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earth lives in the rhythms of birth sacrifice and death and lives by a set of values that seem rather alien illogical and wrong when compared to the dominant patriarchal value system to a young servant not her son the mother appears as a messenger between her feminine domain and that of the patriarchal world in this fairy tale she inspires the servant s quest after intuitively realizing he had committed a crime against her or her husband but guessing wrong as to the crime the celtic myth of oisin s mother looks at the feminine cycle of maiden mother crone and what can happen when the cycle is disrupted mostly at how a girl or woman can be trapped in the child maiden phase according to claire douglas examination in the same book the character saeve much like kore persephone from greek mythology is an innocent maiden who is raped by a much more powerful being a druid family member in saeve s case and hades god of the underworld in kore s and their psychic development stops but while kore is able to transform herself largely because of her own mother s devotion to her the mother less saeve is trapped and flees her situation in the form of a fawn like ariadne of greek mythology must find and integrate the animus the male equivalent of herself both betray the powerful men in their lives and are thus cut off from society including the traditional matriarchy but again where ariadne matures and finds a way to integrate the animus in the form of dionysis saeve attempts to find and cling to a strong lover but loses him ariadne matures and transforms saeve does not she alone remains the maiden defenseless and subject to the whims of the powerful men in her life douglas goes on to compare these three figures to sexual abuse victims a very enlightening examination but i want to focus just on the transition between maiden and mother or maiden and adult of these three only saeve has a child but she loses him when she can t fight to remain in the state of mother i don t know if i should read these things as commentary or look for advice somewhere in them posted by bookmoth 4 06 am 0 comments baby gami this is a really really cute book baby gami baby wrapping for beginners is written by andrea sarvady with great photography by bill milne and a short but worth reading foreward by fern drillings rn msn baby wrapping is a modern term for swaddling which is the practice of wrapping or folding a baby into a blanket or long piece of cloth to limit his movement and keep him warm infants are used to the tight safety of the womb they also don t recognize that those limbs flailing around are in fact their own swaddled they feel warm and secure the book also talks about baby wearing in which the mother or father keeps the baby wrapped in a sling and resting against their stomach or hip or back babies want to be held slings let a parent hold the baby while keeping her hands free baby again feels warm and secure the book offers several pages describing the science and history of baby wrapping before going into the general how to of wrapping making a basic sling and being sure the wrap is snug but not tight helpful tips like what kinds of cloth to use and how to sew your own wraps are scattered throughout in easy to read sidebars each wrap or sling has a description of the difficulty appropriate age range situation use a wrap made from a paper bag for desperate times while and materials the writing is clear informative and witty but the color photographs and illustrations make the book all 13 ways of wrapping the baby and 9 ways of wearing the baby are illustrated with a full page photograph the beginning wraps and the more difficult ones are illustrated with step by step diagrams or photographs with descriptions that seem complete and easy to follow i can t test that yet and won t be able to until january the book looks like it will be very useful right now though i love it for the pictures posted by bookmoth 12 50 am 0 comments saturday october 03 2009 everyone talks about common sense but nobody does anything about it mark twain said that about the weather po bronson and ashley merryman have a new book that looks at much of the common sense theories about raising children and contrasts them with an impressive amount of recent research they don t do any new research but they collect some of the most interesting new studies i ve seen in childhood development i had come across some of these studies during my time at catholic u and just reading psych journals but i ve never seen a collection of research this interesting and accessible common sense might be common and it might make sense but that doesn t mean it s correct bronson and merryman are award winning magazine journalists they ve written for time and new york among others and they were drawn into this topic as bronson and his wife became parents and as merryman ran a tutoring program for inner city kids and wondered how much of what they were so sure that they knew was true they began to research the new science of child psychology each chapter in nurtureshock new thinking about children takes on the common beliefs towards a particular topic of parenting from why children lie to how racially diverse schools affect kids attitudes toward race to iq testing in preschool to the reasons behind or existance of teenage rebellion i read this book in the span of a few days but i m sure it could be read in chapters over weeks and that you could skip or rearrange chapters without losing the gist of the book some highlights from the chapter why kids lie children lie to please their parents more than to make themselves happy by avoiding punishment many kids think profanity is the same thing as a lie lies are things you say that get you punished and parents encourage lying by asking questions that have no safe honest answer did you just draw on the table or by teaching those social niceties we call white lies from the chapter the inverse power of praise children who are told they are smart perform worse than those told they work hard or who receive specific praise about doing a specific task well children who are praised for their intelligence seem to stop learning or stop trying to learn when presented with material that no longer comes easy often between elementary and middle school they are afraid to try because just having to try means their gift of intelligence has run out but children with equal intelligence and test scores who have been praised for their work ethic continue to do well despite facing more challenging material also kids worry about image maintainance but the work hard kids are more likely to accept their grades the smart kids are more likely to cheat or lie to inflate their grades from the conclusion robert emmons work on gratitude see his book thanks demonstrates that encouraging adults most of his work was with graduate students to actively become aware of people and things in life to be grateful for for example by listing five things to be grateful for every night has a positive effect on mood gratitude intervention doesn t work with middle or high schoolers according to research by jeffery froh it makes many kids feel better but it makes many kids feel worse kids who were fairly disengaged or apathetic became more excited and energized as they realized gratitude kids who were already filled with hope and excitement realized how dependent controlled and beholden they were the illusion of control kept them from