Recent content by JGPS

Nice work with that. I can see how creepypasta can be convincing to a teen. They've done some pretty elaborate things in the past, like selling modded cartridges of Pokemon and Legend of Zelda at swap-meets that have their various creepy things in them. That's probably more evidence than most...

The US already has far higher incarceration rates than either of those places. Unless you don't believe Chinas stat's which is reasonable. Still, the US is leading by a huge margin: http://www.prisonstudies.org/highest-to-lowest/prison_population_rate?field_region_taxonomy_tid=All[/url]

Parenting can be quite happy and rewarding and such, but that's more a side-effect than a main feature. Parenting gets you outside yourself and gives yourself to the future. Your values, qualities, identity, and life are remade in a new form that will go beyond you. The future belongs to...

My 10 year old does some Java basics and some HTML and my 8 year old installs his own OS without help (if you want a computer to play on {in the living room} you'd better learn how it works). That said they don't use social media like twitter or face-book. Their web activity is usually gaming...

Is this kind of an overall discussion of critical thinking and analytics skills? My mother says that when she was in university they focused on teaching you how to think, and left what to think to you. But now they teach you what to think, and avoid anything about how. A good level of...

Labour and deliver is dangerous and always has been. Doctors on the whole are very good at what they do. But complications do happen sometimes. On the whole the doctors will follow the Hippocratic oath fully and help much more than they harm. You dug pretty far into the past to find that...

Anyone have any ideas on Max and Ruby? No parents ever home or referenced ever and Grandma just comes by to drop things off once in a while. My kids never watched it much, partly because the whole dynamic of that show had a really weird vibe to me, esp between Max and Ruby themselves with Ruby...