I've heard the term "tomato staking" before, in regards to child rearing. It has to do with the idea of having your children near to you at all times - it is similar to attachment parenting. To be honest, I have never really studied or read to much into the philosophy, but found it natural to keep my children close and be sober minded and careful of who looks after them if or when my husband or I are not around.
In the first year of our first child being born, our baby was probably babysat by grandparents only once or twice. I don't remember any other childcare. Since then, 3 children later, childcare outside of myself or husband, is still very sparse in this household.
Some midwife appointments, occasional small choreography contracts with schools, and special occasion dates with hubby seem to be the main events where I am in need of childcare. Most of those are lovingly taken care of by my mom, who lives in our neighborhood. On the occasion that my commitment is not very long, my mom encourages me to go get a coffee somewhere and to take my time. I welcome the advice and do it!
On some such occasions if I am in the vicinity of a Chapters or ANY bookstore, THAT is where you will find me. Books are wealth, "readers are leaders" - so I've heard - we love books don't we - especially on the subjects we are passionate about, or that have beautiful illustrations!
I came across a discounted "Culpeper's Complete Herbal" reprint from 1653. Oh what a find - in my opinion! I just had to share with you one of recipes! To be honest I'm not sure if all the advice in the book should be taken seriously - but there must be validity to many of Nicholas Culpeper's findings!
"Some use this medicine: Take so many strawberries as you shall think fitting, and put them into a distillatory, or body of glass, fit for them; which, being well closed, set in a bid of horse-dung for twelve or fourteen days, and afterwards distil it carefully and keep it for your use. It is excellent water for hot inflamed eyes....and for such other defects in them as may be helped by any outward medicine." pg. 368I don't unfortunately have any horse-dung readily available - but thought this was fun enough to share! If you are ready to try it out - let me know how it goes ;)
I'll let someone else try that first. Besides that, I don't currently have any defects in the eye that cannot be helped with a strong pair of lenses.
ReplyDeletePJ! great article! I have come to realize that I believe in "attachment parenting" and didn't even know it!! I love the idea of keeping your kids close by as much as possible...Homeschooling is a great example!!I've even come to enjoy "play time" as a result! I've always dreaded playing dolls or trucks BUT now I play with my kids by doing daily activities! We cook together, do laundry together, sweep the floors together etc... and my kids LOVE it..for the most part! I've been told MANY TIMES that the enjoyment of this won't last, but I'm going to do my best to find delight in the "mundane" duties of life...and teach it as well! From what I can tell so far, -most of the time- it doesn't matter what my kids do for play they just want to be CLOSE TO MOMMY.
ReplyDeleteI've got plenty of horse dung, and strawberries, but the "procedure" is a little to vague to really make me want to try it.. lol.
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I've also been told of another "dung" related therapy. Apparently if you have a cold, you should not clean our your barn for a week. At the end of the week go in and take a nice deep breath and that will clear you up! (The ammonia accumulation plus the fact that your cold will most likely be on it's last moments probably contribute to this solution.) I wonder if the horse dung in your recipe was just to keep it warm, wouldn't the sun be nicer?
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