Posts by ziggy

On a messageboard primarily of teen girls I asked "what age difference do you allow for in dating?" and every. single. one. said that they do NOT date people their own age or younger cos it's *so* immature (which I think is...

I'm surprised that she liked the older version of Cheaper by the Dozen, considering the father died at the end.

How about 13 Little Blue Envelopes by Maureen Johnson? Activity can involve envelopes and journeys and such. Good fun!

I would have died if my mother did that to me. Like, died, came back to life, thrown up, and then died again.

I *was* your daughter, only opposite - I would not talk to other students, only to the teacher; and the second a teacher said something I perceived as mean or judgmental that was it - I didn't talk to them anymore, either. And I cried...

Posts like this make me so sad - I'm getting to the point where I wont' open threads on Thomas Beatie. I always think of Mothering as a more progressive site, but on this issue I guess not. I didn't see the documentary, but my points...

No, I asked what you thought they learned from the family, not what I thought they had to learn. I think they have a lot to learn. I think they have nothing to learn from the pageant family.

FondestBianca, what do you think that the MDC-like mom had to learn from the other family? I think she always wanted to spend more time with her kids, but she's in her last year of residency - that means that she works about 3 30 hour a...

well, I'm not sure about questions, but things that would have been VERY useful to me when entering situations as a caregiver were things like "by the way, when he's mad he tends to throw chairs at me. Watch for that."

Yeah, that's the one. She was also putting makeup on her 13 month old daughter. And her daughter's favorite food was hotdogs. Reading the manual was pretty cool; the feminist doctor roller derby mom's family is also vegetarian and...