Archive for the ‘parenting’ Category

You may have heard in the news that a Toledo woman, Carolyn Savage, was implanted with the wrong embryo. She found out in February when she was only two months along. She and her husband were naturally shellshocked but in spite of the devastation they felt, they knew immediately that they would take the pregancy [...]

This is one reason why we need to curb all the environmental fear mongering. Kids are terrified the earth will be unlivable when they grow up. These fears are unnecessary because the earth will go on with or without us:
There’s a new bogeyman lurking in the closet, and this one isn’t imaginary. Us. One out [...]

Last year, the Canadian Human Rights Council, a inappropriately named group, put commentator Mark  Steyn on trial for what it called Flagrant Islamophobia because of his book America Alone. It was a shocking attempt to police the thougths and speech through intimidation and persecution. Steyn ultimately won out and was acquitted, but the fog of [...]

This has got to be one of the worst cases of police mismanagement I’ve ever seen. Two boys were kidnapped by their mother after they visited her in Sweden. Their father who lives in Australia waited for six months as Swedish police searched but turned up nothing. Sick of waiting, the father flew to Sweden [...]

Joy Behar has written a children’s book. I’m trying to wrap my head around that concept because Joy is such a shrew (my apologies to shrews everywhere). The book she’s written is exactly the kind of book you’d expect,too. It heaps praise on Barack Obama while insulting all Republicans. Here are the details from NewsBusters:
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The Other McCain posted a video of a 12 year old girl giving a speech about abortion. Her arguments are impressive. They are well researched and well reasoned. But is it appropriate for a 12 year old to make such controversial arguments publicly? Dr. Melissa Couthier isn’t so sure because, she argues, it borders on [...]

Today Barack Obama signed the expanded SCHIP bill into law. I thought he was ushering in a new era of responsibility.  He must have meant he was ushering in a new era of shifting responsibility from parents to government because that is what is going to happen as a result of this bill. More and [...]

I’m just going to come out and say it: that this mom is still breastfeeding her six year old is not normal. If this family lived in a Third World nation in which there was virtually no food supply and breastfeeding was the only food source, I would completely understand the mom’s instinct to feed [...]