February 20, 2011
formspring.me #66
When you were a child, what did you see yourself doing? How different is your life now from how you imagined it?
When i was a child i had a natural inclination to please people and be helpful and useful, so i always saw myself doing a 'caring' job such as a teacher/nurse or a 'service' job such as a waitress or maid. i was also convinced that i would get married and have children and spend my days at home looking after them and doing the housework and preparing dinner for when my husband got home.
i guess in many ways my life has turned out just like that: i am married, i do have children, i do spend my days looking after them and keeping the house in order and i (sometimes) cook the dinner. i had a 'caring' job working with special needs kiddies in a nursery, and i still have the need to be useful and helpful and pleasing to others. The only part i didn't foresee was the BDSM part, but then i wasn't aware of that when i was a child (just as it should be) so i couldn't exactly predict that.
Do you think moral statements are truth; is it relevant to call a moral statement true or false?
This is a bit of a deep philosophical question, but i think on the whole i would be inclined to answer "no". i don't think it is possible to give a blanket answer for any moral statement and say that it is always 'true' or 'false' in every situation, at every time, for every person, because circumstances and viewpoints differ. Some moral statements for example have changed over time, so that something most people would answer 'true' to now most people would have answered 'false' to in the past, and the same applies for different cultures or different places in the world. Most people's morals are heavily influenced by the society that have grown up in. But what i do think is possible to say is that for an individual person certain moral statements might always be 'true' or 'false' and this may hold the same for the whole of their lifetime. So for me as an individual i can call a moral statement 'true' or 'false' but not apply that to every other person or people in general.
What is your favourite family holiday tradition?
i have a few! i love the whole putting up the Christmas tree and other decorations thing, especially now that Poppy is able to help. And i love decorating the house for Halloween and choosing costumes for the kids and sending Poppy out trick-or-treating and answering the door to all the other kiddies and giving them goodies. And i love painting eggs and boiling them at Easter and having an egg hunt in the garden. There's too many great traditions for me to choose just one.
I wonder if babysigning might be of particular use to you? I ask because I'm a babysigning teacher (in the vanilla world).
i used babysigning with Poppy from a young age and she really took to it well and was able to sign before she could talk (i think her first sign was around 7-8 months) and she continued to use signs for quite a while to supplement her speech and make herself clearer. With Finn and William i have used it since birth and Finn has been copying my signs for a while and is now signing some of them spontaneously to ask for things (milk, bath and ball so far), which is so exciting! i'm hoping that as William develops he will be able to use signs too and i think it will be really useful that Poppy and Finn both know signing so that they can communicate with William better in the future.
i guess in many ways my life has turned out just like that: i am married, i do have children, i do spend my days looking after them and keeping the house in order and i (sometimes) cook the dinner. i had a 'caring' job working with special needs kiddies in a nursery, and i still have the need to be useful and helpful and pleasing to others. The only part i didn't foresee was the BDSM part, but then i wasn't aware of that when i was a child (just as it should be) so i couldn't exactly predict that.
Do you think moral statements are truth; is it relevant to call a moral statement true or false?
This is a bit of a deep philosophical question, but i think on the whole i would be inclined to answer "no". i don't think it is possible to give a blanket answer for any moral statement and say that it is always 'true' or 'false' in every situation, at every time, for every person, because circumstances and viewpoints differ. Some moral statements for example have changed over time, so that something most people would answer 'true' to now most people would have answered 'false' to in the past, and the same applies for different cultures or different places in the world. Most people's morals are heavily influenced by the society that have grown up in. But what i do think is possible to say is that for an individual person certain moral statements might always be 'true' or 'false' and this may hold the same for the whole of their lifetime. So for me as an individual i can call a moral statement 'true' or 'false' but not apply that to every other person or people in general.
What is your favourite family holiday tradition?
i have a few! i love the whole putting up the Christmas tree and other decorations thing, especially now that Poppy is able to help. And i love decorating the house for Halloween and choosing costumes for the kids and sending Poppy out trick-or-treating and answering the door to all the other kiddies and giving them goodies. And i love painting eggs and boiling them at Easter and having an egg hunt in the garden. There's too many great traditions for me to choose just one.
I wonder if babysigning might be of particular use to you? I ask because I'm a babysigning teacher (in the vanilla world).
i used babysigning with Poppy from a young age and she really took to it well and was able to sign before she could talk (i think her first sign was around 7-8 months) and she continued to use signs for quite a while to supplement her speech and make herself clearer. With Finn and William i have used it since birth and Finn has been copying my signs for a while and is now signing some of them spontaneously to ask for things (milk, bath and ball so far), which is so exciting! i'm hoping that as William develops he will be able to use signs too and i think it will be really useful that Poppy and Finn both know signing so that they can communicate with William better in the future.
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