Saturday, May 23, 2009

It's summer

I guess I've been sort of lazy lately with my blog. But here I am again and it's summer. I have mowed the lawn twice, well almost, actually it's more like 1.5 times, tomorrow it will be done twice, if it doesn't rain. I'm doing my second evening shift out of four so that means I don't get much done at home.

Mirelle has started taken interest in our media center so my Xbox has no longer any gamepads attached to it. No she doesn't crawl yet. She rolls (and she's good at it) to where she want to go. That's not a good thing according to the current charts and flows the people at the child welfare center have. Notice I used the word current, I know of parents who have had their child referred to a child specialist at university hospital the same day because his/her growth/development didn't follow the new chart but was perfectly fine according to the old chart which was still in use the week before. And here's come the big surprise, the child specialist told the parents their child was perfectly fine.

I do realize that these people are professionals. I appreciate that they look out for medical problems in our kids since we aren't trained to see those problems but sometimes they bury themselves in their flows and charts and forget about reality. We parents actually meet and our kids meet, we see that they develop independently at their own pace in their own way. So if you have a kid that has actually followed the chart, all charts please make a comment, your child is the eighth wonder of the world and we will worship him/her. I'm not trying to be sacrilegious, I'm just convinced that such a child do not exist. Or about as plausible as when the first men land on Mars they will be met by a flock of sheep with bells around their necks and goes "Bah! Bah!! Bah!!!".

2 comments:

  1. You're right, Boris! Parents should trust their gut and not get overwhelmed by all of the information out there telling us how to parent that "perfect child"! lol

    Sounds like Mirelle is doing well, I sure would love to kiss and cuddle her a little!! How many months is she now???

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  2. I have also noticed that when it comes to actually dealing with any situation with your child it doesn't matter how much information you have studied earlier, you forget it and go with the gut feeling and it works every time.

    She turned 8 months on Monday, Nina has some new pictures on her blog. She's the picture blogger, I'm the blog writer =). She likes everyone except the doctor ;-).

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