The Onion does it again: The Pros And Cons Of Vaccinating Children

The Pros and Cons of Vaccinating Children

Life gets busy and I have a million ideas but not much time to write blog entries.

But The Onion never fails to provide good fodder for this blog...

Schools!

My older son is not going to be in kindergarten for another year and a half and I am already feeling anxiety about schools.

So once again The Onion hits the nail on the head with this story.

Intrepid Middle-Class Parents Embark On Daring Search For Mythical Perfect School District

The 5 second rule for the win!

Since having children I have completely changed my stance on eating food that has been dropped on the ground.

This recent article seems to offer hope that eventually the scientific method may prove the validity of the 5 second rule.

"For the study, Anthony Hilton, a professor of Microbiology, and his students considered a variety of foods – toast, pasta, cookie, and a sticky candy – to see how much bacteria (E. coli and Staphylococcus) they attracted when allowed contact with the floor. They allowed the food to lie on various types of flooring – carpet, laminate, and tiles – for 3 seconds to 30 seconds.

Not surprisingly, the longer the food was allowed commune with the floor, the more bacteria it accumulated. And the surfaces differed in how likely they were to transfer the bacteria, with carpeting being the least likely, and tiled surfaces and laminate the most likely. “We have found evidence that transfer from indoor flooring surfaces is incredibly poor with carpet actually posing the lowest risk of bacterial transfer onto dropped food,” said Hilton in a news release."

Next, I want someone to check out just how unhealthy it is for my 4 year old to eat goldfish he finds in the creases of his carseat that have been there for a minimum of one day but on some occasions may have been there for much much longer...

Here is the handy cheat-sheat included in the Forbes article:

I'm just like all the moms at the salon

So I went to get a hair cut yesterday, something which is often stupidly difficult to plan ahead and fit into my schedule.

Once there, relaxing in the chair after a massaging shampoo and while the hair cut was well underway I looked at my phone. It was already almost 5:00 and I told the hair dresser I would have to skip the blow dry because I had to run to go pick up my kids afterwards.

And she told me I was the third mom that day to tell her she would have to cut the pampering short because she had to run to pick up the kids!

So despite my best efforts it turns out I am just like all the other moms!

Interesting side note. She told me men never told her they had to rush to pick up their kids. And that men who brought their kids in for hair cuts often were stumped by the question "how do you want the hair cut?" She said they usually ended up texting with their wife who had explicit instructions.

Any other moms out there find it hard to get a hair cut?
When you do are you checking your phone/watch the whole time?