That's not young and naive at all. You did a great job and were a good friend, she was lucky to have you there.

Okay, I might just be young and naive here, but one of my good friends recently went through this (married at 23, divorced at 25). I found that there is only one appropriate thing to say, which is "I'm here to support you. Let me know whenever you need me." And what followed were a lot of nights around a bottle of…

I've worked with animals my whole career and this is what I tell people who are struggling with whether to put an animal to sleep: It's a gift to offer euthanasia to our pets when they are suffering or have a poor quality of life. Pets are not capable of understanding why they are in pain, or why they must undergo a…

I dunno. I see parents all the time ignoring their child's bad behavior and tantrums and I disagree that there's nothing to be done. As a parent, I have snatched my kids up and taken them home when they misbehaved in a store. Do this once or twice and the behavior stops because kids love to be out and about. Some…

She could remove the child from the building until it calmed down. Like most parents would do. Like my parents did with me at restaurants so my tantrum would not cause other people undue distress.

Yet another reason to REALLY despise pro-life Christians (not that we needed one). Until I checked Facebook I had no idea these assholes had set up tons of groups online under the guise of "love of prayer" that exist for the sole reason to criticize Maynard's choice and use social media and organized protests to…

Eh, at least he is not hypocritical. If pro-life people really though abortion was murder, wouldn't this be their default position?