Trapped On A Plane With A Feral Toddler Adult

November 24, 2009 / 1:25 pm
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Before kids, I'd board a plane looking for my seat, beg, beg, begging the airplane god that no kid was near me. Once I had kids, my judgmental superiority came back to me in a rush. Now, people looked at me and my delightful cherubs as devil's spawn and prayed to their gods for mercy. The wheel of life and all that.

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Is Yelling The New Spanking? Yes.

October 22, 2009 / 2:31 pm
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Morally superior Gen X moms and dads seem entirely reasonable until they see the limits of "limits" like time-outs, banal blabbing and gentle cajoling. Kids regard their parents with utter contempt. Well, some do. Depends on the kid's personality. And parents, once exasperated, go there. No, they might not spank their child. They'll yell. Or arm yank. Or threaten. Or push. Or thump (thwack in the head with fingers). Or pinch. Something, anything, to reorder the disordered relationship--the one w…

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Spanking Lowers I.Q.

September 25, 2009 / 12:37 pm
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Well, that will disappoint some of the readers here. Oh wait! Not that kind of spanking. Here's the study:

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Should Parents Bring Kids To Tea Parties?

April 14, 2009 / 10:45 am
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I'm not going to tell you what my my decision is, but I want to know your opinion.

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Aggressive Schooling

April 8, 2009 / 12:18 pm
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There have been all sorts of articles written about Helicopter Parents and now, there's a new trend called "slow parenting". Slow parenting is just as the name implies--yank your kids out of activities and slow down. There is competing evidence, like came from Malcolm Gladwell's book Outliers that kids do better with more activities and need at least ten years of consistent, hard work to achieve mastery. And then, there was his extolling of the schools that go year around and for eight hours a d…

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Are Parents Responsible For Their Kid's Behavior?

April 1, 2009 / 10:49 am
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It's looking more likely that Ashley Biden was set up, but fully enjoyed snorting some cocaine. The Deceiver (via Instapundit) says this story reminds them of the Rielle Hunter media blackout and imagines that were the story about Bristol Palin, we wouldn't hear the end of it (something John Hawkins noted when the story broke earlier this week).

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Ignorant Boys + Slutty Girls = A Bright Future

March 30, 2009 / 3:29 pm
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On the same day I read (via Instapundit) that British boys are keeping themselves stupid so as not to get their dumb asses kicked by even dumber, and ostensibly bigger and stronger, bullies, I read that girls are checking out porn, giving boyfriends a show via webcam and sending naked pictures of themselves to the aforementioned willful idiots.

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Fox News

March 6, 2009 / 2:06 pm
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Barbara Boxer Seeks To Limit U.S. Parent's Rights

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This Mommy Gig

March 3, 2009 / 6:06 pm
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Stop Blabbing About Your Kids

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A 12 Year Old Speaks On Abortion, But Should She?

February 11, 2009 / 10:44 am
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My friend and fellow blogger pointed me in the direction of this video by a 12 year old girl explaining her opposition to abortion. It looks like a school project where she either practiced using the video equipment or turned in her project on video. Go watch it and then come back.

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