Expectations of a 13 year old…
I just read about a 2-year old baby in Texas, who drowned in her community pool while the mother went inside to get a diaper. Supposedly, the mother left the 2-year old with a 13-year-old sibling and...
View ArticleMom puts raccoons on notice
I had to make mention of this superwoman: Officials with Cheshire animal control say the woman was walking in the woods around 11 a.m. Thursday with a group of children when the animal bit the...
View ArticleNaperville, Illinois — best place to live or Stephen King setting?
Is there something in the water in Naperville, Illinois, heralded as one of the best places to live by Money magazine? In a story reminiscent of the Marilyn Lemak case in Naperville eight years ago,...
View Article10-year-old plays with gun safe, hilarity ensues
Give a ten-year-old 5 minutes at Sam’s Club and apparently they will find a way to lock themselves in a gun safe. And the mother says, “My back was turned for five minutes.” (???) Granted, a...
View ArticleWant safe toys from China? You’ll be sorry
I’m sure most of you have been following the recent “lead paint on toys” stories and reports of other unsafe products that are making their way to the United States via China. And I think we can all...
View ArticleYet another tragic ending
Just weeks after Nimisha Tiwari took the lives of her children and herself, another mother in the Chicago area decided to take the most desperate of ways out of an apparently messy divorce. Magdalene...
View ArticlePerhaps Mario Andretti had his start the same way
Holly Schnobrich, a 24 year old mother of two boys in Lafayette, Indiana, allegedly got whacked out on vodka and Percocet (which she admitted to taking when the children “acted up”) and decided to go...
View ArticleFearless
Does anybody remember the movie, “Fearless“? It’s a 1993 movie in which a few plane crash survivors go through post traumatic stress disorder and try to reconcile why they lived and others died. Their...
View ArticleDemocratic debate brings up a parenting hot button
Okay, so I watched much of the Democratic debate last night. Not much to report unfortunately, besides Mike Gravel being bat-shit crazy, that was kinda entertaining. Nothing blew me away though, but I...
View Article14 year old charged with child porn?
Shows what I know. Just as a 15 year old can’t be charged with statutory rape for having sex with another 15 year old, I figured something similar would be the case in which a 14 year old possessed...
View ArticleCity vs Suburbs
Once upon a time I worked at a boy scout camp, and once upon a time I harbored a crush on a certain co-worker. One night we were at Friendly’s and he patted his seat urging me to come sit next to...
View ArticleLeave Nancy, Marie, and Esther ALONE!
I keep seeing sooo many blogs ridiculing that clip of the women from the LDS-breakoff compound in Texas. They’re robots, they’re brainwashed, they’re as interesting as oatmeal, they’re frumpy, they’re...
View ArticleRetailers racing for rebates
As gas prices quickly rise to nearly $4 a gallon ($3.77 in my neighborhood — thankfully I live near an Indian Reservation and can get it for the low-low price of $3.44 a gallon), the government has...
View ArticleFear-mongering.
I hardly watch the news on television anymore. I don’t like the tabloid-spin most news networks are putting on their stories, and I don’t like being surprised by stories about children who have been...
View ArticleEconomic meltdown, are you worried?
What a crazy few weeks it’s been. The news is so depressing — we have financial advisors warning of the next coming of the Great Depression. Everything seems to be going to hell in a handbasket....
View ArticleGender-based abortions
Right to life groups are going berserk over Sweden’s recent decision to allow women to abort based on gender under their current universal health care benefit. Whether you agree that unborn babies have...
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Political parents weigh in: How’s Obama doing?
At just over 6 months into his presidency, Obama might be showing some weaknesses. His administration may be wondering if he’s not as fail-proof as the media and his former supporters have bragged...
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From pull-ups to politics
Who has the most influence on your child's political identity? Photo via Flickr Commons/Warmsleepy's photostream Guest post by Shawna Lacharite Interest in the development of political and civic...
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Taliban ramps up torture of children
Jalil, a little Afghan boy whose leg was blown off when a Taliban militia member asked him to step on a bomb is what the Army believes was to 'test' their new bomb making device. Photo via Michael Yon...
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I’m sorry, Senator, but you’re in time out for the next session
Congress people are acting like children and should be treated as such. Photo via Terri Oda Flickr Commons. Guest post by Roger Caldwell As we get closer to an election year, I find myself watching...
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