I'm happy to report visible progress on Nurture vs Nature. I've got the rough draft of the prologue done. By the time I've finished filling that in, it ought to run about 5K words. The hell of it is, if it was filmed, that probably wouldn't run more than ten minutes, IE, the set-up before the opening credits ( Read more... )

Sometimes, it's useful to have friends with kids. Googling things like "childhood development milestones" is okay if you want to get an idea of when a kid might start walking, for example. But when it comes to specifics like, "Would a 2-year old still be in a highchair?"---that's when having a gal pal with maternal inclinations comes in handy. Yay ( Read more... )