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[thislittlefeeling2]

‘Wtf the fuck’ - Lyra

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a life time ago

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Is Lyra vegan too? How do you make sure she's getting enough b12 and omegas? I'm vegan and I hate having to give my little girl meat and eggs but I just can't see a way for her to be healthy and vegan because she's allergic to nuts as well so idk how to get the omegas into her diet :( My mum raised all of us kids as vegans and my little sister has acquired brain damage from b12 deficiency so I'm so scared. How do you do it?!

hello, yes she is. she’s also allergic to eggs and many nuts. we give her flax oil every morning for her omega3 intake. in regard to b12, we eat a lot of nutritional yeast, and use b12 fortified soy milk. as she is still breastfed and i take b12 supplements daily, she is also receiving an adequate amount of it  through my milk alone. you just need to do a bit of research and she’ll be fine.. x

[thislittlefeeling2]

How do you let Lyra just do things? Like try standing crawling etc I'm so scared my little boy is going to fall and hurt himself :( and I'm worried I'm going to stop his development by sheltering him too much, you are such a beautiful mother btw

well i’m a firm believer in the philosophy of montessori, its all about independence, i grew up with my parents sending me to a montessori kindy and i was an independent kid i think its easier for me because of that. i know i learnt better through exploring things for myself and i reckon lyra will too. i think you should watch jada pinkett smiths youtube videos, theres one on ‘letting’ willow do things to her hair and its great! theyre gonna fall and hurt themselves (just this morning lyra fell on her face off the bed, and yesterday she did a spectacular face plant into a sandpit haha) but theyre tough little things, honestly. and if youre bfing just chuck em on the boob if anything happens, it fixes everything ;)

[thislittlefeeling2]

mum life

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[rainnecassidy]

This is such a good article though

The argument Pinto makes is that the story and the doll normalize 24-hour surveillance in the mind of a child, which makes them susceptible to more passively accept police-state surveillance as adults.

“I don’t think the elf is a conspiracy and I realize we’re talking about a toy,” Pinto told The Post. “It sounds humorous, but we argue that if a kid is okay with this bureaucratic elf spying on them in their home, it normalizes the idea of surveillance and in the future restrictions on our privacy might be more easily accepted.”

It’s based in a theory that was developed by Jeremy Bentham and popularized by Michel Foucault in which students, prisoners, factory workers and others were thought to function better (for whatever value of better) in a system called a panopticon, in which an individual is potentially under surveillance 24-hours a day, but never actually KNOWS whether or not he or she is being surveilled. 

Pinto said she’s not the first person to be troubled by Elf on the Shelf’s surveilling. She’s said parents routinely contact her to say they changed the rules of the game after it made their families uneasy. And many kids, she said, often intuitively feel like spying and being a tattletale is wrong.

“A mom e-mailed me and told me that the first day they read the elf book and put the elf out, her daughter woke up crying because she was being watched by the elf,” Pinto recounted. “They changed the game so it wouldn’t scare the child.”

In addition to the problem of normalizing surveillance in the mind of a child, this also forces the child into a situation where they never feel like they are free to simply be themselves; they are forced to be “on their best behavior” at all times, unable to relax and make mistakes and do the job of growing up and being a child, because they never know if the elf is spying on them, ready and waiting to report back to Santa Claus that they’ve been bad.

Here is a link to the paper that the article is talking about

[mhalachai]

My co-worker got Elf on the Shelf for her four-year-old daughter last year, and was so freaked out by her daughter’s sudden and complete change in behaviour (uncharacteristically worried and anxious, while trying to be on her ‘best’ behaviour that she never kept up for family or at school) that she stuffed Elf in the garbage after a week, telling the daughter that the Elf had to go back to the North Pole to help Santa with Christmas. 

Also read the paper linked above, it’s a good one.

[drst]

I hate this entire concept so much.

[tahthetrickster]

confirmed, elf on the shelf perpetuates the ideal of docile bodies

[thislittlefeeling2]

i made that romper and i also made that kid.

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So jealous of your new home it's absolutely beautiful.

It's totally my dream house! Hope you end up in your dream home one day too. X

[thislittlefeeling2]

You and Levi have the most beautiful relationship and beautiful little family!! You radiate happiness! Do you have advice for young couples transitioning from high school to study to starting a family?

hello thank you so much! uhm i'm truly the worst with relationship advice haha i'm sorry. levi and i are best friends and if you just imagine doing all those things with your bestie it's always fun. x

[thislittlefeeling2]

I honestly live for your Lyra posts, what an absolute angel. You're an incredible mama!

thank you so much x

[thislittlefeeling2]

truly the most incredible creature i've ever laid eyes on, sweet little love i will never get over the fact that you exist.

[thislittlefeeling2]

wearing a romper i wore when i was a babe

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she's so ticklish ahaha poor baby

[gosh]

It is three at night. I have something to say. You are so valuable. You shine out. You are a magic star. You are a body of blood made beautiful. How I admire, sit back and adore you. How thirsty I am for that. How you feed me.

Anne Sexton, from a letter to Lois Ames dated 11 January 1969 (via teenager90s)

[busy-idle]

One of my favourite things is when you’re talking to someone about some parenting thing that you’re finding difficult like your kid doesn’t sleep or eat or some other relatively benign hurdle that most parents face and some woman pops her head out of fucking nowhere and is like hahaha oh sweetie MY precious angel wakes up at 3AM if only my husband would help me with the night calls hahaha it’s like being a single parent I WISH I had your problem haha I’m doing it SO MUCH harder I’m basically the first person to ever have a child I am LEADING THE WAY for tired mothers with difficult children because then I know never to talk to that person about anything ever again.

[thislittlefeeling2]

trrrrruuuulllyyy

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