Family Forum / Parenting / Parenting / October 2008

Am I an old fogie at age 31? I keep having this shocked feeling when I find
out 13 and 14 year olds that I know are having their lips, tongues, navels
and/or noses pierced. Is this just normal now-a-days and I am behind the
times, or what?

A friend abroad has a child who needs surgery to enable her to use her
left arm, partially paralysed due to a birth injury four years ago.
The surgery is not available in the child's home country in the third
world, and it would cost $100,000 to do it in the US if it is not

Was just watching Charlie Brown Halloween.   The kids were
dunking for apples at the party.  I remember doing this when I was
a kid in the 1960s.   Of course then, it was a very homogeneous
group, with clean heads.

Last Thursday in Prince William County, Virginia, what I believe to be
the first post-enactment attack of House Bill 1382 and Senate Bill 788
took place in, ironically, my own case.
My highly-competent attorney, John Bauserman, defended the Demurrer I

http://www.drphil.com/shows/
tomorrow, forced to be a father!
This should be a good show,wonder who whipping boy for the Rad Fems will be?

bad luck cats shows from
http://www.tottvwatch.com/nickelodeons-shocktober-2-line-up/
I just realized that Nickelodeon's special line up for Halloween is called
Shocktober 2 and it started this morning. It includes some Halloween themed

Zoo Park Living
A Word On How We Should Live As People
Since people are highly advanced living organisms, and since we got
our start in the plant world, as plants, we are, plants. All animals

http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/2008/10/24/2008-10-24_miley_cyrus_and_justin_g
aston_already_li-1.html
Miley Cyrus and Justin Gaston already living together: report
BY SHALLON LESTER
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER

i have been trying to come up with some ideas for my toddler's room
(boy)
we got some really amazing prints from www.kidz-art.com and are
planning a jungle theme - but we are a bit worried that he will grow

I've seen this in a few of the charity catalogues that come through my
door from time to time, but, now I actually want to buy it, buggered
if I can find it.  Thought it was a National Trust product, but no
sign of it on their website.  It's a set of cloth animals stored in a

Sarah Palin... Ignorant and anti-science / *Dr Laura should be all
over this one, she's married to Dr Lew Bishop [bugs]
Fruitfly factor:     October 24, 2008
This is too much. Sarah Palin gave a policy speech today in which she

I believe a while back I might have asked this already... but I can't seem
to find it and IIRC, there wasn't too much that I had originally read (but
again, can't seem to find it)
I talked to my next door neighbour yesterday and asked her if any of her

When you live on a block where other kids show hop over to play and then
they want to go to someone else's house (we are all nearby neighbors and
kids like to househop), do you phone the parents whenever the kids go from
your house to someone else's house?

Hot and Smartly Olympic Girl in Beijing
Click the link to view in original size
http://graphicreload.com/img.php?r=11173fdfc9ee7602923533c023723bf1d37321117311173
Please notice the girl in right hand side. Wow, she breast is big like

I hadn't expected to deal with this for a few years yet, but my almost 4 yr
old decided on a Fairy princess themed birthday party, which we're having
off site at a place which does dress up tea parties. Since she only has a
handful of girls in her class, we'd planned on inviting ...