We had a black and white TV until I was 6 or 7, when a lightening strike took out our TV. My much older cousin was due to visit, so my mother and I went and bought a color TV since she wasn't sure what to do with a teenage boy. As a child and teen, I watched a great many TV shows. Some because my father watched them, some because my brother watched them, and plenty more on my own. Mister Rogers Hogan's Heroes MASH 60 Minutes weekly Disney movie Bugs Bunny Bewitched I Dream of Jeannie Mighty Mouse The Love Boat Smurfs Brady Bunch and later Miami Vice Misfits of Science Moonlighting Guiding Light Star Trek Next Generation afterschool specials movies and many more My parents had a little TV in their bedroom which they occasionally let us watch and we got a VCR when I was 12 and started recording things to watch. We got cable when I was a teen and I started watching old movies from the 40s. When I moved out and got married, my 1st husband had a small black and white TV and we watched little. My parents gave us the color TV they bought when I was little and I watched talk shows and Beverly Hillbillies and Homefront. Then I started watching Highlander. Then we got rid of the TV, so I watched none at home, but always seemed to catch Silk Stalkings when we went on trips and stayed in motels. We moved into an apartment that came with cable and got a TV, but I don't remember what I watched. I caught a few episodes of Friends. Moved out of that apartment and just watched tapes for a few years. After my divorce, I watched whatever was on. I don't remember much. After we started watching DVDs and then streaming video on the internet Babylon 5 Highlander Farscape Firefly Chuck Heroes Leverage Sanctuary Stargate SG1, Atlantis, Universe Doctor Who Torchwood Earth 2 Legend of the Seeker Battlestar Galactica (new) Caprica Rome Lost And many from bygone years Airwolf Battlestar Galactica (old) Dukes of Hazard Miami Vice Quantum Leap Bewitched I watch and watched way too much TV, this list doesn't begin to cover it all. Especially when you add in movies watch on TV or internet or DVD/video tape.

My parents show obvious preference for my brother, as they always have. I am the girl, though, and they talk to me more often and I am the one they talk to about important topics most of the time. My husband's parents are worse, his sister is the very obvious favorite. His father spends time doing things with her husband and not with his own sons, and not because they couldn't do the same things with him.

1. We have no television. 2. Currently, because when we moved we chose not to take our television, it was old and we never used it anymore anyway. I first had no TV 18 years ago. Got a TV with built-in VCR after a couple of years and at that point I lived in an apartment complex that included cable, so I had cable for about 6 months. Then, I had the TV and VCR and rented tapes from Blockbuster for about 5 years. DH had cable and a TV when I moved in with him 10 years ago, but we got rid of the cable when it went digital about 1 year later. Over the years, we had a VCR and a DVD player (which died). When the DVD player dies, we switched to watching DVDs on the computer and discovered television shows on the computer. I am not sure how TV free I consider this, but I do not consider us to be completely TV free now, which I did when we had a TV and almost never rented videos to watch them.

I grew up in Florida and I am definitely neither peppy nor outgoing.

I scrub the dishes with the scrubby side of a yellow sponge with green scrubby stuff on the back prior to either putting them in the dishwasher or washing them with a dishcloth. My DH thinks it is silly to wash the dishes before washing them, but I cannot stand a sink full of mucky dishwater. And he wants to use one of those brushes you can put dishsoap into.

They had to attend all those balls and soirees that ran into the wee hours and ate supper there. And then they didn't get up until late morning!

It has been one of my pet peeves since my 3.5 year old was first walking. Once he discovered the computers in the children's department (which in that library, were at the very back), he would not do anything else. He was never signed in to play the games, but he liked to move the mouse and "type" on the keyboard. The library we use now has about a dozen computers that go through the middle of the children's department. You can see the first of them when you enter. They recently purchased new peripherals and headphones that are more child attracting than ever. They have games and internet access. I have not ever let my son sign in to use them, but he wants to. It has taken until now for him to be able to resist sitting down and messing with the mouse and keyboard even though I have told him no every time. I wish they would go away. Then again, I also dislike the internet access computers for adults at the library. Most of those people would never enter a library if it weren't for these computers and they are taking up parking and resources that people who use libraries for their intended use then can't use.