being depressed there s much much more in this book if any of this sounds interesting go read it posted by bookmoth 3 16 pm 0 comments monday september 21 2009 alive one plus one so things happen and things are going to happen husband and i are having a kid who will be making his appearance shortly after the new year i ve been shifting between shock excitement terror i m not sure i m mom material but i m doing my research the best book i ve found on being pregnant is your pregnancy week by week by glade b curtis md mph and judith schuler ms 6th ed it s wonderful there are weekly drawings of either baby to scale or how baby fits in mommy weekly exercises and great information presented in weekly not overwhelming amounts as well as a great index lots of information and it isn t preachy at all there s no bs the book feels written by a doctor in that there are real science and real facts but everything is written to be easily understood by non scientists best book in preparation for having a kid traci hogg s secrets of the baby whisperer i love it i am learning so much in several months i ll post a review of this book i ve read a few others i ll post more on them soon i don t want to promise much since i ve clearly been in a blogging rut and i may stay there despite my best intentions posted by bookmoth 10 51 pm 1 comments monday august 03 2009 test test posted by bookmoth 7 09 pm thursday may 21 2009 to those who know me irl oregon is over i am satisfied that is all posted by bookmoth 4 38 pm 0 comments monday april 27 2009 observations observations on first lady of the confederacy varina davis s civil war bvy joan e cashin the author is an associate professor of history at ohio state university this book has been published by the belknap press of harvard university press it has won the fletcher pratt award for nonfiction and was an honorable mention in the library of virginia awards why was i only able to find it in the women s studies section at barnes and noble it s from an academic press it s clearly a biography set in an obvious historical time period i would think history biography and civil war not women s studies who decides how to catagorize these books posted by bookmoth 10 23 pm 0 comments in the end nothing ends adrian nothing ever ends book leads to book my determination to understand the entire world never ends i ve refrained from typing a word here anyway about the watchmen i m embarrassed to admit that i had not read it until i saw the movie i quickly made up for lost time and this gap in my geek education by reading the book a dozen times in a week and countless times since i picked up a copy of watchmen and philosophy ed by mark d white i ve copies of nearly all the media studies and philosophy books about joss whedon s work buffy angel firefly and i look forward to similar books on dollhouse this book though has turned out to be more difficult to understand than i d expected georgetown university had course requirements in philosophy ethics and religion i took intro to philosophy as a freshman i don t remember much i remember reading and actually understanding descartes i think therefore i am not agreeing with it at all but at least understanding the reasoning i remember a ten page paper discussing arguments for and against then countering and counter countering the doctrine of transubstantiation that was interesting to me at least i may not have been catholic anymore but it never leaves your blood finally i understood transubstantiation after weeks of study of the meaning of what is means but all in all i remember so little people s names the names of philosophies that s it i can t remember the differences between utilitarianism and moral relativism hence my difficulty with watchmen and philosophy i ve started to read will durant s the story of philosophy i ve had the book for a while since my last trip to nashville last year i found it in a used book store a cheap hardcover with the leather tearing away from the spine printed in 1933 and clearly well read if not well loved the book is organized first in chronological order by the major philosopher within each chapter organization instead is based on a logical explanation of the particular philosophy major pieces of literature historical context and other major players after about four pages i have realized i will never be able to follow let alone retain the material without keeping a running outline as i read so i gotta read it with a notebook next to me geez i thought i was beyond that for any book but math texts it s a bit humbling luckily though my husband majored a couple decades ago but still in philosophy i m gonna rely on him to explain the hard stuff wish me luck posted by bookmoth 5 31 pm 0 comments thursday april 23 2009 thoughts of the stuff of thought curse words have power to them they are just words but language has rules that everyone or almost everyone in a society agrees on these agreed on rules apply to basic things like grammar and word order for example in english adjectives come before the noun they modify and the subject and verb of a sentence must agree in number like he runs but they run meanings of words are also agreed upon by the group studies have shown that different cultures define colors differently mandarin chinese for instance has a single word to describe both yellow and brown there s an urban l egend that eskimos have 14 words for all the different kinds of snow english is one of the few languages that differentiates between the perfect had pluperfect the phone was ringing versus the phone had been ringing stephen pinker talks about swear words and taboo words in his latest book the stuff of thought i don t have it in front of me now so all of these next lines are based on my memory of the book he sets up a hierarchy of taboo words from shit to piss to snot to spit with the former being more taboo than the latter he observes that these words are roughly in the order of danger to other human beings as vectors of disease and in the order that other people tolerate them in public i e people might be unhappy if you spit in public but shitting in public is more frowned upon language gives insight into human nature the fact that shit is more taboo than sweat or fart is a reflection of how much more harmful feces can be as a disease vector posted by bookmoth 3 26 am 0 comments wednesday april 15 2009 kindles and the meaning of spines of books the signal of reading a book is lost when you read the book on a kindle notes tom foster via marginal revolution someone reading a kindle is reading a kindle and that s all the information the act shares but reading a real book makes a different statement and that statement varies based on the title and material of the book to what degree does the display of a book matter i wonder what the author of the backs of books would say meds a commenter at mr wrote displaying books on your personal shelf is far different from reading in public i hate when strangers can see what i am currently reading whether it is a scholarly journal or the new york post but i love for my house guests to see what s on my shelf it gives them a chance to understand me better as a friend but random train passengers i could care less i ve approached a few people on the metro upon noticing what books they were reading one man in particular i remember was reading bing west s no true glory his first person account on the battle in fallujah the man 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