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Nanny needed for one half hour per day

By On January 24, 2008 · Leave a Comment

So we’re think­ing about what to do for our babysitter-enabled evening this week­end, and we real­ize that what we really want most is to have some­one get our kids ready for bed. The bed­time rou­tine of prod­ding, cajol­ing, and (usu­ally) threat­en­ing the kids into their paja­mas is a bru­tal gaunt­let at the end of a […]

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All the verses of Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star

By On December 9, 2007 · Leave a Comment

As noted in another post, I sing Twin­kle, Twin­kle, Lit­tle Star to my baby boy when I am putting him to sleep. All I know is the first verse (well, and the strange one about a bat up high like a teatray in the sky, but it turns out that’s from Alice in Won­der­land) and […]

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I sing to my boy, badly, but creatively

By On December 8, 2007 · 1 Comment

With our first child, when I was putting him to sleep, I used to tell him sto­ries. I’d make them up on the spot, with him in my arms, head down on my shoul­der, in a low, monot­one sort of voice. I don’t even remem­ber what they were about (well, there was one, a running […]

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