I think corporal punishment is overall a bad idea, barbaric, etc. I don't disagree with the science that says so. However, what exactly is a parent supposed to do when they find a toddler doing something threatening to their lives or the lives of others? When next time there might not be a second chance for time out…

She rested her chin on it and insisted on sleeping under the covers curled up next the wee fetus. I'm tearing up thinking about it.

Traffic accidents too.

Me too. However, I'm a recent convert team skirts and dresses. I am short and curvy and pants(but especially skinny and high waisted) are no bueno on me.

Might I add :: HISSSSSS::?

The vividness of their name is very real in my family. My grandmother was born near the turn of the century in what was then Russia. She witnessed unspeakable violence and personally suffered at the hands of Cossack self styled "police". I'm not so ethnocentric as to judge someone for being a Cossack, but when I hear…

"Only 30% of respondents believed that science should get more funding from the government, which is upsetting because if anything, this proves that education is badly (BADLY) needed."

I'm totally for kids learning as much math as they can before they graduate, BUT, when you are dealing with lots of money, you probably need an accountant and a broker. When you are making that much money there is a good chance you don't have the time to manage all of it yourself. Unless your job is managing money.…

I don't know exactly what you are getting at, but I do think it made it made white people feel less endangered, and less like there might actually be someone they had to say sorry to in that context. It was weird place of comfortable white liberal guilt. I'm just giving an account of it. I'm not trying to say I grew…

I'm not trying to start an arguement with you, I do think that is the way American history was represented to my parents generation. I also think that it is still going on in some parts of our country, and if I were a betting woman I'd bet it was private convservative Christian schools who don't exactly have high…

...so the NSA has more of a right to know who we're banging than our spouse? We live in an interesting age.

I read that NYT article some time ago. I'm not a mental health professional, my lay person's opinion is that ignoring early symptoms of disease is never helpful, and usually harmful. In the cases of disorders and diseases that develop over the course of a lifetime it seems very foolhardy to ignore treatment in…

It is good to know that my feelings are just my hormones, and not a logical extension of my experience in the world. /sarcasm

Pepsi seems especially screwed up. Naming your child for a brand is truly tasteless. Name your pet Cheez Whiz, that's fine, not a child.

Being from a very hippy-centric place, I have known a few Phoenixs(How do you pluralize that?). They were all delightful children.

I convinced my son as a toddler that trees and plants danced while we slept. Not because I wanted to infuse him with wonder, but because I wanted him to go to bed. "Darling, the trees are soooo tired of being still all day long for us." I would say pointing out the window, "It's not fair to make them wait any longer,…

This wouldn't have anything to do with Mexico's recent banning of gmo corn from which high-fructose corn syrup is made would it? It just seems kind of suspicious.

Ah, I made the mistake of assuming she was trying to say something interesting. My bad.

LOkay. So I thought she was trying to satirize stupid women's mag articles, and the idea that women are so desperate for boyfriends/husbands that they'll do just about anything to get one. The whole MPU thing whizzed right by me 'cause they aren't really part of my cultural lexicon. I live in hippy stixville, they…