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That's a really good idea. I can't imagine something like that happening in our school in my town, but the idea to have something in place to let kids know that the person making the announcement is probably being forced to say it is brilliant!

It's called an analogy. Meth is the biggest drug problem in our country at the moment and is made of a combination of normal ordinary everyday things. It was an attempt to show how you can use something ordinary and useful to do something very bad. The same way guns are ordinary and useful but...

I'm in Alabama, and although I love shooting guns, I'm ok with not having one when I'm in a safe area. That's good because my husband is a Yankee from DC and terrified of guns and also never got in a fight in his life. But he's a construction worker. He can manage to BS it enough around the...

Let me say this about the presence of guns and safety. I live in a very small, out of the way, backwoods Alabama town. I moved here from Birmingham ten years ago. Now, in Alabama, you can carry a gun without a permit if you can legally own one as long as you openly carry. You only need a...

There was no negative tone. I actually said I may have misinterpreted it and asked if that was the case. Because of my AS, I do that sometimes. Mostly, I don't but sometimes I do, that's why I asked. Yes, to me my 23 yo is still very much "my child". I will always think of him that way. I was...

I just noticed that this catagory is 18 - 25. Does that mean that some parents are wanting advice on how to deal with issues with their children ages 18 to 25? I was 25 when my first child was born. My mother would have had absolutely no place asking for advice about me on a parenting forum...

I thought 18 was an adult. Also, it's ok to go on a diet at 18, just not at 8.

I'd just say "Oh, it's not mine!"

I want to say this about the Christian Values thing. I have nothing against Christianity and I respect everyone's right to their beliefs and greatly respect those of all religions who follow their beliefs. That being said, Christians do not have a monopoly on morals and ethics. My husband is...

While the gun is the means of gun violence, you can't have gun violence without the mindset to commit it. It takes two things to cause it, a gun and the will to cause mayhem with it. While a gun ban will cut down on the number of guns available, a determined person can always get one. A...

I went to a private Fundamentalist Evangelical Protestant Christian school, where most popular music was frowned on, as well as all dancing. Apparantly it would give us bad ideas and bad urges. Hogwash! Going through 12 years of that heavy handed censorship caused nothing more than my...

The back pain from a kidney infection can feel like the back pain of early labor, but even during back labor you have the pain in front from the contractions. I recently had a kidney infection and even said that the pain in my back felt a lot like the back labor I had at the beginning when I...

How are pizza and hamburgers junk food? We make them here for dinner quite often. I'm usually a cook everything from scratch kinda gal, and I don't see a problem with either of those meals. Not one bit. While it may take a few hours to make a pizza because of letting the crust rise three...

How do they send kids to stand in the corner in a round building? ;-)

Oh yeah, some of those were crazy in that article, but also so are some of the newer things that I notice. My oldest son's baby had this little rash under her neck where the drool and milk got and he asked me what to do. I put corn starch on her right there and the mother went ballistic...