What'cha Reading?

[IndiReloaded]

For Grib, Mish, Doc and the women w/partners who you'd like to inspire to more housework. This book is written by a guy, for guys and its hilarious. I've ordered some gift copies.

Do the 'click inside' thing and try not to snort your coffee:

[url=http://www.amazon.com/How-Things-Really-Flat-Enlightenment/dp/1615190023]Amazon.com: How to Get Things Really Flat: Enlightenment for Every Man on Ironing, Vacuuming and Other Household Arts (9781615190027): Andrew Martin: Books[/url]

[Gigabitch]

Oh, my Gyver, Indi, that is hilarious.

We're reading the Dr. Sears Baby Book. Gigagirl is annoyed because there aren't enough pages about big sisters in there and wants her own book.

[IndiReloaded]

Well, its best to get CaliBoy up to speed before things become mission critical...

The tips in there are actually pretty good. I learned quite a few things.

[the_robot]

For Grib, Mish, Doc and the women w/partners who you'd like to inspire to more housework. This book is written by a guy, for guys and its hilarious. I've ordered some gift copies.

Do the 'click inside' thing and try not to snort your coffee:

[url=http://www.amazon.com/How-Things-Really-Flat-Enlightenment/dp/1615190023]Amazon.com: How to Get Things Really Flat: Enlightenment for Every Man on Ironing, Vacuuming and Other Household Arts (9781615190027): Andrew Martin: Books[/url]

That's kinda sexist... Some of us do things at home...

[misombra]

Oh, my Gyver, Indi, that is hilarious.

We're reading the Dr. Sears Baby Book. Gigagirl is annoyed because there aren't enough pages about big sisters in there and wants her own book.

aw you'll have to find her one!

i've never heard of the dr. sears book. when your done i'll trade you for my dr. spock book (aka the bible.)

[Gigabitch]

The Sears one is the book with the four babies on the front sitting with their little bare butts to the camera. I'd seen it before I bought it. It's like 700 pages. My friend recommended it to me and it's really good. I hear Dr. Spock is good too, but I don't agree with his opinions on parenting style. I'm more into attachment-style parenting.

[misombra]

attachment style? what's that?

[Gigabitch]

Remember in Meet the Fockers where they were "Ferburizing" that baby by leaving him alone and teaching him to "self-sooth" when he was crying? Attachment style is pretty much the opposite of that.

[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attachment_parenting]Attachment parenting - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/url]

[IndiReloaded]

That's kinda sexist... Some of us do things at home...

Read the book... I said it was written by a guy... do you understand the word satire?

[Gribble]

I need that book. The other day I popped the buttons off my coat while at work and had to sew them on. I had no idea what to do. Luckily a female coworker gave me a few tips. Unluckily, I proceeded to stab myself in the thumb so she yanked the needle and thread from my grasp and sewed the buttons for me.

Yeah, I'm pathetic, but I'd like to see her catch a fish or roast it over a fire she built herself. Phaw.

[doppelgaenger]

I'm reading a bunch of German literature right now, all in German. Mostly Novellas from the 18th century, focusing on crime and morality. All have English translations except the last one.

In the Penal Colony - Franz Kafka
The Criminal from Lost Honor - Friedrich Schiller
Michael Kohlhaas - Heinrich von Kleist
The Black Spider - Jeremias Gotthelf
The Jew's Beech tree - Annette von Droste-Hülshoff

And most recently The Last Summer (an epistolary) by Ricarda Huch
I would like to translate the last one. It would be a fun Summer hobby.

[misombra]

Remember in Meet the Fockers where they were "Ferburizing" that baby by leaving him alone and teaching him to "self-sooth" when he was crying? Attachment style is pretty much the opposite of that.

[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attachment_parenting]Attachment parenting - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/url]

oh i see. i don't think dr. spock teaches that. he teaches that babies are pretty reasonable people and if they cry usually something is wrong.

[Gigabitch]

oh i see. i don't think dr. spock teaches that. he teaches that babies are pretty reasonable people and if they cry usually something is wrong.

I think his belief that it's best for a baby to sleep in a room by itself is just plain wrong and unnatural. I'm not a proponent of the whole family bed thing, but my son will be sleeping in our room and won't feel abandoned at night. I just think it's weird to isolate them.

[misombra]

oh well i didn't really read that much into it. i'm just into the basics. how often you should feed your baby. what to feed the baby. how to change the baby's diapers. what is supposed to happen and when. stuff like that. i'm a beginner.

[Gigabitch]

Most of his advice is awesome.

And also, I just finished Eva Moves the Furniture and I loved it.