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We've never spanked our daughter because I thought it was hypocritical to say something like 'don't hit' and then turn around and spank her. She tried hitting when she was a toddler, but I just firmly held her hand and said 'no' in a voice that told her I wasn't kidding. She didn't like that and soon quit trying to hit. We've never yelled at her either, because I think that's also damaging to a kid and that it gives up some of your parental authority. (Stooping to their level, and all that) Thankfully, she's an easy going kid and we've been able to teach her manners and empathy through talking to her and modeling good behavior. I mean, what kid is going to learn to respect them self and others if their parent doesn't respect them?
All great points Liz!
Parental frustration is pretty hard to overcome at times. Just keeping these thoughts in mind can make a difference.
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All great points Liz!
Parental frustration is pretty hard to overcome at times. Just keeping these thoughts in mind can make a difference.
By no means have we been perfect. Parenting is a tough, tough job! /laugh.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='
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By no means have we been perfect. Parenting is a tough, tough job!
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hehe … yes, the joys outweigh the challenges though don't they! /biggrin.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='
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My 15 year old nephew Ross just pitched at Whataburger field.
He is 6'-6" tall and throws a 90 mph fast ball. If there are any major
league scouts that are also ghost hunters give him a look. Leave your
EMF detectors at home and take your K-band radar gun it's a blast
to see the other kids ( batters ) faces when he lets one go !
Man, I am proud of him ! /rolleyes.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':P' />
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My 15 year old nephew Ross just pitched at Whataburger field.
He is 6'-6" tall and throws a 90 mph fast ball. If there are any major
league scouts that are also ghost hunters give him a look. Leave your
EMF detectors at home and take your K-band radar gun it's a blast
to see the other kids ( batters ) faces when he lets one go !
Man, I am proud of him !
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Soooo … he's headed for the Big Leagues???
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Soooo … he's headed for the Big Leagues???
Maybe one day if he's lucky….right now he's headed to the tenth grade. /laugh.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=';)' />
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Maybe one day if he's lucky….right now he's headed to the tenth grade.
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The Dodgers scouted Monkette's little brother when he was in high school. I think he was in 10th or 11th. I think MLB teams can draft 17 year olds. Is he working on other pitches yet? He must have an incredible change up.
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I think this is totally boss: the discovery of Nero's rotating dining room:
Experts In A Spin Over Nero's Rotating Room
11:54am UK, Wednesday September 30, 2009
Nick Pisa in Rome
Archaeologists have uncovered what is believed to be the famous rotating dining room of Roman Emperor Nero.
The 2000-year-old 'coenatio rotunda', as it was known in Latin, was built inside the 1st century palace that Nero built as his home on the Palatine Hill. Experts believe the room was part of his Domus Aurea (or 'Golden House'), and think it is the room described by the ancient historian Suetonius in 'Lives of the Caesars'.
He wrote: ''The chief banqueting room was circular, and revolved perpetually night and day in imitation of the motion of the celestial bodies. ''All the dining rooms had ceilings of fretted ivory, the panels of which could slide back and let a rain of flowers fall on his guests.'' Maria Antonietta Tomei, Rome's archaeological superintendent, said: ''This discovery has no equal among ancient Roman architectural finds.''
The room moved thanks to a complicated feat of Roman civil engineering that involved spheres underneath the room which were powered by canals of water. It is thought the dining room could be up to 180ft in diameter, and researchers have so far uncovered several supporting pillars, one 16ft in diameter. Ms Tomei said that digging work was still going on but what led them to believe it was the famed rotating dining room was the round shape of the building. She added that stone spheres, filled with an unknown material which is yet to be analysed, had also been discovered.
Nero's palace was built after the great fire that destroyed Rome in AD 64. Historians believe that Nero allowed the fire to rage unchecked. Some even suggest he was responsible for the fire, so he could fulfil plans to build his lavish palace. After Nero's suicide in AD 68, the palace was stripped of its marble, jewels and ivory, and it was later filled in and built over. It was eventually rediscovered in the 15th century, after a local fell through the ground and into the remains of the structure.
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The Dodgers scouted Monkette's little brother when he was in high school. I think he was in 10th or 11th. I think MLB teams can draft 17 year olds. Is he working on other pitches yet? He must have an incredible change up.
He's got a wicked curve and a great change up Monk. I've stood in for one of his curve
balls and I didn't find it one bit funny! I'm gettin old. /blink.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':unsure:' />
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He's got a wicked curve and a great change up Monk. I've stood in for one of his curve
balls and I didn't find it one bit funny! I'm gettin old.
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Well, they're not paying you $$$ to endanger yourself so I can see your hesitation!
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"Eagan (MN) police issued a warning Monday to alert residents of evidence of cougars in the area.
Police said, last month officers found what appeared to be cougar feces at the police gun range located at the west end of Yankee Doodle Road near Fort Snelling State Park.
Police said they took two reports from residents who said they saw a cougar in the same area.
A third sighting was reported by a city employee. On October 2, he saw what he believed was a cougar laying in some grass in Blackhawk Park off Murphy Parkway.
Police warned residents to always be aware of their surroundings, supervise children in parks, and keep pets on a leash.
If you encounter a cougar, police suggest making yourself look bigger. Open your jacket or raise your arms. You can also throw rocks at the cougar. Never run away, turn away or bend down."
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"Eagan (MN) police issued a warning Monday to alert residents of evidence of cougars in the area.
Police said, last month officers found what appeared to be cougar feces at the police gun range located at the west end of Yankee Doodle Road near Fort Snelling State Park.
Police said they took two reports from residents who said they saw a cougar in the same area.
