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Cousin Marriage - What's Science Got to Do With It? {ParentDish}
Jan 13th 2009 6:43AM So... what if cousins do have children but are not married? Will CPS come and place these children in foster homes? Sigh.
Dutch kids play with explosives at the playground {ParentDish}
Oct 25th 2007 6:57PM "How did this go unnoticed for so long?"
Because, fortunately, most people in our country have NO experience with explosives. Just google "brisantgranaat": it doesn't look like like a regular A-team slash MacGyver granate to me anyway.
I'm sure in the US angry parents would sue the playground owner, their local government and, just to be sure, the German government. I actually had to google this story: apparently it only made it to the local Barneveld newspaper.
Which is where it should be, since there's no one to blame. I wonder why this post sounds so... accusatory?
Women taking Accutane still getting pregnant despite iPledge {ParentDish}
Aug 3rd 2007 6:40PM Why don't they make these women have Medroxyprogesterone Injections? Then no one had to worry about getting pregnant for 12 weeks in a row. BTW, in Holland it's very hard to get an Accutane prescription being a woman in her fertile years.
Women tend to get a Diane 35 prescription, which is a birth control pill but working great against acne. Almost every health insurance covers birth control (with the notable exception of condoms).
And since under the Health Insurance Act all residents of the Netherlands are obliged to take out a health insurance (150-200 US $/month, no compulsary excess, almost everything covered), there's no reason not to use it.
Britney Spears making death threats {ParentDish}
Aug 2nd 2007 7:15PM I'm not interested in wanna-be-artists like Britney Spears at all, but I cannot believe what happens to Parent Dish these days. In stead supporting a fellow parent in distress, you just tune in with all the OMG-she-bought-rice-crispies-the-sugar-!!!-children-away-now-BS-bashing.
And as long as people like you keep writing (on and on and on) about Britney Spears, paparazzi will keep on stalking this woman.
What has she *actually* done to these boys anyway? They always look well fed, well clad, and reasonably happy. Except for hundreds of photographers just waiting for their mother to fail on them, every time she walks in or out a door. I'd be mad too.
And blogs like Parent Dish just want to make sure that something bad happens. I'm pretty sure YOU would want to kill the next "journalist" coming near your baby after years of harassment. I can't blame her.
Of course she's done some pretty stupid things, and she'll keep on doing stupid things, like every single parent reading or writing here. As long as she's not *actually* endangering her kids children (and I've never seen proof of that): who cares??? It's her life and her kids.
But Parent Dish bloggers keep on writing about completely irrelevant things like her underwear, whether or not there or *gasp* worn as a bikini? Does that make her a bad mother?
Does protecting her children from bloodthirsty people like yourself make her a bad mother?
Students protest see-through back packs {ParentDish}
Jul 27th 2007 2:09PM What student puts his gun/knife/whatever weapon in his back pack anyway? :-)
I can't wait until the first high school insists on students wearing "see-through" or mesh clothes only.
I understand the students so called "sentiment". It's only a few steps away from Big Brother-esque camera's in the bathrooms. Who knows what students may be up to there!
How would you feel if your local government told you curtains would be forbidden from now on? Would you say "I have nothing to hide, so fine with me"?
Are bike trailers safer than bike seats? {ParentDish}
Jul 18th 2007 12:12PM Check out: http://www.fietsfabriek.nl/ (then choose "collectie")
The Dutch started the whole Bugaboo thing years ago (which is not so hip anymore :-)) and now every second parent in Amsterdam rides a "bakfiets".
You can see pics of parents taking their children to school on Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=bakfiets
I guess a bakfiets (bak = baker's, fiets = bicycle) is the safest mode of them all: safer than a seat and safer than a trailer, where it's very difficult to see what your child is up to (since the kid is behind your back), or worse: because car drivers tend to forget that there might actually BE a trailer behind a bike and drive over it.
Car seat safety tip {ParentDish}
Jul 13th 2007 1:06PM "(...) the latches in most cars that are pre-2008 are NOT designed to be used with a car seat in the middle of the back seat of the car."
Although I know we're a couple of hours ahead of you, I'm pretty sure it's not 2008 in Amsterdam yet.
I guess ALL cars driving around at this point are pre-2008. In NL most people have dedicated car seats for their infants: much safer than those all-in-one seats that have to be secured every time you enter the car.
And eventhough I'm sure the safest way to take your kid in a car is in the middle: there's more than one child in this household and my back is killing me already from lifting them in and out.
Why we need parenting blogs {ParentDish}
May 25th 2007 6:16PM I really missed your blog! Yes, I know there's like a gazillion blogs out there, but I enjoyed hearing about Nolan and Jordi's adventures! Eventhough (or: because?) your life look a *bit* different now than it was "back then", there most be loads to write about. Good luck!
Look out for chocolate eggs containing toys {ParentDish}
Apr 6th 2007 5:35PM Yeah... thousands of children die each year in The Netherlands alone from having a Kinder Surprise Egg. Good thing they've been banned in the US!
Now why are American parents still allowed to buy peanuts, raisins, marbles, tiny Barbie high-heels, Little People and *gasp* Lego? And how about all the "presents" in cereal boxes and crisp bags?
At least Kinder carefully places the toy in an egg-sized plastic container inside the chocolate egg.
Picture: http://www.answers.com/topic/kinder-surprise
There's no way a small child could get confused whilst eating the chocolate, since it's impossible to eat the BIG container by accident.
I never cared much for the too sweet Kinder chocolate, but I used to love the complicated put-together-toys inside the eggs.
Be sure your child gets those shots! {ParentDish}
Aug 5th 2006 8:50AM "My child never leaves the country (with 300 million very different people in it!) anyway..."
You are aware that people from other (even third world) countries make visits or immigrate to your home towns? And that they'll bring their own bacteria and virusses with them?
