Hey, Shorty!: A Guide to Combating Sexual Harassment
and Violence in Schools and on the Streets
During the 2010-2011 school year, a survey of over almost 2000 students in grades 7-12 was conducted by the American Association of University Women to find out HOW MANY TEENAGERS WERE VICTIMS OF SEXUAL HARASSMENT, whether in person or via text, email, or social media.
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Joel Dovev knows his crap.
More specifically, he knows about the CRAP AT HIS PARENT’S HOUSE.
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Population Control: Real Costs, Illusory Benefits
Today they expect there to be 7 BILLION PEOPLE ON EARTH.
That’s a lot of mouths to feed, people to clothe, waste to process.
One could expect that the Earth — or our modern infrastructure — was not built to sustain this type of function. More people just means more needs: from power to water, places to live, medicines, beds, etc…
No more does the old adage of a man and a wife deciding to procreate to have two children to replace them when the parents die; we’re seeing larger and larger families come around in countries around the world, putting a strain on systems that were never designed to carry that type of load.
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WHY MARRIAGE MATTERS: THIRTY CONCLUSIONS FROM THE SOCIAL SCIENCES from the Center for Marriage and Families at the Institute for American Values and the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia was recently released.
And if you are a couple with children that happen to be unmarried (“living in sin” is what our parents called it, back when “sin” was a bit more inflammatory than it is today), then you have set your children up on an unhealthy spiral as they grow older.
Some of the results from the study include: Continue reading "Are you an unmarried couple that’s living together? Your kids hate you."
Living Together: A Legal Guide for Unmarried Couples
Living together before marriage: it’s not exactly a growing trend, it’s just something that’s been done for years and years.
Heck, if you want to get technical, Adam and Eve “lived together” in Biblical times. There certainly wasn’t a priest around to make their arrangement an official “marriage”, if you will.
And while Web Watch knows that some parents are perfectly fine with the permanent roommate situation that living together brings, we also know of some couples who purposefully hide their living arrangements from the parental units. It’s all about avoiding the wrath and disappointment of the parents, combined with the realization that the living-in-sin couple might have to pay for their own wedding arrangements, we assume. To each their own. Whatever works.
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Birth Order Book, The: Why You Are the Way You Are
“Marsha, Marsha, Marsha!” said Jan, lamenting the fact – again – that she’s the ignored middle child on The Brady Bunch.
So while it was played for laughs, maybe she did know a little bit about what her future held. And it’s not pretty.
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Choices and Consequences: What to Do When a Teenager Uses Alcohol/Drugs
Social networking website can be addicting. Who knew?
The people at the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University, that’s who.
They’re the ones who recently came up with a study on teenage drug abuse and addiction entitled NATIONAL SURVEY OF AMERICAN ATTITUDES ON SUBSTANCE ABUSE XVI: TEENS AND PARENTS.
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12 Pack Gender Neutral (new) Colors
New parents often have a dilemma to decide, sometimes even before they try to have kids in the first place: are they going to be a “disposable” family or a “cloth” family?
More and more, the trend in eco-friendly parenting is to go with the cloth diapers. Technology has caught up to the absorbent fabrics being used, and they don’t have the stigma that going natural used to have in the past (“unexpected leakage” being the predominant concern).
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What is the number one question that pregnant women ask about their upcoming labor and delivery of their brand new baby?
It’s not what you might think.
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There is a hierarchy of crayons in school.
The average child starts out with the standard 8-color box of Crayola crayons. Web Watch is quite fond of this one, as we never really got past the fact that there are different color Reds and Blues in today’s world. To us, it’s either “red” or “blue”, with none of those various shades.
As you got older, you would get the 16 or 24-count box of Crayolas.
Eventually, you’d be lucky enough to get the holy grail: the famed 64-count box of Crayola Crayons with the built-in sharpener in the box.
Eventually, even that was too boring, and Crayola came out with the 128-count box. Yeah, those kids were living the good life. They may not have been able to draw worth a darn, but they had all the tools available if they tried.
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Coppertone Sport sunscreen spray
Now that the summer camp season is winding down and kids are heading back to school, Web Watch wanted to take a moment to share with you a story that would have freaked some parents out and led to unhappy summer vacations if we had shared it a month ago when this first crossed our browser.
It ends up that SUMMER CAMPS ARE GETTING IN TROUBLE FOR APPLYING SUNSCREEN TO CAMPERS.
And it’s all because some parents are extra-sensitive about who should be allowed to touch their children, even when done in a supervisory manner by workers in child-oriented jobs.
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Children of all ages have been getting injured at the playground for years.
It really should come as no surprise that parents are always looking for the safest type of playground for their kids to play at, but those parents are always coming up short.
Playgrounds, just by their very nature, are just waiting for accidents to occur, no matter how safe they appear to be.
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In case you didn’t know, children’s playgrounds are dirty, filthy places.
It doesn’t really matter what type of playground you’re talking about. Playgrounds at schoolyards and parks are often found scattered with broken bottles and used condoms. Playgrounds at McDonald’s and Chuck E Cheese are covered in germs.
Some parents consider the ingestion of some germs as a healthy habit for their kids, in order to help build up immunities.
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Latest trend in teenage drinking techniques? Vodka-soaked tampons and “butt chugging”
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Parents — there’s a disturbing new trend amongst teenagers who are trying to get drunk in the most unique ways possible.
A few years ago, dropping shots of vodka directly into your eyes was the allegedly go-to way to get an instant buzz on. Today’s kids are a bit more creative:
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