When I first heard about the controversy surrounding the names of these dolls, I didn't pay much attention. Right now we are seeing so much of The Obamas in print and production, it just kind of breezed by me. Then I heard it again, along with the info that our First Lady was a bit put off, so I paid more attention.
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This past Sunday, my brother, an Army Reservist, left for Afghanistan. He will be gone 400 days, so won't be back until mid-February of 2010. The Army held a send-off for his unit at the unholy hour of 4 a.m., so I, along with my parents and sister, managed to get my sleepy behind out of bed to see him off. The first formation was at 4:30 a.m., the second at 5:15 a.m. This gave the men and women some time to say their final goodbyes and hugs to their families.
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I didn't need to read this letter on Planetfeedback to understand that giving your kid a cell phone is risky business. I know first hand how hard it is to get your child to follow the rules and live within the limits set by the bill-paying parents once that phone is in their hands. And as we also see from some of the letters, even an otherwise responsible kid can have trouble with self-control when access to a cell phone is so easy and temptation just a ring tone away.
It's not only a problem with teenagers either. Some adult children seem to have no qualm about feeding off a parent's cell phone account. And when something goes wrong, some parents have the audacity to blame the company for not being on top of things.
As astonishing as that is, I don't think anything can beat this.
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