I've had discussions similar to this with my husband. He's inadvertently conditioned our kiddo to think that kissing and love scenes in movies are 'gross' but that the violent explosions and fight scenes are ok. I think it's a bit ridiculous considering almost everyone will kiss/have sex/fall in love at some point in…

That's the kind of attitude I'm hoping for, we're just getting to that stage and it seems promising.

Awww.....

I would have done the same thing as your parents if the teacher hadn't dropped it. I was well known at the school as a biologist and helped teachers with science lessons and field trips so that's probably why it was dropped when my kiddo invoked me, but still.

High five!

Now that is hilarious.

I feel you! I taught the labs for college A&P and the number of 19-21 year olds who still giggled when I said 'vagina' or 'penis' was astounding, and these were kids that were planning on going into nursing or med school.

All children between the ages of 5-7 finally realize the differences between boys and girls, and once they discover that they, of course, have to share it with everyone. Apparently my kiddo was goofing around with a little boy who said he was going to punch her in the balls (joking) and she stated loudly that she…

That's ridiculous. All that's going to do is make them even more embarrassed and uncomfortable later on. If my kiddo's teacher hadn't dropped it after that set down she would have had an earful from me.

As she's grown up and started puberty she's been much less embarrassed about discussing her period, boys, bra shopping, etc. than other girls in her cohort and I think it all circles back to using the proper terms and being frank with her.

She'll be old enough to baby sit in a year or two :)

Yeah, I think she's the shit, but I'm totally biased :)

We've always used the proper terms with our kiddo (I'm a biologist, I'm not going to call it a wee-wee or a hoo-haa or whatever). She was then told by other kids she was saying "bad words." Her teacher started to tell her not to say those and she proudly said "My mommy says those are the right words and not to use…

I went into pre-term labor at 5 and a half months, was on meds and bedrest for the next month and a half but still had contractions the whole time. Once I finally got the go ahead to let the tadpole out, she busted the hell out. In the hospital 4 hours before she was born, but she decided to give me a haematoma in my…

I do the same thing! Both our families have also sent us checks made out to "HisName HisLastName" and "MyName HisLastName" Which I have to send back with a bitchy note that we can't deposit this because "MyName HisLastName" doesn't exist and can't endorse a check, but "MyName MyLastName" already has one. We've been…

Well to be fair, that defense seems to work in just about every other case where a black kid gets shot. Hell, the media even tried to do it to Ms. McBride at first. I can see why the defense attorney thought it would work. Glad it didn't though...

Stephanie Miller used to do a segment where she took studies that came to completely obvious conclusions and said "No Shit Sherlock." This belongs in that segment.

As a parent of a daughter who's loved Gamera since she was 6, that made me snort laugh. Thanks :)

I would assume if the FBI/DOJ is doing an independent investigation they'd want their medical examiners to corroborate or review the autopsy at the very minimum, regardless if the family commissioned a second one or not.

There's a lot of caveats, but if the first examiner did their job right and documented everything, there's no worry about compromised evidence. Second autopsies are done on a fairly routine basis, especially when there's dispute about cause or a second opinion is requested. That's a REALLY big if though. I don't know…