…twice, in fact. Once by Erika, a book meme that I tried doing but got really stuck on (sorry Erika!), and now by Carlotta which I think I might be able to do. So here goes:
Meme of three:
1.Things that scare me:
(none of these things really ’scare’ me, I just don’t like them at all and try to avoid them at all costs!)
Fast theme park rides
Slugs
Animals (except for dogs and cats!)
2. People who make me laugh:
DH
Flopsy
Mopsy
3. Things I hate the most:
Slugs
People/companies/government that undermine, or even flat-out deny informed choice (particularly when it comes to breastfeeding)
Child abuse
4. Things I don’t understand:
How anyone can think controlled crying is good/necessary for babies
Why people think children can’t manage to grow up without nursery school/baby music classes/baby gym classes/baby swimming classes/television/bottles/dummies/cots/intensive school testing/being bullied etc. etc. - how do they think children grew up before all these things were invented or became the cultural norm?
Why our government persists in pretending it aspires to democracy
5. Things I’m doing right now:
Listening to fun pre-bedtime games going on in the next room
Wondering at what point I ought to go and take an antacid
Fiddling with a loose part of my computer chair with my foot
6. Things I want to do before I die:
See my daughters have their own babies
Celebrate a big, important wedding anniversary
Some more nursing - maybe elderly care…real nursing
7. Things I can do:
Give birth
Breastfeed
Touch-type
8. Ways to describe my personality:
Impatient
Happy
Open
9. Things I can’t do:
Stop worrying about my children/DH/all my loved ones having horrific accidents or getting seriously ill
Juggle
Stop my heart bursting when I hear Flopsy and Mopsy playing together happily
10. Things I think you should listen to:
Mopsy’s giggle
Flopsy saying ‘oh, my darling little precious baby, I love you, poppet’ for no particular reason to Mopsy
My 3.5yr old niece’s incredible singing voice
11. Things you should never listen to:
Mopsy’s angry scream
Flopsy’s angry scream
My incredibly rubbish singing voice
12. Things I’d like to learn:
How to have a baby at home and *not* end up in hospital at some point in the first week!
Dressmaking (I can sew relatively well, but would like to learn how to make things really neatly and professionally)
Social anthropology
13. Favorite foods:
Roast lamb
Treacle pudding with custard
Green & Black’s chocolate-coated almonds
14. Beverages I drink regularly:
Tea
Apple juice
That’s it!
15. Shows I watched as a kid:
Hartbeat (that children’s art show)
Grange Hill
Neighbours
16. People I’m tagging to do this meme:
Erika at What We Did on our Holy Days
Deb at Notsheep
Maia at Touchingly Naive
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7:57 pm
I can help you with the dressmaking part.
8:08 pm
Wished I’d answered similarly in many of those…and no 4 had me jumping up and down with agreement!
9:47 am
Thanks for the tag but I have a slight disagreement with you on no. 4!
“Why people think children can’t manage to grow up without nursery school/baby music classes/baby gym classes/baby swimming classes”
I’d like to point out that without these classes lots of mothers would be isolated and going crazy. Most mums do not go to these things for the kids but to make friends and meet other mums. In a more tribal situation we would not need all of these but the way we live now means that we have to go out and make the effort to be with other people, let alone people with babies who are going through the same. Thank goodness there have been all the classes and baby groups otherwise I would have NO friends with babies. Also being in contact with these groups has led me to become a volunteer which means I have a whole new life and my kids are benefiting too.
3:03 pm
I didn’t mean the sort of groups set up for mums’ benefit - I mean the one’s supposedly set up for babies’/children’s benefit - the ones where the people in charge set them up saying that the children will learn this that and the other (e.g. gym for babies - they’ll learn balance and co-ordination…) and then charge naive parents an absolute fortune to attend them! Somehow I don’t think you have ever attended one of those groups…?
I absolutely and totally agree with you on the importance of groups that allow mothers to seek the support of other mothers.
7:58 am
arh, we are in agreement then. I came across a few of those groups in my travels, an excercise class for mums that involved pushing your pram around the park and she charged £5 for it and a lot of the signing classes charge a fortune for what you could set up in your home.
9:59 pm
Done it!
