First, I’ll suggest “delightful” and/or “my everything” as superior alternatives.

Then it’s a gift to the cashier out of the goodness of the customer’s heart which becomes the cashier’s property and if the owner takes it it’s definitely theft.

I worked at Coldstone and was paid well above tipped minimum but below the non-tipped minimum. Obviously if the owner had declared no tips this probably would’ve had to change, but I’m just saying this because not all non-servers are paid full minimum.

As usual, Cersei is great, but Margaery is better

WHAT?!?

That one's a little dicier. The formal recommendations are still for annual pelvic exams every year starting at age 21, but ACOG (American Congress of Obstetrics and Gynecology) acknowledge that, for low risk patients with no current complaints, this is based on expert opinions rather than conclusive data. Annual…

Slacktivism? Not actually helpful? You don't say!

You know me, always trying to keep the science in scientifically based practices.

Thank you. We shouldn't take the advice of photos for medical tests. Not everyone needs a pap smear every year. It depends on your age and your personal activities/risks. I don't see this selfie thing as helpful.

This is so silly that I can't muster a response to it, but speaking of pap smears...in the US, the current recommendations from ACOG are

And, frankly, no kid is owed a toy and candy orgy once a year, whether they're great or terrible.

My mother cancelled Easter one year because she felt my sister and I were being assholes. Another time, she threw every single toy we had in the trash because we didn't clean them up when she asked. There is no doubt in my mind that she would have cancelled Christmas if she thought we had become spoiled. Was it "a lil…

Yeah, I don't understand the anger here: If you want better kids, be better parents while the kids are young. Uh, isn't that what they're doing? If the kids are young enough to believe in Santa, I don't think it's too late to try to change the way they're being raised. And, frankly, no kid is owed a toy and candy orgy…

They're not actually canceling it, they are celebrating and doing other things - it's probably a shitty choice of words. These kids are just experiencing Christmas in a way similarly to TONS of other kids - without receiving a bunch of shit.

Yeah. I may wonder about uneven or extreme enforcement (not extreme as in "too much" but extreme as in "choosing big ticket punishments while still doing every day spoiling") but with this limited amount of information I don't know a whole lot. If this is hurting their kids in any way it would be holistically with a…

What's extreme about not buying presents for your children?

Ha, seriously. My family could also be a case study here. My brother and I are close in age, then there was a decade, and then two younger siblings. We were not poor by any means, but tighter on money when we were kids. When the two babies were in middle school or so, my parents started a business and got a lot more…

My dad was a poor kid who went to the best private schools in city with rich, entitled douchebags. At first, he was very concerned about spoiling us, because he didn't want us turning out like his dickhole classmates. Later, my mom pressured him to keep of with the Joneses a bit, and to lighten up.

This whole post reads like a rant. Lots of complaints and no alternative viable solutions. Considering most kids are egocentric, due to them being kids, showing them a different perspective on holiday is a start.