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We’ve been tagged in a blog-tagging game by Sara O’Leary.
The rules of the game are that the ‘taggee’ must do the following:
1. Pick up the nearest book.
2. Open to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the next three sentences.
5. Tag five people, and acknowledge who tagged you.
The passage in question for me is the following:
“It’s not unusual for a child to peer into the toilet and watch the water swirl down the hole to the sound of the loud flush and become confused or fearful about the noise, the hole, or the unknown. Children get past this fear in time, but there are a number of ways to help your child overcome his apprehension. For a while, wait until he leaves the room and then flush for him.”
The book is, for those who are curious, The No-cry Potty Training Solution by Elizabeth Pantley. Yes, sad, I know, but more on that later.
Here are the blogs we are tagging (all blogs we love, so sorry if you aren’t a willing participant…).
Potty Mouth Mama
Write Mama Write
Annie’s Organic Baby Blog
Only Books All the Time
Vintage Kids Books My Kid Loves
I have a problem with this sort of activity. It reminds me of the chain mail stuff that was around years ago and has been ‘reinvented’ again for the internet. I think you lower the profile of your great site by encouraging this.
25 Apr 2008 at 10.51 am
Thanks for tagging me - and I don’t have a problem with it. If I didn’t want to join in, I don’t have to. Thanks guys! Hope you had a great long weekend!
29 Apr 2008 at 1.46 pm
Thanks for your comment, Sue.
I can see how this tagging post may look like chain mail, but I think in the blogging world that it has some merit, as it increases opportunities for readers of one blog to be referred to another. This one with a book theme seemed like a bit of fun.
29 Apr 2008 at 7.57 pm