Livin' on a Prayer

My friend B came round with her little boy W today. I minded W while his mother went off to audition for Homo and Gay. Top show. W is about two and a half and his mother has taught him to sing the theme song from The Muppet Show. It is a classy act and she is a classy broad. Looking after this amazing, joyful and obedient little boy made me very much look forward to raising my own one, and teaching him the same song and many others like it. I hope my son likes Sesame Street but I will disinherit him if he doesn't like The Muppet Show.

Oh, and BTW guys, we are at the HALFWAY THERE point. The baby is moving all the time. Well, continually, not continuously. I teach grammar at times and I like to put those two words in context.

Anyway, has anyone read much about The Continuum Concept? It's a 1960s parenting theory. I get that no matter how you raise your kid you are somehow going to put your mother's or your sister's or your mother-in-law's nose out of joint. Like, that is a total given, right? Like, even though you don't expect them to adhere too pedantically to your system and so it will hardly affect them at all...they will still take the way you parent personally. Weird.
SOO...in light of that, I figure we may as well piss as many people off as possible in the biggest freakin way possible by talking about and exploring the notion of attachment parenting.

Not really. I mean, yes, exploration of attachment parenting, but not really in such a beligerent way. I have beligerent moments but they are usually healthily exorcised and expressed on the M5 where they belong.

I like what I have read so far about The Continuum Concept and attachment parenting. I think it would be pretty hard not to everput the baby down because you might just have to put it's a great place to start and I reckon with four parents and many other fam members and sundries we could keep that baby in a sling and in arms relatively a lot. Plus the other thing you do id demand feed, which I am totally all about and so is the Mrs.

The Daddies, M and J are not mentioned a lot in this blog to protect their privacy, and because they don' t even know about it, so it's not fair to talk about them too much behind their backs. We see them about once a week and a real and lovely bond has grown in the year and four months that we have known them. They have their own very busy and very social lives and are very much looking forward to a son. So far discussions and arrangements have gone well, and we have agreed on the legal and parenting arangements with much discussion. It hasn't alsways been easy, but we are getting better at communicating, the four of us. And KT and I are getting super good at not sweating the small stuff.

We have not had the boys to ourselves since we learned the sex of our baby. When we do, we will talk about names. I'm excited about that. And a bit nervous.