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Nip That Frown Upside Down's
It's been pretty well-documented that no one wants a baby with Down's Syndrome. But for most parents, it's a question of raising a kid whose impaired mental aptitude will be a lifelong handicap. Not Laurence and Chelsea Kirwan! They're more concerned about holding back the desire to give their kid an eye job. Laurence, you see, suffers from the "curse of the plastic surgeon": "he is unable to look at a person without 'mentally improving their face' in his mind's eye," says his wife. [Daily Mail]
It's been pretty well-documented that no one wants a baby with Down's Syndrome. But for most parents, it's a question of raising a kid whose impaired mental aptitude will be a lifelong handicap. Not Laurence and Chelsea Kirwan! They're more concerned about holding back the desire to give their kid an eye job. Laurence, you see, suffers from the "curse of the plastic surgeon": "he is unable to look at a person without 'mentally improving their face' in his mind's eye," says his wife. [Daily Mail]
"There's an old joke about that: You know why Baptists don't engage in premarital sex? Because it might lead to dancing." That's Christian comedienne and new Good Morning America contributor Anita Renfroe, profiled in yesterday's New York Times Magazine in one of those perennial "Christians: maybe if we keep promising our blue state readers that some of them are seemingly uninsane, otherwise normal people, a few of them will return the favor in November in some key swing states?" pieces. Renfroe rose to mainstream prominence over a wildly popular YouTube production called "William Tell Momsense." It is a work of impressive speed and length that it makes me feel weirdly culturally alienated to admit I've never seen. On the other hand, I'm sort of glad my mom didn't email it to me anyway. [NYT]
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Dear "Baby Daddy" Steve Almond: Ever Heard Of That Saying,"You Can't Have It All"?
Steve Almond and Jane Roper are two bloggers for the parenting website Babble who recently decided, "in the spirit of blog-raderie", to have a play date and blog about it on their respective blogs. Ruh-oh! "Josie seems so sweet and sociable on her dad's blog, but in reality, I'm sorry to report, she's a total prima donna," wrote Jane of the child Steve allegedly referred to as "high superior queen of the baby blogosphere." Rebutted Steve re Jane's twins: "They do have one major thing going for them: they know how to sit still. Really really well." Then Jane captioned a photo: "Note how my girls are sweetly fawning all over [Josie] while all she cares about is trying to get into a more flattering pose for the camera." Ha ha ha! So it's pretty obvious, the "play date from hell" was a joke destined to poke fun at the way Blog Age mommies and daddies find in their children warm vessels onto which they can once and for all project all the narcissism and greed they hid so shamefully as singles. More »
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When Does A Baby Get Too Old For You To Snort Cocaine In Front Of It?
Where I come from a lot of folks bring their babies to their local bars, so it wasn't totally shocking to read in yesterday's Page Six Magazine that in New York, coke and infants still go together like they did in the days of Three Men And A Baby. The magazine tells the story of myriad New Yorkers, mostly "advertising" and "marketing" types in the business of making inanimate consumer products appear glamorous and aspirational for a living, who don't let little babies get in the way of their coke habits.Gregory, a 31-year-old advertising creative who lives in the East Village with his writer wife and 2-year-old daughter. "It's too easy here. Everyone has something, or can get it, all the time." Then he sighs, feeling driven to explain. "This is a terrible, terrible story," he adds, leaning in as though to confess a secret. "Seriously, my friend's wife would divorce him if she ever found out." He tells it anyway.Actually it's a pretty good story! More »
