links for 2007-11-14

• BabyCenter: MOMformation » Detachment Parenting
  A great hack for helping your kid "detach" from toys he's outgrown, but purports to still love. We do this, and I never thought to write it up as a hack!
• Eco Child’s Play
  Fascinating blog, especially given all the insanity around BPA and lead paint (and who knows what else). Thanks, Kristen!
• Was the slate ever really blank? — parenting | Gather
  An article I wrote for Gather.com about my evolving perspective on "nature vs. nurture." Note: the Gather.com "Code Orange" space is sponsored by a PH advertiser, but my article is independent.

Comments

[mama k]

Can I add a link? If not feel free to delete me. I'm running a giveaway for a Plan Toy set, an eco-friendly toy co.
http://mamaknj.blogspot.com/2007/11/grand-opening-and-giveaway.html

This is in honor of the grand opening of my new store, www.NonToxicTots.com

Thanks!

[Dustin]

Re: blank slate -- as anthropologist Ashley Montagu said, the environment is part of the heredity. We inherit our environment as much as we inherit our genes, and there's no crowbar to wrest them apart with.

[KimKim]

Thanks for the Detachment Parenting mention, Asha. I loved your bit at Gather.

[butterbean]

I have boy/girl twins and I could have singlehandedly settled the nature vs. nurture debate long ago ;-) I must say though that I'm still continually surprised how deep those gender waters run. It will be interesting to see what our generation does with this new (old) perspective.

I assume your title is a reference to the Steven Pinker book The Blank Slate, but if it isn't, go check it out. It's a great read about how far our society takes this "blank slate" notion.