Pro-life vid of the day: Binky be gone!
by LauraLoo
Thalia, a Latina superstar, has sold more than 40 million albums worldwide and has more than five million Twitter followers. But one of her most daunted feats was to think of a creative way for her two-year-old to ditch not just one binky (chupie) but a vast collection of binkies!
Thalia explains how she achieved detaching her child from the beloved binky in a new children’s book titled Chupie: The Binky That Returned Home.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLyICXQwGgc[/youtube]
Cute idea – bidding binkies bye-bye to Binkyland.
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Jan.13, 2014 12:00 pm |
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Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
Not far from the area where I was born in Brooklyn, people tie pacifiers to a small cluster of trees, when they’re “done” with them. It’s sort of a neighborhood tradition, I think it has old-world roots or something, but otherwise it’s not too dissimilar to this. The tree is where pacifiers go when we’re done with them – it’s where they want to be, with each other, etc. Families walk past the trees and talk about how one day their pacifier will go to the tree, too. Kids go tie their pacifier on when they’re “done” with it (bonus, they get to sort of feel solidarity with all the kids who did it before them). Some families stroll past the tree sometimes and “wave” to the old pacifier etc. It’s sweet.
I found an article on it: http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/03/27/covered-in-pacifiers-trees-signal-a-rite-of-passage/?_r=0
My younger sister came about 18 months after me – surprise! – so my parents just used the relatively easy, if somewhat close-to-home, reasoning of, “You need to give up your pacifier because the LITTLE baby needs it! You’re a big girl now so you don’t need baby things; but the baby needs baby things like pacifiers. If big girls don’t give up baby things then babies have nothing!” etc. lol I make it sound pretty guilt-trippy but it was relatively un-traumatic overall.
I love this! We need more of this!
Women seek abortion because they are afraid. One way to help our culture overcome the fear of parenthood is to share and celebrate our rich stories of parenthood. We need to remind out culture that parenting brings great happiness to our lives.
Here is a Latina superstar — with all the wealth and fame and super-sexy appeal that comes with being a Latina superstar. And most exciting thing in her life — are the adventures she shares with her two-year-old.
Any woman can be this happy, without being a media superstar.
I would guess that even a lot of rich and famous people view their family life as more important and pleasurable than their career. (their kids anyway, I know marriage can be a difficult thing to maintain in these situations sometimes)
P.S. I was the opposite from this kid. Apparently I got rid of my pacifier at 2 DAYS old by spitting it out right away! I do still have many of my stuffed animals from childhood though.