Toddler
- ToddlerAlicia Silverstone is so asymetric. Everything on her face pulls right. Her nose, her lips when she talks, etc
- ToddlerI wish I didn't hate my job so much. I like working, but this work environment has become toxic and I know I need to move on.
- Toddlerwhere do you buy clothes for 8 yr old dd?
- ToddlerIf you say it's impossible to prove or disprove the existence of God, what you're really saying is that God's existence or non-existence has no effect on the world. If God can't be...(more)disproven, God is impotent.
- I don't think that's really how it works. If you believe in God, you can't prove what is influence by God and what isn't. There's not really a way to do a double blind study
- Any effect you think God is having in the world you can try to isolate empirically.
- How?
- If you think statues bleed, you can examine the statues. If you think prayer heals, you can look at recovery rates. If you think bad people are punished, you can do studies. If you...(more)think that God gives you strength, you can compare the fortitude of believers with that of non-believers.
- If you think statues bleed, you can examine the statues. If you think prayer heals, you can look at recovery rates. If you think bad people are punished, you can do studies. If you...(more)
- How?
- Any effect you think God is having in the world you can try to isolate empirically.
- i think god is more about perception. and in some cases for people perception is reality
- i don't see how you make that connection. your logic is faulty at best
- I don't think that's really how it works. If you believe in God, you can't prove what is influence by God and what isn't. There's not really a way to do a double blind study
- Toddlerwhat is a digital perm? and is it something i should get with frizzy hair?
- Toddleron my new laptop and suddenly the font of this page got huge. What did I push??
- Toddlerdo you think a side bang would suit a heart shaped face? i also have thinish hair at the front. want to try something new
- ToddlerSaw this family at the supermarket on Friday, during the day, so the kids are obviously homeschooled. Plus, the 3 kids were all wearing homemade, short corduroy capes. Like elbow...(more)length. They looked so weird.
- No doubt1
- that sounds weird. but i'm a huge fan of homeschooling.
- it was weird. i'm kind of on the fence about homeschooling. i know some adults who were homeschooled and they are awkward. could also be coincidence.
- if you had a quirky awkward child what would you do? leave him in the schools where he was isolated, teased and bullied or teach him at home in safety? that is why so many of the...(more)homeschooled adults were strange, because they started out that way. Nowadays it has become so much more mainstream that this stereotype is innacurate
- if you had a quirky awkward child what would you do? leave him in the schools where he was isolated, teased and bullied or teach him at home in safety? that is why so many of the...(more)
- Ditto
- Ditto.
- it was weird. i'm kind of on the fence about homeschooling. i know some adults who were homeschooled and they are awkward. could also be coincidence.
- Why was it obvious they were homeschooled? Their behavior? Maybe they're tourists.
- capes? so they didn't have jackets?
- were they teenagers? then fucking weird. elementary age? then just ordinary weird.
- are you sure they were not German tourists? I have seen those type of capes in
- Ihomeschool and my kids wear gap etc
- If I had to make my kids clothes, I could see myself making capes because I was too damn lazy to make sleeves. This is why I buy clothes.
- Maybe it was an ugly gift from their grandmother or something? What did the rest of their clothes look like?
- So you're making fun of 3 kids' clothes?
- No doubt1
- ToddlerI gave almost 4 yo twins their first chores this weekend. They are so into them. how long before that thrill wears off? I want to know how much longer I can enjoy not doing these...(more)tasks.
- What are their chores? I think my 4yo dd would love it.
- keep them doing them.
- just keep the excitement up. sticker charts etc
- i made a chart with their favorite characters that they get to scribble on each day.
- perfect
- i have offered no other incentive.
- that's ok! just keep at it, that's what my folks did and i never minded chores
- how did they make it more enticing for you as you got older?
- well by the time i got older i was just used to doing them, so it was no big deal. i listened to music while i did them and i kinda liked the alone time
- so there was no monetary reward tied to them like an allowance?
- no, i got money if i did extra. i didn't get an allowance per se, but my folks would give me a little cash here and there when i needed it. i could always go to the movies w friends or...(more)out to eat etc
- op: yeah that's how i was raised too. the allowance is a foreign concept to me. and i was always expected to help aroun d the house just because i lived there too.
- np I did chores and never had an allowance. my parents said we all pitched in because we were all part of the family. I cleared the table after dinner, and around 10 or 11 started...(more)vaccuming on weekends and cleaning the two bathrooms.
- op: yeah that's how i was raised too. the allowance is a foreign concept to me. and i was always expected to help aroun d the house just because i lived there too.
- no, i got money if i did extra. i didn't get an allowance per se, but my folks would give me a little cash here and there when i needed it. i could always go to the movies w friends or...(more)
- ^also, my folks weren't over the top w them, ;ie if they knew i had had a rtough day or wasn't feeling well, they didn't make me do them
- so there was no monetary reward tied to them like an allowance?
