I think he had a classmate whose father died.
I suspected it was something like this when you first mentioned it.
Ah, that's a whole 'nother level of scary for him.
There was an episode of Little House on the Prairie where a baby died. I freaked the
fuck
out. I didn't know a baby
could
die.
Wikipedia tells me I was four and my sister about seven months old. I do not envy my mother that one. I'm tearing up a little thinking about it, actually. No doubt the birth of my niece yesterday is part of my getting upset, but I remember that freak out pretty vividly.
Parenting. Not for the weak.
For Steph: [link] This is a wall in Burbank, across from the theater and the Buffalo Wing place.
Parenting. Not for the weak.
Speaking for the weak - hell yeah.
HA! I saw it and immediately thought of you. I don't know if you can tell, but the entire thing is covered with all sorts of punctuation marks. FUN.
Seriously, bobsled doods, I know you're world class athletes but couldn't you put a little skirt on that thing?
I wonder what it would be like to be a man and feel that comfortable in my body. I know its not a universal truth, but I've seen hundreds and thousands of shirtless men who, were they women, wouldn't even be seen sleeveless nevermind in a bikini top.
I don't know if you can tell, but the entire thing is covered with all sorts of punctuation marks. FUN.
I could see some of them. That is a damn fine wall.
A lot of the animal-friendly claims on egg cartons aren't actually regulated in the US.
I buy the Farmers Hen House eggs, which I haven't found any bad reports about. I don't ask for the hens to have a perfect life; I just don't what them to suffer the torture of a chicken factory.
Just about everybody that I know who is raising kids vegetarian or vegan says that, around kindergarten age, they all go through a vegan evangelist phase. Frequently leading to things like a five-year-old announcing at Thanksgiving dinner, "Grandpa, you shouldn't eat that, because it's a dead bird, and birds deserve to live because animals are our friends."
When I was a kid, my best friend's brother (about 6) went through a vegetarian phase after learning that hamburgers came from cows. This lasted about a week until he realized that being a vegetarian meant having to eat his vegetables.
