The little one is less little every day and I grow bigger with pride. I recently (ten minutes ago) watched a video called How to not screw up your kids. It's an interview to Dr. Gabor Mate. He also speaks about adiction and capitalism and the poisons of materialism in other videos. I think he's right on target. He says the first and most important thing you must give the child is happiness, in the sense that you have to be happy yourself so he can learn what happiness is. This I knew from the beginning, that is why I haven't fled Venezuela in search for a 9 to 5 job and a poor-immigrant status that would bring absolutely no joy to me, to him or to my husband. I rather struggle with the lacks common to socialists regimes anywhere, and gain all the human warmth that comes from shared toils.
The second thing he says we ust give children is our presence and the unspoken message that they are welcome in our lives.
So after hearing this two things a lot of questions about potty training and weaning have just fled my mind at the moment. That is the one struggle I do have, though. I still breastfeed him even if he's over two, but he REALLY likes it and it breaks my heart everytime I try. So I've just reduced it to night-time waking and ill-temper in the mornings.
Are you planning to stick around for a while on steemit? With you and @ehr.germany around I have a better incentive to find the time and write articles.
I'm finishing the last touches of a (very) short novel. I hope you'd like to read it when it's done?
By the way, I don't hate drugs, I'm curious about a few, but I think they are to be respected. I don't believe in the concept of 'recreational' drugs. And I do agree with you: they hinder freedom. I'm writing about this subject for an article, maybe we can discuss the subject further then :)
Don't know about the sticking but for sure it makes a difference to find a few familar and sound writers/ musers around worth checking in for. If this small group of interested readers/moral supporters manage to pop in, at least, weekly my incentive is sound for now, amounting issues AFK providing....
Already placed a comment on drugs in a response to Kimberlylane to get the juices flowing on the subject. Needless to say I have studied this particular subject from an esoteric (anthroposophic) perspective to understand (really and not socio-politically) what these substances can do for us (positively/negatively, mainly the latter now, but definitely significantly positively back in the clairvoyant days, before the Dionysian cult fell into a decadent Bacchus cult .... ) but much of this material is quite heavy on the esoteric side. So I might sit this one out to avoid running into clichés. Equally needless to say, you write an excellent piece on how to start off by not being hysterically indoctrinated by stereotypical prejudices (damning the taker and blaming the drug is equally pointless).
It IS a very complex topic about deep things with the substance but a marker. Just don't get me started on Ayahuasca.... or I am going to have to get brutally polemic. Nothing happy-clappy about it (spend a week with a tribe, fine, don't get on their nerves, but it makes a fine anthropological experiment), otherwise I hope you get entangled by a love-vine and are strangled by it (yep, witnessed some bitter experiences with cult developments around this new trend of detoxing the soul).
(Somehow had you located in Mejico... signs of a deteriorating - or very exhausted - brain!).
Of course, I will read your novel! Long or short! Sticking an Orange (or mango) prize on it already. Not in audio book form yet?