Another http://parentingis.com post:
Bedtime routine, not what you think. Striking out again against parenting dogma. :-)

P.S. Still unreasonably busy, but very happy. :-)

Another http://parentingis.com post I managed to do! Parenting and patience. Hope you enjoy it. I've been meaning to denounce the idea of patience for a long time!

I have now set up my new blog. Most of the older content is moved from LJ. There are two new artcles discussing the subject of sleep. I've been wanting to share that stuff for quite some time now. I hope you guys enjoy them! I'll be focusing on sleep solutions, sleep theory and bed time for a while, creating narrowly-focused content before getting back to general parenting theory.

It's been an amazingly fun project. I hope to have many of you guys as regular audience there. It goes without saying that I'll be hugely greatful is if you link to it from somewhere appropriate!

I found that blogger (owned by Google) is embarassingly bad. Wordpress is what I settled on and am quite happy. I am also learning a huge amount about SEO, which is a topic I knew too little to be happy.

I've been researching SEO for a couple of different projects I am doing. Don't care about SEO? Good for you.
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One of the two projects is Parenting IS - a parenting blog I am putting together. (What's there now is stuff I am playing with - both the layout and content will change shortly. Better wait to click though.) I found that I am pursuing the theory of parenting, if you will, as a scientific field and am gradually turning my LJ into a publishing tool. While that's fine, it limits both the content of what I have to say and even the social interaction that I get on this forum. LJ is one of the few avenues I use for making and maintaining friendships. Constantly being on a soap box does little for that goal.

Often, when I am reading a parenting book, I find that it makes me feel bad - like I am not doing everything right, failing, fumbling. I can take it when it comes from a complete stranger - but it's hard from a friend.

So, would it be OK with everyone if I post a summary with a link each time I update Parenting IS, and keep LJ more down-to-earth? Though I will refer to stuff I've said there, it'll be in order to illustrate the more personal points of what I am going through - something I'll keep out of there. It'll be like a 3rd party article collection referred to by this journal.

I am having a lot of fun thinking about what it will be and would like to have a podcast as soon as I catch up on converting the serious posts I wrote in the past year into more focused articles and publishing them there.