Creative Choice

A Digital Genius

We live with a digital genius of 011001 months old. When any object with keys or buttons is within her reach, it's hers and all the buttons get pressed in an order that to me, her father still with one foot in the analog age, appears as random. Her fingers fly over the keypads from ...

28 January, 2015

apathy, Behavioural sciences, digital age, distraction, Miru, pedagogics, smartphone, toddler, toys

Miru

Bed time

[series-miru] Miru normally falls asleep when her mother lies next to her and hums soft and soothing melodies into her pillow while tapping her gently until her cries turn into sobs and then silence. I admire my wife's skills and patience. And I envy it: Isn't it something unique between mothers and their children, a ...

15 October, 2013

feminism, imitate, laughing, Miru, role-play, roles, sleeping

Miru

Applause

[series-miru] Miru is now clapping her hands. At almost nine months, she is a very happy baby, and the occasional bouts of crying are interspersed with laughter and endless joy - for her as well as for her parents. She's a perfect baby, and if you a) don't believe me and b) read Korean, my ...

28 September, 2013

Applause, future generations, Human behavior, imitate, laughing, Miru, parenting, permaculture, responsibility, strip mining

Miru, Resistance

Missing Miru

[series-miru] For a variety of reasons that I had instantly forgotten when looking at a smiling Miru, I had decided to travel. Looking for new clients, exploring new countries, visiting friends, making use of stopovers on a journey to Europe - all are equally valid and ridiculous reasons to miss the baby for a few ...

25 May, 2013

Miru, missing

Miru

Cries and Music

This is part of a series of blog posts that is inspired by our baby daughter, Miru. It is well known that babies have a sonic prehistory that starts in the womb, and advice to comfort a baby often includes exposing her to white noise similar to the audible sensations she had while in utero. There ...

21 February, 2013

baby, Beethoven, calming, consoling, Crying, Miru, Mozart, singing, soothing

Miru, philosophy

Awaiting Binary Communication

This is part of a series of blog posts that is inspired by our baby daughter, Miru. Every infant starts out in this world with a one-word vocabulary, the content of which we (from the perspective of our infinitely nuanced expressive apparatus) then interpret as crying. I don't know how the baby herself experiences the crying, ...

17 February, 2013

Crying, Diaper, Ethology, Hominina, Infancy, Infant, mind, Miru

Miru, philosophy

Naming Miru

It is our invitation to the cultured realm of existence: giving her a name. It is the first "act" and symbolic gift we bestow upon her. Naming has played an important role in every religion, and newborns have almost always been named after something or someone. Naming preserved a lineage, honored the founding elders on ...

12 January, 2013

association, baby girl names, baby names, goddess, lineage, meaning, Miru, Naming, Polynesia, symbolic

Miru, Uncategorized


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