A Few Good Memes

We went to the oncologist this morning and her recent echocardiogram shows that the fluid around her heart is unchanged at not currently a threat to her heart. So it’s status quo for now. Status quo is more than welcome at this point.

Anna and I have had a long standing argument about whether or not to swear in front of the kids and whether or not to teach them to swear. I’ve always argued that they are just words and shouldn’t receive any special treatment. She’s always said it’s lazy speech. I think James Robertson’s last paragraph here is pretty convincing (and probably plays to Anna’s argument about lazy speech pretty well). No one is going to convince anyone else by swearing. I suppose swearing is just agression/violence via words and violence never changes someone’s opinion.

My iPod has been dead for a few months. So when I take Ian and Emma to daycare, we’re stuck with whatever is in the CD player or on the radio. I recently got a new iPod and when Ian noticed I had it hooked up on the way to daycare, he asked me to put on that song we always used to listen to on the way to daycare. I listen to a lot of music, whatever it was had gone out the back of my head by now. “What song are you talking about, Ian?”. “Look at It.” Scratch head. Hmm. I have a pretty encyclopedic knowledge of music and should, more or less, know what my kids know. Scratch head some more. Aha! Fire up The Beastie Boys “Check it Out”. Somewhere in there is a gem waiting to be explored about how kids acquire language.

My iPod has been dead for a few months. So when I take Ian and Emma to daycare, we’re stuck with whatever is in the CD player or on the radio. I recently got a new iPod and when Ian noticed I had it hooked up on the way to daycare, he asked me to put on that song we always used to listen to on the way to daycare. I listen to a lot of music, whatever it was had gone out the back of my head by now. “What song are you talking about, Ian?”. “Look at It.” Scratch head. Hmm. I have a pretty encyclopedic knowledge of music and should, more or less, know what my kids know. Scratch head some more. Aha! Fire up The Beastie Boys “Check it Out”. Somewhere in there is a gem waiting to be explored about how kids acquire language.