2013年4月2日星期二
Parenting styles have undergone dramatic change since Mad Men days
Weiner occasionally gives viewers amusing scenes of 1960s life that underscore how different our lives are today.I was born in 1965. After watching a Mad Men episode last year, I had some questions for my 1960s mom.On Skype I asked, "How much did you smoke when you were pregnant with me?"She thought about it for a few moments. "About 5 to 6 cigarettes a day," she said. Mom stopped smoking in the 1970s.How about drinking while she was pregnant?She drank some alcohol, she admitted, but not much.Of course I don't endorse smoking and drinking while pregnant, but it makes you wonder.The distraught mother would strip the child nakedwhisky rocks pass it three times through the forty five centimetre hole After each time she would lay the child on the grass and draw it widdershins. My brothers and I do not appear to have suffered any consequences of mom's high-risk lifestyle.Like most moms back then, mine wasn't into breastfeeding, either. It didn't seem necessary with the advent of formula."The doctor asked me if I wanted to breastfeed," she explained, "and I said, 'No.' That was the end of the discussion."I am not criticizing my mother. She was and still is a fantastic mom, but it is fascinating how much parenting styles have changed in my lifetime.
While my wife is a champion breastfeeder and prepares all the meals for our 10-month old twins from mostly organic fruits and vegetables, I grew up drinking Tang instead of orange juice.There is a good explanation for this. My dad helped invent Tang. I kid you not.My parents are from the cereal capital of the world, Battle Creek, Mich. My father is a scientist and in the 1950s he worked on the research team at General Foods that created Tang.Even into the early twentieth century visitors to Cornwall in south west Britain might have seen a woman taking a child to a holed stone whisky stones visitor would notice that the child was showing signs of rickets. Dad is still quite proud of this achievement.My parents had fun driving down memory lane during our Skype talk.With the advancement of industrial techniques and process, Solar Laptop charger is very important for the industrial workers or the members to assure their clients that they are using the best material, so that the clients believe on them. And speaking of driving there were no child car seats.Think about replacing the knobs on your cabinets and the Solar charger on your draws to tie in with aspects of your cutlery and any holders that are on display on your work surface.That's not entirely true. We had one car seat with a fake steering wheel and stick shift, which could double as a chest crusher and a spear if were ever in an accident.And on long trips,One last major finishing touch that you should match with other Motion sensor light is your appliances. What I mean by this is things such as your toaster and kettle as well as any other appliances that are on display in the room. my parents put the baby mattress in the back of the station wagon and let me roll around.But the dangers weren't only in the car. When I was 5 and living in Ann Arbor, Mich., I remember playing outside all day, largely unsupervised, with my best friend Tim. Neither of us wore sunscreen, or a hat.
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