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Candy cigarettes, that is?
With a little time to kill before I picked up my daughter from preschool the other day, I took a stroll down a popular street in San Francisco and was practically stopped in my tracks when I saw a display of candy cigarettes in a hardware store’s post-holiday sidewalk sale extravaganza.
I hadn’t seen those things for years, but I remembered a time when you could pick them up right beside a pack of Rolos or JuJu Bees. Now, they seem to reside in novelty shops or, in this case, the hardware store. Thinking there was probably a $5 tax tacked on to the price, I passed the opportunity to buy them again. Plus, they seemed to be “hobo” brand coffee-flavored cigarettes, and that just sounded disgusting.
But it got me wondering: Would I let my daughter “smoke” one? Continue reading »
Most of us believe parenting is an intuitive thing. So why is it the most well-meaning efforts of parents are royally warping kids everywhere? Right now, you are psychologically destroying your child by teaching them value of individuality.
At least, that’s the position of Cracked writer Cezary Jan Strusiewicz. And before you dismiss Ceazry’s work as some comedian’s hack job, notice he backed every assertion with actuall scientific research. So sit back and discover why praising your kids, teaching them to be themselves and warning them about strangers is only preparing your kids for a life as an anti-social super villain.
Starting their Education Early
Ever size your life up against a friend who’s made different choices than you have?
Whenever we choose one road in life, we naturally leave the other undiscovered. In an absolutely pitch-perfect essay, cartoonist Tim Kreider defines this phenomenon as The Referendum, or the time of life when you start looking at your friends — especially friends from your youth — and comparing their choices to your own.
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