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Says her, it’s all about nurture trumping medicinal bandaids:
From the time their children are born, French parents provide them with a firm cadre—the word means “frame” or “structure.” Children are not allowed, for example, to snack whenever they want. Mealtimes are at four specific times of the day. French children learn to wait patiently for meals, rather than eating snack foods whenever they feel like it. French babies, too, are expected to conform to limits set by parents and not by their crying selves. French parents let their babies “cry it out” if they are notsleeping through the night at the age of four months.
Brooks Laich getting some tips from John Smoltz before throwing the first pitch at the Orioles game tonight.
Best headline you will see today.
A couple leaving from Los Angeles were supposed to fly to Dakar, Senegal via Istanbul. Instead they ended up in Dhaka, Bangladesh nearly seven thousand miles away.
So stop bitching about being held on the tarmac at LaGuardia for 3 hours.
This arrived today, a 21-track concert recording from 1989’s Green tour. And for a bit I was a jackass kid on the lawn at Merriweather Post Pavilion all over again. They played two nights in Maryland. The first was miserable: It rained the whole time, and I was there with a group that included some girl who never paid me any mind. The second was glorious: The rain was gone, the girl was not there, and someone made a huge bonfire in the middle of the lawn that attracted much fun and eventually cops as well. And sometime late that night/early the next morning I got to hang out with Tanya Donelly, hours after Throwing Muses opened the show.
I used to be one of those kids who hated when old people would hear some song and time warp back to another place, and then ramble on for forever. But there is a reason for it kid: Those times were a blast. And you never really even realized it when it was happening. Sometimes it takes a song to remember.
To boldly go where no furry, adorable blue monster has gone before.
LONDON (AP) — More than a decade ago, British parents refused to give measles shots to at least a million children because of a vaccine scare that raised the specter of autism. Now, health officials are scrambling to catch up and stop a growing epidemic of the contagious disease.
Turns out taking medical advice from Dr. Jenny McCarthy instead of your pediatrician might not have been a wise move.
Canada is just asking us to go to war.
The next logical step following the trend of revitalizing our cities.
