Recent content by kdryan

First off, my 'panties are not in a twist' You were rude, I was rude back. If you don't like it, please proceed to go get bent and you need not reply to anything I post again. Honestly, you won't hurt my feelings a bit. Second, you don't just come in and reply 'That's ridiculous' and nothing...

Yeah well, if you aren't intelligent enough to back up your opinion, then don't give one...

Don't forget, kids are expert manipulators. All of them are... Not on purpose, but they have their little ways of making us pay. :)

I'm not sure how many parents of twins visit here, but if there are, have you run into this? We're having a garage sale this weekend and Olivia mentioned that if we told anyone who came that she was a twin, she would be embarrassed. The wife and I have never been shy about telling people our...

Any parent who thinks they're not doing serious damage to their child on some level is not a decent parent. :)

It's not ridiculous. There are legitimate reasons for it. If you disagree, make a case, but don't just say it's ridiculous and walk away from the argument. Bad form...

What's ridiculous?

Oh boy... It turns out our next door neighbors are getting divorced. She left him and his daughters, age 9 and 15. Ok, none of my business except that our daughters happen to be best friends and I'm not too sure how to help Olivia deal with this. She was moody and upset most of the day today...

And as long as they're at it, the could work on loose, lose, looser, and loser. Plus my own personal flaw, ending every sentence with three dots...

The fact is that Dylan was right. The times, they are a changin' Cursive writing is about as relevant today as a butter churn is. It's a leftover remnant from days past that for some reason people don't want to let go of. It's kind of like Reaganomics. Put is this way; does anyone here...

I just saw where Indiana has decided not to teach cursive writing next year for elementary students in favor of keyboard skills. I can't say I'll really miss it and I can't remember the last time I wrote in cursive other than a signature. The only constant is change, I guess...

One thing about 'rescues.' We went through the local SPCA, but a lot of the rescues for pure breed animals are nothing but scams. We had experience with those too. There are people who scour Craigslist flagging every ad for a dog that asks any kind of re-homing fee, pick up any free animal...

Been waiting years for this and wondering why it never came. :) I told Alexander to clean his room the other day, he didn't like it and raised a fuss, I grounded him from video games, and he stormed off into the bathroom saying 'I hate my dad...' We had a long talk about how that's not cool...

I gotta disagree here. I'm not for tattoos, but if the girl is married and 18, she is an adult and fully capable of making decisions about her own body. Honestly, I don't see how it's any of your business any more. Yes, she is living under your roof, but someday you're going to have to start...

Chiming in a bit late, but it's been my experience that most dogs will be more curious than anything else about the baby, then ignore it once they figure out what it is. They will (in most cases) become protective and put up with all kinds of torture from pulled ears to being crawled all over...