Comments for Trying to be a green parent

Comment on Decadence by Alison

Alison — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 12:56:17 +0000

In the old days people went to church to confess their lapses to a minister or priest. Nowadays they publish a Blog about them on the Internet! Never mind, Emma, this was only a very little, excusable sin in your case.

Comment on Musings by Alison

Alison — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 01:54:31 +0000

Poor little boy and poor you! You don’t think he’s allergic to one of the new foods, do you?

Hope he’s feeling better by the time you read this comment.

Comment on weaning by Hilary

Hilary — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 12:05:01 +0000

Yay – I’m glad you’re having fun with the weaning. Simon starts in a couple of weeks time, and I’m looking forward to it. Going to try BLW and see how it goes. Love Alexander’s T-shirt, by the way!

Comment on Experimenting on your child by Hilary

Hilary — Mon, 14 May 2007 08:07:01 +0000

This reminds me that my dissertation supervisor had taped her kids right from babyhood to gather data on language acquisition. I really should do that, especially as Simon is likely to be bilingual. I just can’t see when I’d ever get the time to analyse the hours of data I’d end up with! (Though I suppose I could pass them on to someone else…)
Well done on your participation to helping scientific knowledge progress!

Comment on Experimenting on your child by Cwlh

Cwlh — Fri, 11 May 2007 21:28:56 +0000

Yes, I suspect that the experiment was on mothers, not on children at all.

But I’ve been reading John Searle’s “Rationality in Action”. This describes what Searle calls “gaps” in the causal chain based on rational motives. He describes the reaction of people on whom the experiment is reversed: when signals are injected to make, for example, the right arm lift. Apparently, after the experiment, they don’t say “You made me lift my arm”. Instead they say “you lifted my arm”. As though the decision point had been bypassed.

Comment on Experimenting on your child by Alison

Alison — Fri, 11 May 2007 20:45:41 +0000

You say the researches were monitoring Alexander from outside the room. How do you know they were not monitoring you as well? They might have been.

Comment on It’s rubbish! by Hilary

Hilary — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 18:37:40 +0000

Ooh, let me know how you go with the washing-up liquid and washing liquid! Maybe when I’m back in the UK I’ll get you to send me a little bottle of the washing liquid so I can make sure Simon isn’t allergic to it before buying in bulk! Really interesting to read about your endeavours to reduce your lasting effect on the world – it encourages me in my efforts. I should probably blog a bit about it too!

Comment on Electricity – WARNING: long and dull! by Faith

Faith — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 10:01:25 +0000

You shouldn’t feel the need to apologise for analysing your electricity bill and usage!!! Surely this is exactly what every one of us should be doing routinely nowadays – ? I am ashamed to confess that I have only started noting down my monthly meter readings (with a view to seeing if I can then reduce them) since our most recent house move.
Newspapers have whole sections devoted to the scrutiny of people’s investments, pensions, mortgages, tax management etc etc., but almost nothing on the routine analysis of their energy use. You deserve nothing but praise for your efforts!

Comment on Electricity – WARNING: long and dull! by Chris Hobbs

Chris Hobbs — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 14:16:54 +0000

There is a nice quotation from Kurt Vonnegut (who dies this week) on the letters page of today’s (14th April 2007) Globe and Mail.

“When the last living thing has died on account of us, how poetical it would be if Earth could say, in a voice floating up perhaps from the floor of the Grand Canyon, ‘It is done. People did not like it here.’”

Comment on Goodbye to old, hello to new by Alison

Alison — Sun, 08 Apr 2007 21:42:39 +0000

Be even happier in the new home than you were in the old one!