tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13083972.post7690877120947071495..comments2023-09-29T06:00:09.242-05:00Comments on Julie Pippert: Using My Words: Everything I Need to Know I Learned from a Roly PolyJulie Pipperthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03169574697104642479noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13083972.post-72101040707972054462007-06-20T07:04:00.000-05:002007-06-20T07:04:00.000-05:00Side by side? That's just beautiful.You GOTS to co...Side by side? That's just beautiful.<BR/><BR/>You GOTS to come to BlogHer, lady. You really do. Fingers crossed!Her Bad Motherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03535958887714152413noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13083972.post-78562021736901713102007-06-19T13:24:00.000-05:002007-06-19T13:24:00.000-05:00Roy and I are very mindful of the mistakes we made...Roy and I are very mindful of the mistakes we made losing ourselves along the way out of fear of not fitting in and missing out on so much as a result. We try and tell our kids not to be too cool to be themselves. <BR/><BR/>Roly polys are part of the louse family? OK, ewwww. I liked them so much better before I knew that. My kids tend to be obsessed with Roly polys and lightning bugs.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13083972.post-25521162691049604452007-06-17T09:26:00.000-05:002007-06-17T09:26:00.000-05:00You guys!Seriously...what awesome replies. Thanks!...You guys!<BR/><BR/>Seriously...what awesome replies. Thanks!<BR/><BR/>Roz, since you know I love and admire you, I hope you know how fuzzy warm it makes me feel to think, ohhh Patience could grow up like Roz!<BR/><BR/>Christine and SM, it is always good to hear that this is just a phase, and she will keep coming back to her "home."<BR/><BR/>LM, we can say ewwww in unison. I mean, a LOUSE, LOL. Yes, girls are complicated. I can't believe boys aren't but I have no basis of comparison LOL.<BR/><BR/>M-L, I think there is much talk, but the bark is worse than the bite. ;)<BR/><BR/>Kyla, absolutely, it really is. Sometimes the way we are more alike and more different amaze and concern me LOL.<BR/><BR/>Chani, on my best days I do wonder about that LOL. It's the bad days when I am sure I am not LOL.<BR/><BR/>Jen, I say so too.<BR/><BR/>Thanks for the lovely ocmpliments and great comments!Julie Pipperthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03169574697104642479noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13083972.post-13501189491618898102007-06-16T09:55:00.000-05:002007-06-16T09:55:00.000-05:00Julie, YES! that's it! anything we do like this ...Julie, YES! that's it! anything we do like this brings forth our power. I love this. <BR/><BR/>And ah, pillbugs. i had no idea they weren't insects. Viva Pillbugs!Girlplustwohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07056576921114387218noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13083972.post-37595998279280793552007-06-15T19:09:00.000-05:002007-06-15T19:09:00.000-05:00Very interesting! And it's interesting to hear you...Very interesting! And it's interesting to hear your take on blogging and women also.... <BR/><BR/>I'm relieved in so many ways that I didn't take on the raising of children. Honestly, I don't think I'd be up for it. LOL<BR/><BR/><BR/>Peace, <BR/><BR/>~Chanithailandchanihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10171731740204067889noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13083972.post-9938902606704827832007-06-15T14:41:00.000-05:002007-06-15T14:41:00.000-05:00Ooooh, this was good stuff Julie. Very true. Doesn...Ooooh, this was good stuff Julie. Very true. <BR/><BR/>Doesn't raising children seem a bit like time travel? Watching a smaller version of yourself walking through life; wanting desperately to change things for the better, but knowing if you change one thing, it might change everything; knowing that these small partial versions of ourselves have to experience it on their own and it will help make them who they will become.Kylahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03311014761113076785noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13083972.post-87781003862432027232007-06-15T13:25:00.000-05:002007-06-15T13:25:00.000-05:00I love the parallels you draw here, Julie. Very n...I love the parallels you draw here, Julie. Very nicely done. <BR/><BR/>You know, if you ask my daughter if she likes boys, she would say they're gross, etc. But she always plays with one boy down the street and our close friends have sons who she plays with and loves. Somehow they pick up on that idea of what they are "supposed" to think about the opposite sex or bug or whatever, but it isn't always their reality. Somehow they manage to live in that contradiction.<BR/><BR/>Having the encouragement to journal, keep up the learning at home and a mom who understands will make a huge difference for Patience in the long run.