Do you smell something burning?
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So about three weeks ago I posted a little thing about how we’d used artificial wine corks we would have had lying around anyway to de-bonkify the major Bonking Zones and so on. In one of those instances of coincidence that makes it feel as though the world bobbles ever so slightly on its axis, the very next day I stumbled upon a site called Parent Hacks, which appears to be pretty new. Parent Hacks operates under the principle that whatever you’re doing, someone else has done it before and found a solution to the problem that you’re just now bumping up against — and this collaborative knowledge concept is my favorite thing about the internet, after Wicked Weasel (NQuiteSFW). Parenthacks offers a forum of pooled knowledge about what I am increasingly coming to believe is the most challenging, rewarding, and hilarious task the world can offer. By this I mean trying to integrate a new tiny thrashing human into the teeming mass of society. Also into your house and life.
So Asha over at Parent Hacks, “a collaborative weblog of practical parenting wisdom”, linked to our Monster-proofing post and for a few days images of the back of Adam’s not-thoroughly dented skull were flitting around the internet as that link got linked to and so on and so on, like that ’70s ad for Faberge Organics® Shampoo with wheatgerm oil and honey. Our site traffic briefly spiked well into the double digits, causing isoglossia’s bamboo web server to smolder ever so slightly.
Since I know for a fact that some regular readers have already procreated, a few of them intentionally, I link back to Parent Hacks here. Check it out — you just might find a solution to a problem you didn’t quite realize you had.
If you have not yet had children, and therefore still have a life, and are viewing this site on a computer, maybe Lifehacker is the place for you.
I like the fancy S in the beginning. It’s slick. yeah.
Comment by aidan — Tuesday 31 January 06 @ 01.09 MST+2.00
My apologies for the near destruction of your server. It is ultimately my fault you received all that traffic since I told a whole passel pf parent types to go read “Monster-Proofing.” Wait. What am I saying? It is YOUR fault because you fathered the child that precipitated the clever usage of velcro and rubber corks and then wrote the entry….
(I like the S too.)
Comment by Jane — Tuesday 31 January 06 @ 02.21 MST+2.00
What are the debonkifiers for a child of 14? Besides strapping them down and never allowing them to leave the house? So far all I’ve come up with is the cell phone.
Comment by gaoo — Wednesday 1 February 06 @ 16.42 MST+2.00