Wow, is she ever. Her voice is gone. She can manage a squeak, clear her throat and sort of squawk-rattle out something. For the most part though, nothing. We have had this illness in our house for over a month, just working its way through everyone again and again. Nasty stuff. The big problem is th...

On a recent Dr. Phil story on the show "Risky Teen Behavior", I learned the new phrase "sexting" which refers to people (primarily minor aged kids and teens) that use cell phones and text messages to send nude photos of themselves and other people (otherwise legally known as child pornography). Appa...

“We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal [to be] that which others have made of us.” ~Jean-Paul Sartre While I’m happy that the election turned out the way it did, I worry about all that’s expected of our new president-elect. Headlines report Obama is expect...

When I was a kid, adults used to bore me to tears with their tedious diatribes about how hard things were when they were growing up; what, with walking twenty-five miles to school every morning ... uphill both ways, yada, yada! And I remember promising myself that when I grew up, there was no way in...

Mom said something yesterday that absolutely devastated me. She admitted to the pain doctor that she has to sit "just so" when driving because sometimes her ankle hurts if she pulls back a certain way, making it hard to move her foot from the gas... Read and post comments | Send to a frien...

Let's just confront it after a divorce, human relationships with the ex-spouse tin be a small strained. If you're one of the fortunate few who have always had a great human relationship with their ex, then praise for you. For the remainder of us, let's look at some specific stairway you can take to ...

Just out of curiosity on this very subject, I have two teen boys right here that I’m going to ask what they think about spanking versus beating or are they really the same? Trey:  Spanking is something parents do as a form of punishment for doing something really bad.  Spanking is a ...

Still deprogramming myself. Made a comment elsewhere that when I decided to stop the crazy in my life I had to cut off the ex best friend because I'd changed. I realized after I typed it that I've actively ended several relationships over the last few years for far less reason than the crazy that wa...

The Secret to Raising Smart Kids writes "A new study by Dafna Lemish from the parish of connection at Tel Aviv teaching mash has found that there is an pint-sized gap between what parents think their travail are doing online and what is really happening. 'The data tell us that parents don't know wha...

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