http://rosemarylemonade.com/blog/2010/07/26/joy-fun/ Tue, 03 Aug 2010 14:30:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://rosemarylemonade.com/blog/2010/07/26/joy-fun/#comment-746 the solley six Tue, 03 Aug 2010 14:30:16 +0000 http://rosemarylemonade.com/blog/?p=163#comment-746 We definitely do this more, the longer we are parents. Cort has pretty much no rules whatsoever, gets away with all kinds of mis-behavior and rowdiness. We do have lots more fun though- many games of hide and seek, piggy back rides, sword fights- can all be done in 10 minute spurts and make for very happy days. Billie had all kinds of rules and even time out as a 3 year old- now fun is more important and the rule is easily learned as a 5 year old. He'll be a bad influence when we come to visit for sure. Sloane will be such a sweet playmate and hopefully Rosy will pay more attention to that. We definitely do this more, the longer we are parents. Cort has pretty much no rules whatsoever, gets away with all kinds of mis-behavior and rowdiness. We do have lots more fun though- many games of hide and seek, piggy back rides, sword fights- can all be done in 10 minute spurts and make for very happy days. Billie had all kinds of rules and even time out as a 3 year old- now fun is more important and the rule is easily learned as a 5 year old.
He’ll be a bad influence when we come to visit for sure. Sloane will be such a sweet playmate and hopefully Rosy will pay more attention to that.

]]> http://rosemarylemonade.com/blog/2010/07/26/joy-fun/#comment-745 Nanna Fri, 30 Jul 2010 17:58:40 +0000 http://rosemarylemonade.com/blog/?p=163#comment-745 I was full of pop up objections when I started the article but think, overall, it was really balanced and circling around important issues and insights, taking pretty much everything into consideration that needed to be there. But that's the rub. It seems to me that slicing and dicing parenthood necessarily ends up with the parts of the whole, not with that Whatever that is greater than the sum of its parts. Some, but not too much, use of the L word in the article--and yet I think that love, that desire/ache to be connected, trumps day-to-day happiness every time--and parental love has a leg up beating other kinds of love cause it's a hardwired thing. Where lovers might hesitate, moms and dads will throw themselves over a cliff for their kids. I was full of pop up objections when I started the article but think, overall, it was really balanced and circling around important issues and insights, taking pretty much everything into consideration that needed to be there. But that’s the rub. It seems to me that slicing and dicing parenthood necessarily ends up with the parts of the whole, not with that Whatever that is greater than the sum of its parts. Some, but not too much, use of the L word in the article–and yet I think that love, that desire/ache to be connected, trumps day-to-day happiness every time–and parental love has a leg up beating other kinds of love cause it’s a hardwired thing. Where lovers might hesitate, moms and dads will throw themselves over a cliff for their kids.

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