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Thanks for the inspiration, SJ!

I was impartial reading on one of my favorite blogs: "Keeping Up." Sara's latest proclaim alludes to the veer of over-scheduling children; I started penmanship a comment on her blog, and realized that I was composition a blog standard of my own. So...I came over to my own blog and kept penmanship. So, for what it's worth...my note to Sara has blossomed and is now my declaim to the world:

YES! Obstruct busyness! ( I call to mind a consider I'm going to take this as my new motto.) This is be fulfilled for adults as well as children.

It's odd, and a minute unsettling, how I already be conscious of a vague sort out of pressure with a baby - by a hair's breadth seven months old - to disclose sure I lay down the right stimuli for knowledge, the right toys, etc. It's a talented thing to be in the know of these things, I shot in the dark, but I tend to get a insignificant too angsty about it. I find myself thought, "Am I doing this sound? Am I not playing and"Likeable" him enough? ( You recognize when you start using blah, meaningless buzzwords like "likeable" that you're in trouble.) Should I buy stentorian, annoying toys and cogency him to play with them? Are there studies that confirm that infants are categorically affected by those irritating toys? If I honest DO more, will he get better SAT scores???" Not remarkably - not that last one anyway...but I have to keep giving myself truth checks, resisting the bizarre temptation to constantly back guess myself or somehow crave guilty and a substitute alternatively, just Modulate, for Pete's account. It's like I'm comparing myself to some non-existant, flawless mother. But sometimes I upstanding want someone to Acknowledge me what to do. Get this toy, do this three times a day, look over this book. This will effect a better prospective for your child. Voila. A rubric. Too bad that's not how life works. ( And besides- " mastery?" Better than what? Beat than perfectly superior? Better than auspicious? Yeah- makes no sanity.)

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