- well by the time i got older i was just used to doing them, so it was no big deal. i listened to music while i did them and i kinda liked the alone time
- how did they make it more enticing for you as you got older?
- that's ok! just keep at it, that's what my folks did and i never minded chores
- i have offered no other incentive.
- perfect
- i made a chart with their favorite characters that they get to scribble on each day.
- What are their chores? I think my 4yo dd would love it.
- ToddlerHave to go to sleep (west coast). Who got voted off Celebrity Apprentice?
- i'm on west coast - it's still on!
- - no subject -...(more)carol
- umm, it's 10:13 but really it feels like 9:13 and you can't stay awake
- a friend accidentally told me who won that show. not surprising, really.
- who?
- i am not going to say, but it is the obvious choice if you know anything about her past.
- Sharon Osboune?
- - no subject -...(more)yeah. wasn't she already a business executive?
- - no subject -...(more)
- i am not going to say, but it is the obvious choice if you know anything about her past.
- who?
- i'm on west coast - it's still on!
- Toddler7yo ds has a croupy cough which just woke him up. Send to school tomorrow or not?
- keep him
- Any fever? If he feels well, has a good appetite and seems okay I'd send him. Croupy coughs are all over the place.
- If no fever, then go to school. Use a cold air vaporizer in the room all night long.
- M?
- keep him
- ToddlerWatching Precious and really like it but every time mo'nique is in a scene i'm scared. god she is scary
- it is a remarkable performance.
- wtf is mo'nique?
- under a rock mom?
- racist troll mom?
- I guess. But I am more concerned about the name Mo'nique
- she won the Oscar for her role in Precious. she is also a comedian, has a late night talk show and used to have a sitcom
- She is an academy award winning actor, television host and comedienne.
- she won the Oscar for her role in Precious. she is also a comedian, has a late night talk show and used to have a sitcom
- racist troll mom?
- under a rock mom?
- in the novel, the mother is petrifying.
- it is a remarkable performance.
- ToddlerIs it silly to dress my 4yo in dresses all the time? It's what she likes best.
- ToddlerSo sick of ghetto shit up for awards
- Toddlerdo you believe in an afterlife?
- not at all
- no
- nope
- no
- hmmm. i really hope so. it would really suck if my mom didn't get some view of my dc.
- no
- yes, but I don't know what it is...just too many psychics and things....maybe it is like a parallel universe where each moment exists forever
- Honestly, no. But I do like to envision Heaven and think if my children died before me that I would think they would be taken care of..I'm still agnostic.
- yes
- Nope
- i wish hoping were the same as believing. i'd be all set
- no, of course not
- not at all
- ToddlerAtheism, bed shitting and too poor for private school. Does that recap the evening?
- i just got here and feel caught up. thanks
- I just logged on but funny Atheism was the topic. DH and I were discussing the rapture tonight and how so many of us will be left behind.
- i just got here and feel caught up. thanks
- ToddlerI'm agnostic, not athiest. I don't like the "just in case" christians
- agnosticism is sensible. i'm a believer myself, though
- im an agnostic w a side of atheism. just like im fairly certain there or no blue fairies, but hey, i can't say for sure there are no blue fairies
- devil's advocate: aren't you a just in case atheist?
- atheism doesn't make sense to me - it's a big universe and there is a lot we don't understand - so how could you be sure there is no god? But I don't believe in any religion.
- agnosticism is sensible. i'm a believer myself, though
- ToddlerHave you read Push?
- ToddlerWhat do you think of putting children over the age of 18 months in one piece rompers?
- ToddlerHow well are contractors supposed to clean up during a renovation? mine just sweep up debris and put their tools away, but there is a thin layer of dust all over the floors and...(more)everywhere, even though they taped off areas. Should I ask them to mop and wipe off the furniture as well? This will take me days to clean up.
- You are going to have dust. You should have covered your furniture. Get your ducts cleaned!
- i definitely think you should ask them and then you should come back and tell us what they say
- Cheap fuck. Hire a cleaner
- hire a cleaning person when they are done. it is expected that there will be dust
- They are not cleaners. Hire a cleaning woman or a cleaning company. This is standard for home construction.
- You're going to ask them to mop? Oh my.
- You are going to have dust. You should have covered your furniture. Get your ducts cleaned!
- Toddlerhate daylight savings. wide awake at 1 am
- Toddleri don't understand why they always say precious based on novel push by sapphire. why not just say 'precious'
- that is the name of the movie
- Because the title of the movie is PBOTNPBS.
- heh, i know. it makes me laugh. i'm sure sapphire had that in the contract when they bought the rights
- or why not just call it push like the novel?
- is there another movie called precious?
- sure it was some copyright/legal thing that the author insisted on
- Dunno, but I'm watching now. It is the best movie I've seen in a long time.
- that is the name of the movie
- ToddlerDh shit bed
- ToddlerWhat's the Pretty Wild show aboiut?
- Toddlercan i just put it out there that because i am an atheist, have one shot at life, i feel i have to do it right -no chance for salvation!!