MInTheGap

There’s an interesting side story to today’s photo. I used to work for a guy that had a series of expressions that he used all the time. He could use the phrase "At the end of the day" ten times in a single meeting.
One of the phrases that he said often to our all male [...]

I know that this is no longer monitored by the media, they’ve since moved on (probably to something about Britney or one of the other single name celebrities), but there is still action on the Mormon children front:

Just in case you were wondering:
An arrest warrant has been dropped for a man thought to be the husband of a teenage girl whose report of abuse triggered a raid on a polygamous sect’s Texas compound, authorities said Friday.

He can’t seem to escape it.  A short time ago, Barak Obama made a comment regarding his young daughters– that if they “made a mistake” he didn’t want them “punished with an STD or a child” (paraphrase).  So, when the Compassion Forum came up, the moderator gave him a chance to clarify his comment:
What [...]

Each of us who are parents have to make many decisions every day, but one of them is critical: who will raise them?
I do not believe the current culture that tells us that we have to send our children to day care because we have to have two incomes.  And I think it’s a [...]

There is a fine line between discipline and abuse.  Many good parents never cross the line.  Some do when they let emotions control them.
My pastor says that the line is when you stray from applying discipline where “God gave you extra padding.”  In California, the Assembly again has a bill that goes a bit further: