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We have them where I live. I've seen them for as long as I can remember, but they are usually somewhat temporary, meaning they eventually are worn away by age, 10 or 15 years or so. I can understand why the authorities would remove them from places where people were murdered, especially...

He feels safe with you. I know that doesn't really answer your question, and it doesn't help with the situation, but it is the "glass full" way of seeing it, if nothing else. There are some parents on this site who have experience with autism. I don't have first hand experience with it, so...

Amazing, XOX. Congratulations! I just started eating better since Mardi Gras. I'm down a couple of pounds and I feel proud of myself. I can't imagine the sort of dedication you've had to demonstrate!

I second everything M2M and bssage said. I know that you are seeing it first hand and it is annoying, but it's a tough position the kids in. I agree with bssage that you might want to actually encourage his "instruction" of you when it comes to the baby. It could be your great bonding moment...

I'm sure this is fairly normal, but it breaks my heart. I've had quite a killer cold and the doctor prescribed something with hydrocodone in it. I took it until Sunday afternoon, and I hated it. I was irritible, antsy, generally out of sorts. Since then, I've been feeling just off. I feel...

This is something I've wondered about when I see these sorts of "traumatic" experiences "PROVEN BEYOND DOUBT" with regard to spanking. Either the "spanking" was administer for no reason except as an experiement, and by whom? Or it was not ever administered. Or I don't know what. It doesn't...

And I can so respect your point of view.

I just wanted to clarify that I wasn't the one who made mention of this. I remember the comment being made but I wasn't sure I understood the point of it. I'll have to go back and look at it, but I, personally, do not think that any particular religion sees spankings any more or less part of...

Thanks bssage. That's exactly it. It is a bit of overkill, to understate the fact, and it is an ineffective form of argument. It only undermines the argument. I completely understand why some people disapprove of spanking. I don't do it myself, not so much because I disapprove, but because I...

My baby was induced. She was large for gestational age and I had polyhydramnios. This along with my age and other factors had me seeing the maternal/fetal medicine specialist every week toward the end of my pregnancy. At 37 weeks 2 days according to my reckoning of conception, she measured at...

And I rest mine. Black and white view = simplistic, close-minded view.

First, just so we are clear. I don't spank my child. However, I think it is none of YOUR business if I did. Second, your understanding of the comment about sex and rape being different reveals it went over your head. I'm saying they are not on the same continuum. If you believe they are then...

That's exactly what he implied. There is a direct line from those abuses to spanking - that is more than implied in his line of argument. Spanking is the "last hold out" of this sort of abuse. If he is not implying that, why put it in a spanking argument? I say one has nothing to do with the...

I would record it and start by calling CPS. If they don't act, and we know that sometimes no action is taken witnessed by cases of report after report being ignored until the headlines read that a child was killed after having been ignored by CPS, so if they don't act, I would contact the media...

Your comparisons are simplistic at best. Intentionally oblivious at worst. And your understanding of "historical fact" is erroneous if you think that commenting on the "feelings" parents from over 600 years ago had about their children is a fact. That's the first error in the argument. The...

My response is directed at these assertions. Not at PianoLover. Source? I know that the Spartans exposed "weak" infants or offered them back to the gods. It is a misunderstanding of Greek history to extrapolate "Spartan" to include all "Greeks." I do not know about the Romans except that they...

I don't know if I am still clear about attachment parenting, but I think I lean more in that direction. If not, I'm closest to authoritative according to those descriptions. However, I do not parent by the book. In other words, I read about other people's techniques, but I do not follow one...

I completely understand the attitude you describe with regard to "my mother says you can't" and that is extremely detrimental to the child. And I can see it isn't even about the spanking in this case. Anything you did would result in the same outcome. It is unfortunate. I hope for your...

I don't have an iPhone nor iPad. I wish I did. My daughter once complained that her cousin could play games on his daddy's phone, but all she could do on mine was press numbers. Ha. Last weekend, she was playing with some other cousins' iPhones. They seem to be extremely user-friendly...

I agree with M2M on this point. I do not spank my child. I was spanked and I was NOT abused. And if I were not there to discipline my child, I would not be horrified if my parents spanked her, my brothers, sisters, cousins, best friend. If I trusted any woman her father ever were to marry; if I...