When I was 10, my parents sold their car and we got my grandparents' old car. When I was 12, I thought it was terribly embarrassing to be seen getting in it (to the point that I was glad I rode the bus, so most days no one saw it).

I want to comment on this. When I took geometry in high school, we had a student teacher for the second semester. I got A's on all my tests the first semester and flunked the second semester. This was due to having a different teacher, I did not do any more or less homework/studying at any point during the year (which is to say, I did none).

In an older Miss Manners book, she says that the "old-fashioned" thing to do is to put unmarried couples in separate rooms and ignore nocturnal traffic.

We almost always stayed home for the holidays when I was a child. When I was very young, we lived near enough to one set of grandparents to day trip to them and I think we spent holidays at their house then. When we moved away from them, the other set of grandparents came to us at Christmas every year. One year when I was a teen we went to the first grandmother's home for Thanksgiving. That is the only real travel I recall during holidays.

No idea.

I will teach my son to use the comma, regardless of what the curriculum says. I was taught to use it and I was also taught that not having it is also correct.

I apparently live in a different musical universe from everyone else. I have never heard of most of the music the rest of you like.:001_smile: I don't think we own any of these anymore, they were mostly tapes and we have no tape player. Madonna Like a Virgin Motley Crue Too Fast for Love Whitesnake Whitesnake Quiet Riot Metal Health Ratt Out of Cellar And I mean the albums released in the '80s, not re-releases. And that dates me pretty well. DH's are a little different from mine. He says to mention that he likes many types of music, just not entire albums of other kinds. Slayer Seasons in the Abyss White Zombie Astro Creep 2000 Nine Inch Nails Pretty Hate Machine Judas Priest Screaming for Vengeance Grand Magus Monument

I would also like to find some good Thanksgiving picture books for my preschooler.

We are not Christian and we limit our child's exposure to popular culture. Our problem is our desire to listen to music and watch television and movies. Our son is only three so it is all on us as the parents.

I have a 3 year old boy. I started to put him on the potty when he pooped (he had obvious signs and wanted to be held while he pooped) when he was just turned 2. He would only pee in the potty occasionally. If I left him naked, he would pee on the floor and tell me he peed. This continued until after his 3rd birthday. Suddenly, when I left him naked, he would not pee on the floor and would go to the potty with me and use it to pee. Sometimes he will tell me when he has to go to the potty, but usually I must remind him/take him. He has accidents when we go to play at the playground no matter how frequently I take him to the bathroom there (and he uses the toilet there, so that is not the issue). I have him in training underwear to catch the accidents (and always have extra pants). I do not understand why people think that you need to put a child back in diapers who is potty trained with reminders just because you have to tell him to go to the bathroom.

A W will have no effect on his GPA.

Wikipedia says that Matilda was a descendant of Alfred the Great.

I am an introvert and I am more likely to talk to people in person than post on a forum online.

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Different states are different. The state my DH was divorced in bases child support on the NCP's income and other children he/she may be paying support for and nothing else.

If it were me, I would let him do what he does this summer. If he wants to graduate this year, he will finish the class and project. If he wants to work at camp, he will have to do what needs to be done to make that happen. And if he doesn't go to NM, take him to WI because he is a part of the family. Don't remind, don't nag, in fact, don't mention anything about the future. ETA: And your DH should not talk to him about these things either if he will cooperate.

I have changed my own tire. The biggest problem is getting the lug nuts unscrewed. They are usually too tight for me to do it, so I would prefer to call someone to take care of it.

My only child is nearly three and I have been reading the WTM boards for nearly ten years and I just decided to register today. Helen