Andrea Hermitt's comments

Avoiding obesity in the teen years

03 Jul 2009 07:03 AM

I sincerely hope that the consensus is to not agree with the commenter... for two reasons.

First, they only mention the overweight girl... what about male kids. In my case, my son is having much more of a struggle.

Second, anorexia is more deadly that being overweight. It is not worth the risk.

Would You Pay Your Teen NOT to Get Pregnant?

29 Jun 2009 11:40 AM

This is pretty sad. But if they pay money for grades, why wouldn't this be next.

Homeschool Curriculum Review: Educator.com

28 Jun 2009 12:09 PM

Glad to have helped Joan

Parents Versus the Ice Cream Man

25 Jun 2009 07:03 AM

Is it true? I don't have studies, but the nose knows.

Any ice cream truck I have ever approached in GA, kind of made me sick to my stomach... not clean, and the ice cream is mis-shapen, a result of thawing and refreezing.

Where I grew up in NY, that wasn't a problem... the ice cream sold too fast for it to get a chance to thaw. The trucks always seemed cleaner.

So cleanliness factor may depend on local rules, sellers, and availability of customers... but we've seen enough yucky trucks that I was able to convince the kids that they are all yucky.

Parents Versus the Ice Cream Man

23 Jun 2009 10:06 AM

I've simply convinced my kids that ice cream from these trucks were less than safe and hardly tasty as they had been thawed and re-frozen numerous times... Yuck. Of course such reasoning doesn't happen before age 9 or 10. My bigger problems is that bad icecream from these trucks can and does make kids sick.

Female Student Fights for Her Right to Wear Pants to Graduation

14 Jun 2009 09:34 AM

Slacks are dress pants as in, suit pants without the Jacket.

As for whether the girl should have been able to wear pants a dress... I think it's kinda sexist to demand the girl bare her ankles or else. Perhaps she is not comfortable in bare legs... I have several female friends who just hate dresses and everything else about them is perfectly the same as any other woman. A compromise could have been a split skirt (gauchos, long skort)... but in the end, some old traditions need to die.

Families That Fly Separately to the Same Destination

08 Jun 2009 09:29 AM

We have flown separately, but more because of logistics as my husband had to work one more day, and so flew separately with my son. I tend to fly with my daughter because we like to take advantage of "girl time" and like to get a longer vacation... but if our schedules match, we fly together.

My wonder is would thy have chosen the non-doomed flight had they flown together.... I bet that would really eat at the husband.

Jennifer Hudson is Having a Baby

01 Jun 2009 06:58 PM

If there was a benefit of being plus-sized... this is it. It's hard to tell if a woman is pregnant before 6 or 7 months!

Update: Would You Allow Your Daughter's Boyfriend to Move into Your Home?

01 Jun 2009 05:47 PM

Wow! what a bad idea

Would You Allow Your 15-Year-Old Daughter to Date a 20-Year-Old Guy?

01 Jun 2009 05:44 PM

As a teen, my parents were OK with me dating Older guys... I dated a 19 year old when I was 14. BAD IDEA. Fortunately, things didn't go the way they go these days, as I was against premarital sex, but someone that young is not prepared for that kind of heart break. I am discouraging my daughter from dating until she is mature enough to not end up with self esteem issues after a breakup.