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Estimates of slave numbers today range from about 10 million to 30 million.
In 2006 and 2007, France had an average of 40 measles cases per year. In the first five months of 2011, the country has recorded more than 10,000 infections, including 360 cases of severe measles pneumonia, 12 cases of encephalitis and six deaths.
Workplaces for kids, which are way nicer than my workplace.
Apt. 11d 
Sometimes, I wish I could selectively and magically grant and remove the benefits of vaccination and herd immunity from individual people. So the kids, who can’t informed consent/demand the vaccination will get it (as well as the immuno-compromised who CAN’T get vaccinated), and the parents who refuse to vaccinate their kids and anti-vac advocates will lose it.
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Very scary measles stats. Our state has the lowest rate of vaccination in the US. I’m expecting some scary stats in our future.
As for the all white children’s workplaces, all I have to say is, yeah right. Presumably that space requires a full time keeper, But I also suspect it requires mythological children.
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“Our state has the lowest rate of vaccination in the US. I’m expecting some scary stats in our future.”
That’s awful–attack of the killer yuppies.
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We lived in Park Slope when I was pregnant with my oldest, and we went to Bradley childbirth classes, and the instructor was rabidly anti-vax. I ignored that part. Maybe I read too many historical novels, but it’s so clear how much of a benefit vaccination is.
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http://catalogliving.net/
Some of those kids’ workspaces cry out for the Molly Erdman treatment.
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“Some of those kids’ workspaces cry out for the Molly Erdman treatment.”
Very true. I liked this (it’s a caption for a safari-themed kid’s room):
“Gary and Elaine were living every parent’s nightmare: Mason was not interested in going on a safari.”
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“Gary and Elaine were living every parent’s nightmare: Mason was not interested in going on a safari.”
“George, I wish you’d look at the nursery.”
“What’s wrong with it?”
“I don’t know.”
“Well, then.”
“I just want you to look at it, is all, or call a psychologist in to look at it.”
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I notice that now it’s not just fretful parents who likely do let’s of research on vaccines, but also parents who seem to just want to rebel a little- like getting a visible tattoo. They haven’t read much on it and just know that it’s a little anti-establishment.
Such a weird way to gamble with not only your children, but the public’s health.
I think we need a campaign saying it’s cool to vaccinate. Maybe have Bono or someone lead it.
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Why does a child need a workplace?
My older kids have desks in their rooms. The desks are really handy to keep the books, Bionicles, and crafts projects from cluttering up the floor.
One kid loves doing his homework in the kitchen. Not at the table, but on the hard, tiled floor.
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I love that Catalog Living blog. There’s apparently a book in the offing, but it’s really a classic example of something that’s better as a blog. Too bad there’s still no good ways of monetizing blogs (though that one has potential — I do see things i want to buy in it, like the ferris wheel snack dispenser). But, could it remain true to its vision while shilling for the catalogs?
Kids need a workspace if they don’t want to work in their rooms (or their rooms aren’t big enough) and you *don’t* want them to work on the dining room table. I think the high end way of building this work space (that could actually work, as opposed to the one where they build a beautiful room in the attic/basement that no one uses) is to add it to a family room.
Oh, and those attic/basement rooms can work if you have a critical mass of kids in your house, which I think is n>2 of children who are close in age to one another.
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“I think the high end way of building this work space (that could actually work, as opposed to the one where they build a beautiful room in the attic/basement that no one uses) is to add it to a family room.”
I’m really smitten with those built-in kitchen desks, although if I had one, it would be all mine. I’d let kids do homework there, but I wouldn’t let them leave non-school projects. Depending on the floor plan of our future home, I may put a desk in our dining room.
“Oh, and those attic/basement rooms can work if you have a critical mass of kids in your house, which I think is n>2 of children who are close in age to one another.”
I think that’s right. With our two kids, a living room is quite adequate.
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Cranberry,
from K-12, I did almost all my schoolwork sprawled on the floor, sometimes on the stairs, and usually in a doorway, much to the chagrin and puzzlement of my mother. If not on the floor, I did hw on the couch. I had a desk in my room, we had kitchen, dining room, and basement tables, and at one point my sibs and I even had our own office, but for some reason I just found it easier to work on the floor. My own personal inclinations make me skeptical of children’s work spaces, but I can see how other people might find them useful.
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We’re spending this month on the old family farm with friends coming to visit. Everyone who visits the cemetery comments on the children’s graves, and I dutifully point out how many died from the 1883 diphtheria epidemic (two on August 6 alone!) and give my speech about the grim alternative to vaccination.
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