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Toddlers, Tiaras and $exualization

So, in reality television there is a program called Toddlers and Tiaras.  I can’t say that I have ever seen it.  The premise is apparently mom’s who enter their daughters in beauty pageants.  The girls are painted up, dressed in what would be considered provocative clothing for an adult. Nw if that isn’t bad enough, one mom took it a step further and scheduled a time when reporters could see an exhibition put on by her daughter at a restaurant in New York City.  Now this mother is suing various media outlets for sexualizing her daughter. What happened to personal accountability?  What is she doing to her daughter by entering her in these pageants?  Who is really to blame for the “sexualization” of her daughter? Or is it something like greed that is driving mom? It seems to me that being a kid is hard enough in this society with

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@ Cleft Palette Clinic

Today our goal is to attend the annual cleft palette clinic for our oldest boy. Hard to believe we have been coming to these for 14 years already. They keep a growth chart and photo record, he has grown 14 inches in the past year. No wonder we can’t keep him in pants. Seeing the photo record is amazing as well. The clinic takes about 2 hours for the older kids. So far we have been here for 45 minutes. No complaints. More later, they are calling us again. Tweet #fighting4answrs

Day 9 ~ A long night, a short day, exhausted

David, our youngest was up and down most of the night with his cough.  Poor guy sounds like he is going to cough up a lung or something.  So I spent the night monitoring him to make sure he was ok.  Long night.  His breathing finally calmed around 5 am so I got to sleep a bit. You forget how quickly 6:30 comes until the wife turns on the light so she can get dressed for work.  So I was up and about, got all of the kids off to school this morning, and then laid on the couch.  David woke up briefly, long enough to eat something so that he could take his morning pills, and some cough medicine.  Then he sacked out again.  So I snoozed as long as he was snoozing.  Had to lay some noise traps around his bed so that I would wake if he

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