RE: [MLUG] baby!

["Spurling, Shannon" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

I think it's when they turn around and start "working" the mouse
themselves when the problems start. ;-)
I think that, even though you feel you are ignoring them, you are giving
them contact. They know you are there, and that should help them develop
better. In fact, I bet if you didn't hold her while you surfed the web,
she may have been worse off. I always think of the studies where they
had the baby monkeys and the terry cloth vs. metal surrogate mother.
Just by having a warm, soft, nurturing figure the baby with the terry
cloth surrogate grew up to be more balanced and better adjusted.

Besides, why else are geeks prone to grow a cushion around the middle?
"I'm not fat, I just grew some padding for the baby to rest on. It's for
the baby!" :-) 

Shannon Spurling
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Sent: Monday, August 01, 2005 1:00 PM
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Subject: Re: [MLUG] baby!

Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:

> Dave Lloyd wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 1 Aug 2005, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:
>>
>
>>> I was forced to get very heavily involved with our second child,
>>> because my
>>> wife was seriously ill after her birth.  I must admit that I didn't
>>> do it
>>> perfectly (e.g. I was feeding the baby with her on my lap, while I
>>> was surfing
>>> the internet).  Now I have an extremely strong bond with my
daughter, a
>>> blessing which was more or less forced upon me.
>>
>>
>>
>> You mean like this?
>> http://www.davelloyd.com/gallery/guspotd/IMG_0560
>
>
> Exactly. 

Mark me down for the same; this must be natural geek-dad behavior :)

-N

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