Our 15 Minutes of EC Fame
This is what our 15 minutes of fame looks like. Only it’s more like five minutes.
In all the craziness that’s been going on lately, I completely forgot to blog about us being on television. I remember a time when that would have been a really big deal, but these days, it was just something that happened. So much for my personal mindfulness, huh?
Anyway, a really awesome woman at ABC Channel 7 News called up, and asked about doing a segment on EC. Of course we said yes, but I was intending to set her up with kids who were still doing EC. You know, since Kestrel’s been a grad since 18 months or so, and at nearly two years, he’s been done with potty training for a while.
Total silence on the phone.
I‘m such a dork, I completely forgot that most kids aren’t even beginning potty training by then. Once you’ve been doing EC for a while, your world view of such things changes pretty completely. So the segment, as you can see if you watch it, is about Kestrel, and my pal Laura’s youngest, Adrian, who’s 3 months.
Overall, we’re thrilled. It was sane, balanced, factual, unlike a lot of the sensationalist nonsense that the EC community has seen. The producer really went out of her way to create a piece that will intrigue people, and hopefully even motivate them. Apparently there are a number of pregnant women at the station, and the producer’s hope was that some of them will see this and go for it. So I’m keeping my fingers crossed. Let us know what you think, and if you’re so motivated, let ABC 7 know what you think as well.