Topic : 12/26 "I Am Right!"

I was thin as a child ,but my sister was 10-12 lbs 'overweight'.  We never ate junk food and soda 

pop was forbidden. So,it just "was".   My family was incredibly critical and she has food issues 

to this day. FORTY YEARS LATER.    

Cut it out Joyce!  Your daughter is a smart woman. She has the information, she can act or not. 

It's HER child to raise. I know you love your granddaughter,but this is SO none of your business 

after a certain point.   

I agree with Dr. Phil that he is totally right, and although I am younger I am in a similar situation.  I do find it odd that he would have a name in his mind.  I'm only 23 but people around me are always getting married and wondering why I'm not. And I've never had a serious boy friend.  I have gone on some dates, but seriously I could write a book on the losers I've dated. I know that I have time, but it does get discouraging.  I do feel that God is in control of the situation.  Of mine and his.   

Hey BTW I have dark blond hair and blue eyes, but my name is not Sarah.  Sorry, guess I don't fit the bill. 

I do not agree with Dr. Phil's answer in response to the little gir.  Dieting doesn't mean put her on Jennie Craig. It can mean to throw out the cookies, ice cream, cheetoes, etc., and replace it with fruit and a healthy snack.  It is not just a parent's responsibility to raise your kids to be responsible independent adults, but also to teach them to live healthy lives.  

I am a new parent-to-be and have been weighing the pro's and con's of homeschooling.  So far I have found nothing good to public schooling except for the fact that the school would have my child for a few hours so I could work again part-time.   

To begin with I don't even trust the school district here in Central Florida.  When I was young some of my friends were molested in elementary school by a man that would frequently visit the school and play with us and his daughter that was in our class.  He was even head of our Brownie Girl Troop until he was arrested.  Then as I went into middle school I was sent to a Catholic school in the area, where the principal was accused of molesting the young boys in the school.  Since I've left high school there has been a whole chain of child molestations in the elementary and middle schools in the area, including one school that was right down the road from me!  I could never be able to leave a child at school now without fearing the worst. 

Then once you hit high school here its a complete joke.  At one point the school board tried to enforce a very strict dress code to all public schools in the county.  I witnessed countless friends that were suspended and expelled from school because they refused to wear a polo shirt, tuck in their shirts, or wear a belt!!!!  Then as I asked the Deans when the next school board meetings were, but they would never tell me.  Luckily my mother had a friend in the school system so he would personally take me to the meetings about dresscode but I would geting completely dismissed by one man out of six representatives telling me I was wrong when I just made some simple valid points.  Our school was at the bottom of the grading list and yet they were more concerned about whether we had a belt on that day then if we had done our homework.  They even tried to convince me to take a state test a 2nd time! Not because I had failed the first one, but because I had done so well that they wanted me to take it again to bring up their school score!  Of course I flat out refused. 

As far as socializing goes, I already plan on afterschool activities whether it'd be dancing, sports, martial arts, music, anything.  I personally believe that exposing the socializing in hobbies will make the acquantinces more important and the interest more important as well.  Instead of being forced to make friends in a class, doing a hobby would give the child friends that he actually has something in common with.  Plus he/she would be more focused on his studies without the class around to be disruptive or pick on the child which was my problem growing up, so I ended up skipping a lot of school as I got older.  I find with friends that I have that have been homeschooled they come out very level-headed and quite closer to their family as well.     

But thats just my opinion... 

Dear Dr. Phil, 

  I live in Mississippi which seems to be the home schooling capital of the world.  I have seen many, many home schooled children in my jobs down here.  I have worked in a grocery store and a library . 

  The home schooled children I have seen are shy, more so than other schooled children.  They do not interact with other children or adults and tend to cling to their parents.  When the are placed in a regular school setting they usually do not continue their  "exceptional education status" since they do not function well without individual attention which is what they get in home schooling. 

  A better solution would have been to send the child to a private of  religious school, where the rules are a lot stricter than public school but the child gets the advantage of learning with other children their age. 

  The mother just doesn't want to let go.  You should have seen that!!!! 

My son is into boxing and I hope is has changed his mind since his last match. In the first round he took a bad fall and injured his knee. It took 2 weeks to heal. This was only a friendly sparing match and there is still a risk of injury. He had had a few matches that I didn't go to and I just happened to go to the one he got injured in. It is hard to stand and just watch someone you love get hurt. I told my son if he does it again not to tell me till it is over as I will never watch him fight again.  

I hope your husband listens to you as I do not like boxing and don't understand why they want to inflict damage to others or have it done to them in this way.