We just arrived at my parents’ home. My daughter almost forgot about me since we’re here. She started jumping and dancing around the house the moment she crossed the door, and has been playing, singing and laughing with my parents ever since. This girl loves her grandparents with all her heart. And so do they, more than anything in the world. I’ve never seen my dad as gentle, patient and enthusiastic as he is around my baby. She truly brings out the best in him.
Grandparents are special! Your daughter will always cherish her time spent with them, I’m sure. This was also the case in my childhood, and I’m so grateful for having been raised, in part, by my grandparents. (I attribute my curiosity in large part to my paternal grandmother, which she nurtured in me from the youngest years as she took me on long walks around the neighborhood - this was in Moscow, Russia over 20-25 years ago.)
Feb 4, 2023·edited Feb 4, 2023Liked by Made in Cosmos ✨
At the risk of being patronising if you're already aware of this, have you tried a lot more light? Eliezer Yudkowsky's wife suffered from SAD that standard lightbox therapy couldn't cure, noticed that, bright though they are, therapeutic lightboxes still aren't going to give you anything like as much light as the sun in summer, so he just got a bunch of extra lamps, and apparently it worked.
Edit: though I should add, some people who have tried this seem to be saying that you ought to use UV filters if you're going to fill your house with an extreme amount of artificial lights, otherwise there is a risk of sunburn.
Agreed. When my parents and their friends started having grandkids one of them commented "Had we known how fun grandkids would be we'd have them years ago!"
Grandparents are special! Your daughter will always cherish her time spent with them, I’m sure. This was also the case in my childhood, and I’m so grateful for having been raised, in part, by my grandparents. (I attribute my curiosity in large part to my paternal grandmother, which she nurtured in me from the youngest years as she took me on long walks around the neighborhood - this was in Moscow, Russia over 20-25 years ago.)
At the risk of being patronising if you're already aware of this, have you tried a lot more light? Eliezer Yudkowsky's wife suffered from SAD that standard lightbox therapy couldn't cure, noticed that, bright though they are, therapeutic lightboxes still aren't going to give you anything like as much light as the sun in summer, so he just got a bunch of extra lamps, and apparently it worked.
See here https://equilibriabook.com/inadequacy-and-modesty/ (ctrl+f "seasonal") ... and see here for a preprint of a study, which is not terrible conclusive, but does find that just rigging up a lot more lights in your house works as well as specific lightbox therapy sessions, and tentatively suggests that adding more light is effective for more severe cases: http://web.archive.org/web/20211202031249/https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.10.29.21265530v1
Edit: though I should add, some people who have tried this seem to be saying that you ought to use UV filters if you're going to fill your house with an extreme amount of artificial lights, otherwise there is a risk of sunburn.
Agreed. When my parents and their friends started having grandkids one of them commented "Had we known how fun grandkids would be we'd have them years ago!"