I just ran across a great movie rating website called Kids-In-Mind. Instead of giving you a one-size-fits-all rating (e.g., G, PG, PG-13, etc.), Kids-In-Mind provides you with a 1-10 rating for Sex & Nudity, Violence & Gore, and Profanity. On top of this, they provide an itemized list of possibly offensive scenes such that you [...]
I just ran across this and thought that it was worth sharing: “When a child is born, a father is born. A mother is born, too of course, but at least for her it’s a gradual process. Body and soul, she has nine months to get used to what’s happening. She becomes what’s happening. But [...]
We know you’re out there… No matter how hard you try to lurk in the shadows, we know that at least a few of you are reading what we write. Really, we do. So why not come clean and leave a comment? After all, it’s National De-Lurking Week (believe it or not, I’m not making [...]
Just a quick note to wish you all a Happy and Healthy New Year! It’s hard to believe that we launched this site one year ago today. We greatly appreciate all of you that have visited during the past year, and we’re looking forward to a successful 2007.
Just thought I’d share some Thanksgiving thoughts courtesy of our nine year old. These come from a little booklet on thankfulness that he put together at school: I am thankful for my friends because… I can play with them. I am thankful for my teacher becaue… She is nice. I am thankful for my family [...]
It’s Halloween — you know what that means, don’t you? That’s right, ’tis the season for razor blades and needles in apples and poison in candy. Or is it? According to Dr. Joel Best of the University of Delaware, “I can’t find any evidence that any children have been hurt or killed by any contaminated [...]
Remember back before you had kids, when weekends were actually relaxing? Nowadays, it seems like weekends around our house are even busier than weekdays. While we try to be sensitive to the possibility of overscheduling our kids (and ourselves), things tend to add up quickly when you have four young’uns. With that in mind, check [...]
If only they made people take a test and earn a license before having kids. Wait a minute… They’re thinking about doing just that in New Zealand! Indeed, a panel of experts has proposed that all parents should have to sit through a parenting test if they want to maintain custody of their children.
Do you want to have children while avoiding the inconvenience of pregnancy? No problem, just check eBay. According to a recent news article that I just ran across, an auction went up last week under the title “Baby for Sale – unwanted – already have two.” It then went on to state: Unwanted Baby! It’s [...]
While the North Koreans are paying people to have kids, it seems that the Catholic Church is taking a different approach in southern India… The percentage of Christians in general and (apparently) Catholics in particular has been falling in the southern state of Kerala, and Church leaders want to reverse the trend. Their solution? Simple. [...]
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