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*Parents are outraged after discovering that the cast of a high school production of “The Wiz” is all white. Originally cast with a slew of black stars as a direct response to the white version of “Wizard of Oz,” officials at an upstate New York school is being blamed for not marketing the musical to incorporate a more diverse (aka [...]
*Joe Jackson hasn’t changed a bit since the kids were … kids. The patriarch of the Jackson family appeared on CNN’s “Piers Morgan Tonight” and made a fool out of himself, telling the world that he, Joe Jackson, the man who is better known for borderline slave driving his kids for the empire, thinks parents [...]
*The Sandy Hook elementary tragedy has affected everyone throughout the world differently. Some people, like Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) that we reported on Monday, want to fight guns with guns. But that way of thinking has caused a reaction no one would have ever expected. According to the Daily Mail, on Monday, a Utah sixth [...]
*When you were growing up, and this question is for those that are at least 40, were there parents on your neighborhood playgrounds? When you went to the playground, did you know everyone there? Did you walk to school at eight-years-old? Were you ever sent off the block to run to the store at that [...]
*There’s a lot of controversy over the abortion issue and whether or not women should have them. But abortions and birth control are not the real issue. When the parents are caught jeopardizing their child’s life and/or making sure the child is the worst human being imaginable, it brings all issues on procreation into perspective. [...]
*My parents divorced when I was 2, the last time I saw my father I was 12 and he rarely if ever paid child support. That happened more than thirty years ago, so my mother and I survived his neglect. But when I read about Desmond Hatchett, the male (he doesn’t deserve to be called [...]
*I listened to the 911 audiotape recording of a Florida woman who called police because somebody was in distress and yelling for help behind her house. The cries for help could be heard in the background of the phone call. The single gun shot that ended those cries for help also was audible. When police [...]
Amy Winehouse’s father wants drug and alcohol awareness lessons added to the national curriculum in the United Kingdom, because he said there are ‘legal highs’ that can be dangerous. Judging from that statement alone Europe’s overwhelming amount of drug addiction, drug-related crimes and drug related deaths among young adults might be due to their ineffective [...]
*America’s education system is upside down. Daily we hear numerous stories of mayhem out of schools across the country on every level from kindergarten to high school. The students are actually surviving each day of school rather than experiencing a productive day of education. Texas is now on the radar for a school that has [...]
When a co-worker said she didn’t want her third-grader to walk the quarter-mile to school and back and she planned to change her work schedule just to be available to drop him off and pick him up, I thought something must be wrong with the child: mentally or physically disabled, maybe. As a first-grader I [...]
*The world is definitely flipping upside down and inside out with the constant insanity we hear daily going on in ordinary people’s lives. It seems that killing your parents is becoming a trend amongst disturbed teenagers. Some of them have gone as far as to take out their whole family. But, on Sunday in Port St. Lucie, [...]
*We’ve always heard the term, “When in Rome…” But, we didn’t think that would mean fitting in with our teenagers and their social trends. The “do it at home” method was born when parents across the nation began to deal with new social problems with their teens. In the late 70s, young people were smoking marijuana with [...]
Steffanie Rivers I read an article the other day where people debated whether or not it is appropriate to send thank you sentiments via email or if putting pen to paper and writing a thank you note is better. When it comes to proper etiquette, the points of view can be endless. But I’m sure [...]
*The way that girls are dressing these days cannot be blamed on “these days.” The 1960s may have been the beginning of the end of conservative dress. The flower children age came into being, drugs, and freedom above all other things prevailed. The country opened up and so did the dress for women. Keyword being [...]
Is $32,000 Too Much for a 6-Year Old’s Birthday?
*Anyone in their right mind knows that those people on MTV’s “My Super Sweet 16″ and TLC’s new show, “Outrageous Kid Parties”, need professional help. Really! If they want my unprofessional input on the topic of overspending on these parties, I will be pleased to help them find their closest dollar store and soon after, a [...]