I was thinking books that explaining the whole timeline thing 🙂 For example, how long to breast feed...when to introduce real, whole foods, when to hide the 'sippy-cups,' letting them cry vs. babying them, an alternative to this whole 'timeout' nonsense, et al.
Also, my friends had me watch Meet the Fokers, because they said Deniro was as comically extreme, they said, as I planned to me. I still argue that speaking baby-talk to kids make them stupid (I am a perfect case-in-point). 🙂 I have told my mom for years that I have to approve of the toys, so don't buy any...only educational stuff 🙂 I am approaching this as an experiment and accepting full responsibility if I don't produce a Harvard graduate who has a good life...willing to invest the time and dedication needed, but need some advance parenting techniques 😉 I will read Plato and Aristotle and Hume etc to the kid from day one, buying a baby grand to introduce him (I still think I saw a penis) to classical music very early, will read him the Lombardi 'What it takes to be Number One' speech all the time, teach him how to think analytically, etc...sure, I could be going overboard and end up having a gay cowboy who quits school and smokes pot (not that there is anything wrong with gay pot-smoking cowboys with an 11th grade education) just to spite me, but I argue that kids are a product of the environments in which they were raised. Also, like the crying thing. I, like Deniro, have always believed that they should be allowed to cry themselves out, unless they are signaling they are hungry or wet or something else that needs to be addressed, but not a fan of holding them every single time they cry and talking cute 😉
As for names, As much as I like Octavian, which isn't going to fly with the wife, I think it might make my job harder when the kid hits school, so I am trying to find something a little less in-your-face 😉
