Elizabeth Barrette (ysabetwordsmith) wrote,
Elizabeth Barrette
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Automated Baby Care Is So Wrong

This automated rocking crib creeps me out. Babies need human contact to learn how to be human beings. They can die from lack of touch. I can understand parents' need for relief, but that's what relatives and friends are for. Or do you want children to imprint more on machines than on humans?

O_o Now there is a disturbing idea for a science fiction story: a sentient computer takes over the Earth, and only the old people are bothered by it. The younger generation, raised by machines, feel comforted. Yee eee eee ...
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Re: Thoughts

ysabetwordsmith

February 3 2009, 22:33:36 UTC 12 years ago

When I was tiny, we had a malamute named Dusty. He was a very wolfish dog, and I was a rather wolfish baby, and he decided that I was essentially a furless puppy. It worked out pretty well. I have a button that says, "What do I know? I was raised by wolves." For me, it has some truth to it. But my parents played with me too.
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Re: Thoughts

glitteringlynx

February 3 2009, 22:50:31 UTC 12 years ago

Thankfully, with living in the same building as my two friends and one of them having older siblings, I got the (small) social network and did get that sense of.. "togetherness?".. elsewhere. I mean there are things I learned from my best friends' older sister that I didn't learn from my mother, but there are other things my mother taught me that I didn't learn elsewhere. I loved living in our building because of that sense of community, of our three families sort of co-raising all 3 of us. :)

  • Birdfeeding

    Today is mostly sunny, muggy, and warm. I fed the birds. I've seen house finches. I took a few pictures in the yard. EDIT 7/4/21 -- I picked half…

  • Birdfeeding

    Today is sunny and mild. I fed the birds. I've seen house finches and sparrows. I raked the firepit and laid a chimney of sticks in it. We broke up…

  • Photographs

    I took some pictures of my yard today. Read about what makes a good wildlife yard and Fieldhaven as habitat. The larger brush pile is still…