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Probably the cutest fight scene you’ll see all day

Posted in Cool, Geek, Images, Parenting, tagged , , , on April 1, 2009 | 3 Comments »

Yea, I have no words either. I think I’ll teach this to my kid

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50 rules for my unborn son

Posted in Culture, tagged , , , on December 4, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Preemptively: No, I am not pregnant.

Saw this on Babble. Please don’t ask why I was on Babble. But I thought it was a great list. I liked how it moved between the seemingly banal and serious life lessons. Some examples.
2. In Monopoly, buy the orange properties.
11.  Spend time with your mother. She’s cooler [...]

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Control your teenagers: Ford introduces teen-friendly car

Posted in Cool, Latest world news, Parenting, Techno, tagged , , , on October 10, 2008 | 9 Comments »

Ford—the guys who make cars, not the guys who travel into space with towels—are introducing a brilliant new technology that makes me feel a lot better about handing the keys to the car over to a teenage driver. The technology, called MyKey, will debut in 2009 in new coupe models, enables the non-teenage owners of [...]

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I’m pregnant? — No, you were pregnant. Now you’re in labour.

Posted in Insanity, tagged , , , on May 5, 2008 | 6 Comments »

Parenting magazine has a mindboggling story of woman who goes to the hospital with terrible backache and stomach cramps, the nurse examines her and says “You’re eight centimeters dilated.” She went to full term and didn’t know she was pregnant! I mean, most parents are surprised when they find out mum is pregnant. Imagine [...]

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Parenting: would you let your 9-year old take public transport alone?

Posted in Culture, Internet, Latest world news, Parenting, Psychology, Questions, tagged on April 14, 2008 | 5 Comments »

In a country such as South Africa, where the child murder statistics are horrifying, and where we read about the murder, mutilation, and rape of children as young as 9 months old, letting a child out alone is terrifying. You read many stories in the newspaper about children who go out, even if on a [...]

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Stephen King talks about video game violence

Posted in Culture, Games, Questions, tagged , , on April 7, 2008 | 5 Comments »

Acclaimed horror author Stephen King talks about violence in video games, and specifically about a Massachusetts bill that the lawmakers want to put into effect regarding the sale of violent video games to minors. Says King:
According to the proposed bill, violent videogames are pornographic and have no redeeming social merit. The vid-critics claim they exist [...]

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Learning to parent

Posted in Biology, Culture, Human body, Parenting, Questions, tagged , on April 3, 2008 | 3 Comments »

This is from the Parenthood blog, which also has a bunch more
Makes me think of weird parenting techniques. I always remember my cousin picking up her youngest kid like a sack of potatoes, just hooking him under her arm and walking off. As she retreated all you’d see was her back and peeking out [...]

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