Excellent point. Additionally, girls often go through a period in which it is NORMAL for them to "practice" flirt behaviors on men in their lives who should be safe. Adult men should be mature enough to see the "flirting" as a developmental stage, not a real come on. Developmentally, teens are not mature enough…

I once had a friend refuse to eat a slice of lemon pound cake because I mentioned I'd used my homemade vanilla in it (like 2 tsp in the whole cake). She doesn't drink, and when she learned that my homemade vanilla is vanilla beans in vodka, she declined the cake. I explained that unless powdered vanilla is used, all…