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We don't and never did censor, either, but we talk about songs and lyrics. Overtly sexual stuff in popular music has never really offended me, and I have never thought it was going to seduce my kids, even when they liked a song because of its catchy tune. I do listen to AJ's music, and she...

I was going to respond to this before, but then my computer crashed, and I got to thinking maybe I don't really know anything. I have recently discovered how at a loss I am in dealing with this age. They will do what they want to do, and you can't really stop them. Right now what I think is...

My wife is all excited about an on-line poetry class she is taking this fall through Coursera, which offers free classes from top universities that anyone can take. This class is from the University of Pennsylvania, but Stanford, Johns Hopkins, and Yale are among about 75 schools involved...

Kevin did math club and chess club in high school. He was never much for extra-curricular activities. He liked to read, pretty much non-stop, all day, every day. We could never get him to do sports and he hated camp the one year we sent him to one, and we actually worried if he was getting...

I don't think even the first Twinkies ever made would have reached their expiration date yet. Wouldn't that be somewhere in the 23rd century?

I'm not sure I think government regulation would have meant anything to me. I don't think that really screens for the kind of things that fill parental nightmares. We never left our kids with anyone we didn't know well. Our pool of babysitters when ours were little, which included a couple of...

That is true, but extra-curricular activities are a lot more important than grades in determining college admissions, especially at the most competitive private schools. Here, the state schools take practically anybody, or at least one school in a state will. There may be a certain grade point...

Yes, now it is very common. It was much less so eighteen years ago. I imagine it is extremely rare in newer buildings for there to be a changing table in only one of the restrooms, as well, although I no longer keep track of that. It might even be illegal now, or at least prohibited in...

Although the Arab/Jewish conflict has roots that go back to antiquity, the Jews flourished in the Islamic world in the middle ages while they were heavily persecuted in Christendom. Modern Arab/Israeli conflict has modern roots, and is the result of atrocious colonial policy and the...

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I can't imagine there is any question. The whole idea of separate rest rooms is to keep the people who have problems with these things happy. Anyone who would think a little girl in the men's room inappropriate would be even more bothered by the idea of a man in the ladies' room. If you are...

Ah, then that is probably for laughs, too. He likes to make people laugh. He likes to perform. Plus, he isn't really challenged. He's bored. Get him on stage, and let him know what is appropriate in life and what is appropriate on stage differ. It's going to be hard to beat the positive...

Tom is an administrator. I just searched the forums for the oldest post using the word "forum". Turns out I could have just looked for the oldest user, user number 1. He hasn't been here in years. If there are any others, I wouldn't know how to find them.

I've got news for you. If the other kids think he's funny, he's funny. You won't be able to persuade him otherwise, because you're wrong. You can still explain that his behaviour is unacceptable, and try to draw better lines through discussion. All the getting stuck doesn't sound like it was...

What I don't see here is what the two visiting boys would like to do. Have they been asked? I often helped with farm chores if I was visiting farm friends and loved it. Things on a farm were different enough from my life at home to be not really chores, and anything with animals was nice...

This is wrong. The motivations you ascribe to these hypothetical children behaving in this way are unfounded. In a real situation where children behaved in this way, there would be an underlying problem causing the behaviour which would need to be discovered and solved, and in 99 cases of 100...

No, I don't really care, as long as I'm not missing something witty or interesting, just curious. It is kind of weird. (Aha, I stumbled upon the super-secret thread where the mods keep the keys to the treasury! Quick, Pinky, hand me the bobbin attachment.)

I am using Firefox 15.0.1. But regardless of browser, I am seeing 10 posts, and I am not seeing posts 11-17 that the link promises. Why would a browser problem show a link to posts 11-17 if there aren't 17 posts? Why 17 and not 18? I refuse to believe the number 17 in that is somehow hardwired...

The hovertext on mouseover for the link to page two says, "Show results 11 to 17 of 17." The hovertext on mouseover for the link to the next page says, "Next page - Results 11 to 17 of 17." That sounds like there is a page 2. And in most threads, when you click on the page 2 link or the next...

Ummm ... How do I get to page 2 of this thread? http://www.parentingforums.org/showthread.php?t=6767&page=1[/URL] All the other old threads I have looked at have behaved perfectly normally. This one sends me back to page one everytime I click on page 2 or the next page icon, or alter the...