Christmas cards will be mailed on Monday ...
I know it's late, but we only got the child pictures this week, and I've been very busy at work and am now resting for the day with a cold and without a voice. Ugh.
I've been meaning to write a larger post on some bible-related reading I've been doing over the past few months, but that will have to wait until I'm feeling a little better.
However, I'd like to comment on something that cropped up on rivka's LJ a while ago: gender-stereotyping of activities. Having mulled this over for a while, I think that a lot of this may just be in people's heads. For example, as soon as they see a little girl with a doll, or a little boy with a digger, it's genetics. What they fail to notice is the little girl putting the doll down to build with her blocks, and the little boy putting his digger to bed like a favourite teddy. My own daughter is fairly balanced overall. She loves pushing a pram, puzzles, painting, putting toys to bed, building, and horsing around. Let's see what happens when peer pressure really kicks in ...
Language-wise, she now mostly strings 3-4 words together, but is still woefully lacking in all the little particles that are such integral parts of most sentences. German is, surprisingly, by far her dominant language. I hope that with some more one-to-one time in nursery and more contact with older toddlers, that will change. She's very social, too, but not in a butterfly way. She watches, observes, and approaches other kids when she sees an opportunity to join in the fun. Very interesting. She's also quite patient (except with mum and dad, obviously.)
I've been meaning to write a larger post on some bible-related reading I've been doing over the past few months, but that will have to wait until I'm feeling a little better.
However, I'd like to comment on something that cropped up on rivka's LJ a while ago: gender-stereotyping of activities. Having mulled this over for a while, I think that a lot of this may just be in people's heads. For example, as soon as they see a little girl with a doll, or a little boy with a digger, it's genetics. What they fail to notice is the little girl putting the doll down to build with her blocks, and the little boy putting his digger to bed like a favourite teddy. My own daughter is fairly balanced overall. She loves pushing a pram, puzzles, painting, putting toys to bed, building, and horsing around. Let's see what happens when peer pressure really kicks in ...
Language-wise, she now mostly strings 3-4 words together, but is still woefully lacking in all the little particles that are such integral parts of most sentences. German is, surprisingly, by far her dominant language. I hope that with some more one-to-one time in nursery and more contact with older toddlers, that will change. She's very social, too, but not in a butterfly way. She watches, observes, and approaches other kids when she sees an opportunity to join in the fun. Very interesting. She's also quite patient (except with mum and dad, obviously.)