Link dump, next: Parenting-related bits

• Leading and Being Led -- a great reflection on the negotiations of everyday childrearing, and also on the recognition of a moment when a child has something to teach us.
  
  
• Here's to Having Kids! -- a reaction to both humorous and humorless put-downs of the childrearing experience, arriving at an interesting perspective.
  
  
• Want a safe place to raise kids? Look to the cities yay!
  
  
• 12 Tips For Choosing A Guardian For Your Children
  
  
• Lesson Eight: I'm Judging You -- more tales of the free advice/judgement offered by strangers and fellow parents. feh.
  
  
• Free Range Kids -- doesn't even have laziness to recommend it, just healthiness for kids.
  
  
• Keizer 3-year-old calls 9-1-1 to save his father -- I guess this is a self-nudge that it's time to teach Speck about 911.
  
  
• The 5 Best Toys of All Time -- lots of room for imagination in there!
  
  
• Earth To Be Made Child-Safe -- some humor from the Onion, heh.
  
  
• Deconstructed Valentines -- a great craft project plus a reminder that nothing in parenting ever goes quite as planned.