That sounds so nice. With teenagers we seem to always be busy

• Does your family still do the early Sunday dinner w/family? - Who does the hostessing? nm No dinners here.
  • Wish we had family to do that with. Have kids, but DH and I - are only children. Sad.
  • We do the Sunday dinner thing every night. We have 3 young boys sm - Me
  • Love sunday afternoons - MTT
    • That sounds so nice. With teenagers we seem to always be busy - trose
      • Wednesday works - cat
  • Sunday dinner - cat
    • That's great! Everyone should learn to cook & learn - about what nourishes our bodies and souls! :) NM
  • We did this for years, though now slowing down some - sm

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I'm ready to rescue a kitty now after we had to put our beautiful cat to sleep but my roommate is not ready yet.  So I understand where you both are coming from.  I don't know the solution.  If you do decide to wait though, I'm sure there will be another very deserving dog who needs a good home like yours. 

Again, it's not good she got pregnant at 16, but that doesn't mean her child is doomed for life or that she is either.  I am very familiar with the foster system and family court, and there are millions upon millions of HORRIBLE parents out there of ALL ages.  You can't really say just because the mother is young she will be a bad mother.  There are many other factors.

Maybe teenagers having sex offends you, but they have done it since the beginning of time and will continue to do it until the end of time.  Simple as that.  They should always use condoms, but even condoms can break, so there will always be teen pregnancy.  But wait, have you never committed a sin?  Is that why you can judge teens having sex so harshly?

Would anyone here let their 13-yo daughter hang out in your front yard with 3 neighborhood boys, ages 13, 14 and 15?

Also wondering what other people think about allowing a 13-yo girl to go a pizza place to hang out/have pizza with boys (no adults)?

This is not something I feel comfortable with but my daughter is trying to tell me this is something other girls her age are allowed to do.  What do you all think?

for having a slap fight with another child before school started.  I will never in all my life forget that.  It was awful and felt even more so because I am female.  I don't know what your daughter did to deserve this, but whatever it is as opposed to paddling she should be asked to write a report on why whatever she did is not appropriate.  It should have to be so many words and so many paragraphs, grammatically correct, and put forth in a positive manner.  I can see her having trust issues with men after this paddling situation especially older male figures in years to come. 

I hate to sound judgemental, but your post comes off like you are just way to busy to deal with your children when in fact you are responsible for them until they are 18.  I sure hope she doesn't hold this against you, but that's what I did at first.  I blamed my Mom for letting this man paddle my private area. 

yesterday i took my son to ball practice to see if he wanted to join.  the friend i talked about in this post, his mom was there.  (i knew the boy played ball, that's why my son wanted to play ball too).  so i told my son that we'd go watch and see if that's what he wants to do.  so i'm sitting there talking with the mom and i told her that i was a little scared of my son playing football because of getting hurt, etc.  that he had already had two broken bones.  she said that her husband (the dad that kicked the dog), has had several broken bones, from wrecks and she said when he was younger, he used to fight (like street fighting type stuff, not boxing).  but she said that he doesn't do that any more, we grow up as we get older.  i thought to myself, i guess he just beats up dogs now.  i'm going to check into what rescue groups are around here.  it's very obvious these dogs don't go to the vet for checkups.  even if there is no child abuse going on, the kids are going to think it's ok to hurt animals.

thanks for your opinions

She is now 3-1/2 and she always hisses at my daughter and her fiance.....it's really not nice, and it's always ongoing, and I *think* she (the cat) may be jealous.  I never had a jealous cat before.  *lol* 

I  had a male cat for 13 years who died in 2004 and he did hiss but not at the daughter (but then she kind of grew up with him....)

hope it gets better with your little furkid...(cute!!)

But I'm in zone 7a!  It might survive here, with southern exposure, but it would be iffy.

My hydrangea is just about to bloom, though - the blooms are somewhat similar. I thought I lost it over the cold, cold winter but it came back and has little florets all over getting ready to burst into bloom.