NPR and children

Just wanted to say that my 4-yr-old knew the presidential candidates. (And now he knows who won.) We have NPR on all the time. We either have on that or 80s music. (Or select children's music; no purple dinosaurs.) It's just hilarious to hear a preschooler say Barak Obama.

Clinginess

My son, who is 3, is harder to drop off at preschool now than when he was 18 months! Now he cries and clings and ducks and weaves to avoid his teacher. At a year and a half he trotted right in and started playing with the Little People Bus. Every day, same bus. Now I think he knows there are options. On Tues and Thurs we don't go to work/preschool, and he'd rather stay home with me every day! When I pick him up at lunch time, he's always playing happily and excited to show me what he made that day. He's my baby, though, and he just has a way of tugging at my heart -- and making my mornings just a little more stressful!