I liked it better when the theory was he gave her booze and it accidentally killed her.

Both the National Zoo in DC and the San Diego Zoo have live cameras of their panda bears that are streamed on the Internet.

I need to know more about panda cam.

Ooooh, that sounds bad. I am sorry you had such a limited childhood. Eeeep! Yeah, we are older parents, so we rely on statistics and science to compensate for our lack of youth and energy. So, like, literally, every year, at his well-child visit, we asked the pediatrician, “what ailment or situation is most likely to…

You’re totally right. My sister took a very lassez faire attitude with my niece’s access to the Internet and it has become a mess for her. nothing like this, of course, but she’s 16 and the judgment and competition and harassment and the exposure of her personal information is terrible. And the level of aggression she…

Good. I am glad she can’t pull a Karla Homolka and get off. I don’t care how much you love some guy, you help him murder a child and you should rot in jail too.

Me too. I heard her mother crying on the radio and talking about her daughter loving pandas and American Idol and my face started leaking on the way to work. (My little sister goes to Tech and I’m so thankful she never knew this creep, which might also have something to do with my reaction).

Yeah my bad. I just re read your comment. Just brought back memories of my mom being overly paranoid about child abductors and gangs while growing up. I literally spent most of my childhood playing n64 and PlayStation due to this. And that’s that I lived in the suburbs.

In fact it often indicates a lack of empathy. I’m an engineer and I’ve seen more than my fair share of people I’d consider borderline psychopathic in their lack of empathy for others in both school and professional environments. I think there has actually been a study done recently that suggested that engineers are…

My husband’s undergrad and Master’s are from Virginia Tech and he worked in student affairs for a while there. He and his family are from Virginia Beach. After the shootings, there was a feeling of community between the town of Blacksburg and the university. Mr. Dragon spoke to someone quite high up in the university…

Stranger danger is usually not helpful to kids. Your right you should be vigilant but usually the devil is way nearer than you would think. ( if there really is one). The probability of running into these kinds of sickos is very rare but it can happen. Fuck now I'm feeling paranoid about my son.

You’re doing it right and I applaud the discipline that requires. May more parents take your lead.

IDK But this is exactly the type of example you show your kids when teaching them about safety, as to what a rapist (or kidnapper, or worse) looks like. It’s not all cartoonish, menacing looking “bad guys”. It can be the cleanest cut, most unthreatening looking “upstanding” citizen out there. A collegiate athlete, a…

My neighbors, the other parents, my relatives, random people I meet whom I end up discussing computers with, all think we’re going overboard in the level of protection we are providing our son related to the internet. He’s 10. He goeth not out onto the internet, even for school projects, without one of us sitting…

Me too. A while back there was a story about a little girl who was kidnapped & murdered while riding her scooter, and the story described her helmet and that detail just broke me extra badly. So young.

Doesn’t end your day correctly, either, let me tell you. I shouldn’t have read this right before bed.

My son applied to their engineering school this year, and I’ve never been more thankful for his early acceptance and academic scholarship to University of South Carolina than I am right now. I’m not sure I’ll even open the envelope from Tech when it comes.

I just also posted that same sentiment down thread before I saw this. Heartbreaking.

My 9-year old daughter loves pandas. Is obsessed with them in fact. She has twenty stuffed pandas, draws them, and watches Panda Cam on her iPad.

Why don’t they look like this? It would make avoiding them so much easier.