Archive for the ‘Discussion Starters’ Category
Monday, May 26th, 2008
This episode is sponsored by GoToMeeting.com. Try GotoMeeting free for 30 days! For this special offer, visit www.gotomeeting.com/podcast . Listen and find out if GTA4 will make your child violent, is your playground safe, a new book on Fathers and Sons, and our listener question, "What's In Your Beach Bag?"
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Saturday, May 10th, 2008
This episode is sponsored by GoToMeeting! Try GotoMeeting free for 30 days! For this special offer, visit www.gotomeeting.com/podcast . Who should prepare children for kindergarten? A new desktop application for parenting blogs, the listeners offer their ideas for how to keep healthy, is there a G-spot (and do you know ...
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Tuesday, May 8th, 2007
Seen in DEAR ABBY:
Please help me to warn your readers about an alarming trend happening in the teenage community: prom babies. I first heard about it while driving my teenage daughter to a lacrosse meet with several of her girlfriends. One girl in the car, "Carrie," said she hoped this ...
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Saturday, March 17th, 2007
I saw this article a few weeks ago, thanks to Adventure Dad. In it, a group of women in Devin, England are charged with "causing... children to be ill treated in a manner likely to cause unnecessary suffering or injury." They admitted to taunting 2 children into fighting. When I ...
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Wednesday, February 21st, 2007
According to the American Psychological Association (APA), sexualization occurs when:
a person’s value comes only from his or her sexual appeal or behavior, to the exclusion of other characteristics;
a person is held to a standard that equates physical attractiveness (narrowly defined) with being sexy;
a person is sexually objectified—that is, made into ...
Posted in Father-Daughter, Discussion Starters, Rants/Opinions, Education | 3 Comments »
Wednesday, January 3rd, 2007
Dean Dad wrote a post that pointed me toward a story on Slate which cites an interesting statistic about the proliferation of the Internet- it may be partially responsible for a decrease in rapes.
Why? Some conclusions we could draw could go back as far as Billy Joel's previous conclusion in ...
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Monday, October 2nd, 2006
I was over at Profgrrrrl's blog and she was speaking to her underclasspersons about extracurriculars. I was thinking about the things I did as an undergrad. Did your schedule look like this?
Resident Assistant- 1 1/2 years
Resident Director- 1 year
Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Fraternity (2 years- Music Committee Chair, Audit ...
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Monday, September 11th, 2006
At 2,996, you can read tributes written by 3,412 bloggers to those who fell on 9/11. I am not among the bloggers, but I am glad to see that local Stacey S. McGowan will be honored by Mandi at Holdin' Down the Fort, and that Welles R. Crowther is being ...
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