Publicity stunt. Avert eyes and walk past quickly.

Our most significant decision for frugal living was to forego the luxury of having a large family. We drive old but well maintained vehicles usually with only liability insurance coverage. We do not seek medical care except for life-threatening,occupation-threatening, or serious illnesses or injuries. Higher education is a community college or state university. Those are the major things.

If I recall correctly, the book mentioned above advocates putting hot sauce in child's mouth.

Skill set Networking as in meeting and mixing with people in your field of work Rage as in "It's all the rage."

Thanks! I wondered if it could be frozen in the husk. Now if I could just find it for 5 cents an ear again in this lifetime.

FWIW, I just toss the corn on the cob into a freezer ziploc bag without the blanching step. We have never fallen ill from eating the boiled corn that was previously frozen.

I would select something dressier but keep it simple.

I am a resolutely private person who is perpetually surprised by personal information people share on a large internet forum, but I do sometimes experience a voyeuristic entertainment, and sometimes empathy, from reading such posts. My standards for posting about issues are quite simple: would I want to read that information posted about me on an internet forum. The answer is usually no. That could explain my low post count. I would not want to be defined by low points in life, and neither would my husband, children, relatives, or friends.

I do not know if it is considered abuse, but putting noxious substances in a foster's child mouth is prohibited in my state.

Seems to me that those who are moved to "slap a kid's butt" get more riled up than those who just remove the kid, redirect the kid, or if kid is at age of reason talk to kid.

Yes but the those replies this time around appear to be written in what would be considered a somewhat more authentic manner.

I believe that both humans and other animals can often sense volatility and/or hostility kept under wraps to keep up social appearances. I do not believe that it is a sixth sense but just garden-variety animal instinct. With all the buzz in our world, it can be difficult at times to tune in to our animal instinct. I would trust strong instinctive reactions in both people and canines.

It would be an unexcused absence at our local public high school unless it was a school sponsored group outing, but I assume the student is aware of the rules of his school. The letter is adequate.

The problem probably will resolve itself whenever she finds her passion in life.

I truly thought that bare bottomed spanking was confined to adult erotic practices. I was surprised to learn differently.

Overall the violent crime rate has dropped dramatically since mid 1990s.

I voted "other" because your poll did not have the choice for government involvement when local ordinances are being violated.

I thought you said in earlier thread that the hotel made an exception for you. Generally only four people are allowed in a 2 bed hotel room. Not sure about suite hotels.

Upon reading letter, I probably would have rolled my eyes and introduced the girls to smart humor. It sounds like nothing more than a stupid harmless prank not really worthy of excitement or drama. Let it go. No need to breathe life back into it by meeting with other mothers to discuss it. Be polite but not solicitous of the offended mother.

I see no problem in replying only to the original post, so I guess I do not need to add the qualifier that I have not read all other posts in thread.

Only one color - somewhere in between beige and off-white.

Secrets between spouses are seldom a good thing. It is not your place to decide what your husband can handle. This probably is not the first time fil has been unfaithful so I doubt husband will be as surprised as you expect. Would you want to know if the situation were reversed? Based upon my experience and observation with friends and relatives' adulterous partners, fil will not confess until he knows you have ironclad proof. Even then, he will try to concoct an innocent-sounding cover story.

No. I do not care for everyone knowing and/or discussing my private life. The anonymity and advantages of a large city are far preferable to me.

Project management is a generic term. Aubrey, what field is he studying in? Construction project management? Someone who has managed apartment building projects would be wasting time to apply for information technology project management.