* This isn't just automatic self-deprecation but based on the observation that I don't seem to be very good with other people's children. On the other hand it's VERY VERY DIFFERENT dealing with other people's children (in my limited experience), so, hey, maybe it will be OK. You get the benefit of 10,000 hours of practice with your own baby that makes you an expert on her; not all of it is going to be transferable to other babies.
Re chicklit - much of what I've read of it is actively annoying on grounds of, yes, principle - the whole bit where what's important in life is looking right & getting a man, and so forth. All right, at that rate maybe I shouldn't be reading Jane Austen either but she also is very funny, and historical and stuff.
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Date: 2011-06-22 09:24 pm (UTC)You get the benefit of 10,000 hours of practice with your own baby that makes you an expert on her; not all of it is going to be transferable to other babies.
Re chicklit - much of what I've read of it is actively annoying on grounds of, yes, principle - the whole bit where what's important in life is looking right & getting a man, and so forth. All right, at that rate maybe I shouldn't be reading Jane Austen either but she also is very funny, and historical and stuff.