Naycation

This is the least vacationy vacation ever. Kids are in school, so I can't sleep in. Busy all weekend. Not much relaxation. Actually, I'm going to visit friends in North Carolina for a couple of days, so that should be a nice respite. Maybe I'll get some sleep too.

I heard the best thing ever on the radio today. A woman called in to a sports talk show and said it always drove her crazy how some kids would blink and flinch when the ball came at them, so when she had a baby she bought a foam rubber ball and once the baby could sit up she started regularly throwing it at his head, so that he'd get used to it. Isn't that brilliant? I bet this could work for other things too. Maybe you could condition your kid to not be afraid of bugs and snakes and things like that by surrounding him with them from the day he was born. Of course, it's hard to know in advance if you're getting them used to it or scarring them for life, but what the heck. People are funny.