FULL COLUMN: Keep your hands to yourselves – at any age
…from last week’s Creative Loafing. When kids graduate from diapers and breast milk, it starts. They form opinions and think for themselves, which occasionally leads to piss-poor decision making. My kids were no different. Discipline is necessary if you want to keep kids away from drugs and parole officers. Husband and I had to figure [...]
FULL COLUMN: Hippie moms
While shopping in Greenwise the other day, I noticed a mom in sandals and dreadlocks raising hell about the lack of vegan options for her 8 year-old. She threatened a boycott, quite loudly in fact, because her daughter was an organic being and much too precious for pesticides, animal secretions, and hormones. As I stood [...]
When a kid kills a cop
After the parents of 16-year-old Nicholas Lindsey turned him in for the murder of Officer David Crawford, the first question many asked was, “Where did this kid get a gun?” A better question might have been, “Where were his parents when he got one, and why was their son out on the streets at 10:30 [...]
What is Memorial Day all about?
For most people, next Monday is just another day off. It’s an occasion to sleep late, fry on the beach, or enjoy a few beers with belligerent cousins at a family barbecue. When our children were born, Husband and I started a new tradition of observing certain holidays by honoring the reasons they became holidays [...]
Purity balls: weird sex talk, disturbing pre-teen ritual, or both?
I have two little boys and love their rough and tumble ways – it suits me. No idea what I’d do with a daughter. In general, girls scare me with their Barbie dolls and princess parties. I don’t even know how to braid hair. As a teacher, female students repelled with low self-esteem and emotional [...]
Immunize me or you’ll catch it too
Aren’t new parents funny? They finally get their beautiful and fresh-smelling bundle of joy to sleep, go online to brag about Apgar scores with 500 of their closest Facebook friends, and advocate some of the most bizarre and mind-baffling ideas since the womb song. Believe me, I’m only a drunken evening and missed period away [...]
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