Child. It’s difficult for me to understand it’s cultural context, so take my analysis with a grain of salt.
The gist according to Kate’s post is that a mother-of-two has written a book saying she regrets having children. It’s too hard, it’s painful and it’s not all it’s cracked up to be. Don’t do it.
Kate understands the socio-political context better than I do because she resides in Germany and she has this to say, “Still, I have …read more