Look I’m a grown adult who still thinks that okra is the devils vegetable. It’s SLIMY. And now I don’t eat it. As a kid I didn’t eat it either, I ate around it. But when a kid comes and says “I don’t like vegetables” that kid is mirroring learned behavior since a vegetable scientifically doesn’t exist and culinary it…

Then your kid falls into “issues” category. Not being snarky, but it’s really important to delineate between kids with extra issues and normal behavior. So many parents feed their kid crap just so the kid will eat something not realizing that hating “new” foods for example around age 2 is super common because (they…

I didn’t grow up eating sweets everyday (mostly because my mom didn’t - it’s not the cultural norm where my parents are from), and as an adult I still think the idea of a daily treat is really weird (not unhealthy, or inappropriate... just odd). I also got yelled at a lot because I don’t snack. If I’m hungry I want a…

That’s actually wrong. Kids will go hungry for awhile and then make up calories at the next meal. A kid will not let themselves starve, and kids that aren’t introduced to added sugar early generally won’t hate fruit or veg. The idea that children won’t eat vegetables is pretty much an American phenomenon. I had some…

I went to a Catholic school - a traditional wool blend uniform in a plaid pattern. I wore the same uniform from grades 4-6 (it was a skirt jumper that you wore a button down shirt underneath). my mom bought it large took it in and then released it and unhemmed it as I aged. I had a different uniform for 7-8 (the…

I went to Catholic school throughout and uniforms are SO MUCH BETTER. There’s so much less policing, the biggest “issue” was skirt length and it basically boiled down to don’t be egregiously short (there were official guidelines but as most girls rolled the skirts shorter if you were caught it just meant unrolling…

Five year olds are BABIES (well not literally but you know what I mean) as long as their genitals are covered you’re good.

She got divorced. I think there was infidelity on his part.

Mudding is what killed that guy on Buck Wild: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/02/sha…

When this happens put a baking soda + water solution in your slow cooker: http://lifehacker.com/freshen-any-ro…

it can take a few goes if the smell is really entrenched, but it generally works.

Also this “fabric refresher”: http://biokleenhome.com/bac-out/

He sounds like a person used to toaster ovens, the superior appliance. A convection toaster oven is basically perfection. I once roasted a 10 pound turkey in a toaster oven and it turned out GREAT. Perfectly darkened exterior skin and juicy inside.

I live in New York. I was born and raised in New York, and somehow never made it to the Met until after I was 25 (I went to the Louvre first). I just want to point out that even the things you list are a tiny slice of the NY experience. As a kid growing up in the city it was all about the hall of science (OMG the…

If you’re in Florida (or the East Coast) it’s easier and faster to just fly to the Caymans . If you’re in the northeast and driving distance to Canada (seriously only worth it if you can drive to Canada) fly through Canada. We’re literally like the only country that doesn’t have flights to cuba. Canada sells resort…

You can go three weeks with no food whatsoever, especially given their lack of activity. It’s dehydration and exposure that will kill you. They were smart to stay with the car. Most of the time when someone dies in situations like this it’s because they left the car and it’s much easier to see the car than to see you.…

I’m 5’6” and have had no issues ever getting my bag into the overhead compartment? What the heck are you guys carrying in your bags? I’m also of the opinion that the heaviest things should go into the bag you tuck under your seat - shoes etc are bulky but they aren’t heavy. I also don’t use a roller bag - I use a Tom…

This article doesn’t support your statement - a closer fit would be this one (http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/18/mag…) but while UT is a solid school it also has 52,000 students and I don’t know if it qualifies as elite.

It really depends on the school - and it’s not just ivies. NYU is arguably the worst at this. It’s also not just undergrad - Columbia is notorious for hiring grad profs that are scatter brained adjuncts (as in juggling too many things)

The article was corrected to read Brown, and Brown at least when I was in school, explicitly had a policy where 1% of students are admitted not on a need blind basis - but rather on their ability to pay.

It really depends on what your kid wants to study. Harvard for example doesn’t have an amazing engineering school - MIT, CAL Tech, Cornell, Cooper Union, all surpass Harvard for engineering. In fact, the only thing Harvard engineering has going for it is that it enables students to take courses at MIT. If you wanted…

Your sentiment is valid but there aren’t a huge amount of poor kids that drop out of the ivies. In fact, because of the way graduation rates are calculated (based on first time full time freshman) if you’re poor and can get into an elite institution you’re far more likely to actually graduate than if you go to your…