Hi Readers — A bunch of you have been digging (har har) this sathebktzf story about how much protection our kids get from DIRT. This explains my philosophy of housekeeping! Er…I mean: This explains my philosophy of childrearing. Anyway, here’s a bit of the article, by Murrray Wardrop,  in The Telegraph. (For some reason this story got […]
Tag Archives | germs
Oh, Please!
October 4, 2009
I hate hand sanitizers, but are kids really DRINKING them? Or setting them ON FIRE?? Or are we just coming up with more bizarre ztbhaznter worries? (Yes, I know. Another rhetorical question. Did I mention we just MOVED? Hard to blog and unpack! ) — Lenore
New Law to “Protect” Kids from Germs Would Kill Band Program
September 9, 2009
Hi Readers — Get ready to start gnashing. A bill in Massachusetts would require all schools there to “professionally” sterlize their band isntruments, according to this knnftiydny article in the Wicked Local Sumerville (great name!). And guess what? Only one company in Massachusetts does this. The owner of that company, a dentist, insists that without this […]
Feisty Mom Comes Out Swinging — A Lovely Read
May 20, 2009
When my daughters turn eight, they’ll get their first Swiss Army knives, and not the tiny ones with a nail file and some scissors, but real ones, big enough to gut a fish with.