Good parenting:

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=0yzAO3tNVlU
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=52vhtwuGjOA

the first one is hilarious. The baby actually shuts up for a bit.:D

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^^ new pix circa today and yesterday.
i lurv my son.

Anna looking very mischievous (and an awful lot like me, unfortunately :D ).

^^ he he

"I just turned two!"

yay

yeah but i don't want to brutalize my vag, pookie
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brb crying over lost lulz. :(

cute!!

had not idea you were a dad. suchg a cute boy.

Anna last weekend:

It's been awhile since I have posted an update on the Keggers.

Evan is amazing in Tae Kwon Doe. He is only 5 and already a yellow leader about to graduate again to an orange belt. He is in this ninja black belt club where he is learning all the basics, plus multiple weapons like nunchucks, throwing stars, bo staff and sparring techniques. More importantly it instills focus, teamwork, control, balance, memory, discipline, coordination and fitness.

Looking evil:

Soooo, Kellian continues to mature way too fast. She is 10 and I recently had to have the 'sex' talk. That was horrid. She is way too smart for her age and beautiful. She scares me.

She has been asked to join the GATE (Gifted and Talented Education) program at school. She remains top of her class, and she is just one of those kids that's naturally smart. She hardly studies, just retains info like a sponge. Her interests of late are writing songs and drawing. Her latest artwork includes pieces titled 'World Domination' and 'Music is one thing, death is another'... She is most excellent.

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you're forgetting the all-important Calvin

Is anybody concerned about putting your kids' pix on the Internet?

i've got about 200 of them on our flickr.
i am concerned but a 2 year old sliding down a children slide is pretty much harmless really.
I wouldn't put my 11yearold girl in bikinis on there though.

It just seems a little weird to me. Your child has no say in the matter. It seems like kind of a privacy issue, to me. I know if I discovered, say, that my parents had plastered all the photos they took of me in grade school all over the city newspapers, I'd be pissed as hell.

the mini-bot is about to start packing. he passed the security check with the NSA, and will be heading off to DC in the morning.

klaatu obama nikto.

I agree, it's an abuse of rights.

I believe the only picture I've posted of my kid did not show his face. girlgun is not under my control, but I don't believe she'd post him either.

you just said "Obama is nobody" in my language.

i'm serious.

in my language, klaatu as a predicator means "opposite of _slavo_'s language".

it's a small multiverse.

wait....so your son is really gonna meet Obama?!?

erm ... what?
my processor is too slow for yours.
I'm a 486.
:(

you're right. i won't do it again, i promise.

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The comparison a bit far-fetched :(

How so? It's actually worse posting on the Internet versus publishing in print because anybody can much more easily copy and use your photo for any purpose.

Often this wholesale disregard for personal privacy that I see so much on the Internet absolutely floors me.

I am a parent! I'm the father of a 4 year old boy. He's not much into Sonic Youth but he does dig The Clash a whole heck of a lot. Them and Daft Punk. He calls them "Punky Girls" I don't know why.

Pix or it didn't happen.

I would feel guiltier about knowing I caused someone else to go through adolescence and the prison dynamic of the school environment than I would about posting photos of them. The younger generations have no concept of "privacy" with regard to photos on the interwebs anyway. They'll all put their own pix up all over the place before too long anyway.

But regardless of what they think, wouldn't it bother you on a personal level? As an adult, does it seem responsible?

We're all different, of course. And we live in the age of reality TV when it seems that the norm is exposing every foible of our fmaily lives for public scrutiny. But I myself would feel like I was abusing that child's rights.

If I had kids, I probably wouldn't put their pictures up, it's true.
Heck, I don't even put up pictures of my wife! She won't have it.

Exactly. If my friends, kids, or wife posted their snapshots of me on the web, without my permission, I wouldn't stand for it.

although I've not posted a recognizable photo of my kid for the reasons you speak of, you curmudgeons are bringing down this thread.

Yeh, a voice of sanity can do that. Sorry.

those that feel the need to attest to their own sanity, rarely actually are.

This is what I do.

Rarely being the keyword. I am that rarity, sir. And I defy you to prove otherwise.