Zeke's room!

 I finally got to decorate a room for Zeke! But I quickly realized that his room isn't a nursery anymore. It's a little boy's playroom. So it's not quite so dear and sweet, it's more cute, kid-centered, and functional. Here are some pictures of where we are now:

His bookshelves, with bins and baskets of toys interspersed with his books.

His clothesline of pictures (via pinterest of course) which he LOVES.

The second hand rocking chair and the beloved boppy. And his Daddy's bear and old wooden train.

The little blue dresser which was his Daddy's childhood dresser and his Grandpa's before that.

He loves his room and so do I! It's so HIM. And it's wonderful to be able to put his toys away every night and have a nearly toy-free home to be a grown-up in! The only things we bought are  the curtains, the cube baskets for toys under his crib, and someof the toys and books. Everything else was given to us. It makes his room so, so special. The main thing I want to get now for his room is a rug. Maybe one those awesome street and city rugs? Like this one.

Just thinking.

Is spanking a child really worse for the kid then screaming at them?

Was looking through the comments on Dooce's latest about "worst parenting moments," and reading some of them I kept thinking... if those kids had been calmly given a smack on the butt after one warning, they would have listened up and the parents wouldn't have been frustrated to the point of screeching.

Now, I'm sure I'll have my screaming moments but it does seem like a lot of non-spankers end up make it their only discipline tool. I've seen it.

That kinda makes me sad.

I only remember one time (out of lots) that I got spanked and felt hurt by it. But the times I got yelled at, I remember. And some of them still hurt.

There are definitely wrong ways to spank too, of course. But I was just thinking.