My mom and dad always read to us. Which, for me, inspired a love of reading (until I got to grad school) and for my sister was her only way of digesting literature because she had fairly serious dyslexia that even my conscientious parents begging questions about changed anything. She was not dx’ed until she was 15.…

They don’t have room? Were you sending him home with the Harvard Classics 5 foot shelf? Who doesn’t have room for a Clifford the Big Red Dog book in their home?

If your baby hates being read to, you’re doing it wrong.

Clothing with names is the #1 thing that prevents us for returning it or consigning it

If my sibling sent me this, I’d send the kid a picture book and a hat with his name on it out of spite.

I’ll give her a finger...guess which one :-)

Thanks! Now, I've got something in my eye . . .

I don’t believe Nick Cannon would be broke. Say what you want about him, but lazy is not a word I think applies. That dude has always had like 3 jobs since I’ve ever heard of him. It reminds me of the one and only scene of that Hollwood husbands show where they are at Nick Cannon’s house and Kevin Hart says “ I didn’t…

great young Rising Star

Thanks, your comment really made my day. I'm really happy now and have done a lot of work to get where I am. But I still get choked up when I think about that lost little girl.

Ah well on that, I agree with you. If it helps to guard against some of the shittier elements of the boozing/laying phase, I can see a course of some sort, yeah, being useful.

Heh- nice guys finish first, but by the time they finish they’re too old to enjoy their victory :D

I figured a lot of this out on my own, which resulted in the boozing people that wanted to get laid shunning me because I was the “nice guy”.

I would argue boozing/getting laid is a shockingly effective way to learn social skills.

Yes, it's amazing that this is available for kids now. I could have used something like this in elementary school. I grew up without a mother, who died of cancer. I was so angry for so long, and I didn't even know it.

My son is being taught a lot of this in Preschool right now. I love it.

I’m curious about these programs. I don’t have kids of my own, but when I was growing up, I was in a lot of programs that taught how to manage emotions, but those were only available in “special education.” For some reason, learning how to properly handle your emotions was seen as something only dysfunctional people…