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How my mother’s fanatical feminist views tore us apart — Rebecca Walker, UK Mail Online

‘Meanest Mom on the Planet’ — Jim Addison, Wizbang

Don’t Suffer the Little Children: A father of four explains the realist approach to parenting
— Tony Woodlief, OpinionJournal

Mom should take over running school’s discipline effort
Overton, ZeroIntelligence

Rings — Mopsy, Lifenut

I smoked my last cigarette on our wedding day, just over ten years ago…

A local story with sad national resonance: how to damage your own candidacy — Austin Bay

Careers and Marriage – Forbes.com

Forbes.com published a story Aug. 22 by editor Michael Noer on two-career relationships that provoked a heated response from both outside and inside our building. Elizabeth Corcoran, a member of our Silicon Valley bureau and principal author of the magazine’s current cover story on robots, sent in [a] rebuttal.

Unplugging Your Kids – Kimberly S. Johnson, Denver Post

“A device from a Boulder company uses a shut-off timer to limit children’s use of TVs, computers and video games.” See also: The website for this device — usebob.com

Hello and Goodbye – Marla Swoffer, Always Thirsty

Avoiding Millstones – Tulipgirl

A news article about a mother murdering her child in a fit of rage reminds TG of an article that exhorts parents to check themselves before they check their children.

IMs: What’s a Mother to Do? – Ruth Marcus, Washington Post (use BMN)

“Big Brother, meet Big Mother”

Abstinence works every time its tried

Officials in Uganda are doing it right. In encouraging abstinence, they are slowing the spread of AIDS in their country. Sadly, truth-suppressors are trying to keep this knowledge from those who need it the most.