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New Curb Appeal? A Dead Celebrity Slept Here {AOL Real Estate}
Sep 23rd 2011 9:09AM I would avoid buying a house if I found out a celebrity lived there. I hate celebrities. They are an infestation.
Why Summer Break Scares Me {ParentDish}
Jun 1st 2011 9:54PM It isn't parents' job to entertain their kids or be their kids' playmate. I think that is the basic problem with your thinking.
'Genderless' Baby Raises a Storm of Controversy {ParentDish}
May 29th 2011 6:08PM First of all, those saying that none of this is any of our business and we have no right to comment, you do realize this family has courted the media about this and kept it out there? If it's not anyone's business, why did they publicize it to the world?
Second, I am grateful that my Mom was a feminist from when I was a baby and taught me to question rigid gender prescriptions like girls have to wear frilly dresses and can't play with trucks, can't be president, can't do X or Y. However, I don't believe that someone should use their child as an experiment for political reasons. For whatever good that you can accomplish by "freeing" your child from gender norms you must also realize that you are also deliberately un-equipping him or her for social situations. Yes, it will be nice if your child emerges stronger and less inhibited than the rest of us, but s/he will also start life with a social handicap that may or may not affect his/her's earliest social development with other children. children at ages 3-5 can be very rigid about social norms. It's a phase they go through. They can be more vehement about enforcing these norms within their peer group than adults are. I just don't think it's fair to enroll a child in a social experiment when s/he has no choice about whether the drawbacks are worth the potential gains.
Report Card Day Could Include Grades for Parents Under Proposed Florida Bill {ParentDish}
Jan 20th 2011 1:16PM By adding such a report card you have greatly raised the stakes in judging what constitutes "accountability" in a parent. Although I am utterly of the opinion that many parents do not take responsibility for their children's education, this bill raises alarm bells for me. As many of my generation (late 30s) have observed, what some schools require parents to do these days is not only absurd but in fact counterproductive. When I was a child my parents were not asked to chaperone school trips or work at the school one day a week or work on major homework projects with me. I do not think it is appropriate for a parent to be involved in his/her child's homework except perhaps to make sure that the child did it. Children need to have the experience of being responsible for doing the homework themselves, just as the parent has a job that s/he is responsible for. There were always kids whose mothers were housewives and thus had time to volunteer for the PTA and bake 10 pies for the bake sale, which they would also volunteer at for 8 hours, but there were also working mothers like mine whose job it was to learn a living and there is no way that the latter should be held to the same standard of involvement.
If it is just about making sure your child goes to bed at a decent hour, eats a good meal and shows up to school on time that seems fair enough. It's when you start getting into things that cross the line (see above) that this makes me very nervous.
BA Changes Seating Policy for Men, Unaccompanied Minors {AOL Travel News}
Aug 24th 2010 11:51AM I don't understand. What is the new policy? I understand they are creating an Unaccompanied Minors Zone, but surely that doesn't get around the question 100% of the time. What if the "Zone" isn't full? What if there is a single seat leftover next to the Minor Zone - what is their policy about who can sit there? Seems like they left this question deliberately vague and the journalist who wrote this didn't probe any further.
There's More to Firing of Renee Gork Than Florida Hat, Says Station Official {Fanhouse NCAA Football Blog}
Aug 19th 2010 10:08AM I just want to know what she tweeted and put on Facebook. That sounds like it might be an interesting story by itself.
Drunken Baby Photos? Not So Funny {ParentDish}
Jul 16th 2010 9:33AM I think this article is very silly and a bit hysterical even. The ads aren't that funny to me but not because they are "offensive." I just don't think it's that clever. But the idea that this is somehow dangerous or irresponsible is absurd. If people are that idiotic that they can't understand when something is a joke then we have bigger problems.
Tattoo Regret -- The Phobia {Asylum}
Jul 9th 2010 4:17PM Me too. I was sure it was a real spider in the pictre.
Dave Chappelle's Strange Behavior on an Airplane: What's Up Dave? {BV on Money}
Jul 8th 2010 2:58PM To me it sounds like he has a phobia about airplanes. Of course I could be wrong.
'Real Housewives' Star Teresa Giudice Looks Great in a Bathing Suit {PopEater}
Jul 1st 2010 2:21PM Butterface!
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