Slog - Comments on Reading Today http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/reading_today_18 There's a ton of readings today, including an open mic and a seminar on how to write a novel. Lisa Kleypas is reading from Blue Eyed Devil, a "Texas-hot romance," up at Third Place Books, and Michael Gruber reads from The Forgery of Venus, which is a mystery, at Elliott Bay Book Company. Also at Elliott Bay, Rebecca Wolff, who blogs on Girls Gone Child (which is about raising children and not whatever you were thinking, you dirty, dirty monkey) will be talking about alternative parenting. And in addition to those two readings at Elliott Bay, Kevin K. Kumashiro... Copyright 2008 Sat, 26 Apr 2008 10:00:00 -0800 Sun, 27 Apr 2008 01:03:13 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by PopTart OK, sorry but I'm annoyed with alternative parenting. Our kids are going to grow up and endure years of therapy to figure out why how we parented them was wrong and then they are going to invent their own new paradigm for parenting and their children will endure years of therapy figuring out why that paradigm was wrong. And so on.

And yes, I know what Rebecca Wolff's book is about, but that's entirely beside my rant.

Paul, I hear you about names. Ahh, the joys of childhood taunts.

]]> PopTart http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/reading_today_18#c1007475 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/reading_today_18#c1007475 Books Sat, 26 Apr 2008 16:10:05 -0800 Comment by Paul Constant It must've been hard, being named PopTart in elementary school.

But how is the years of therapy different from parenting now? Was there ever a time when parenting was done really well? And who judges?

]]> Paul Constant http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/reading_today_18#c1007487 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/reading_today_18#c1007487 Books Sat, 26 Apr 2008 18:28:22 -0800 Comment by PopTart @2, Totally but I fared better than my sisters Toaster Strudel and Eggo. They left my brother, Bear Claw, pretty much alone though.

It's not so much that I think there was ever a halycon time of parenting but more that I am annoyed at all the self absorbed parenting books out there right now.

And parents are judging each other non-stop these days, just look at the flak about the woman who let her son ride the subway alone.

Of course *I* am a perfect parent. And my son, Bacon Bits, is exceptional in every way. Hey, maybe I should write a book...

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