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August 31st, 2006 · Posted in Linkage · 3 CommentsThe Tick Vs. Season One
The Tick is awesome. When this DVD arrives in Australia, I think I would like to get it
YouTube – Vader Sessions
Mashup of Darth Vader and James Earl Jones from The Great White Hope. Awesome (one or two swear-words).
Save Pluto
OK, last Pluto post. Check out these signs for saving Pluto. They are fantastic.
Alcohol excess begins at home
Does this just seem like common sense to anyone else? If parents don’t approve their kids’ drinking, the kids are less likely to drink. Attention parents: Your responsibility for your kids has not been absolved!
What Did Historical Swords Weigh?
Swords for killing people really didn’t weigh much at all. Even the big ones.
CNN.com – With shovels, AOL looks for retribution
I think we should ALL dig up the yards of spammers. Makes AOL look pretty piratical though…
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August 31st, 2006 at 7:16 pm
Sorry, but i have to speak up here. I think that the post on alcohol and your comments on it are wrong.
I know plenty of people who’ve grown up in homes that discourage drinking and they started drinking. I also know of people who grew up in homes that encouraged drinking and therefore didn’t drink.
I also know plenty of people fit into other categories here. Perhaps there is some merit to it but from experience I can say that the article hasn’t got it together.
If anything there needs to be more communication between parents and kids. There needs to be some lets say experimenting within a responsible framework.
Sorry, if i’ve gotten fired up but i hate the attitude in the comment dude. It shows lack of understanding. I just hope that one day your kids don’t go what I went through.
August 31st, 2006 at 7:26 pm
Hey Sim,
did you read the article?
It was saying there is a correlation between a parents attitude and a kids likelihood of drinking. There are other factors at play here too.
Just because a parent disapproves of a child drinking doesn’t mean they will automatically go and drink themselves stupid, nor does it mean they will never touch a drop.
My comment was more in regard to parents I have heard say that their kids don’t pay attention to them anyway, so they may as well let them do whatever they want.
I also know people in both categories. The article was talking about a likelihood – not a guarantee of the kids actions.
September 3rd, 2006 at 11:04 am
I love the Pluto milk carton!
My mom told us that if we wanted to have a drink, just ask her and she would give us something to try. She herself would only have one drink on rare occasions. Her theory was that disallowing completely would encourage rebellion. She wanted to be present for any experimentation. Not that she would have thrown a kegger either, you know? She would not have provided alcohol for anyone else’s kids. I think she was pretty smart.
She also bought us cigarettes when we were in grade school and were talking about how cool certain brands of cigarettes were. Then made us smoke one. It sure cured me!