Well, it's not slowing her down.

[elfs]

So, last night Kouryou-chan gets her first bath since the burn, and I get a good look at her hand. It's healing extremely well. I want the pill that makes my cells go back to that kind of youthful vigour as readily as hers do. One can still see the marks, but the browning has almost faded and the glossiness has retreated somewhat. She's unafraid to use the hand, which by itself is a good sign, sealed as it is within a gauzy mitten loaded with silver sulfadiazine.

Before the bath, we took her to Kidopolis, one of those kids-only padded super jungle-gyms where she could roughhouse as much as she wanted. The hand was barely an impediment to climbing the netted tunnels, padded spirals with two-foot intervals, and rope ladders. Unfortunately, it is slowing down her one way, in learning how to use the toilet, since she cannot now pull down her pants by herself. Hopefully, this won't knock her off-track too badly. I read Sleeping Beauty and Thomas the Tank Engine to her before putting her to bed-- the latter is surprisingly demanding as it expects the reader to keep an enormous amount of detail in his head about whom is doing what at any given time, and if you lose track, the story loses all comprehensibility. I know they're considered "classics," but not all classics are so difficult to read. It needs an editor.

She slept in her own bed, seems to have overcome most of her cough, and didn't get up in the middle of the night that I know of. All good signs that the crisis is going to be behind us very soon.

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The magic of cut-tags....

[blaisepascal]

So here I was, reading along, and all of a sudden I see a TMI alert, right before reading that you were reading Sleeping Beauty to your daughter. Knowing your other writing, my mind immediately picked the wrong version of Sleeping Beauty (you know, the one in trilogy format by a famous author of vampire stories), and did a double-take. THe wonders of free-association.

Re: The magic of cut-tags....

[elfs.livejournal.com]

Heh. Y'know, that never occurred to me. Funny enough, I have The Claiming Of... in my Palm e-book reader right now (and I don't feel guilty about that at all, even though it's a pirate copy-- I've given Anne and Penguin my money for this book four times already, and have one copy on my shelves. It's in my possession. I tend to be scrupulous about that sort of thing).

I work pretty hard to keep my hobby-life and my parent-life separate. I'll keep doing that until my kids are old enough to read LJ and the Web for themselves-- which will probably be, scarily enough, Real Soon Now.

Then what do I do?

Re: The magic of cut-tags....

[damiana-swan.livejournal.com]

*smiles* Do what you suggested to me, lo these many years ago, when I asked your opinion of internet filters for protecting the tender minds of my daughters (who were then only slightly older than yours are now). Your reply was along the lines of "install filters in their brains", with a few pithy comments about parents who don't bother to pay attention to what their children are seeing, on the internet and elsewhere, who won't talk to their children about it, and who rely on things like pieces of software and movie ratings to do their jobs for them.

My own experience has been that kids handle getting information a lot better than they handle not getting it, and they know better than anyone else what they are and are not ready for. Just be ready to hear "TMI" from them, and willing to respect it, and you should be fine. :-)

Re: The magic of cut-tags....

[blaisepascal]

I know the question was rhetorical, but I suspect that the answer depends on if you want your kids to not find out about the stuff Daddy's into, or if you want your kids to not find out that Daddy's into the stuff that Daddy's into.

Realistically, I suspect that the former is a fruitless excercise, and of the latter, they won't care or won't really want to know -- until they are old enough to deal with it.

If you've been doing a good job of separating your hobbies from your parenting so far, then just keeping up with the separation you've been doing should be enough.