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10270726693980247861noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13083972.post-69955185825627769342007-06-15T13:17:00.000-05:002007-06-15T13:17:00.000-05:00Lovely post.Lovely post.Magpiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15460136246441367993noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13083972.post-3849348958403880542007-06-15T09:52:00.000-05:002007-06-15T09:52:00.000-05:00Girls are so complicated and it sounds like Patien...Girls are so complicated and it sounds like Patience is even more so. She sounds like she has such a strong personality though, that I bet that she'll find her balance after trying on different roles. Someone so strong inside would be hard pressed to continue conforming to her friends' ideals for long.<BR/><BR/>Love this post, Julie. And Patience has taught me something too. I loved playing with rolly polly bugs when I was little, but I had no idea they were a type of louse. Can I just say, in typical girly fashion, EWWWWWW!Lawyer Mamahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06819273107327846943noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13083972.post-69800147173853543522007-06-15T09:17:00.000-05:002007-06-15T09:17:00.000-05:00Patience sounds a lot like me, Julie. Me as a chi...Patience sounds a lot like me, Julie. Me as a child, anyway. Unlike Patience, though, my scientific drive was squelched by outside forces. Once I left the talented and gifted program, of my own volition, that side of me was largely ignored.<BR/><BR/>My mother always said I had a sense of self she'd never seen in other kids. So, when you wrote this ... "She---who has so definitively, her entire life, known who she is, what she enjoys, what she wants and needs---is beginning to test this against alternatives, outside reactions, and internal responses." Really hit home for me.<BR/><BR/>Patience is lucky to have you there. To have you understand what she's going through. My mother, god love her, had four other kids to care for (all boys) and while she tried to be there for me, I don't think she quite GOT me. Not until I was almost done with college and finally came up from the rabbithole.<BR/><BR/>We'd always been close, even when I was being an awful, angry teen, but now that we see each other as what we are ... well, it's created this bond that I hadn't imagined possible.<BR/><BR/>I love reading your blog. It always makes me think about things differently. Look back on my own experiences through a lens other than my own. That's the beauty of blogs at their best, I think. They make you think and question and prob.kalirozhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10413769558136831135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13083972.post-65971286861240826932007-06-15T08:58:00.000-05:002007-06-15T08:58:00.000-05:00Loved this, Julie. I like Patience, ornery as she...Loved this, Julie. I like Patience, ornery as she can be. But fierce! <BR/><BR/>And that fierceness will help her navigate these social waters. This "eww" phase will not last, promise.<BR/><BR/>And, BTW, in our last house the lower level (partially underground) was overrun by pillbugs. We had serious water problems. I don't much like bugs, but these guys were rather sweet and harmless.Shttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05602868040771218507noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13083972.post-85984227037733479202007-06-15T07:47:00.000-05:002007-06-15T07:47:00.000-05:00PS--"L" is a boy. But you may have inferred that ...PS--"L" is a boy. But you may have inferred that already.<BR/><BR/>And, i am not opposed to being a girlie girl. I just want a balance in her life, to value people more than an idea of what is "cool" or feminine.Christinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04662448292809451387noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13083972.post-6874641989482377132007-06-15T07:37:00.000-05:002007-06-15T07:37:00.000-05:00Julie--this was wonderful. So beautifully written...Julie--this was wonderful. So beautifully written and insightful about yourself and Patience and the growth you are both experiencing.<BR/><BR/>It seems that your development as a woman and hers as a girl are at once side by side and intertwined. You are lucky to have each other to learn from.<BR/><BR/>Right now I see many girls in my daughter's class rejecting their male friends. Some children (and their mothers for that matter) cannot see the value in these friendships and push instead traditional "I'm a pink girlie girl and they are tough super hero boys." I worried so much that she would succumb to this early perr pressure to cast off her boy friends. But instead, she came home the other day and innocently asked if her little friend L could come and play so they could make a movie about trains together. I see this wonderful girl before me who truly loves her friends, gender aside. I only hope she can continue to be strong and not follow the crowd.<BR/><BR/>I hope Patience never forgets her bug-love, too!Christinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04662448292809451387noreply@blogger.com