The water shoes are nifty!
Did I mention that we stopped at the Zappo's Outlet yesterday? It confused me.
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The water shoes are nifty!
Did I mention that we stopped at the Zappo's Outlet yesterday? It confused me.
Allyson - that is totally awesome!
I fixed the link for yours, Jesse.
Yeah, no.
I would totally take a placebo for myself!
yeah, I wouldn't give the placebo. I am trying to teach mac that sometimes things just hurt. Closest I get is offering ice up for almost everything. My guess, that woman will make a mint though.
how is giving a sugar pill actually different than some of the homeopathic remedies (like teething tablets)?
dunno, maybe not different at all.
This week's Secret Lives of Women is about stalking--both stalking and being stalked. Seriously chilling stuff.
Random stats: 1 million women in the US are stalked a year. 1 in 4 female stalkers stalk someone they've been intimate with. 1 in three celebrity stalkers are female.
I think I'd give a kid a placebo. Under specific and limited circumstances. I totally recommend giving me a cplacebo, as long as they are only used when they work.
I am having such a huge craving for lemonade. Sadly I have lemonade, so it comes down to self-control.
yeah, I wouldn't give the placebo. I am tryin got teach mac that sometimes things just hurt.
Yes! That's the thing that bugs me most about it. Pain has a purpose! And learning to rely on drugs to fix everything can't be good. There was a commentary on NPR yesterday by a family physician about the placebo thing. He was very anti.
If I'd had placebo pills available when I was a child, I probably wouldn't have faked being sick so much just to get a spoonful of Dimetapp.
I was ridiculously addicted to the flavor of Dimetapp. I don't know why. Yes, the obsession is now past.
I'm not sure, though, that you need a brand-name pill; all you really need is some of those custom-M&Ms with no Ms on them, and all you have to do is convince the kid that "strengthening medicine" (what we really called them in my family) is not a joke but the real straight-up truth.
mac is much more risk adverse than most of his friends - Terrified of falling down and scrapes. Only recently is he learning that he will survive the bruises and cuts. He had a faceplant on the padded playground surface after his hand slipped on the monkey bars and damn it looked scary and his lip bled, but only for like 1 min.