My two-year son, Noah, is a very picky eater. His menu is very routine. For breakfast he eats maple and brown sugar oatmeal. For lunch, yogurt. For dinner we are back to oatmeal. He, of course, will snack on crackers and pretzels. Recently, he has decided that he will eat PB&J. However, if you offer him anything outside of those choices, he will not eat. Classics of child eating, like hot dogs, refused. Mashed potatoes, No way.
Then, I catch him picking his nose and eating his boogers. So much for having a refined palate.
Monday, April 30, 2007
Sunday, April 29, 2007
My. My. Haven't you been quiet lately.
Yes. I have been quiet lately. And for good reason. See, about one month ago (March 27th to be exact), I was quietly working away at my desk developing solutions to complex problems when my phone rang. I answered it and my wife calmly explained that she thought her water had just broke. I flew out of my office and ran home to take her to the hospital. Life has not slowed down since then.
On March 28th, at 1:46 AM Erin successfully birthed our third child, Lannom Issac. Life has been very busy since then. I took a week and a half off. When I did return to work, I had a big project waiting for me (that I finished up last week). I changed my hours to work from 7 AM to 4 PM, so I have been getting up an hour earlier. When I get home at 4:30ish, I usually take the two older kids outside for awhile, then it is dinner time, bath time, and bed time. By the time Mihaela goes down at 8, I am so tired. But, that is when Lannom starts his fussy, colic time.
Sleep has been very hard to come by until recently. Lannom has started trying to sleep through the night (or at least sleeping through my shift). The rule at the Bowman household is I take care of Lannom if he is up before 2. Erin has the shift after 2. Lately, he has been being fed somewhere between 11 PM and midnight, and then goes right back to sleep. So, I've been getting a little bit more sleep.
Anyway, he is getting fat and growing well. He appears to be a very healthy baby. Despite the lack of sleep and the extra burden of care-taking, I think we will keep him. :)
On March 28th, at 1:46 AM Erin successfully birthed our third child, Lannom Issac. Life has been very busy since then. I took a week and a half off. When I did return to work, I had a big project waiting for me (that I finished up last week). I changed my hours to work from 7 AM to 4 PM, so I have been getting up an hour earlier. When I get home at 4:30ish, I usually take the two older kids outside for awhile, then it is dinner time, bath time, and bed time. By the time Mihaela goes down at 8, I am so tired. But, that is when Lannom starts his fussy, colic time.
Sleep has been very hard to come by until recently. Lannom has started trying to sleep through the night (or at least sleeping through my shift). The rule at the Bowman household is I take care of Lannom if he is up before 2. Erin has the shift after 2. Lately, he has been being fed somewhere between 11 PM and midnight, and then goes right back to sleep. So, I've been getting a little bit more sleep.
Anyway, he is getting fat and growing well. He appears to be a very healthy baby. Despite the lack of sleep and the extra burden of care-taking, I think we will keep him. :)
Saturday, March 24, 2007
Judge rules Internet Porn falls under First Amendment Protection
Child Online Protection Act violates the First Amendment
While I do not like porn on the internet from a moral standpoint, I do like the way this judge is thinking. He understands that the internet, by its very nature is not safe, and can never be made safe, for children. He makes it clear that it is neither society's nor government's responsibility to protect children from content on the Web. It is the parent's responsibility.
Children require supervision. Also, it is just not porn on the web that is harmful to children. There are plenty of other things on the web and no law can filter out what is appropriate when. Only a parent can do that.
Parents, don't be afraid to ask for help to protect your family from the destructive side of the Internet.
An American judge has struck down a law passed in 1998 by the US Government that made it a crime for commercial website operators to let children access "harmful" material.
The judge said parents can protect their children through software filters and other less restrictive means that do not limit the rights of others to free speech.
"Perhaps we do the minors of this country harm if First Amendment protections, which they will with age inherit fully, are chipped away in the name of their protection," wrote Senior US District Judge Lowell Reed Jr., who presided over a four-week trial last fall.
While I do not like porn on the internet from a moral standpoint, I do like the way this judge is thinking. He understands that the internet, by its very nature is not safe, and can never be made safe, for children. He makes it clear that it is neither society's nor government's responsibility to protect children from content on the Web. It is the parent's responsibility.
Children require supervision. Also, it is just not porn on the web that is harmful to children. There are plenty of other things on the web and no law can filter out what is appropriate when. Only a parent can do that.
Parents, don't be afraid to ask for help to protect your family from the destructive side of the Internet.
Friday, March 23, 2007
Sword into Plowshares
A modern approach to the whole turning "swords into plowshares" thing is the turning of "Firearms into Furniture." Cool art!!!
Thursday, March 22, 2007
Private Propety rights
Random Thoughts by Thomas Sowell contains this gem:
When Thomas Jefferson, wrote the words in the Declaration of Independence, he took a slight departure from the philosophies of Locke and Smith. Since Jefferson viewed the right to property, a concept tied to feudalism and such, as being potentially antithetical to liberty, he replaced the right to property with the right to the pursuit of happiness. However, he was still very much in support of the philosophies that prevented government from forcibly taking a private citizens property.
"When the Constitution's protection of private property was disregarded, so that politicians could rob from the rich to give to the poor, that also gave politicians the power to rob from the poor and give to the rich -- such as seizing homes in low-income neighborhoods and turning that property over to developers."So, basically the 17th Amendment turned one of the fundamental tenets of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence on its head. Without the protection of private property rights, there is no such thing as liberty and freedom. As a matter of fact, the most-influential philosopher for our Founding Fathers, John Locke, expressed the tenets of individual freedom as the concepts of "life, liberty, and estate (or property)". Later, Adam Smith coined the phrase "life, liberty, and the pursuit of property".
When Thomas Jefferson, wrote the words in the Declaration of Independence, he took a slight departure from the philosophies of Locke and Smith. Since Jefferson viewed the right to property, a concept tied to feudalism and such, as being potentially antithetical to liberty, he replaced the right to property with the right to the pursuit of happiness. However, he was still very much in support of the philosophies that prevented government from forcibly taking a private citizens property.
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