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[rivka]

Colin: "Waaah! I want Mommy! I want Mommy! No Mommy drink tea - Mommy carry boy! No wipe my nose! Waaah! I want see-sees! More see-sees! Waaah!"

Alex: "You'd better take MY temperature, because if one kid in a family is sick, the other one's going to get sick. Take MY temperature FIRST. I want to sit on your lap. You make me feel like you love Colin more than you love me."

Rivka: contemplates joining childfree or seeking a transfer to a remote research station north of the Arctic Circle.

I feel much better physically, today, but nevertheless I am not having much fun.

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[shandra.livejournal.com]

And suddenly we discover that contrary to the impression left by 19th and early 20th century literature, people didn't send the healthy children to relatives during the measles and TB and so on to keep them healthy...it was to get them out of the house.

[oursin.livejournal.com]

I'm now reminded of the poem Katy writes in the game 'Word and Question' in What Katy Did At School:
The word was "Measles," and the question, "Who was the grandmother of Invention?" These were the lines:—

The night was horribly dark,
The measles broke out in the Ark:
Little Japher, and Shem, and all the young Hams,
Were screaming at once for potatoes and clams.
And "What shall I do," said poor Mrs. Noah,
"All alone by myself in this terrible shower:
I know what I'll do: I'll step down in the hold,
And wake up a lioness grim and old,
And tie her close to the children's door,
And giver her a ginger-cake to roar
At the top of her voice for an hour or more;
And I'll tell the children to cease their din,
Or I'll let that grim old party in,
To stop their squeazles and likewise their measles."—
She practised this with the greatest success.
She was every one's grandmother, I guess.