Joshua Gans at Game Theorist (”Musings on economics and child rearing”) blogging about disciplining his youngest child:
When it comes down to it, this blog is a censored version of my parenting life. It is not and I do not claim it to be a full record. And when it comes to Child No.3, who is soon to turn 4, the terrible twos have seemed to lasted well beyond what one would have hoped.
Same here at Girl Detective. I try not to gripe about the daily grind; if I do I try to make it humorous. But my husband G. Grod and I have struggled with discipline issues, too. Gans’ post is long, but I found it worthwhile itself, and for the Slate article it linked to on timeouts . Both are matter-of-fact about dealing with kids. Gans candidly calls his struggles “the war” and the Slate piece mentioned, more than once, the desire of a parent to hit a child when things escalate.
Before I had kids, I didn’t believe I ever would, or even would want t...
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“In Our Time” by Ernest HemingwayFrom: girldetective.net
Post Date: 2008-05-30 12:00:28
I took a brief detour from my reading on the Vietnam war to WWI with Hemingway in order to give some attention to my own bookshelves, instead of the library’s. Hemingway’s In Our Time was his American debut, a set of stories interspersed with thematically related vignettes. Based on his spare, evocative writing, Hemingway was called the voice of his “lost” generation.
At first Krebs…did not want to talk about the war at all. Later he felt the need to talk but n...
more The Things They Carried by Tim O’BrienFrom: girldetective.net
Post Date: 2008-05-30 07:05:46
Further evidence that a truly great book will wait for me; it won’t become dated or tired. Minnesotan author O’Brien’s linked story collection about Vietnam, The Things They Carried , was as good as readers had assured me. It was sometimes so funny that I laughed aloud, at one point so terribly sad I had to set it down. The stories and characters are so engaging that it took a while for me to realize and admire the skill with which the stories are crafted. The combination of ...
more Critique of “Cranford”From: girldetective.net
Post Date: 2008-05-28 12:57:46
In the US, PBS’s Masterpiece recently ended its season with the 3-part Cranford , based on three novels by Elizabeth Gaskell ; she’s best known as a friend and biographer of Charlotte Bronte. Mo Ryan recommended Cranford, but I found it disappointing. It featured some great performances, especially from Dame Judi Dench and Imelda Staunton, but this tale of a matriarchal town too often used its female denizens as butts of jokes, many of them cruel. The treatment of men was quite ...
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