Recent content by Jake72

I'm a guy. Jacob would be a weird name to give a girl.

I pretty much ignore it, I'm not going to not buy things because of it. I still enjoy cereals and my house need to be cleaned somehow. One thing I have noticed is that the "feminist movement" has seemed to done it's job too well. I'm all for equal treatment, it's wrong to treat a woman as a...

My children will watch educational TV over most other channels when they actually watch the TV. They love learning about history and science, they are both visual learners and retain the knowledge easier when they hear it on TV and see it acted out as apposed to in a school setting. I don't have...

My kids are teens and spend most of their time that they aren't in school or with friends on the computer, Xbox, watching tv, texting etc. I see no harm in it and am not going to even attempt to limit their screen time. They aren't fat and lazy, they are both in great shape and know how to...

They're called teenagers who want spending and gas money. :D

I honestly don't usually make one, but this year I did. I decided that my new years resolution was going gluten free. No more gluten products are going to enter my house starting the first. I already broke the rules and got a sandwich at subway. Not going to good. :)

Okay, cool. I'll just lay out ground rules about making sure he can hear his surroundings well enough. Thank you! That is definitely what I'll get him.

Yes, he's obsessed. I've heard of those. I'll look into them, I was just looking at their website and they look really nice. Do they block out sound when you're wearing them, or can you still hear when people are trying to talk to you? He just got a new controller a month or two ago with...

It would take a lot to convince him to give it another try. Itunes gift card sounds like a good idea. I might get him a small itunes gift card, and a bigger one to amazon so he can get anything he wants. I asked a few of my brothers he is pretty close with and none of them had any...

I can tell by your signature. It actually is Auburn. Auburn is not too far from here, both my kids love the campus. He's been accepted so as long as nothing comes up, he'll be going. Alabama wasn't even considered. He considered Georgia, South Carolina, and a small college over in...

LOL! That's hilarious. I'm not kicking him out when he graduates, he is more than welcome to stay here. In fact, I would prefer if he would do his first year of college from home. @M2M He doesn't like watches. He would rather just look at his phone for the time.

His birthday is on the 27th, so it's pretty hard to get him to think of enough things he wants for both Christmas and his birthday. I finally got out of him the name of two things he wanted, black ops and halo reach. I got him both for Christmas along with a $100 gift card to Aeropostale...

Honestly, none of the above if I don't know the person at all. Now, if the kid was getting beat right there in front of me I would definitely call the police, but if they just get smacked I would give the parent a dirty look. There is really nothing you can do in that situation. I don't want...

Thanks Xero for all the advice. I used to play Xbox and Nintendo with him all the time when he was younger, but usually he had asked me to play with him. I actually got him a couple games for christmas, maybe I'll get him to play those with me on Saturday. Thank you for the link Sbattisti...

Father of 7 and I both stated a very positive reason for giving children food they liked vs food you felt is "better" for them. It's to keep them from developing a true hate towards eating because their parents always force them to eat food they don't like, or starve. I don't want either of my...