Archive for the ‘Rants/Opinions’ Category
Saturday, June 14th, 2008
It's not late now. As a matter of fact, I'm writing on a Saturday morning at 08:39 EDT. It's getting late in the job search season for teachers. School ends in two weeks. It may as well end in one week, because the last week is a series of half-days, ...
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Tuesday, April 15th, 2008
(The ID in the audio says "Episode 36", but it's really 35!)
Family Entertainment is expensive, Sex and Marries Couples, Luxury Treehouses, Build your own hovercraft, Bicycle Safety, Male Pregnancy, and Randy Pausch's "Last Lecture". Plus, Dad's News.
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Monday, April 7th, 2008
The job search begins anew, The Sunday Night Fights, Guilt is not a verb, and do you yell at your kids? Dad's News and links after the jump.
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Monday, March 31st, 2008
Parent's think they are entitled to whatever they want in school, Everyone I know I met in theater, and "The Talk" for a 10 year old girl. Dad's News and links after the jump.
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Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
Holy Sex! Children grow up too fast, the relative who screws up every holiday, and crying as a family. Dad's News and links after the jump.
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Thursday, October 4th, 2007
Zola and Veronica Kruschel- Uploaded with Skitch!I'm all for including the kids, but when including them means bringing them to the local "leather event" it's gone too far.Some of the most unlikely attendees of Sunday's kinky leather fetish festival were under four feet tall. Two-year-olds Zola and Veronica Kruschel ...
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Monday, June 18th, 2007
My wife and I learned early on that we should always check the drinks they give your children at a restaurant. We had a bad experience with some sour milk. However, we did not get the Apple Juice/Margarita mix-up.
ANTIOCH, Calif. (AP) - Kim Mayorga was confused when her 2-year-old started ...
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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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Wednesday, March 28th, 2007
Update: I'm taking the links out of the last 3 posts, because Kathy has stated she now has more trouble than she could have hoped for. That's not why I did this. It's a shame that a few jerks have to be this way, but it's not for me to ...
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Monday, March 26th, 2007
Disclaimer- I write 4 blogs, so if you want to know me better, you can read the others at Bernies World, Podcast for Educators, and 3 Bits of BS. It seems wrong to take issue with anonymity without first disclaiming my affiliations.
This is a follow up to my Sad Day ...
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Monday, March 26th, 2007
A Sad ManeOriginally uploaded by . Update: Robert Scoble has decided to stop blogging for a week as a result of this. I appreciate his move as good for him. I disagree. I've never been big on silence as an answer. I'm more about full frontal assault. ...
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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, March 7th, 2007
State Representative Jessica Farrar of Harris County, Texas has introduced a bill that would reverse a horrible law allowing Texas businesses the right to kick nursing mothers out who refuse to stop nursing their children in their establishment.
Now I can't say that the State of Texas is against breastfeeding, ...
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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 ...
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Sunday, January 28th, 2007
If you've ever taken a good look at the internet, there are a lot of groups for moms, but not too many for dads.
This is the Meetup.com list for parenting groups near my home. Not one is for dads. There are couples groups, mothers groups, parents of twins. Nothing for ...
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