You know, I used to love the movie The Philadelphia Story until i realized/recognized that the father in that movie was basically blaming his adultery on the fact that his daughter didn't pay him enough attention. Then I stopped being able to watch it which is a shame b'c Jimmy Stewart is one of my favorite actors... (You made me think of that with your comment about Gone With the Wind.)
My nephew turned two on April Fool's Day (funny birthday!!) and his style of doing anything with his Auntie Pam is basically shrieking at the top of his lungs something incomprehensible (b'c he only has about 50 or so English words) and the rest is either Japanese or Cantonese or some sort of tribal language never b'4 heard in the United States. (I'm just kidding -- I have no idea what he's saying -- he just babbles away constantly and I pretend to understand and he continues and continues and I dread when he REALLY starts speaking English b'c apparently he will talk NONSTOP for HOURS AT A TIME.
You can not watch TV while Jonathan is awake. Other than Diego or Dora. Or a video of Green Eggs and Ham.
The only thing that worries me about Jonathan's upbringing is that I was babysitting him when BICO came out (my sister is a single working mom so I babysit a lot) and, OF COURSE, I watched the video many times, including w' Jonathan, and Carolyn came home and saw that we were watching this and told me not to let him watch that b'c it might 'give him ideas'. And I thought what ideas could a video of two boys singing give a 19 month old toddler? Did she actually think watching two boys sing would 'turn' her son gay? Or that it would matter? (B'c she's a liberal Democrat and I assumed, up until that moment, that she was totally normal about these matters.) But apparently not.
So I'm going to have to teach Jonathan tolerance and acceptance on a larger scale and sneak him peaks of what the real world is like. Just because.
And yeah, I will have to watch Glee later or the next day. *sobs uncontrollably* I'm not as lucky as you...
My nephew turned two on April Fool's Day (funny birthday!!) and his style of doing anything with his Auntie Pam is basically shrieking at the top of his lungs something incomprehensible (b'c he only has about 50 or so English words) and the rest is either Japanese or Cantonese or some sort of tribal language never b'4 heard in the United States. (I'm just kidding -- I have no idea what he's saying -- he just babbles away constantly and I pretend to understand and he continues and continues and I dread when he REALLY starts speaking English b'c apparently he will talk NONSTOP for HOURS AT A TIME.
You can not watch TV while Jonathan is awake. Other than Diego or Dora. Or a video of Green Eggs and Ham.
The only thing that worries me about Jonathan's upbringing is that I was babysitting him when BICO came out (my sister is a single working mom so I babysit a lot) and, OF COURSE, I watched the video many times, including w' Jonathan, and Carolyn came home and saw that we were watching this and told me not to let him watch that b'c it might 'give him ideas'. And I thought what ideas could a video of two boys singing give a 19 month old toddler? Did she actually think watching two boys sing would 'turn' her son gay? Or that it would matter? (B'c she's a liberal Democrat and I assumed, up until that moment, that she was totally normal about these matters.) But apparently not.
So I'm going to have to teach Jonathan tolerance and acceptance on a larger scale and sneak him peaks of what the real world is like. Just because.
And yeah, I will have to watch Glee later or the next day. *sobs uncontrollably* I'm not as lucky as you...
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