Word: dad
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...Piper’s dad started calling us Smurf because our team was blue, we were all three years younger than the other girls on the team, and we were also just short for our age,” Banfield says. “So we were disproportionately shorter than everyone else in the league...
Without missing a beat, I could retort, “Come on, Mom, this is the ’90s!” What can the little kids say now when their disturbed parents question the value of 50 Cent? “Seriously Dad, this is the ‘ohs’?” “Get with the ‘naughts’?” “For the love of God, we’re in the ‘ohzies’?” (Actually, there really...
...either going to finish Jared Diamond’s book Guns, Germs, and Steel…or re-read Ursula K. Le Guin’s A Wizard of Earthsea. I’m going on a canoe trip with my dad, so I’ll bring the lighter...
...Another child complains about being interrogated by his mother whenever he returns from visiting his dad. The father has a new girlfriend, and Mum wants to know if they sleep in the same bed. Says a teenage girl of her parents: "I just wish they realized how scary it is when they argue and fight." A little girl tugs the heartstrings with, "Maybe if I'd tried harder not to be naughty, Dad would still be here...
...conspicuous victims of separation and divorce. In nearly all cases, Australia's Family Court ensures that both parents have the chance to maintain a relationship with their child. But it rarely makes orders on behalf of grandparents. A common result is that the non-custodial parent's mum and dad fade from the child's life - along with lifetimes of accrued wisdom. At forums, children told the parliamentary committee that grandparents, unlike some parents, give love that is unconditional and untainted by insecurities and power plays...