BUT DATES ALL THE ATTRACTIVE LADIES. I am so baffled by this that I must mention it every time Sheen comes up.

Yup- everyone swimming in a workout-ish-fashion is sweating a TON.

Yeah- I was gonna say, Clorox smells like chlorine straight from the bottle, and it hasn’t interacted with any pee, as far as I know. Also, I never got red eyes swimming in a lake, and there was legit a diaper floating by one time (the last time I swam in that lake, incidentally).

No. I’m actually incapable of peeing in a pool- I’m also one of those people that has trouble peeing when people talk to me from the next stall, though.

...except learning to swim could prevent a drowning death, no? I can see how you wouldn’t want them in unsupervised pools, but you could supervise them.

Haha yeah- it’s pretty gross, but then again, life is gross. There’s fecal matter on pretty much everything in people’s houses, but you don’t see me avoiding houses over it.

If chlorine has no smell, how come an open bottle of bleach that hasn’t touched anything has a smell?

This is ESPECIALLY important for kids. I’ve seen way too much on parenting blogs about “workbooks to get your kid learning over the summer!” and it just makes me sad.

Exactly- I can see an end-of-the-year celebration. Making it a big, parents-invited, need to rehearse thing is a bit absurd when you’re all moving on together. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with getting parents more involved in schools, but there has to be some other cool event that actually celebrates…

I haven’t seen this one in ages, so it’s really surprising how many of the minor characters have gone on to bigger roles since I last watched this! I also love how only about two of them were famous when this thing was made...

I’m kind of surprised that this is still considered “good PR.” Like, didn’t we learn anything from his last serious romance?

I feel like maybe this could be good for her? Certainly this has been getting her name in the news more, though not in the “serious actress” way she might want.

Thank you for phrasing it that way! Some people don’t realize how much presenting information is different from pushing someone into a decision.

To add to that: the kids, age, too. A teenager needs a lot of things, but a sprightly parent with the ability to sit on the floor for three hours isn’t really one of them.

Parents seem to forget that they were people with functioning brains pre-children. Or maybe they weren’t, and that’s why they feel like we need the warnings.

Yup. I know how much my family changed when my little sister was born, and I was only 5 at the time, and we *already* had a couple kids in the group.

I have had this discussion with the naggy portions of my family soooo many times. It’s not that I’m not ready, time-wise (my routine of too much Jez could use a shakeup), but I need to save up more first. They just laugh when I say this.

I think it’s fine to have a party celebrating the kids going off. I just think inviting parents to every one of these things is a little ridiculous.

I think that’s really the big argument against working after kids, in my mind. I think working parents have a lot of guilt, and end up doing ridiculous things (like watching every soccer practice when they could be going for a jog or something) because they feel like they miss so much already. I’m going to be a…

YUP. From the point of view of a non-parent, I really really don’t understand some parent behaviors. Like watching your kid at sports practice. I mean, if it’s a social occasion on the sideline, sure, hang out, but isn’t that the perfect time to get *your* workout in?