That happened to me frequently between the ages of 10 and 19. It was migraines. I outgrew it (the fainting, not the headaches, unfortunately). See a doctor to make sure, but chances are that's what it is. It's common in girls, but my husband had the same symptoms as a teen and it was also migraines.

Me too. I am not kidding. I am glad to hear that other people have these problems because I thought there was something dreadfully wrong with my 11 yr old.

I had no idea homeboy was from hombre! I thought it meant someone from "back home", i.e. your hometown or neighborhood.

Ted rhymes with bed and Teddy sounds like beddy to me. I am trying to say meh ree but it either comes out mary or ends up sounding like the r is getting rolled.

There is a car in my neighborhood with a "Shiva is my Om boy" bumper sticker. At least the people with the Jesus clutter are mostly Christian. The Hindu clutter people are almost never Hindu.

I say "meh" then I say "ree" and it still sounds like mary

The only alternative I can possibly conceive is that you're pronouncing ferry like furry and curry. Murry Christmas?

Scary rhymes with cherry. Really. Like berry, marry, hairy, prairie.

So confused. Mary sounds like Merry and rhymes with Fairy which sounds like Ferry. Which, incidentally, sounds like Carrie, which I can't manage to pronounce with the "a" as in apple. What gets me is people who give their kids a common name but pronounce it wrong and then correct everyone else. Don't spell it "Mike" if you want it pronounced "Meekah" (unless you're actually from another country where it really is pronounced that way). My mom wanted to name me Laura but my dad kept pronouncing it Lora even though his name is Lawrence, which does not sound like Lorrence. Go figure. So they named me Aisling, which I just go ahead and spell Ashleen for people online so they don't call me Ass-sling.

You too? I always bristle when strangers touch me.

I think having a well-educated population is never worthless (then again, I don't think future income is the best reason to be educated).

A portion of your income is withheld from your checks for the purpose of paying taxes. If, when you file, you don't owe that money to the government after all, you receive it back. It was your money all along. The self-employed poor do not get a refund.

Not at all. However all of our personal choices are political choices in some way, even when we don't think of them that way.

To me, discipline involves setting rules and boundaries and talking honestly with kids about the fact that choices have consequences and that our life consists of those consequences (something no one told me when I was young and it floored me when I heard it for the first time as an adult -- I honestly thought life was something that happens to you that you have little control over. I don't want my kids to grow up thinking that). Punishment is when you're mad and you want to get back at whoever made you mad. Discipline is for the sake of the child; punishment is for the sake of revenge.

I read an article about this one time. It has to do with air: you cream the butter to get air into it but over mixing it forces all the air out and makes them flat.