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This just in: Don’t go back to work for two years – if you want a happy baby. It’s obvious that someone else wrote the title, because Dr. Yehudi Gordon’s point was more, “Don’t seperate from your baby too soon, if you want a happy person.” Maybe when my last child is 20 and I’m ready to seperate I can get a job as a title-er.
Also, we, my dears, broke my google. They cancelled my account, dismantled me, shut me out, and told me off. Apparently they liked me much better when no one clicked on my ads. So, alas, there it is. But hey, the good news is they mostly sucked anyway! They clogged up my site with unsightly and often inappropriate ads and only ever made me $10 a month, and that was on a good month. So good riddance, I say.
And finally, I’ve added a new button to the bottom of the latest comic, which says ‘buy now’! Which means you can buy this beautiful and astonishingly funny comic for just .99 and print it out on your home computer and put it right up on the refrigerator. Right now. It’s the same price as a music download, and just as wondrous! Please help support your favorite cartoonist by buying comics soon and often. (also, please let me know if there are any bugs, this is all new!)
Love,
Heather
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Long time reader…first time commenter *blushes* (sorry ’bout that…lurking drives me batty, and yet!!) If your hoping to get people to purchase the comics it may be wise to dismantle right clicks because currently I could (though I haven’t. That’d be rude.) right click, save to my computer and then print..for free. I wouldn’t because that is rude..but the point is, it could be done.
As for google ads I believe it to be something like “Fight club” “First rule of google ads is that you don’t talk about google ads” they tell you the user that it’s a way to make money…but they don’t actually want you telling anyone that’s how your making money!! Rediculous isn’t it?
Have you ever read Gordon Neufeld and Gabor Mate’s Hold on to Your Kids: Why Parents Need to Matter More Than Peers? It’s amazing how important parents really are…
And here my dad keeps telling me my kids are going to be warped from spending too much time with me and not enough with kids his own age! 
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“Maternity policy places emphasis on the nine months leading up to birth and not enough on the years after. Big maternity units are like conveyor belts; their main concern is to get women and babies through safely and quickly.”
It starts this way, let’s just HOPE the article gets better & better!
oh yippie… there are so many comics from here and hathor that i want.
now i will own the all and give them as gifts to those who i fell will benifit from them as much as i have/did/do
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once i get back from vacation that is so i can print them from home
Love the article. Thanks for sharing. I hope it influences people everywhere. I work outside the home but I knew it was a negative factor for my boys as babies so I made extra effort to overcome it.
Dear Julinda,
that’s one of the things I love about you, you’re able to rise above and not take offense. Because we arent’ really talking about each individual mom’s circumstances, but rather the bigger picture. We’re all doing the best we can, and if we take offense then we never learn. Thanks for being a shining example of graciousness. ;o)
xox,
Heather
Thanks for the link!
I see you’re on Goodreads….have you ever considered opening an Amazon ministore filled with books you love?
Here’s a link to a friend’s store so you can see what I mean.
It might bring in a little revenue!
Hi Megan,
thanks! I did it today!
xox,
Heather
I whole heartedly agree with what this article is saying, I see it in my neice who is 16 months old. I have been blessed enough to work for an IBCLC and have gotten to bring each of my children to work with me over the years. I have been there for 8 years as her secretary/ sales person along with other mothers who have gotten to bring their children. I wish more workplaces would allow for this! It is sometimes hard to multitask at this level however my kids have benefitted from being with me…..just my 2 pennies.
I’m not surprised at the research at all. It seems obvious to me that babies will grow into happier, more well-adjusted humans if they have parents around consistently in the first years of their lives. I will say, however, that I was in a tough place emotionally during the time I was with my wee one. I was gainfully employed, part-time, in a job where she came with me most of the time. And Dad was flexible enough that she was very rarely without one of us. I’m a much happier and better functioning human as a working mom than I was as a SAHM.
I’m not looking to start the argument; I think my kid needed me. I adore her and adore being with her. But I also need to fill other roles in the world. That’s just who I am and who God has called me/made me to be.
I was extraordinarily lucky to have a flexible job. We need to build a world where flexible jobs are the norm and rigid hours are obviously stupid, so that humans can do all they need to do for their families and for themselves.
You said: “Maybe when my last child is 20 and I’m ready to seperate I can get a job as a title-er.”
And it made me laugh.
Thank you.