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  1. You leave stuff under the shopping cart and forget to put it in your vehicle and you don't remember it until hours later? I forgot the box of diapers at Target. Dh will check in on his way home from youth to see if someone returned them. Highly unlikely though.

  2. It shouldn't. People have said over and over that they don't consider it murder because they don't consider it a human being yet. You acting like it's a fact that it is is what really astounds me.

    If it isn't a human being than what is it? It comes out as a human being but it isn't a human being in utero? Hmmm, never did understand that leap in logic. I've also never understood the argument that the baby doesn't have a right to life because it can't survive outside the uterus. Even when the baby is born at full term it still can't survive on its own unless an adult cares for it. It stills need an adult to survive whether in or out of utero.

     

    What bothers me is that when you get right down to it, the government has decided that the baby has no right to life as long it is in utero. What the government grants, the government can take away, for anyone. Such a slippery slope indeed.

  3. Quoting Ginsburg: 

     

    "The ability of women to participate equally in the economic and social life of the Nation has been facilitated by their ability to control their reproductive lives."

     

    And they can, just not on someone else's dime.  People also don't have to have sex either.  Yes, i know, an unpopular opinion.  After all we are sexual creatures and all that.  Although I don't think anyone has ever died from not having sex.  We are not rutting animals in heat that have to have sex whenever the mood strikes us.  Being a responsible adult may mean declining to have sex to prevent conception.

  4. Be careful with punishment. The most restrictive punishments can cause rebellion, and a complete disregard for rules and consequences. The people I know who are the strictest tend to have the most problems with behavior in their children. The stricter they get, the worse the behaviors get.

    And this is what my husband and I were concerned about. We did not want to make the rebellion worse. It was always a balancing act. Never knowing if we were doing the right thing. Always second guessing ourselves. So when my son told me that we should have been stricter I just wanted to bang my head against the wall. Honestly, I don't know if it would have helped. My son seems to think it would have. In the end there is no right way. It is whatever you and your husband feel will help the most.

  5. Well, my son did the same thing, sneaking and hiding phones so he could talk to his girlfriend. I would find them of course. Fast forward a couple of years and this same son said we weren't strict enough and trusted him too easily, too soon. I told him we were afraid of being too strict because we also wanted to preserve the relationship and not push him away. He told me I should not have worried about that. He said he would have responded to firmer/ harsher consequences. So, don't know if that perspective helps you or not. Take it for what it is worth.

  6. We do 30 hour road trips yearly to the east coast. We do it in three days even with kids and babies. We don't like to waste time on the road. We have also done the trip between Edmonton and Winnipeg in a day. I prefer to do the driving. It makes the trip go faster.

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