Messages By: brookew

Quote From: jonesfam6

Dr. Phil and Robin,

I am disappointed at the parents that would let anyone under the age to drink. I believe that it does promote drinking and irresponsible behavior. Children look at us for guidance and limitations and for any parent to allow drinking at a young age should be put in jail. I grew up in a very Italian family were this was normal but I and my sibling s drank at an early age. My husband and I drink but only if we go out to dinner. There is no alcohol in my home and if my children do see their dad drink a beer or for me a wine cooler they get mad. We as parents need to set the standards and my thinking is out of site out of mind. We are adults and we should do adult things but does that mean we should also allow our children to kiss or fondle their "boy or girls" friends at a young age because it looks cute. They are children and they do not know how to make adult decisions and really don't know how far is far. That is where we as parents come in. They will have time to drink later as adults and on their time an dime not mine.

Quote From: adrienne143

I am a 17 year old girl from a small town in missouri. i can really relate to this episode. i am just like that girl. i want everything. everything i want, i get or if i don't all hell breaks lose. i dont listen to the word no. hello. i am 17. what i want i should get.

it's not my mom's fault. i don't get everything i want. but most things. i dont know.

i guess i just basically wanted to say i agree with the girl on the show. i understand where she is coming from. high school sucks. do you know how i would be treated in i showed up in walmart jeans and tee-shirt. i would be treated horribly. i would be made fun of. that is horrible. alot of people dont understand that some of the things we need as teenagers is NECESSARY.

 

Quote From: dr_jhp

Teaching is a serious responsibility and good role models are needed. One of the best role models is to acknowledge one's past, confess regrets, and state your life goals and responsibilities as it point. It is who and what a person is today that matters. To be a person of truth, integrity, compassion, empathy, and hope is what is of ultimate concern.

If every teacher's past were held up to scrutiny, many would fail the moral test - drinking, drugs, promiscuity, theft, cheating - the list goes on. Most people have something in their lives they would prefer not to be made public. Remember "Harper Valley PTA?"

A school administration and school board with integrity, one which believes they have a qualified and excellent teacher, would stand behind the teacher saying something like, "Yes, we know she has a negative past, but that is not who she is today. She is a teacher we are glad to have in our school system and can help our students develop into responsible adults, perhaps because of some life's lessons she has learned. End of discussion."

Now, with all the publicity, with lawyers getting involved, the whole thing becomes a spectical from which no one will recover. That is the real tragedy.

Quote From: thomaslp

if you get an answer to this problem please let me know i tried ambien made me eat in my sleep my dogs would wake me up trying to get what ever i had out of my hands so they could eat it tried lunesta left a metal taste in my mouth could not get enough to drink and still didn't sleep have taken almost every kind of  pain med the only thing that will let me sleep for about 4 hrs is phenergan suppository as far as pain relief i don't think there is such a thing i now take avinza have been on 60mg he wants to try the 90 mg nest if that doesn't work he wants to try the external morphine pump but before we do that he wants me to go to the city have a ct scan and a tissue biopsy i have already had every x-ray there is and 3 mri i am claustrophobic so the have to give me a sedative just to calm me down and of course you have to lie still and i can't do that so they have to stop and start it usually takes 3 hrs  don't know if he afraid he will scare me if he tells me what he is looking for because he not saying to much just wait and see i fractured the top bone on my foot 3 yrs ago and it will not heal i have degenerative bone disease and 2 bulging disk my right hip just goes and down i go just like i wanted to sit i worked 14hrs today just to keep from sitting around doing nothing cause i can't stand to sit around i own my own business and can't afford to sit around people still want to eat oh will lokk how i just went on and wrote a book if you find a way to get sleep please let me know laurie

Quote From: idamag

Materialistic people are not really contributing to the well being of their family, their community or their country.

 

I personally know a family of five children whose clothes came from K-mart and other such stores. You know what, they are the most popular kids in their schools and one was Student Body President. You know what else? Things wear out. Things deteriorate. Things become passe. Values only get better.

 

It is so sad that some of these teen posters have so little going for them that things define them.