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  • Posted by $ 25n56il4 10 months, 2 weeks ago
    My little darling at 10 months of age weighed 30 pounds and had been walking since he was 7 months old. I weighed in at a bouncing 118 pounds. Put a pencil on that. His little sweaty hands were extremely slippery. I got thumbs up from the older generation and a lot of 'well dones'. Try walking down the 4 lanes of traffic at rush hour...that's a thrill. He is now 61 years old! Proof of good mothering. N
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  • Posted by Eyecu2 10 months, 2 weeks ago
    I personally never put my young ones on a leash and they lived. Yes, I have lived in Houston though mine were all teenagers or older by then.

    I would accept the argument that teenagers need a leash....and maybe even a shock collar as well.
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  • Posted by tutor-turtle 10 months, 2 weeks ago
    God made man. God made women.
    It took millennia for science to find those XY and XX chromosomes (respectively) that positively define who's who in the zoo.
    Then along come the dumbest of all creatures to ever crawl out of the primordial ooze, the Woke,
    who truly believe that God's will can be changed with drugs and cutting off your bits.
    This is the textbook definition of dumb.
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  • Posted by $ allosaur 10 months, 2 weeks ago
    Memory jolt! Recall taking my 2-year-old daughter to a nearby state park. There I was enjoying a picnic also with my future ex and a four-year-old son.
    As we were conversing and eating, I looked just in time to see my toddler toddling as fast she she could straight toward a five-foot-drop into a very shallow creek with stones in it.
    Jumped to my feet and gave chase, yelling for her to stop. Daughter just giggled and kept toddling away! Whee!
    I manged to intercept her just two feet from the rim. She just laughed and laughed in the meantime. What fun!
    Yeah, I wish I had a leash that day.
    Now my only daughter is the mother of two daughters and sells delicious cakes that she bakes at home. I'm not going to ask if she reports profits to the IRS. She is all grown up and that is none of my business.
    As for business, government intrusion and the filling out of forms is why my ex said she shut down a bakery business she started in a rented shop after only a year.
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    • Posted by $ gharkness 10 months, 2 weeks ago
      My five year old son was enjoying a lovely day with me, his sister and my ex at the Brackenridge Zoo in San Antonio. I turned to look at something for half a second and turned back to see him halfway up the fence to the polar bear enclosure.

      I am absolutely certain that however old I get to be, I'd have lived ten years longer than that, had it not been for that little caper. I've always been in favor of a leash, but for some reason never felt like I "needed" one until that day. And yes, his teen years were even worse.....much of which I still don't know and beg him not to tell me.

      We celebrated his fiftieth birthday last week.
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    • Posted by $ Snezzy 10 months, 2 weeks ago
      Government forms: My dear mother, the wife and "captive bookkeeper" (her term) of my father and his small business, received a huge questionnaire from the Small Business Administration. It was somehow required by law. She wondered how she could afford the time and effort to deal with it. I asked her, "Does it require truthfulness on pain of perjury?" She said, "No, it does not." I suggested she answer it however she felt best, not worrying about details.

      We now get similar intrusive requests from the USDA. Can you spell i_g_n_o_r_e ?
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      • Posted by $ allosaur 10 months, 2 weeks ago
        That's what I spell to ignore all email "chip in" and almost all snail mail donation requests. Me dino never donates with exposed plastic card numbers.
        Donating to all of them thar "chip ins" would surely lead to homelessness and holding up a "chip in" sign along some interstate's exit ramp. .
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  • Posted by term2 10 months, 1 week ago
    Given that a 2 year old is still learning about whats dangerous and what isn't, a leash is not so bad an idea. Particularly given they can get into trouble in literally seconds unless watched very closely ALL the time.
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