Gentle Discipline

There are so many aspects of parenting and, of course, discipline comes up fairly quickly. People ask if your baby is a 'good' baby. Of course, Elisabeth is such an easy baby that I get asked if she cries! *Note, yes, she does cry, like all babies--when she needs something, and I haven't noticed or answered her body language signals. But note, I said "easy" not good. I get irked because babies are not bad. Difficult or high needs, yes. But bad, no, I would never label a baby or even a child, 'bad'. Children will fulfill the expectations they hear spoken of them. I backtalked because anytime I talked and my mom didn't want to hear me speak, I was backtalking, so I figured (and I remember thinking this) if I'm gonna get in trouble for backtalking, I might as well be sassy when I talked.

So anyway, I've been discussing Gentle Discipline with my parents. My dad didn't want to spank us, and my mom did, she still thinks she's right even tho' she and I don't get along the greatest. I was reading the Graceful Parenting blog, and the thought struck me, (er, pun not intended), "I could never see Jesus spanking a child." And I am sure that He had opportunities to see His siblings' children and other kids act up and had times where He may have corrected them, but I can't imagine Him saying "You need a good spanking " or, "I'll give you something to cry about." Instead, He does not say you should beat a child, but He blesses them.(Mark 10:13-16) One of the things I like most is that when the disciples try to keep the children away from Jesus, He gets indignant! And He says cursed are those who cause a child to sin.(Matthew 18:1-6) Woooo, that's a little heavy. How do adults cause children to sin? Hmm, good question, what would you say? Please answer if you have any thoughts.

Pampered Chef Party

I'm having one! That's such a "married with kids" grown-up thing to do. I remember my mom going to a Tupperware party when I was a kid, and it seemed so grown-up and sophisticated. Go figure. I don't know why.

But my demonstrator's page is here.
Or you are certainly invited if you live close enough.

Oops, I check the link and her page isn't available as of 10/11/07. But if you are interested, I can see about mailing a catalogue?

Whoa!

Has it really been a month since I last posted? Okay, don't answer that!

Elisabeth is rolling over back to tummy all the time. The doctor says that's harder and babies that are larger have a harder time with motor skills. Hmmm. She was slightly less than 90 percentile for height/weight/length.

Her first tooth came in last week. We realized it Saturday when I was swabbing her mouth with Grapefruit Seed Extract and something poked my finger. Bottom front right. She's so easy-going we just thought it was the thrush bothering her. But she wasn't even as fussy as she was with the thrush when it was worse. She did start nursing at 2 am again, had been sleeping til 3 a couple weeks ago. And Thursday a week ago had four messy diapers, so I'm guessing that was when the tooth was coming in. The left side is swollen, but don't feel it real close yet.

It has been pretty cold up here in ND, we brought my tomatoes in last night.

We went to the library sale and got some more lovely books for PaperBackSwap. Check it out, it's really neat. If you have books you don't want, you can post them, get credits and 'buy' books you want with your credits. When you post 10 books, they give you two credits to start with and you get credits when you refer people and they post books. I've gotten a bunch of books way cheaper than even used bookstores. :O

I'm reading one book, The Space Between Us, by Thrity Umrigar. It's requested 49 times and sounded interesting. It's a about the class system in India. One quote I like so far about a man staring inappropriately at a woman, [He is]"Acting as if he had no mother or sister." A rather apropos statement regarding any man who treats women with disrespect.

Well, some sleepyhead is awake and making noises, so off with my day.