Re: I don't trust the choices you're making
 

Hmmmm. Good point. New York is a weird place, but maybe I have lumped all idiot parents into one category.

TM

Re: I don't trust the choices you're making
 

My daughter is not yet 15 months. I follow her around at the park so she doesn't get whacked in the head by the older kids on the swings. And she really seems to like to try to run in front of them.

ETA: I don't care if she falls down. And she doesn't seem to care either.

Re: I don't trust the choices you're making
 

I think so because my sister's neighbors used to try stuff like this on their son. When he was acting out they would try to divert/distract him into not doing it** but would never tell him to knock it off, much less discipline him. I think they finally figured out it wasn't working.

**He'd be throwing a tantrum & they'd go "Brendan, do you want to color?"

Re: I don't trust the choices you're making
 

Why is this surprising? Because parents have known for centuries that telling a kid to "stop" always, always, always works?

Re: I don't trust the choices you're making
 

And you should. You can't let them go anywhere they want when they're that young. I've seen tiny kids get obliterated when wandering into the swings area.

I'm talking about kids who are able to run, jump and climb--and who, quite naturally, test their limits a bit by jumping off something a little higher than you'd like or climbing something by themselves you didn't think they could. I followed my daughter around the playground, ready to catch her if she was up high or steer her away from the big kids when they're going nuts and she thought she would run through the middle of them. But I tried to encourage her to take on things that were difficult and not give up or cry just because she fell down. The parents I was talking about are constantly thinking worse case and their kids never learn their actual limitations, because their parents refuse to let them even bump an elbow.

And that's the key. The kids who automatically cry when they fall, even if they're not hurt, are the ones whose parents rush over and make a big deal and coo and "awww." Their kids are the ones who don't know how to play.

Just this weekend we were at the playground and this little girl ran over to her mom, sobbing and said, "That girl over there grabbed my collar and almost choked me!" I saw the whole thing and they were playing tag and the kid caught the girl and moved her collar, but it was absolutely nothing. The mom went over and asked the other girl to be more careful. It was a joke.

TM

Re: I don't trust the choices you're making
 

RT's boyfriend: That's someone who has been in a lottttt of therapy.

RT: That's someone who is crazy.

Makeup
 

If you need makeup, go to eyeslipsface.com -- everything is super cheap because they're going out of business (i.e., blush for $1 etc). It's good makeup. Enter promo code "carolina" for more savings.

Re: I don't trust the choices you're making
 

Not to get off on silly parenting stories, but my daughter was swinging a thin plastic bat and hit a boy who was two years older and a bit of a whiner. He ran to mommy and cried that she "beat him with a bat" between sobs and extreme water works. My daughter shrugged her shoulders and said "he walked into the swing, what am I supposed to do, bunt?"

The mother was all gushing that he never cries and that it must have really hurt. I just wanted to record the whole episode to show his friends that he was crying after a little girl smacked him with a plastic bat.

When I was his age a girl could have kicked me in the balls 'til my piss was red and I would have sworn I couldn't even feel it. Especially one 2 years younger than me. I hope all boys aren't as wimpy as this kid.

Re: A fashion board in which sometimes we'll remember to post spoiler warnings
 

I can't fucking believe that I'm going to contribute to an actual fashion post, but it sure as hell beats talking about parenting, divorce or whatever other boring shit you people can't otherwise work through at therapy.

I am blessed to have moved from a suits only workplace, to a business casual sweatshop, and finally to a pants optional employer, where they don't really give a shit what you're wearing, as long as you can do the work and perhaps play expert drums/guitar/bass/vocals on Rock Band without embarrassing everyone. That said, after many years of showing up to work in flip flops and an old Replacements concert shirt, I guess it's time to buy a real "professional" wardrobe, on the off chance that I get fancy and shit. I plan to buy some suits at the mens' sale at Nordstroms, and all that jazz--but I recently saw that there's this new custom dress shirt company (they just got VC financing, which is how I learned of them), and I'm intrigued. I was wondering if anyone here had used them before (you get measured in person by a rep, and then you can just order stuff online with whatever fabric, style, doodads, etc.):

http://www.jhilburn.com/

Caption?
 

http://assets.nydailynews.com/img/20...al_best_11.jpg

TM

Re: Caption?
 

I'm sure we'll come up with some good ones, but first, what the fuck is that SUPPOSED to be?

Re: Caption?
 

Tidy whities making a comeback in recessionary times.

Like worms in a bait can.
 

Somebody should just pick up the corners of that sheet and dump the whole thing in the Serengeti.

CDF

Thread count: one (at least)
 

I wonder whether their VC backers actually wear their shirts.

Like you, I prefer to let others be my beta testers.

CDF

ETA that about 10 years ago, I was singularly unimpressed by a similar service for suits/sportcoats provided by Tom James. YMMV.

Growing older, but not up.
 

How weird was it to see this* last night?

http://imgs.sfgate.com/c/pictures/20...0499692898.jpg

*Not actually a picture from last night's game, but still. Claude? In teal? Is Anaheim planning on signing Dino Ciccarelli?