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Couple vows to stay within 15 feet of each other... always

Out of all of the very loving, very devoted couples I know, I can't think of one that would survive -- sanity intact -- never being more than 15 feet from each other. Absence makes the heart grow fonder, isn't that what they say? Buddhist teachers ...

Regular stuffed animals vs webkinz

Slate, MSN's somewhat edgy editorial column, has a new article up by Emily Bazelon, an author who writes about parenting. I've been reading her stuff for a while, well, mainly because she's funny and doesn't take herself, or parenting, too ...

Out of wedlock births a national catastrophe?

According to recent statistics, out of wedlock babies now make up 40% of the total number of births in the United States. According to a recent Slate article by Emily Yoffe, out-of-wedlock births are a national catastrophe for the country. As one of ...

Forcing kids to apologize

A new post on Slate has my mind a'swirling. Should we force our kids to apologize? The author of the article, Emily Bazelon, seems to think so. Her husband disagrees. He contends that apologizing is useless if the apology doesn't come from the ...

Twins pics on Slate!!!

This slide show of photos was simply too cute to not share with you. It's all pictures of twins! Some of the pictures are pretty old, which makes them all the more fascinating. Some of them are simply so beautiful they must be viewed. I don't ...

My stepson sucks, what do I do?

In today's Dear Prudence column in Slate Magazine, a woman who identifies herself as "Can't Stand Him" goes on and on about the ten year-old stepson that "grosses [her] out". She hates that he dresses like "a rapper", doesn't clean his room, is ...

'Boy crisis' manufactured out of whole cloth, says Slate

It's all over the mainstream media and the literary parenting message boards: boys are at a disadvantage in today's schools. Newsweek proclaimed boys to be "kinetic, and maddening, and failing at school." In PBS' Raising Cain, a ...

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