I shed a 170-lb monkey off my back in 1.5 years using hardcore prescription drugs (380 --> 210). AMA. : IAmA Parenting, Pregnancy, Baby Names, Online Parenting Articles & Mo 5 Things I Learned as a Mormon Polygamist Wife Polygamy has been around for as long as marriage has been a thing -- anyone talking about "traditional" marriage has to admit that tradition has often involved one dude with half a dozen women doing a rotation through his bed. Of course, when you hear about polygamy these days you automatically start thinking of a creepy cult situation -- there just aren't that many well-meaning, equality-minded folks out there looking to start a harem. Yet, the world is full of women who are either in this situation right now or just recently got out. #5. ll Davenport/Hemera/Getty Images There's no courting for fundamentalist Mormon kids. Via Wikipedia Or maybe this: George Frey/Getty Images News/Getty Images Or, in my case, this: If that wink doesn't make you queasy, your stomach is defective. ... is the sole arbiter of your sexual future. Jupiterimages/Stockbyte/Getty ImagesAs opposed to a lot of girls for whom cootie catchers might as well be a legally binding contract. Well, most don't. #4. #3. Or not ...
Parenting: Raise Independent Children One of your most important goals as a parent is to raise children who become independent and self-reliant people. Certainly, in early development, your children count on you. As infants, they rely on you for nourishment, cleaning, and mobility. As your children grow, they become more independent in these basic areas of living, but still depend on you for love, protection, guidance, and support. As your children reach adolescence and move toward adulthood, they become less reliant on you and gain greater independence in all aspects of their lives. Contingent children are dependent on others for how they feel about themselves. Depend on others to provide them with incentive to achieve. Depend on others for their happiness because they have no ownership of their lives and little responsibility for their own thoughts, emotions, and actions. Reinforced with inappropriate rewards and no limits, and regardless of their behavior. Parents use extrinsic rewards appropriately and sparingly.
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Research and Advocacy | Alliance for Childhood Mapping the City | Somerset House | Exhibitions Time Out says Posted: Tue Dec 23 2014 You don't need to walk the streets of a city to get a feel for it, and this exhibition of cartographic representations will allow you a glimpse of how more than 50 internationally recognised artists from the graffiti and street art scenes view the home towns they use as their canvas. Don't expect updated versions of Google Maps – this collection of newly commissioned and existing artworks contains some highly abstract interpretations of the traditional town map. Due to the nature of their professions the artists see (and use) urban landscapes in unusual ways, and have presented their subjective surveys using digital technologies, illustration, sculpture, paintings, video presentations and even performances. What do you think? Join in and have your say
How Children Learn Bravery in an Age of Overprotection In the spring of 2008, Lenore Skenazy, a resident of Queens in New York City, left her 9-year-old son off at Bloomingdale's in midtown Manhattan, in the middle of a sunny Sunday, gave him a handful of quarters, $20 for emergencies, a map, a Metrocard, and a kiss (I assume) and said he could go home himself. To do so he would have to take the subway and a bus, on a route he had taken many times before with his mom. When he got home he was pleased as punch. Lenore, who was then a columnist for the , wrote a column about it. Now, I don't mean to one-up Lenore—whom I got to know and admire at a conference where we both spoke—in the America's worst parent department, BUT.... We hesitated about saying yes, "not because of your age," we explained, "but because of your diabetes." To all this, he said, in essence: "I'll always have diabetes. We said, "OK." He spent the rest of that spring and all summer working and earning all the money he needed for the trip.
Population - Anno 1404 Wiki Introduction Population is a measure of how many people live in your current game. The total number of inhabitants worldwide is given in the lower-left corner of the screen. You can left-click on the population total to display how many people of each civilization class live in your world. Population is also broken down per-island. Population levels You can also check what population size your city is by left-clicking on an island warehouse (not market buildings). A display in the upper-right corner of the screen will show what population level your city has reached, but confusingly this display only shows eight total ranks, since it skips the first two "Small Settlement" levels. Skipping the first two ranks from the above chart, the eight ranking symbols represent Settlement, Village, Small Town, City, Major City, Commercial Center, Metropolis, and Cosmopolitan City. Civilization levels Anno 1404 makes a distinction between the terms "population" and "civilization." Advancement Taxes Needs
Morgan Leichter-Saxby A Poor Imitation of Alan Turing by Christian Caryl I’ve been fascinated by the computer science pioneer Alan Turing ever since I came across the remarkable account of his life written by the British mathematician and gay rights activist Andrew Hodges in 1983. The moment of publication was no accident, for two reasons. First, by the early 1980s the story of Turing’s wartime efforts to break Nazi codes had receded just far enough in time to overcome the draconian security restrictions that had prevented it from being told. Second, gay rights campaigners in Europe and the US were enjoying some of their first big successes in breaking through long-standing discrimination. Suddenly it became possible not only to celebrate Turing’s enormous contribution to Allied victory in the war but also to tell the story of his 1952 conviction and subsequent punishment on charges of homosexuality (still a criminal offense in Great Britain at the time), followed by his death, at the age of forty-one, two years later.
Rethinking Childhood Post #1197090 You spend your life fighting depression; it's the default human condition. The shit we buy, the people we hang around with, fuck and even love are just means to an end, a way to stave off the crushing loneliness that is to be alone and unloved. We buy into the idea of happiness as portrayed by the mass media, that happiness is found through social engagement, through the expenditure of the money we earn working for multi-millionaires that don't know us, don't care.