Comments on: Train lovin’ loud noise eschewer http://www.lesbiandad.net/2009/09/train-lovin-loud-noise-eschewer/ Sat, 11 Feb 2012 13:15:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: perkl8 http://www.lesbiandad.net/2009/09/train-lovin-loud-noise-eschewer/comment-page-1/#comment-456891 perkl8 Thu, 24 Sep 2009 17:57:14 +0000 http://www.lesbiandad.net/?p=2976#comment-456891 Yes, I understand how places hold memories. So it will probably be heavy-dense for you. Heavy-dense like the forest. These big trees are healing. I love the tinkerbell photo! And I really like how you've expressed wanting to protect all the degrees of his experience. Yes, I understand how places hold memories. So it will probably be heavy-dense for you. Heavy-dense like the forest. These big trees are healing.

I love the tinkerbell photo! And I really like how you’ve expressed wanting to protect all the degrees of his experience.

]]> By: Lesbian Dad http://www.lesbiandad.net/2009/09/train-lovin-loud-noise-eschewer/comment-page-1/#comment-456271 Lesbian Dad Tue, 22 Sep 2009 17:53:22 +0000 http://www.lesbiandad.net/?p=2976#comment-456271 I'll bet more kids are more sound-sensitive than we know. Our girl child is the same. We have thought it's possible they're both fairly highly sensitive, sound-wise and a few other-wises. But I also think that young people are so fresh to so much that it makes sense that they haven't got a lot of filters. My work has been to try to preserve the sensitivities that help make them kinder, more present people, while helping them filter or cope with what they need to to thrive. As soon as I figure it out for them, I'll rapidly apply it to myself. What a dream to live next to the RoaringCamp Railroad! We could hear the whistle on a good day from my grandparents' house in Santa Cruz, near (what's now) the university. Since the last time I was there was with my nephews (plural, featuring the one who's now in the ether), it will be a heavy-dense visit there when I go next. Which will have to be a "when" and not an "if," given how much a train-lover our boy child is. And sister, as regards his "quite beautiful": lordy! I'm gob-smacked by it daily. Good thing I've got the willpower of a Buckingham Palace guard or I'd be giving him lemonade and piggyback rides all day. Oops. I’ll bet more kids are more sound-sensitive than we know. Our girl child is the same. We have thought it’s possible they’re both fairly highly sensitive, sound-wise and a few other-wises. But I also think that young people are so fresh to so much that it makes sense that they haven’t got a lot of filters. My work has been to try to preserve the sensitivities that help make them kinder, more present people, while helping them filter or cope with what they need to to thrive.

As soon as I figure it out for them, I’ll rapidly apply it to myself.

What a dream to live next to the RoaringCamp Railroad! We could hear the whistle on a good day from my grandparents’ house in Santa Cruz, near (what’s now) the university. Since the last time I was there was with my nephews (plural, featuring the one who’s now in the ether), it will be a heavy-dense visit there when I go next. Which will have to be a “when” and not an “if,” given how much a train-lover our boy child is.

And sister, as regards his “quite beautiful”: lordy! I’m gob-smacked by it daily. Good thing I’ve got the willpower of a Buckingham Palace guard or I’d be giving him lemonade and piggyback rides all day.

Oops.

]]> By: perkl8 http://www.lesbiandad.net/2009/09/train-lovin-loud-noise-eschewer/comment-page-1/#comment-456269 perkl8 Tue, 22 Sep 2009 17:36:55 +0000 http://www.lesbiandad.net/?p=2976#comment-456269 We live near the Roaring Camp Railroad in Felton and can hear the whistle at our house! We take lots of walks at Henry Cowell State Park, and always walk over to see the trains ... and my girl child always says, "will it be loud?" But she always wants to see the train and the station and the tracks.... She's mad about the trains, but you often can't tell from the expression on her face (very serious). She talks about "seeing noise" -- and that means things like chainsaws (lots of those in the redwoods), lawn mowers, bulldozers, etc. Your boy is quite beautiful! We live near the Roaring Camp Railroad in Felton and can hear the whistle at our house! We take lots of walks at Henry Cowell State Park, and always walk over to see the trains … and my girl child always says, “will it be loud?” But she always wants to see the train and the station and the tracks…. She’s mad about the trains, but you often can’t tell from the expression on her face (very serious). She talks about “seeing noise” — and that means things like chainsaws (lots of those in the redwoods), lawn mowers, bulldozers, etc. Your boy is quite beautiful!

]]> By: Lesbian Dad http://www.lesbiandad.net/2009/09/train-lovin-loud-noise-eschewer/comment-page-1/#comment-456270 Lesbian Dad Tue, 22 Sep 2009 10:37:16 +0000 http://www.lesbiandad.net/?p=2976#comment-456270 Whoosh! Like that. Whoosh! Like that.

]]> By: ullalauridsen http://www.lesbiandad.net/2009/09/train-lovin-loud-noise-eschewer/comment-page-1/#comment-456170 ullalauridsen Tue, 22 Sep 2009 10:07:13 +0000 http://www.lesbiandad.net/?p=2976#comment-456170 I remember waiting for his birth and seeing the baby pictures. This is unbelievable. I remember waiting for his birth and seeing the baby pictures. This is unbelievable.

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