Quitting my TV news career has come with many benefits but perhaps none as important as how it has affected my ability to parent. My relationship with the Producer would have consisted of about an hour in the morning (stressed about what I’d cover that day) and an hour at night (still stressed about what went wrong with my report that day). I’ve started “Hold On to Your Kids” by Gordon Neufeld and Gabor Maté and I highly recommend it. They describe the era since World War II as one where peers have taken over the role of parenting, calling it “peer orientation”. They write, “Orientation, the drive to get one’s bearings and become acquainted with one’s surroundings, is a fundamental human instinct and need. Disorientation is one of the least bearable of all psychological experiences. Attachment and orientation are inextricably intertwined. Humans and other creatures automatically orient themselves by seeking cues from those to whom they are attached.” This has also got me thinking about my pressing question about why so many journalists prefer group think over curiosity. Are we adults also suffering from “peer orientation”?
I noticed recently that a box of MREs in our feed room has been untouched by rodents despite the ravenous way they chew through the animal feed containers. The MREs were issued to my husband when he was in the USMC. I have no clue why we still have them but it certainly caught my attention. Only the best for our service members, right? Semper fi!
EDIT: since I have been getting so many comments on other platforms that they just can’t smell through the packaging, I want to add that they eat through boxes in our barn that have no food inside them, this includes camping gear, Styrofoam, towels, fertilizer. You name it.
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A few months ago I put our buck Tod in with the ladies so he could breed our mini Nubian dairy goat, Sundae. However, as is typical for my plans, it didn’t go as I’d hoped and Tod spent most of his time fighting with our alpha doe, Heidi. Though I figured my baby goat aspirations had been thwarted, I think Tod still snuck in a goal with Sundae because she is looking pretty fat right now but he didn’t waste any time getting back to the boxing ring.
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Today we went to meet a potential suitor for Maisy cow. He is a two-year-old mini Highland bull. His name is Moofasa. We have tried artificially inseminating Maisy with expensive and high quality mini Jersey bull semen but to no avail. Thus, we have been looking for the real deal and a friend introduced us to Moofasa’s owner. It looks like a good match but then again we are sort of at the “love the one you’re with” stage at this point. What do you think? Highlands are very “in” right now and I’m sure the calf will be very cute. Speaking of cute kids, one result of vitamin D deficiency in today’s kids is poor dental health including jaws that don’t properly fit a full set of teeth. This is one reason my kids take the fermented cod liver/butter oil from https://www.greenpasture.org/ which is packed with Vitamins A, D & K. Use “ALISON” as your promo code at checkout and get 10% off.
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