Parenting a child is something we grow into; it's not taught at school and the closest we come to watching child rearing in action is what we pick up from our parents. Ask yourself this: do you think your parents did a good job of raising you? What about the early years? Those first two years when you have no memory of the way you were raised.
Technology has encroached on many areas of our lives and one of them is child rearing. Here are some suggestions to consider when the baby finally arrives.
Monitoring Your Baby
Parenting a child during those initial years can be stressful for some yet a "breeze" for others. Parents concern for a child's safety is always uppermost in their minds. How can you monitor your child when you need to do things such as take a shower? Well, technology has come to the rescue here in the shape of monitoring devices. Devices such as:
- motion sensors placed under the baby's mattress that will alert you during sleep periods if the baby hasn't moved for a certain period of time.
- Audio monitoring devices which allow you to listen in to a baby's sounds. These devices are hand held and also allow you to communicate your voice to the child.
- security cameras with infrared capabilities even allow you to watch your baby in a dark area. Hand held wireless devices that have excellent range meaning if you live in a large house, you can still maintain a watchful vigil while you go about your chores.
It makes you wonder how our parents ever got by without such technology. These helpful devices are available at most good baby and infant outlets however, for budget conscious parents doing it tough, then the web is a great place to find them at bargain prices.
Information On Parenting A Child
If you are a first time parent then parenthood can be a scary time. You can absorb as much information as you like on raising children yet be careful not to go into information overload. Stick to the basics and keep it simple. I have always maintained that what you know about raising children will be taught to you by your own child. Each little "bundle of joy" is an individual and yes, they have minds of their own.
Seeking information means sourcing reliable areas. One of the best sources for information, whether direct or indirect is your local hospital. Seeking out parent groups is a great alternative and information on these groups will normally be found at your hospital. If not, then it's a fair bet that they can point you in the right direction.
While it can be a little scary being a parent for the first time, parenting a child is also an exciting stage of your life. Don't go into it with too many pre-conceived strategies. Grow into it and be guided by your baby during those initial stages. And remember, if you are a safety "nut" then there are excellent monitoring devices available.
The upcoming Tintin movie trilogy has heightened interest in all things Tintin. Herge the creator of the well known comic character Tintin will once again be in the mainstream consciousness. Herge was the pen name of Georges Prosper Remi who was both writer and illustrator of all 23 Tintin albums dying before he could finish the 24th Tintin and the Alpha-Art.
Georges Prosper Remi was born in Etterbeek in Belgium in 1907 and was to become the father of the ligne claire style of illustration that was to influence artists such as Warhol. Remi was a keen sketcher from an early age and his primary school books were filled with doodles of the invading Nazi regime who occupied Belgium during the First World War. Remi was a natural and throughout his life had no real formal training apart from a few lessons taken at l'ecole Saint-Luc during his teenage years.
On reaching the age of 13 Remi studied at the college Saint-Boniface being taught by Catholic priests and joining the Boy Scout troop of the school. He was to be given the moniker "Renard curieux" (Curios fox). It was where Remi was to initially experience his illustrations being published firstly in Jamais assez, the school scout paper and then later to a bigger audience in Le Boy-Scout Belge, the scout monthly magazine where the pseudonym Herge first appears.
It is within this environment that many believe heavily influenced Remi's work and especially the character that became Tintin. It is clear that the ethics of the scout movement and the traveling Remi did with his group make up a great part of Tintin's spirit.
In 1925 Herge went to work for Le Petit Vingteme a Catholic newspaper edited by an abbot Norbert Wallez. Herge was to publish his first cartoon series the following year, The Adventures of Tortor again in Le Boy-Scout Belge. It wasn't until 1928 when Herge was put in charge of producing material for the children supplement of Le Petit Vingtieme that Herge really came into his own.
Herge began illustrating the adventures of Flup, Nenesse, Pousette and Cochonnet written by a member of the sports staff. Fortunately for the rest of the world Herge wasn't particularly enamored by this chain of events. It led to Wallez asking Herge to create a young hero that would fight good all over the world and be a reporter to boot. Herge filled with brio created a comic strip of his own influenced by the American innovation of using speech bubbles to depict the words coming out of the characters mouths.
Herge created the now legendary Tintin in the Land of the Soviets that appeared in Le Petit Vingtieme in January 1929 and ran until may 1930. The strip was a wonderful adventure through the Soviet Union, the young reporter Tintin with his trusty fox terrier Snowy. The character of Tintin is also said to be inspired partly by Remi's brother Paul who was an officer n the Belgium Army. Tintin was a popular stip from day one. Remi was to produce other comic strips such as Quick and Flupke but Tintin was the one character that was to make him.
In June 1930 Tintin began his second adventure, Tintin in the Congo (which was at the time a Belgian colony) to be followed by Tintin in America and the Cigars of the Pharaoh.
The first Tintin adventures would take about a year to complete and then would be released by the Casterman publishing house. Herge would continue to revise the adventure in subsequent editions, including later turning them into colour. These early works were also to age quickly as the century moved at break net pace with Tintin in the Congo having to be revised due to the fact Tintin in the original tale is seen giving a lesson to native students in a missionary school and proclaims "My dear friends, today I am going to talk about your country: Belgium" that was later edited into a math lesson.
Herge soon began to learn some of life truths as he got older and there is definite water shed in his work around the time of his 30th birthday when he introduced Tintin and The Blue Lotus to the world. It can be seen as the start of a new era in the life and works of Herge.
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