Welcome to my commonplace blog

The goal of this blog is to preserve a few ideas and quotes from books I read. In the old days when books were not so readily available, people kept "commonplace books" where they copied choice passages they wanted to be able to remember and perhaps reuse. The idea got picked up by V.F.D. and it's common knowledge that most of that organization's volunteers have kept commonplace books, and so have Laura and I.

I'm sure there are many other Internet sites and blogs dedicated to the same idea. But this one is mine. Feel free to look around and leave comments, but not spam.

22 November 2010

Confessions of a Slacker Mom (Muffy Mead-Ferro)

This was a slower read than i had expected, but still, it's funny and easy to agree with. Equal parts of common-sense and here's-how-we-did-it-at-the-cow-farm-ery.

It takes a village to raise a child. Don't have a village? Hire one!
The world is not childproof.
Love your children and trust your instincts.
The main reason children are not disciplined, is because it's inconvenient.


Quotes:

I do hope it'll give you enough to mull over that the next time you hear from some magazine, TV show, friend or in-law about the latest thing that you, as a parent, are supposed to do or buy, you'll pause. And if you hear your inner voice saying something like "yuck," you'll listen.

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