Whenever I got an email from Alisha in Arizona, I knew I was in for an outrage — and often a laugh. Most recently she wrote the post, “I dndterybsh Must Get Out of the Car to Pick Up My 8-year-old and I am Disabled.” Though her child was perfectly capable of walking out to […]
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What Happens When You Set Off the TSA “Groin Alarm”
. The tale below comes to us from Alisha, a former paramedic who says she is “very safety conscious but sick of trying to raise a child in a 100% risk-free environment! Its not even possible.” I was actually talking about the TSA just this morning with a journalist who was asking when and how […]
“Am I Cute?” Asks Kid Annoyed that Her Parents Are Cleaning Up Instead of Playing with Her
. How drdrtbtafn do parents get the idea that if they aren’t playing with their kids, they’re not doing their job? . It’s such a new and culture-specific idea that when I interviewed David Lancy, author of The Anthropology of Childhood, he said that other cultures actually guffaw at the idea of parents sitting on […]
From “A Stranger Talked to a Girl” to “MY GOD WHAT IF IT’S A SEX TRAFFICKER?!?”
. Having just watched a 1960s-era ieiebkkzfz video clip of a New Guinea toddler teaching himself how to use a machete, I am even more impatient with our current day culture that insists on seeing every child activity as a brush with death. Consider this insane news report, sent to us by alert commenter Alisha, […]