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  • May 11, 2012 4:35 pm
    Me and Addy at Fresno Montessori’s Mother’s Day Tea. Addy sang in Spanish, presented me with a handmade gift and served me punch and cake. It was perfect. View high resolution

    Me and Addy at Fresno Montessori’s Mother’s Day Tea. Addy sang in Spanish, presented me with a handmade gift and served me punch and cake. It was perfect.

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  • May 7, 2012 9:33 pm
    icecreamisbetterwithafork: Think I may have to order a huge ass print of this. I love it.  Love this. View high resolution

    icecreamisbetterwithafork:

    Think I may have to order a huge ass print of this. I love it. 

    Love this.

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  • April 21, 2012 9:38 pm
    Cameron says, “This is how you get the co-eds’ attention.” View high resolution

    Cameron says, “This is how you get the co-eds’ attention.”

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  • 8:07 pm
    avoidingtheinevitable: I went to college here. #college #ucdavis #ucdalumni #winning (Taken with instagram) Davis signage. View high resolution

    avoidingtheinevitable:

    I went to college here. #college #ucdavis #ucdalumni #winning (Taken with instagram)

    Davis signage.

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  • 8:06 pm
    avoidingtheinevitable: 3 girls facing one direction an smiling, it’s a picnic day miracle. #futurebffs #picnicday #ucd (Taken with instagram) Future roommates? View high resolution

    avoidingtheinevitable:

    3 girls facing one direction an smiling, it’s a picnic day miracle. #futurebffs #picnicday #ucd (Taken with instagram)

    Future roommates?

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  • 8:04 pm
    Griffin eating the quad. View high resolution

    Griffin eating the quad.

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  • 11:33 am
    Deep into her soil art. View high resolution

    Deep into her soil art.

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  • 10:45 am
    Picnic Day Parade View high resolution

    Picnic Day Parade

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  • April 10, 2012 11:51 pm
    Our nanny is pretty smart. She blogged this.

    Our nanny is pretty smart. She blogged this.

    (Source: djstoa)

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  • 10:45 pm

    Discipline, revisited


    —-I wrote this blog almost two years ago.  Went looking for it tonight.  Felt like I needed to be reminded. 

    “Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”
    CS Lewis

    Sadly this quote made me think of parenting. Specifically discipline. 

    I finally finished reading Unconditional Parenting by Alfie Kohn.  He says it this way, “I realized that [not being a pain to the adults] is what many people in our society seem to want most from children: not that they are caring or creative or curious, but simply that they are well behaved. A “good” child — from infancy to adolescence — is one who isn’t too much trouble for grown-ups.”

    Addy is almost two.   I’m an optimist and am unwilling to accept that they will be terrible.  But I will admit that my dear little one has a mind of her own.  And I am THANKFUL for that.  I want Addy to have opinions, desires, and ideas.  I want her to be determined.  I also want her to be kind, just, and compassionate.  

    Raising a little person is a big job. 

    I love these tips Kohn provided:

    1. Be reflective.
    2. Reconsider your requests.
    3. Keep your eye on your long term goals.
    4. Put the relationship first.
    5. Change how you see, not just how you act.
    6. R-e-s-p-e-c-t.
    7. Be authentic.
    8. Talk less, ask more.
    9. Keep their ages in mind.
    10. “Attribute to children the best possible motive consistent with the facts.”
    11. Don’t stick your no’s in unnecessarily.
    12. Don’t be rigid.
    13. Don’t be in a hurry.

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