What are your goals for your child?

In no cheating no dying , author Elizabeth Weil says that 'in psychoanalytic thought, the template for monogamy is forged in infancy, a baby with its mother'.
she also says that a good enough mother's goal is to equip a child with means for independent life and not glitch fre happiness.

Culture and baby growth

I was reading that the milestone for a baby after rolling over is clapping. I recall how our elders teach kids to clap with the chant of jejeje.. referring to God.. hailing him. Anklets with bells are worn by babies so they can be motivated to move their legs to listen to their own rattle that they dont even have to hold from falling.

When the baby rolled over, a colleague from Tamilnadu asked if I offered coconut to God.

Journaling grandson's first year

In Some assembly required, when Anne Lamott talks of wet to dry .. and other needs fulfilled, it almost seems like there are two states in each aspect of a baby.
Heir and a spare
Sunshine biscuit tin

Parenting against the norm

Beyond the sling by Mayim bialik
A review
other benefits of breast milk - pg 71-72
Elimination communication from six months.

Mixed milk

A reference to Putana story in Against mixology. Krishna when fed poisoned milk by Putana, managed to just have the good milk.I read this story long time ago but forgot all about it. Its believed that a swan can seperate milk from water.

Invisible accidents

On a visit to the doctor about my runny nose, he realised that there was an eraser up the nose. Nose are not the only 'storage bins' for kids. One of my relatives shoved an eraser in her ear.

Roll over

How does an infant know that he/she is ready to roll over?
Life span human development on pg 145 lists some interesting concepts Cephalocaudal trend and Orthogenesis   
principle at play in a child's manner of growth.
When I see my baby bawl over her 3/4 turn, I feel a momentous thing happening, just like the cries the mother emits when the baby is Stuck in the Middle.

Her cheek turns pink
with the weight of
the body ready to
roll over but
the head resistant