How can she be truly remorseful without fully understanding how horrible what she did was?

I was watching The Office reruns last night and thought he looked familiar (also handsome).

(He played Asian Jim in a prank. )

My kids have to have the money in their savings account to replace their phone ($250) if it gets broken (my son has paid for a screen twice...then finally bought himself a big fat otterbox), similarly my daughter has to have the insurance deductible ($500) in her savings account in order to drive (as will my son in a…

From my perspective as the mother of a 13 and 16 year old, they wouldn't learn if they didn't have access. Life with kids is a series of letting go.

They've both been very responsible both with the content they share/send/view and with their data use. Of course we talk about this stuff all the time so I'm sure that…

Someone my daughter was friends with is....really struggling....to find her way through her teens.
She recently had a sexual relationship with a 40 year old man who is married with kids her age. But because she is 16 (age of consent) and he is not a teacher, it's considered "consensual". But sex between a 15 year old…

Always killed me that it cost extra to put 'smart limits' on a phone.

Thankfully my kid tested us once on the rules and lost her phone for 6 months. She follows our family's "Smart Limits" now. Bonus: They're Free!

I don't understand why these parents seem to assume the worst about their kids. Obviously if you have a reason to believe your kid is irresponsible or an idiot, you take shit away.

I remember being treated like I was trying to get away with something as a teenager and I honestly did NOTHING horribly ill advised as a…

I subscribe to the "I trust you until you give me one reason not to trust you."

So far so good.

Growing up so many of my friend's parents acted like we were criminals when we seriously were the biggest nerds in the world. We were doing absolutely nothing wrong. Sure enough my friend with the horribly suspicious and…

I've never appreciated my benignly annoying mother more.

I am a full supporter of talking about sex ed. BUT, imagine if someone like this woman was in charge of teaching your kid about sex ed. That's terrifying.

I wonder what color the sky is in her beautiful world....

I am always quite hesitant to blame women for their part in someone else's behavior. I think it's often easier or even safer to direct rage at women and we must be aware of this and careful about that tendency.

Still, I'm so mad at Mrs Cosby right now, I'm having trouble feeling charitable and empathetic toward her.

Is this what you looked like at the time? That's pretty scary.

My kid thought Goldfish were all named Dorothy because of Elmo. We had a couple called, "The Dorothies".

She's 16 now and a little *feisty* so I cling to these memories so that I do not kill her.

I didn't read that in the comment but on the other hand I think a pretty good argument could be made for the bullshit behind holding this woman in a psychiatric ward against her will for a delusion that really isn't harming anyone but herself.

I cannot help but gag at smelly farts or kid's (that are not my own) dirty diapers/bathroom doings.

That would be HORRIBLE for all involved.

Yeah that's a red flag for sure.

Whoa.

Ooph, I spent about a month post LiceFest 2007 convinced we still had it. Bed bugs are even more insipid so I can only imagine.

THAT really really bothered me about the whole thing too! She's going to be miserable and frustrated trying to find someone to tell her she's pregnant but that's far different than being suicidal/homicidal/any of the things that require you to be held against your will.