Greetings from Melbourne!
I am here for a few days, will be back in Kuala Lumpur later in the week. This means I going to be suffering from little-internet-connectivity withdrawal symptoms in these few days… Promise I will try & remain focused & sane, and to remember that there is still a physical world out there…. however, since this friend has an XBox 360 with a kickass game called Call of Duty 4, which he’s just given me a quick demo of (& also how to set the gear up) I think will be okay…
I am also using someone else’s laptop & net access, so I don’t have the gear to hook up my camera for uploading. This post will be another yawn-boriing text block only …
Anyway.
Since writing the last post about an old wives tale about kids, I got thinking about how different cultures in the world have varying opinions & tales on the universal “mission” of raising children.
So, why don’t we share these opinions & tales here?
Not that I have that many readers, but let’s aim for a list of 10 old wives tales on parenting / children that work / is true. This will be good for all parents of children of all ages, a headstart so to speak, something that I know I would have appreciated when I first became a parent. Of course the list can go beyond 10- the longer the better! But it has to be something that is true, or at least has worked for you.
I will cheat and start off with one recent example.
- Too much playing or elevated activities before bed can lead to restless sleep & bad dreams. Not sure when this “expires”- meaning, I don’t suffer from it now, so when does this become not-applicable anymore?
- Our obst Dr says that while walking makes good exercise during (later parts of) pregnant, & that it may actually make the delivery easier when it’s time; the walking itself is actually not good for the uterus. I don’t know the details, but it has something to do with the uterus being “loosened” from the even seemingly mild exercises, that very much later in life, the uterus may actually collapse.
I haven’t checked this out or researched this further, but I guess given his profession & specialty in this, he should know what he is talking about.
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2 responses so far ↓
1 toddlerdaddy // Dec 4, 2007 at 9:56 PM
Jlow – you are going to hate Australia’s low speed low grade internet services. Everyone from overseas who comes here can’t believe just how bad it is for a supposedly developed country! I would add an old wives tale, but for the life of me I can’t think of any at the moment. But I will say that the majority have always seemed to have some grain of truth to them – probably why they last the test of time.
2 Daddee // Dec 8, 2007 at 11:25 AM
In Melbourne, we crashed at a friend’s place.
Which, strangely enough, a neighbour was either ignorantly generous or blissfully aware that their wifi connection was not secured. So guess what this leech was up to? Actually, it was under advisement of our friend! For his net connection was thus dedicated to his XBox!
And, to my pleasant surprise, I was getting something like 54Mbps-ish speeds on this freebie connection.
In a land where service levels is around 11Mbps, the speeds I was getting in Melb was very much nothing-to-complain-about!
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