Welcome to the parenting and family conference.  Here we discuss
life with young people.  Feel free to enter your "cute kid" stories, your
observations and tips about keeping life within the family moving smoothly,
your questions, philosophies, and whatever else crosses your mind...

67 responses total.

I am both a parent as well as a step-parent.  Step-parenting is hard, and a
social worker told me it takes on the average 5 years for a step-parent to
be accepted as a parent.  Does anyone else feel this is or is not true?

(Sounds like a good item topic.)

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hi I am new and I just learned about responding. I am a "younger set"
so this seemed like it would be a good confrence for me.

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I still am a kid, I'm a teenager.  I like leetle kids if they ain't brats.

I'm over thirty "Never trust anyone over thirty." :) And I'm still a kid.

Everbody's still a kid, ifin they wanna be.

ye-yeah.

I'm trying to stay a kid as long as I can, and in college dorms-
that ain't hard.  Plus- I adore little kids, most of the time.

Most, until they're bratty is what it is for me.

and what should be done when they become bratty, oh wise vidar?

I don't know.  I don't have kids of my own, though I do know how
to handle my bratty young cousins.

weeeeel?

Well what?  That's a deep subject for my shallow mind.

methinks the lad suspects a trap. rats!

So... You did have one set.
<vidar wonders if Kami is saying "Curses!  Foiled Again," or not.>

And now I know what lay at the other end of thine trap.

<cain wonders how shallow vidar
's mind is.>

no, no! get that peep away from me! aaaagh!

<vidar shoots the peep, ventilating it's tiny inedible marshmallow head>
"Is it dead yet?"

Nope, not yet, try again!

<vidar takes his Napalm gun from his back pack, slings it over his shoulder
and fries the peep the a crisp.  A cartoon version of a peep devil appears
and descends into the bowels of the underworld.>

ah, that's better <grin>

good.  Anyone for char broiled peep burgers?

<cain wonders why peep even exist>
<cain wonders what sick mind could have invented something as disguting as
the peep>

a five-year-old, of course!

Are you implying something implausable here?

no. almost all 5-year-olds like disgusting things, especially sweet ones.

Yes.  But that was in response to cain's question about what foul mind
could have created such a thing as a peep.  Not like to eat one, <gag>
or was that somehow what you meant?  I tell ya, if I ever catch one of
my kids (if I have kids) watching something like Barney, I'll shoot
the set.

don't knock the power of the stupidly insipid.  It's perfect if you're two.

I, personally, don't have a problem with the show.  I'm just showing a "go
with the flow," attitude.

I think I have *peep* on the blade of my knife!

oh, no- get it off quick, lest it corupt/corrode it for ever!

<vidar washes his knife blade>

<cain wonders what vidar used to wash his knife with>

rot-gut whiskey would seem the natural solvent for such pollution.

Yum!

I hope you aren't plannig to usse that knife on anything that anyone will eat,
it might be contaminated!!

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