Oh yeah! Parallel play is the thought of the day...

Little one napping, me waiting for next round of newsletter edits, checks NYT Motherlode blog to find this.

Amen! My style is validated. Hurray.

And a good post from a blog referenced in the Motherlode post...

I have to say that today I played a good strategy (although admittedly the day is not yet over and I still have a couple hours of work ahead of me). I invested into my daughter's attention bank this morning while waiting for some work items to come in. We read about a million books, went to the park, went to the library where they have huge human-sized stuffed bears and a book sale (lots of kids book), came home made chocolate chip cookies, watched a couple DVDs mostly together, had lunch...and she wasn't a huge pain in the ass. She went to sleep fairly easily for her nap and is sleeping well. I am thinking the attention investment allowed me the time to break away from time to time in the morning when we were home to answer e-mails, write a quick late-breaking story, post a press release, and that following this guide will allow me to finish my work this afternoon. Although, I do have the ace-in-the-hole of my husband coming home at 4:30 to relieve me so I can focus, if need be.