A third sighting was reported by a city employee. On October 2, he saw what he believed was a cougar laying in some grass in Blackhawk Park off Murphy Parkway.
Police warned residents to always be aware of their surroundings, supervise children in parks, and keep pets on a leash.
If you encounter a cougar, police suggest making yourself look bigger. Open your jacket or raise your arms. You can also throw rocks at the cougar. Never run away, turn away or bend down."
EEEEKKS!
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Wait, you can't BEND DOWN??? What the heck is that cougar going to do? /ohmy.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':o' />
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Wait, you can't BEND DOWN??? What the heck is that cougar going to do?
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All depends what kind of Cougar it is I guess. /laugh.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='
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All depends what kind of Cougar it is I guess.
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All depends what kind of Cougar it is I guess.
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LOL 'Tis true!
They've disproved the Shroud of Turin, AGAIN. Time to move on people!
New Shroud of Turin Evidence: A Closer Look By Benjamin Radford, LiveScience's Bad Science Columnist
posted: 07 October 2009 10:44 am ET
An Italian scientist and his team claim to have replicated the Shroud of Turin, believed by many to be the burial cloth of Jesus. Luigi Garlaschelli, a professor of chemistry at the University of Pavia, used linen identical to that on the famous shroud, made an impression over a volunteer's face and body, and artificially aged the cloth with heat.
The result is a fabricated shroud that very closely resembles the Shroud of Turin, made with materials and tools available at the time of the shroud's origin. Garlaschelli's reproduction won't, of course, satisfy the true believers. Nor (despite headlines to the contrary) does it conclusively prove that the Shroud of Turin is a fake. It does, however, disprove a claim almost as important: that the image on the shroud is scientifically unexplainable, and could not have been made by human hands.
Of course, just because the Shroud of Turin could have been faked doesn't mean that it was faked. To cast real doubt on the cloth's authenticity, there would have to be other reasons--some corroborative evidence--to think the shroud is a forgery.
In fact, the shroud had previously been carbon dated not to the time of Christ but instead to the 14th century—perhaps not coincidentally about the time when the first record of the burial cloth appears. If the Turin Shroud really is the most important holy relic in history, it seems odd that no one knew of its existence for 1,300 years.
There's another very good reason to suspect that the Shroud of Turin is a fake: the forger admitted it. As Joe Nickell, author of "Relics of the Christ," noted, a document by "Bishop Pierre d'Arcis claimed that the shroud had been 'cunningly painted,' a fact 'attested by the artist who painted it.'" Not only did Bishop d'Arcis attest to knowing that the shroud was a fake in 1390, but even Pope Clement acknowledged the forgery. (The Catholic Church does not officially endorse the shroud as authentic.)
The debate over the Shroud of Turin shows no signs of abating, but Garlaschelli's Shroud of Pavia debunks another claim for its authenticity.
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They've disproved the Shroud of Turin, AGAIN. Time to move on people!
New Shroud of Turin Evidence: A Closer Look By Benjamin Radford, LiveScience's Bad Science Columnist
posted: 07 October 2009 10:44 am ET
An Italian scientist and his team claim to have replicated the Shroud of Turin, believed by many to be the burial cloth of Jesus. Luigi Garlaschelli, a professor of chemistry at the University of Pavia, used linen identical to that on the famous shroud, made an impression over a volunteer's face and body, and artificially aged the cloth with heat.
The result is a fabricated shroud that very closely resembles the Shroud of Turin, made with materials and tools available at the time of the shroud's origin. Garlaschelli's reproduction won't, of course, satisfy the true believers. Nor (despite headlines to the contrary) does it conclusively prove that the Shroud of Turin is a fake. It does, however, disprove a claim almost as important: that the image on the shroud is scientifically unexplainable, and could not have been made by human hands.
Of course, just because the Shroud of Turin could have been faked doesn't mean that it was faked. To cast real doubt on the cloth's authenticity, there would have to be other reasons--some corroborative evidence--to think the shroud is a forgery.
In fact, the shroud had previously been carbon dated not to the time of Christ but instead to the 14th century—perhaps not coincidentally about the time when the first record of the burial cloth appears. If the Turin Shroud really is the most important holy relic in history, it seems odd that no one knew of its existence for 1,300 years.
There's another very good reason to suspect that the Shroud of Turin is a fake: the forger admitted it. As Joe Nickell, author of "Relics of the Christ," noted, a document by "Bishop Pierre d'Arcis claimed that the shroud had been 'cunningly painted,' a fact 'attested by the artist who painted it.'" Not only did Bishop d'Arcis attest to knowing that the shroud was a fake in 1390, but even Pope Clement acknowledged the forgery. (The Catholic Church does not officially endorse the shroud as authentic.)
The debate over the Shroud of Turin shows no signs of abating, but Garlaschelli's Shroud of Pavia debunks another claim for its authenticity.
I'd heard somewhere that Da Vinci was rumored to be the artist….
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I'd heard somewhere that Da Vinci was rumored to be the artist….
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"Eagan (MN) police issued a warning Monday to alert residents of evidence of cougars in the area.
Police said, last month officers found what appeared to be cougar feces at the police gun range located at the west end of Yankee Doodle Road near Fort Snelling State Park.
Police said they took two reports from residents who said they saw a cougar in the same area.
A third sighting was reported by a city employee. On October 2, he saw what he believed was a cougar laying in some grass in Blackhawk Park off Murphy Parkway.
Police warned residents to always be aware of their surroundings, supervise children in parks, and keep pets on a leash.
If you encounter a cougar, police suggest making yourself look bigger. Open your jacket or raise your arms. You can also throw rocks at the cougar. Never run away, turn away or bend down."
EEEEKKS!
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Is this a review of the new Courtney Cox comedy?
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