I didn't get that from your comment at all! I honestly have a lot of experience with kids from all different ethnicities, socioeconomic statuses, geographic locations, etc. and I know a lot of people don't necessarily. And for all I know, the mother was being neglectful (it happens), but I truly think it's just more…

I would never let my four year old play unsupervised in an unsecured area. He's in and out of the back yard all day on his own accord but that has a seven foot tall locked stone fence around it, so I feel fine about that. But if he's in the front yard I'm there too. We have neighbors that let their three (3, 5, 7)…

I agree 3 is to young to be entirely unsupervised in an open space

I live in a neighborhood and you see kids playing in their yards without supervision all the time. I mean, I have absolutely no ability to determine kids ages though. I've been in my backyard and told an elementary school aged kid to cut that out and you can't swing on a branch like Tarzan because that branch is…

My daughter is five now and I've only recently become comfortable with having her out of my sight in controlled situations (but never ever in or around water). Things can happen so fast and my mom always said that there are somee things you just can't take back. A child that young doesn't have the ability to judge…

How long did it take that tiny little guy to walk a whole mile? And nobody noticed? Idk about this situation. If you can't keep an eye on him at least put up a fence

On point one, I disagree. A full review should be made of every shooting and if the officer is shown to have acted in accordance with law/policy, that's it. The last thing you want is an officer who has previously been forced to shoot someone to save their/someone else's life, having to hesitate to protect life and…

Ehh, I don't know. I'm not a parent but I worked with small kids for a long time and sometimes a kid is really quiet. Sometimes a kid is really sneaky. Sometimes he's both. All of those things lead to a kid being able to slip away while a parent (or whatever present adult) is preoccupied even for a minute.

I wrote my own reply to this, but I like yours better.

This is sad, but what is really supposed to happen when someone is threatening people with a gun and refuses to put it down? They get shot. It's how things work. Yes she was old, but she was also in control of her body and brandishing a weapon. My husband's grandmother (also a Texan) is even older that this lady was…

No, thanks. I'm not watching that video. Not on a bet. But I don't see how these women are being manipulated. Are they really that incapable of saying "I care about this issue, but I don't want to ride a sex toy in public and have you videotape the whole thing"? Is that really so hard? I don't think so. I gotta give…

Astrology isn't trying to get evolution out of school curricula.

No, I think she's awesome. She's sane and happy and seems to have her life figured out, she's a mom without shoving down everyone's throats how good of a mom she is, and she took time off in her twenties to get out of the spotlight and ground herself.

Or very mentally ill.

Are we at this point now where we have sympathy for the mentally ill unless they are college students and someone makes a movie about them? This guy makes me sad more than he makes me angry. He's clearly delusional and his delusion and illness is isolating him even further, and it seems like from the attention he's…

Oh, the stuff about treating partners bad sounds exactly like one friend. He constantly refers to whomever he is dating as "Future ex-girlfriend" and has a tendency to only date women in Mexico (he lives near the border) so that there is a physical barrier keeping her from being able to demand they go out every night.

It sort of reminds me of the argument that a sex worker's sexual assault "comes with the job." An action occurring at a high rate for a person of a particular occupation is perceived as being a part of that occupation, even if that "part of the job" is nonconsensual, is initiated by some external source rather than…

If we don't abolish tipping, then it still remains an expected thing, rather than a bonus. Customers will still be pressured to leave a tip, and the waitstaff hired at those restaurants will still need to budget based on anticipated tips.

Yes, obviously. The cost of paying servers a living wage will get passed on to the consumer no matter what, the functional difference being that generous people won't be contributing twice as much to server incomes as stingy assholes.

i would like the new adage to be: can't afford to pay your employees, can't afford to run a business.