Image credit: Photo by katrinket on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons So, have your read the recent New York Times article on toddlers and iPhones? It's shocking and alarming! More and more parents (oh, ok, moms -- only one nameless man is mentioned in the entire article and we are not told how he handles [...]
Posts under ‘being a smart ass’
Rules Kids Won’t Learn in School
Image credit: Photo by TheeErin on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons A few of my real life friends have forwarded around "rules that kids don't learn in school" from the book Dumbing Down Our Kids: Why American Children Feel Good About Themselves But Can't Read, Write, or Add by Charles J. Sykes (not Bill Gates, [...]
How to Change Anyone!
I was browsing around Target the other day, when I came across the most fabulous book I have seen in a long, long time: How to Change Someone You Love: Four Steps to Help You Help Them. I laughed the kind of laugh that ought to have sent flocks of birds scattering in alarm. Instead [...]
Conspiracy Theories
Image credit: Photo by CowGummy on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons It started off innocently enough years ago. She would forward me the usual stories warning me that I should watch out for snakes in McDonald's ball pits or people out to steal my kidneys or serial killers who would lure me out of the [...]
Not Such a Good Neigh Bear®
Image credit: Photo by thescotty on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons Like all good, slightly overprotective, digitally inclined parents, I subscribed to the Consumer Product Safety Commission's free e-mail news bulletins when my first child was born. Each day I would vigilantly checked my e-mail (I'm such a good mom), ready to whisk dangerous products [...]
Google Broke Up with Me
You may (or may not) have noticed that my ads disappeared a few weeks ago. Google informed me a little while back that that they determined I posed a "significant risk" to their advertisers and that they were pulling my ads. They wouldn't tell me exactly what this meant (and told me not to contact [...]
The Vast Therapy Conspiracy
In my adventures around the Internet, I've discovered the existence of several stalwart individuals who believe that codependency along with so-called behavioral addictions (like sex, food, shopping, video gaming or gambling) simply don't exist. Now, sure, I'd met people before who would (reasonably, it seemed at the time) point out that many of these conditions [...]
