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By adamg - 9/7/06 - 1:52 pm

Meredith grumps:

... I don't take kindly to manipulation, particularly when one of my kids is sent home from school with a 22-page student handbook (it's on 8 1/2 by 11-inch paper), and the child is told that if one parent reads the whole thing aloud to the student, has both of them sign it and then returns the signature page to class the very next day, the child will get a chance to win a prize. ...

By adamg - 9/7/06 - 8:16 am

C.C. Chapman reports on his daughter's first day at school and says it was hard - for him. She kept telling me to smile, but it was awfully hard to do.

By adamg - 9/6/06 - 10:31 am

Susan Senator discovers another circle of hell:

We think of the traditional Hell, of Christian fame, as being a place of orange and red flames. Well, was it? Dante saw it differently. His version of the very lowest point, the worst place in Hell, was pure ice, a place where one became frozen, where all movement and growth ceased to exist.

Hell is neither orange flames, nor frozen ice. Hell is going to Staples at the beginning of September ...

By adamg - 9/4/06 - 11:21 am

Berto has been chronicling the Globe's recent obsession with helicopter parents - you know, parents who get too involved in their kids' lives at college (yes, because that NEVER happened when I was in college).

The Globe hovers over the issue again today, with a column by Barbara Meltz on why helicopter parents need to back off.

By adamg - 8/28/06 - 5:34 pm

I just told my daughter: "OK, I never thought I'd have to say this to you but: If everybody else threw themsleves off a cliff, would you?"

To which she grudgingly admitted "No," before starting in again on why it's just not fair she has to wear a helmet if she wants to ride her bike: "Nobody else does!"

By adamg - 8/26/06 - 11:33 am

[Cue shower music from "Psycho"] Kelly photographs the note she found inside her refrigerator this morning.

By adamg - 8/22/06 - 5:30 pm

Emily Hill offers up a list, including:

... There is a drum circle and organic carrot cake at the one-year-old's birthday down the street. ...

By adamg - 8/19/06 - 9:23 am

Margaret wonders when it became OK to spend $900 on a baby stroller:

... Suddenly Bugaboo strollers are popping up all over Somerville. My first CAR didn't cost much more than that. I used to only see them on beautifully coiffed women on Charles Street, but suddenly normal people are pushing them around. ...

By adamg - 8/17/06 - 5:47 pm

I don't remember why I'd started to head upstairs this morning. Because when I got to the stairs, I heard two things: A crying kid about to go hysterical and what sounded like a fountain.

By adamg - 8/7/06 - 9:11 pm

Carpundit proposes a punishment for the Houghton's Pond lifeguards who allegedly wouldn't give CPR to the little kid:

... Dismissal is too easy a punishment. The article was optimistic about the child's prognosis, so I'll assume a full recovery. In which case the lifeguard(s) should be pilloried, flogged, and then dismissed.

By John S Sr - 8/3/06 - 11:47 pm

My wife and I just returned from our summer vacation but not before she insisted on a trip to Barnes and Noble in order to augment her supply of summer eading materials. We are new to the "empty nest" situation but have lost little time in adapting to our new lifestyle. I was intigued by one of my wife's selections written by a Mr. Paul Ruditis. This particular tome introduced me to an altogether new meaning to the phrase "rainbow party." The unfortunate reality is that when I googled the phrase, it confirmed a suspicion harbored by my wife and I for the last 5 or 6 summers.

By adamg - 7/31/06 - 11:05 pm

Blahdiblogger starts a changing-table guide, beginning with Carberry's in Harvard Square:

... They do not have a specifically-purposed changing table, but their large, one-person women's room has a convenient piece of furniture that is at hip height and approximately the right size. ...

By adamg - 7/30/06 - 10:03 am

Borderline takes you on a virtual kidscursion of the Harbor Islands.

By adamg - 7/22/06 - 9:33 am

Michelle witnesses a nuclear meltdown at the Framingham town beach:

... I guess this girl was told to stop doing something and she kept doing it so a lifeguard shouted for her to stop. Then the mother came stomping onto the docks and yelled "Hey! You don't yell at my child like that, OKAY?” and the lifeguard explained that the girl had kept doing something she's not supposed to and the mom (now accompanied by her friend who was chiming in too) said "You don't yell at my child okay?? You have no right to yell at her! I'm the one that gave birth to her - OKAY?" ...

By adamg - 7/20/06 - 8:52 am

Margalit learns that sometimes it's a lot easier to put your hand down a garbage disposal than get it back out:

... My hand is still very wedged in the disposal, and the sink is hanging off my arm. They try taking the disposal apart, piece by piece, but eventually they get to the realization that the only way this sucker is coming off my hand is if they saw it off. With an electric saw. A loud buzzing power saw. Cutting through metal with my bare hand underneath. ...

By adamg - 7/19/06 - 3:41 pm

Erika-Renee is posting notes from the hospital where her infant son, Sammy, is, right now, undergoing his second open-heart procedure to correct a series of congenital heart defects.

By adamg - 7/6/06 - 4:27 pm

Last week, Alison found herself basically locked in her house while police blockaded her neighborhood because some kid blew up a large pipe bomb.

Turns out the kid was merely enjoying a hobby he'd picked up from his dad:

By adamg - 6/28/06 - 9:36 pm

Police report a boy, 23 months, was taken Monday evening to Boston Medical Center suffering cardiac arrest; he was pronounced dead at the hospital.

By adamg - 6/26/06 - 11:02 pm

Political Intelligence has the scoop: Jarrett Barrios has thrown in the (incredibly sticky and gooey) towel and abandoned his anti-Fluff initiative.

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