Should you leave a baby to cry? One of the most gut-wrenching dilemmas parents face is debated by two women who have been there By Winifred Robinson and Sheila Kitzinger Updated: 09:26 GMT, 11 June 2009 Cry baby: Should you leave a baby to cry or pick it up and soothe it back to sleep? It's a debate that bitterly divides parents. Many couples believe the only way to get babies to sleep at night is 'controlled crying' - leaving them to cry until they settle on their own. But this week, childhood expert Miriam Stoppard claimed this can damage the baby's emotional and intellectual development. So who is right? Says Winifred Robinson, presenter of Radio 4's You And Yours programme, and mother of nine-year-old Tony As a very anxious mother, I was absolutely the last person to leave my baby to cry. After 12 weeks of waking three times a night for feeds, Tony started to sleep through, just like the textbooks say a baby should, but then he quickly reverted to waking several times a night. He would cry until I picked him up and rocked him in my arms, when he would quickly go back off, leaving me wide awake for hours.
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Defecating vs Middening -- What's Your Cat up to? You won’t find much information on middening on the Internet, but sometimes a stool is not just a stool. Stools left around the walkways of the home or on your pillow might be a form of marking done by your cat to delineate territory. Middening is as different from its defecation counterpart, in both motive and effect, as spraying is from mere urination. Middening comes from a little-heard English word that (as we’re sure you know) derives from the Old Norse term for a dunghill or manure pile. If you type in middening into a search engine, it will, maddeningly, try to correct your spelling to maddening. Middening is a form of marking (technically, “non-spray marking”). Middening is not only a strong visual signal, visible from a distance (unlike spray-marking), but a very strong olfactory signal as well. Many cats will simply defecate in these listed locations as well, but it’s more common for them to defecate in less prominent locations like the corner of a dining room.
Dealing with the Doubt Demon by Dara Girard The only good teachers for you are those friends who love you, who think you are interesting, or very important, or wonderfully funny. ~Brenda Ueland The doubt demon loves artists. This sensitive bunch of individuals falls prey to it so easily, from cartoonist Charles Schulz to writer Virginia Woolf. This little demon reared its ugly head when Stephen King threw the beginnings of Carrie into the wastebasket. As a published author, and one who has been in the business for several years, it's hard to say this, but not everyone you know will want to see your writing dreams come true. Avoiding the doubt demon is basically impossible for most of us, but there is something you can do about it. 1. 2. 3. Fighting the doubt demon is hard on your own. About the Author:
One Simple Trick for Breaking through Writer’s Block How many years do you have to be a writer before writer’s block goes away for good? Um … I’ve been doing this for a couple of decades, and writer’s block still sneaks up on me occasionally. It usually happens when a deadline is hanging over my head. My mouth goes dry, the back of my neck breaks out in cold sweat, then all logical thought flees my brain. Can you relate? The symptoms may be different for every writer, but the result is the same: work stoppage. When writer’s block stops me in my tracks, I use a simple trick that never fails to get me writing again. There was a legendary debater (and tournament winner) on the senior squad who was such a smooth talker we called her “Slick.” It was a plain but versatile story that Slick could use to illustrate any point in an extemporaneous speech or cinch any argument in a debate. Her story starts like this: “One day, a businessman drives by a farm and sees a beautiful horse, so beautiful that he decides to buy it on the spot. I should know.
A History of Homes In the 18th century a small minority of the population lived in luxury. The rich built great country houses. A famous landscape gardener called Lancelot Brown (1715-1783) created beautiful gardens. (He was known as 'Capability' Brown from his habit of looking at land and saying it had 'great capabilities'). The wealthy owned comfortable upholstered furniture. However the poor had none of these things. In the 19th century well off people in Britain lived in very comfortable houses. In the early 19th century housing for the poor was dreadful. The bottom room was used as a living room cum kitchen. Fortunately in the 1840s local councils passed by-laws banning cellar dwellings. In the early 19th century skilled workers usually lived in 'through houses' i.e. ones that were not joined to the backs of other houses. The carpet sweeper was invented in 1876 by Melville Bissell. In the late 19th century workers houses greatly improved. Most homes also had a scullery. A timeline of houses Home