A year ago today, I decided to take a photo documenting a split second each day for the entire year. Today, I took the last shot and in the end came pretty close to meeting my pic-a-day goal. Some days I took a couple of pictures and some days I missed all together. Below is a short video documenting the time in my life where I went from simply being a husband to a wonderful woman to being a husband and a father to a wonderful family. The last year has been a blessing for me and I thought you all would enjoy and maybe even get a good chuckle out of the video.
Anyway, each morning while I am feeding G, BM and I watch a TED presentation. They usually last about 20 minutes which run perfect with G’s feeding. The TED we watched today was a presentation that Steven Levitt did (Mr. Freakanomics). Being a stats head, I love his fresh approach and ways of thinking that help break down preconceived notions in our society.
Steven did just that in today’s TED video. He appears to have made a very compelling case that child seats for children over the age of two are at best as good as standard issue seat-belts but at worse they are worse for the health and well-being of our kids.
I know, is contrary to how we think in this country, but if you ponder how public policy is made in this country (think special interests and there are no major special interests in support of no child seats), you can probably understand why we have an overwhelming belief that child seats are good. Now, don’t get me wrong, I am not criticizing our policy process as it is the best anyone has come up with this far in human history. In fact, our entire system was build primarily to keep the power of the special interests in check as much as is possible - but again I digress.
If you are interested, you can watch the TED video below or watch it on the TED website. Have a good weekend!
I finally captured a little video of G speaking. The flashing light and noise deal that sits on top of this play mat thing turns off after about five minutes of playing. Within 30 seconds of the lights and noise stopping, G begins to use daddy’s technique of commanding things to happen (I think G is more successful than I am). So, he chats for a second or two and then turns to see himself in the mirror. Thought you all might enjoy the little video. I have to run as it is his bath time.
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