What kids hear:

An excerpt from a hilarious New Yorker piece about what kids imagine a grownup conversation to be like:

MOM: I had a lot of wine, and now I’m crazy!

GRANDFATHER: Hey, do you guys know what God looks like?

ALL: Yes.

GRANDFATHER: Don’t tell the kids.

Also, how college students imagine a conversation between the president and an advisor:

—Apparently, young people hate the war so much they’re willing to participate in a musical sex festival as a protest against it.

—Oh, my God. They must really be serious about this whole thing.

Link to the full article
Via Boing Boing

Headless Dad

I know it's a pretty widespread phenomenon, but we have never had the kids sleep in bed with us for any significant amount of time. Maybe half an hour once or twice. Maybe I'm selfish about my bed-space, but I could never wrap my mind around how having a little fidgety monkey in bed with you would lead to an improvement in the quality of your sleep. This photoset is a great illustration of why co-sleeping never made any sense to me.
Click here to see the full night's "sleep"