From a parenting standpoint, my curiosity is at the edge of its seat waiting for that moment when the light in her little head flicks on to realizing that there is actually content on the television, and its not just a big funny toy in the living room.

In case you are wondering, the new logo for my sidebar (that I added at lunch today) is not the Gerber baby. That’s actually a photo of my daughter, that I took a few days before her first birthday and then worked over in an image processing program.

“Calgary’s Bishop and Alberta’s Health Minister were locked in a war of words Sunday over the local Catholic school district’s refusal to participate in a cervical cancer vaccination program, with both men accusing each other of irresponsible behavior.” (LINK) Catholic church, epic fail!

Snippets of Skepticism…?

Ben Goldacre published an update on some questionable experiments on kids in the UK.

But as if he is caught up by some Ayn Rand-style model of self determination, the author’s march moves onward against the model of modern parenting that dares to suggest there is good to be found in nurturing the young.

What! Three posts in one day! What is this?

Blake over at the Domestic Father blog wants to let everyone know that he’s setting up a new blog carnival for skeptical parenting blogs.
This carnival is less about giving advice than it is about analyzing such advice. Less about making claims, more about evaluating them. As with skepticism in general, it is about learning how to think, not being told what to think.
Yours truly has already agreed to chalk up his name to both submit and — eventually — host the carnival when it gets going. But for now …

The more I understand the critically thinking mind, the more I now fill those gaps in my flawed memory with the logical bits of deduction and reason, rather than invented concepts and explanations.

Listening to the radio this morning I was both gladdened and saddened to hear…