Oh dear GOD...

Ana would not take a nap today. And I nearly believed her, though by her behaviour it was obvious that she NEEDED this nap. She bit, and now that she's just about over that, it can be taken as a clear sign that she's overtired.

Once she realized that she'd whined herself out of one more book, she really tried to get out of napping, using excuses from "I bite the cereal!" (when she had gorged herself on food all day, and had finally stopped eating a little while ago) and "Read apples!" (not happening, not after that bite), and "Change diaper!" That last one would've worked, except I'd just *changed* it, and she wasn't wet yet. And once she saw it wasn't working, she tried "I go on potty!" and "I go on toilet!", but the game was up. She never asks for her diaper to be changed, even when she knows she's more comfortable with a new one on, so it was clear that those last two were just ploys to stay up later. Eventually, she even tries "CONNIE! MILK! MILK!" which was just absurd, considering that as far as I know, the word only ever means "nurse" to her. I wonder if Jenn's going to start pumping before the baby's born, actually, but that's a different issue.

Finally she gave up and fell asleep. She tried, though, she tried hard to stay up.

Ooooh, free press screenings for Serenity, if you've got a journal...

I already signed up, hope this *works*.

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Here's the link.

Minor question: Are nice outfits expected at advance screenings of popular sci-fi thingies? Because I guess I could get a Jayne hat. It'd be fun. No time to beg people to make me an Alliance uniform....

Pair of links...

At least one of these is a popular journal, so I don't have qualms about linking to them.

In the first one that I saw, we see a mother's reaction to her daughter's comment about not wanting kids. I already gave my feelings about that post in a comment there, but I can at least see that this is tied up with a bunch of other things for the mom, so, fine, we aren't always completely logical.

And, for comparison, the original post. Her ex is incredibly grown-up, but not grown-up enough to consider that if she wants a job and he wants kids, maybe she should work and he should stay home.... *shrugs* I don't know the guy.

It's the comments to the first post I saw that really get to me. The first chronological post has an implied criticism of her mom's choice to have kids? Where, exactly? Where she says "I'm not responsable or patient enough"? That kinda sounds like she's saying that her mom must be responsible and patient. That's a criticism now? Where her earlier thoughts of having kids were based on being mad at her parents, and she said she would raise her kids differently? But then she goes on to say she deserved being grounded at those times, and that she realized that her parents were doing their best? Sure, I suppose you could read that as "they were doing their best, but their best STILL SUCKED NYAH!", but I don't see it. I really don't. Maybe it's where she says she doesn't want to spend either her youth or her old age taking care of somebody else? Well, I suppose that *could* be a criticism - but I don't see that either. Nowhere does she say that it's not all right for other people to want kids - in fact, both there and in the comments, she mentions specific people who probably *are* suited for children.

This hurts because she's saying "she doesn't care enough about you to give you grandkids"? WTF? And when your kid becomes a teacher instead of a doctor, is that because they don't care enough about you to give you a doctor for a son? Indeed, in the comments to the original post, the mother said outright that she doesn't want grandkids at the moment. Even if she did, that's not the point. Doing something to please somebody else is always a bad choice. We all figured that one out the first time we ate those yucky mushrooms and realized how evil they were, and how they'd clearly brainwashed our families into thinking they weren't evil....

Note: I do think it's possible for her to change her mind. It's possible for everyone to change their mind about everything. I may even start eating those evil fun guys. There may be a greater chance of hell freezing over, but it's definitely *possible*. Comments about minds changing aren't relevant to any part of this conversation, though people *do* insist on bringing them up. If anybody's mind gets changed, I'm sure we'll all not care.